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  1. Waialae
    This whole thread is really surprising... it looks like the prevalent SL resident position on racism is something like "art imitates life, suck it up Buttercup." There are many things we can do in RL to address racism, but to have it simply shrugged off here is annoying. And enlightening. Looks like SL may not be for me, or for any POC, after all.
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    Kung hee fat choy everybody! I wish you a year of peace, health, love, and prosperity.
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    I have several alts, most of whom were created to represent characters I was writing. Creating a scene and seeing the alts together in it helps me to visualize random details that my imagination might miss. Once a WIP is finished I usually change the alt into a fun animal like a capybara or a giraffe, or change the appearance to more closely resemble friends and family. I've deleted a few of the alt accounts, but left most of them. Logging into them occasionally can be a nice trip down memory lane.
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    Guy Linden replied to my ticket yesterday "Thank you for the follow up. I was aware of some reports of issues, however, they have no affected me the times I have checked. I am sorry for any inconvenience, thank you for detailing the concern." That was it. Strange, I've never had LL tech support seem so dismissive of an issue impacting many residents. Sadly it sounds as though LL tech support may be treating the teleporter outages as little more than rumors. I replied "Guy, sorry you are unable to confirm that the teleporters have been down. Dyna Mole may be able to provide technical details to you that I as an end user cannot. Does LL keep minute-by-minute records of how many residents are in the Portal Park region? When the teleporters are down I often see residents "parked" at the teleporter waiting for it to work again. There are many reasons for people to gather in Portal Park, but records from recent days will likely show certain times with small crowds. Those times may be examples of teleporter outage." Fingers crossed that our friend Dyna Mole can help in ways that tech support is not willing or able.
  7. Waialae
    Thanks for your work on this Dyna! Yes, a support ticket was started and I received a reply today from Guy Linden. Fingers crossed...
  8. Waialae
    Thanks Alwin, had no idea.
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    Hi folks. The teleporters in Portal Parks 1 & 2 have been up and down for weeks. I enjoy the old skool game Linden Realms, and my first thought was that LL might be acclimating SL residents to the removal of a game that pays residents to play. But... then I tried all the teleporters in Portal Park and found that NONE were working. They were up briefly yesterday, but are down again today. Looks like the problem is more complex than it originally appeared. In any case, I submitted a ticket to SL Support yesterday about the transporters being broken. For updates look at ticket 1946734 on the support website: https://lindenlab.freshdesk.com/support/tickets/1946734
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    Nice! Beautiful home!
  11. Waialae
    It's all in the name, isn't it. Abuse Report, not "disagreement" report, not even "being a jerk" report. Everyone has their own opinions, their own morals and ethics, their own cultures, and their own truths and realities... so I try to adopt a "live and let live" attitude towards most folks. UNTIL what they're saying becomes harassment, or what they're doing obviously breaks SL's rules. I have no problem submitting an AR on those folks, because their words or actions are negatively impacting everyone's SL experience.
  12. Waialae
    Thanks Diamond, that explains a lot.
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    Thanks Rowan, great comparison chart! Looks like building a Homestead region is less expensive than building a Full region. But renting is still less expensive than building or buying. I can only guess that the big property developers may get some sort of financial incentive to build multiple regions at once, lowering the price of building to the point that renting becomes less expensive. .
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    Wow, Flower, you're so right! That was my first mistake: comparing rent (WEEKLY) to tier fee (MONTHLY). So yes, multiply rent by 4 (or to be most accurate, multiply by 52/12). But the mainland parcel still works out to be far more expensive. Rowan, thanks, good comparison. It looks like the difference in costs reflects the difference in prims / land capacity. I would expect that as the quantity of prims increases the price per unit would decrease - but instead it works out the opposite way: the more prims you buy, the higher the cost per prim becomes. Strange. I would love to jungle landscape my SL home, but not if the additional tier required means paying over USD2,400 per year!
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    Aloha Rowan. Thanks, yes, I've been renting 1/4 private homestead regions that allow 1250 prims. I know that a Full Region allows 20,000 prims rather than the 5,000 on a Homestead, so in theory land on a Full Region should cost 4 times as much. So 4 times the L2,000 rent is L8,000 - not L15,000. Added to that: the Monthly Maintenance fee is USD 109 (Homestead) or USD 229 (Full). 1/4 of these costs is USD 27.25 (Homestead) or USD57.25 (Full) monthly. A big difference for the number of prims / land capacity is included in the price, but the cost of buying a mainland parcel still defies my limited logic.
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    The difference between tier and rent makes it seem as though landlords must be losing a lot of cash every month, which I suspect is not the case at all. I'm missing something important here, but what?
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    I have rented 1/4 regions in the past, and wondered about the economics of buying a 1/4 region. My rent for most 1/4 regions was about L1,700 - L2,400 per month. But Dashboard > Land Manager > Land Use Fees explains that if I purchase a 1/4 region I will have to pay USD67 per month, which is roughly L15,000. This means that the same amount of land - 1/4 sim - can be enjoyed for either L2,000 or for L15,000 per month. Renting seems an obvious choice, especially given all the airports, military bases, GTFO Hubs, advertising boards, tall walls, low skyboxes, and police stations that plague Mainland regions. It can't be that obvious a choice, can it? What am I missing? Is it worth L13,000 per month simply to write your own land use covenant?
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