Sister Nova

Yes, I’ve also heard of a few cases where this has happened. If filing a ticket doesn’t get the job done, if it’s that important to you I would look to move to a parcel that already has the kind of road access you are looking for. A lot of my parcel purchases/rentals have been based purely on their road access alone.

Very good points made here.... likewise for me the big draw for premium is the ability to own land. Just a small point to amend: On the new Linden Homes, only the campers are 512 m2, the houseboats are all 1024 m2 at the moment.

Something is only ever worth what someone will pay for it, and even then it might only ever be worth it for that one person. If the item is exactly what you’re looking for, is it then worth it to you? Also, at that price you can be fairly sure you’re not going to run into many, if any, others wearing it too. The only thing that would bother me, is to pay the L$1000 and then discover that seller then reduced it to L$300 a short time later

My point was the fact that in abandoning the parcel the permissions changed, and they stay on that setting when they're taken on by a new owner. As a parcel isn't set to group when a person takes it on, in this instance it would be as good as the scripts being blocked. As the person didn't know to look at the permissions, they certainly wouldn't have set up a group in order to be able to take advantage of the group only permission. And the person to which I was originally replying didn't know about the permissions setting. I took another parcel to screen shot the settings when taken by a new owner.... Just thought you might want to know that the situation has changed since you last took on a Linden Home.

Just abandoned my LH trailer... land permissions got changed so that it's now no script.

On the bright side... I hope you have great fun with your new land

As I mentioned earlier, once tier has been accrued you'll always have that date set even if you go for a period without tier being incurred, or indeed even if you drop down to basic and become premium again at a later time.

In the early days of SL the trend amongst a lot of residents was to max the height slider. Very little consideration was given to correct proportion and so there were many females with short arms (still visible today in fact), and huge guys with pin heads (pre bento mesh heads got them out of that. There was a small movement pushing for embracing a smaller scale once mesh hit (circa 2012), especially as smaller builds usually results in lower land impact. I can remember seeing clinic type buildings pop up around the grid, with 3 different scale devices to show how your av measured up, and lots of public message posters around the walls to educate people to scale down, including showing how to adjust your camera view position. The clinics pretty soon disappeared, but a year or possibly two ago, one of the best vehicle creators in SL announced that all his future products would now be Real Scale. Even though I had been scaling down gradually over the years I took the plunge and embraced Real Scale. I love it, and where possible I will scale my buildings and furniture accordingly, adjusting the animation positions in the sit enabled ones and taking a ‘master copy’ back into inventory to save me having to do it all again on later placements of furniture. Unfortunately, a lot of people still equate bigger with better, and its easier to go along with the herd, so it’s hard going to get change implemented across the board. If the new Linden Homes had scaled down slightly it may have helped greatly with the movement.

With the premium homes you own the land and so can change the settings. If you want scripts to run, tick the box to enable them to do so.

I had my first taste of online life in The Sims Online and moved from there to Star Wars Galaxies. I then went to Project Entropia and wanted something more.... found SL in Summer of 2006, but faffed around and didn't finally sign up until Oct 2006, thus missing the L$500 stipend but managing to squeak in on the 400... phew.

“Luxury! We ‘ad cardboard box in’t middle o’ road!”

If I said I was a 'Fun Guy' would that count? As it happens, I can't though... female droid at the moment

It's a really lovely idea, and I've had a lot of friends over the years that have wanted to do something similar, but I really don't see it as being a viable business. The thing you have to remember in offering a vacation, is that these people will most likely already be paying for their usual home, so they're not going to be looking to pay too much extra. The short term lease is good.... I have vacationed in the past with family and although most places would offer weekly terms, we were pretty much ready to go home after 2 or 3 days. As for repeat business, we never went back to any of the holiday places, no matter how good they were. If you're buying a full private region, there would be no adjoining regions so where would you be flying from? You could have the initial landmark at a sky venue over the island, decked out as heliport and fly to the island from there once your guests arrive. Or, you could rent a ticket desk at one of the mainland airports and book your guests in there with an experience teleport to your island. I really do think that you might want to rent a region as Chic suggests to see if it really is something that can generate enough income to support it. Also, if you're looking to provide RP events for the guests, you're going to need staff, and by far the best way to do that is to get together with a group of others that want to provide this too. If there's a group of you, and you're all investing in the concept by sharing the costs as well as providing the experience, it will make it easier on your pocket and no one person has to shoulder the burden alone. It is going to take a while for word to get around, so you may all be twiddling your thumbs for a while, and of course, you're still going to be paying for the region in that time. It may be more prudent to 'test the waters' by maybe opening a restaurant, either on a mainland parcel (water and road access would be a great draw), or renting a parcel in a family RP estate. You can then hone your skills as a service, and get some idea of the sort of appeal this kind of thing would have for others. You would also be able to build up a clientele list that you can notify if you do decide to expand at a later date by providing a full vacation experience. Whatever you do decide to do, I wish you luck, as I love to see this sort of creativity.

Still many more themes to come in the future, maybe they’ll be kept for one of them

That looks a lovely location, and appears to me to be exactly the sort of spot that a lot of Game of Homes players are questing for! I think it’s an excellent idea to put it up with good notice

Victorian being released now... Hawkesblood, very handy for rezzing a train at the station there!

There are two dates on my account page. The upper date in ‘Account Summary’ is called ‘Next billing renewal date’ and relates to my premium account payment, and then lower on the page in the section marked ‘Land Holdings’ is ‘Next bill date’. This next bill date is when the tier on my account is charged each month, and that is usually set as the date in the month following the acquisition of any land where a tier payment is first required. If I were to subsequently reduce my holdings so that no tier was payable, the date for any future tier payments required if I then purchased more at a later time, would always fall on that date in the month. One of my accounts has the same date for both each month as that a/c bought extra land (so that tier would be paid) on the same day as becoming premium.

From the Auctions FAQ: “Can anyone in Second Life buy land in the auctions? No. Only residents that have Premium memberships are eligible to participate in auctions. Your account must also have a Verified email address and a Linden dollar (L$) balance sufficient to make a bid.” As a Charter Member you are still able to buy land as you have the 4096 allocation, but just not via the auctions. If you’re wanting to use the auctions, make an alt and buy it a premium membership. But honestly, I think you’d be much better off just looking at the yellow for sale parcels on the world map, or the sale listings, and buying a parcel from that, or finding some abandoned land and submitting a ticket to buy it.

Oh my, apologies my mistake. As it was posted in the Linden Homes, Bellisserian homes last seen thread I assumed it was referring to the Linden Home page. Had I read the text on the picture I might have had a clue... but I'd just woken up... that's my excuse

If the area is quite sought after, and especially if there is no other abandoned/land for sale in the region, then try it as one parcel. You are right though about the tier sizes being particularly attractive, but if you are able to carry on paying your tier while you sell, then don't just abandon the off-cuts. As long as they're a reasonable shape some people (I've done this myself) are happy to buy small parcels to use up available group bonus where they've been purchasing regular sized parcels.

The Land Store is up again, but only the old LH themes showing at this time.

US$200 will get you 2048 sqm of land. But that’s paying for two premium accounts, and is an annual payment. I would think for a ‘Lifetime’ premium a/c with 2048 sqm you’d possibly be looking nearer US$1000 minimum

Better than any ASMR video for tingles and moves me to tears EVERY time I watch