MoiraKathleen

I haven't heard of an issue like this before, but you don't happen to have RLV turned on in your viewer, do you? If you do, perhaps it is some type of RLV restriction? If you're not using the LL viewer, you could download that viewer to check to see if the problem still persists.

Town Hall

Tide Detergent

Chic's suggestion of a very, very thin floor overlay will work if the transparency % is set to just slightly under 100 - as she shows in her screen shot in her post above. I usually use somewhere between 95% and 98%, which still allows you to see the original floor texture just fine. I'm not sure why it doesn't work at full (100%) transparency but once I started setting to just under 100%, I've had it work every time.

Counts Characters

I would have thought that setting the texture to transparent should have taken care of the issue. I haven't had this specific problem, but here are some things that came to mind: You mentioned setting the taperback to 0 - are the other sliders in the Style section also set to 0? You might look to see if you have any others in your inventory - sometimes they come with shapes or with mesh heads - there are also some in the library section of inventory (Library -> Clothing -> Initial Outfits ...) Sometimes they are just called just brows or eyebrows, so you might want to search in your inventory for 'brows' to pick up the name variations. You might want to try wearing some of the others and see if you have the same problem. Someone else will probably be along later on to add to the comments here with other suggestions or solutions.

Racket Overload

I figured I'd need a name that was different, in order to not be taken already, so I played around with different combinations of my middle name and other female names from my family, ending up with my middle name and the first name of one of my grandmothers.

The area is full of public access roads, parks, beaches, open water for boating... use the Map in the viewer to search for one of the regions (Bellfry is a region name you could search for) and when the map displays the regions, click on one of the streets in the map display and click the "teleport' button on the map. Once you have the map up with the Bellisseria regions showing, you can select and teleport to different regions of the area. You can't necessarily walk into houses that belong to others, but you can "cam" in from the street to see what's inside (though I would not do that if there are people on the parcel). There used to be people who had there homes set up as 'open houses' that people could come by and tour. You might want to join one of the Bellisseria groups - such as "Bellisseria Citizens" and ask if there are still open house tours - or if someone would be willing to let you check out the inside of their house. The Bellisseria groups, as far as I'm aware, are open for joining whether or not you have a house their yet.

The picture that shows on the land page is a representative picture for the houseboat, camper, traditional or victorian themes. You can change between the different styles in the theme once you're at your parcel. Also, the landscaping on the land page picture is not the exact landscaping you will have at your parcel - it is not a picture of the specific parcel that you will be getting.

Addiction Relapse

Knocks Again

Course Catalog

not caring at all that the theater is abandoned... or that the only music is in my head...

Just to add some clarification, the only premium perk that you have to give up at the time you downgrade to basic is the ability to own a Linden Home, own a mainland parcel, or donate land tier to a group. The other premium perks stay in affect until the original term of the premium membership runs out. (And if you should change your mind after downgrading, a call to "Live Chat" asking them to cancel the downgrade is all that's needed, and it's something they usually do immediately during the Live Chat session).

For the future, if you find some abandoned land that you'd like to be able to buy, you can also submit a support ticket requesting to buy the land. (See https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/abandoned-land-r1034/ ) Depending on the size and location, LL may still decide to put it up for auction, but you may luck out and have it set to sale to you directly. My experience has been that it's taken a few days to hear back with a response on way or the other on the support case to purchase abandoned land.

relaxed, at home, after an afternoon of dancing

I think that we need to be careful when talking about non-premium members as those "that don't pay". In particular, there may be people who are not premium - because they don't need the premium benefits - who are region owners and pay a lot more to LL each month than the cost of a premium membership. To think that many non-premium members do not pay money into the system one way or another is incorrect.

I know you said you checked Lost and Found, but did you double-check to make sure you didn't have any new coalesced objects in your inventory? (with a multiple box symbol). When things get returned they may returned as one group object with the name of the last object added to the group, so sometimes it's hard to recognize what they actually area in your inventory. You might switch to the "recent" tab in your inventory window and adjust the filters to show new items since just before the sim became unavailable - if any non-copy items were returned, they should show up in the "recent" tab.

I picked up an abandoned Continental a week or so ago, it is a version 2.0 and it does not have those color options. It is also in one of the older regions that was originally released before the Victorians came out. Just curious as to whether yours is in one of the newer traditional areas?

I'm going to pass that bit of trivia on to my daughter (born in the 80's, and one who likes odd trivia like that, as well). Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

Also, the Linden Road Community hubs and the Explorer Info hubs both have the maps of the continents with the roads marked on them, and you can generally click on the map to get a copy of it (or there will be a boxed set of maps). The relatively recent Forest Friendship Rest area http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Menophra/104/82/39 along Route 1 on Heterocera has both a Linden Road Community building and an Explorer Info building located close to the rest area and car park. When I travel along the roads, I make a LM at each rez area I see, so that in case something unexpected happens with your vehicle, or if you stop and leave your vehicle to check something out and need to re-rez, you have a LM to the closest rez area. Many times there will be rez areas if not every sim, then at least at every couple of sims, just right before or right after a sim crossing.

I haven't seen that message before either. If you're still getting that message tomorrow, I'd suggest contacting "Live Chat" between 6 a.m. - 3 p.m. SLT (pacific time zone). You can find a link to Live Chat at https://lindenlab.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/31000131009-contact-support (about half way down, under 'Alternatives to Phone Support'). If you don't have 1024 sqm of tier available, as Karynmaria mentioned, the message is similar looking to the one you received, but does state in the message text that the problem is not having enough available tier. It wouldn't hurt to check under "Land Manager" on your dashboard, though, to make sure you do have the tier available.