MoiraKathleen

I think Caledon Oxbridge University had an area where people could set home (and they also had dressing rooms available to use).

I just looked at BUG-230931, and it looks like it is open, with a status and resolution of "accepted".

If you are currently a premium member, you can upgrade to premium plus without losing any home or land that you currently have. For premium members upgrading now, the premium plus cost is pro-rated based on how much of your premium membership term is left. At the next renewal of your membership, it would be done at the premium plus level at $249 USD. (The pro-rated price is calculated during the upgrade processing, and you will have a chance to back-out after seeing the pro-rated cost, if you change your mind and decide not to upgrade after all). It's not possible, on the same account, to have both a premium membership and a premium plus membership as separate memberships. The premium plus contains the benefits from premium, plus some increased amounts for some of the benefits (increased stipend, more groups, more tier included, etc).

Where were you when they developed the first version of the Linden Homes, asking for adult homes back then? If they had created adult Linden Homes originally, then they'd have to do that now, as Bellisseria Linden Homes are a replacement for the original Linden Homes (which will be going away at some point in the future). There is no shortage of adult furniture, adult activity groups or people wearing risque or very little clothing (or no clothing) in Bellisseria. To think that Bellisseria is just filled with 'prudes' because it's rated moderate is not correct. (I remember not long after Bellisseria opened that one of the forum posters was talking about creating a Bellisseria BDSM group). Patch has said multiple times since the introduction of the new Linden Homes, that they are basically 'starter' homes and LL knows that they won't satisfy every resident's desires and that there will be residents will not be happy with the restrictions and limitations of the Linden Homes - and that's fine because they can purchase mainland or rent from a private estate that fits their needs better. It seems to me that only being rated moderate is one of those restrictions/limitations.

While only premium members can obtain a Linden Home, you do not have to be a premium member to visit any of the Linden home regions. No commercial activity (not even tip jars) is allowed in Linden homes.

If you would rather have a 1024 sqm plot on mainland, rather than have one of the Linden Homes, you can look for and purchase a 1024 sqm parcel on mainland, and after the initial land purchase price, there would not be a maintenance/monthly tier fee (as long as you don't exceed owning more land than 1024 sqm and as long as you do not also own a Linden home). You can look in the Parcels for Sale: Mainland - Second Life Community topic here in the land forum, to see information/link to some of the mainland parcels that are for sale. Another way to find parcels for sale is by using the map - check the box for showing parcels for sale, and they will show up on the map as yellow parcels. If you're not sure how to find one of the mainland continents on the map, you can always TP to one of the parcels for sale form the "Parcels for Sale: Mainland" thread, and then your map will be positioned over part of one of the mainland continents and you can move it around looking for parcels marked as being for sale. Be sure to look at a number of parcels and compare location, terrain, and price. There can be a lot of variety in parcel prices, even for the same size parcel, because of its location (along a roadway or waterway) or just because of what the resident owning it decides to charge.

The stilt homes are very popular, and there is a selection option for stilts on water and a selection option for stilts on land. The best advice is still to be persisent about checking the home page, looking for one or both of the selection options. If there are more new stilts released as various LH areas get further built out, there would not be an official announcement (as the theme has already been released) but once ready, the new stilt releases would automatically just go into the available queue and be available through the home page. There are a few threads here in the Linden Homes section of the forum where people do keep a lookout on new LH regions being added and speculate / discuss what types of homes they think will be in those regions, and when they think the regions look like they'll be ready to be released.

I don't know if there will be future additional releases of traditional homes or not. The traditional homes were the first theme to be released of the new Linden homes. If you want a traditional home, you just need to be persistent in checking the homes page - people do abandon Traditional homes, and if you happen to check the homes page at the right time, it's still possible to get a traditional. There is an entire section of the Forums dedicated to the new Linden Homes - Linden Homes - Second Life Community and one thread you might want to look at there (but start at the last page or so, as it's a thread that has been around for a long time) is When did you last see a Bellisserian home available? Starting afresh. - Linden Homes - Second Life Community There are people who post information there about homes that they will be abandoning.

Are you talking about the situation where you stand from some type of sitting animation and your avatar appears to run in place for a few seconds? Or are you referring to a situation where the avatar continues to run until you relog? Have you tried other viewers to see if the problem happens across viewers or if it just happens with the BD viewer. It looks like, from the BD web site, that they have a Discord channel where you could look to see if other users are experiencing this and/or report this as an issue with BD.

