Vuron Beltran

I'm not able to be in world this afternoon so won't be able to give real time updates. I expect Gangway, at least, to be released today. I would normally expect Limevale to possibly release today, but that one really confuses me and I don't get confused very often. I just can't figure out what they're going to do with the other side of the river.

I don't think Walrus restarted. I was in it. Derrick came in, removed some of the objects and the border, than left. Edit.. same with Beluga Sound.

Wow, the restart almost crashed me. I have my draw distance set to 512 and all my settings maxed so I can see all the ban lines and people moving.

The release last Friday happened about an hour From now at 11:30 SLT. Might still happen today.

There are currently 22 people hanging around the regions that might possibly be released.

From the pic, it looks like a decent location. What was the issue?

They were talking in the Bellisseria Citizens group when they logged on this morning. It was around 8am SL. They weren't discussing anything release related, just messing around.

They've been there for a while. They are used by the moles to do accurate sizing and placement.

Good luck to you. I just talked to a friend that's in-world and there are currently 11 people in the regions that could be released, so we should hear as soon as somebody shows up.

It's still a little early for them. Might be another 1.5 hours before you start seeing them pop up.

There are various reasons that so many properties are empty. A good many people who owned the old Linden houses never decorated them. They were simply used to change clothes, unbox items, build small objects, etc. If these people gave up their old homes and got a new Belli home, they might be using it the same way. As was mentioned, the owners might be using skyboxes and leaving their HB empty due to limited prims. People new to SL that got homes might simply not have enough Lindens to furnish a home or might prioritize other items over furnishings. It seems that a good many of the people in SL have multiple accounts with premium. I believe many of the houses belong to alts and people haven't gotten around to furnishing multiple homes or they are getting and releasing with multiple accounts until they find the one they want to keep. I've had a few Belli homes and they have all been left empty until I gave them up. My forum join date is screwed up, but I've been in SL for 13 years and had premium on and off. I recently signed up for premium again because I am thinking about opening a store and wanted the tier. I haven't found the land that I wanted, so had the tier available to get the free home, so I check on and off and have gotten 4. If they aren't perfect, than there is no reason for me to keep them but I normally do for a few days to see if they might grow on me.

On the map as it is today.. 234 - Gangway 250 - Begula Sound 249 - Walrus Beach 233 - San Alejandro 232 - Edgar (released) 248 - Limevale Not on the map, but directly below Walrus Beach is Porthole. All appear ready to be released. Edit.. Limevale may not be ready as was mentioned, there's nothing on the other side of the river.

I noticed this, too. It gets even worse when people are building those additional add-on decks on top.

As we've seen in Bellessaria, land is (or can be) released immediately. If it isn't being done on other mainland than there could be an issue with the database that tracks these parcels, or... Possibly, there's a long term plan to condense or do away with some of the older regions. Perhaps they want to redesign "old SL" to bring it more in line with the new design concept in Belli. Having full regions would make this more difficult, but letting attrition lower the land use of these regions would mean impacting less people through relocation or modifying.

They are still showing up from the abandons so dont give up.

How do you look innocent and nonchalant when you're caught in a place that doesn't, technically, exist? Everyone should buy an "embarrassed" makeup applier.

This thread reminds me of something from my childhood. There was a fish hatchery in my area that raised trout and did unannounced stockings in the lakes and streams. All the old, retired guys used to sit in their trucks outside the gate and wait for the hatchery truck loaded with fish to pull out and would then follow it. It looked like a parade. I can picture in my head a huge mass of people hovering just out of range every time a Linden or mole show up in an SSP region.

I believe you see more houses on days when people think there might be a new region released. Lots of people keep their houses until the last minute and then abandon, hoping to get a better location in the new region.

I'll be releasing my Traditional in Everett at 9PM SLT It's not a bad location for Everett. It borders Light of Aurelia and has a direct view of the Lighthouse from the back of the house. Come take a look if you want to see before I release it. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Everett/228/208/25

I'm on my phone so can't post all the necessary links, but will try to give you the basics to get started. You say that you have all the Dev Kits, but I'm going to assume this isn't correct. The kits that you can get from most stores are based around creating skins, baked on clothes, and similar creations. Most of the actual mesh dev kits require you to submit an application because you need access to a development mesh body to be used outside of SL. The normal process would be to get one of these Dev body meshes, use Blender, and have the Avastar add-on to be used with blender. You need to use the Avastar plug in with the dev kit body in order to size and rig your clothes to that body. This process will transfer the weights from the body to your clothes, which makes those clothing items specific to that body. You would do this after exporting your clothes from Marvelous Designer and into Blender with Avastar and your dev kit body. If you don't have one the actual dev kits, I would suggest getting the one from Tonic. You can purchase it directly from their store so you don't have to wait on the application process. Avastar isn't free so that's additional cost.