What happens when you try to purchase them? Do you get any type of message? If you're trying to purchase them from the Buy L$ page on your web dashboard, are you choosing Instant Buy or Best Rate Buy? If you're not trying to purchase them from your web dashboard, are you trying to buy them through the viewer? or when processing a marketplace order?

Take a look at https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_bake_fail on the Firestorm wiki. That page has information for troubleshooting and fixing the problem of "being an orange cloud".

1. I would say yes and no - I think there are several factors involved - how full the region is, how full your parcels are, and how well optimized all that content is that is in your draw distance. Other factors that might also impact whether you feel the region is laggy or not could be your viewer graphical settings and/or your connection / ping time to the region (and how stable that connection is). 2. If parcels are in the same region, with the same owner (either individual or same group) they can share LI between them.

very peaceful and rural, back in an earlier era

It would be helpful if you turned on the parcel boundaries and took a picture that included the boundary lines. If you're using the Firestorm viewer, there is an option somewhere in the preferences where you can turn on highlighting the parcel boundaries all the way up to maximum height. This can be helpful for checking if anything crosses the boundary, because you'll be able to visually see it "poke" though the parcel boundary highlighting. If you're certain that nothing you have linked to the root prim you mentioned is over the boundary, yet she still returns your items, I would suggest filing a support ticket so that you can have it looked at by a Linden Support person. There's not much else anyone here in the forums will be able to suggest or explain other than what has already been said here. Edit to add: I just noticed that it sounds like you found the issue and have fixed it. My advice (along with LittleMe's about displaying the bounding boxes) still stands though for others who may have issues and read this in the future, or if you should have issues again in the future (though I hope you won't).

I don't know that I'd pick ice cream in a snowstorm, but on the other end of the temperature range, I'll still hava a hot coffee or hot latte even if it's 100 F outside (and I get irritated when I order a latte in the summer and the barrista asked "iced?" - if I had wanted an iced latte, I would have ordered it as an iced latte). As far as hot sauces and chiles, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

The knowledge base is available in a number of other languages, though the largest number of articles are in the English version. Knowledge Base - Second Life Community links to the page which has links for the other language offerings.

I don't have a direct answer to your specific question, but when you do change your land to being group owned, be sure to turn off "auto return other residents' objects" initially. That will keep items from auto-returned. Then, look to see what the count is for parcel land impact for objects owned by others. If that count is 0, then you've got all the objects set correctly to the land group - otherwise, you still have some objects that you'll need to track down and change to the land group. Once you have everything set to the land group, then you can set the auto return setting back to the setting you prefer.

That's an interesting thought, though hearing about the way so many shop at events (hovering and camming, wearing a full alpha, just showing friends, etc.,) I doubt that there would be many customers that would appreciate or like booths having salespeople that interacted with them. When I first joined SL, I thought the stores would have salespeople, but if anything, they just have a bot that welcomes you and perhaps answers standard questions, like how to join the store group.

That's good to know. A road trip up through Oregon and Washington is definitely in our future plans. Now that my husband is retiring next month that may be a good trip to plan for next spring or summer.

We have all the winter sports in California, also. From where I live I can head west and be at the ocean in 30 or 40 minutes, or if I head east in the winter I can be up in snow country in 3 or 4 hours. I have been known to plan a weekend trip to some town in the central valley or the Sierra Nevada foothills just because I know it's going to be hotter there than at our house. I don't know that I'd be expecting anything remarkable, but I enjoy seeing the different geographies, agriculture, industries, towns, and so forth, like when you do road trips on the minor highways or backroads. I expect that would hold true for cross-country train rides too.

Cold could definitely be an issue. I'm not fond of cold and snow and ice. Vancouver's weather doesn't look too bad - not much colder on average than where we currently live, though it doesn't get near as hot - we'd have to vacation in California for hot summer trips I really would like to sometime take the train that goes all the way across Canada - that looks like it would be fun even if it's not a car road trip.

I live in California, and even with the high cost of living in our area, fires, droughts, and so on, there really is not another State that we would want to move to. We've even modified some of our post-retirement road trip plans - there are parts of the United States that I'm not even sure I'd want to be a tourist and drive through anymore. If we did decide we wanted to move to a different county, it would probably be Canada, but we wouldn't want to move that far from our children and grandchildren.