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Tasty. I would have loved to have that. My search for a new log home continues.

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There is a reason they are called Lost Caves, and it is Varmint (singular) Hills, so there is only one, and therefore may be hard to find.

I doubt very much that you will be the last, but I can definitely say that you aren't the first. I stumbled onto while horseback riding shortly after the log homes were released, and I'm sure countless others had already seen it before I did. The thread linked below has many spoilers, so if you prefer to discover things serendipitously, you may not want to read it. It is also over a year old, so it won't have any recent additions.

Thank you.

I have a hard time choosing a favorite. I also struggle to let go of ones I like. I currently have three. I love them all for their locations, sense of privacy, and the canvas each provides to furnish and create unique add-ons. Evening Star on Hardtack - owned since June 2020 Grand View on Brichester - owned since October 2020 Havana on Visser - owned since February 2021

That is indeed a great spot @Sehra Kauffman. I was your next door neighbor for a very long time, before reluctantly moving on to other themes.

Ah. Yes. They were referring to some else. No worries.

Why are you calling me out @yestothis? Why do I need to go into hiding?

I'm not the thread police but I'm not sure why a new topic was needed. Most of your questions are answered in the various threads you mentioned. This discussion is active at the moment and goes into most of the specifics.

I definitely agree there are much bigger issues in RL, and comparisons to them likely aren't relevant, so you can ignore all of that. None of us knows how simple it would be to change the way the home claims system functions. It may seem easy on the surface, but it may be more difficult to implement than you think. Also, changing the process to make it more equitable may have consequences. For example, what if they change the number of claims for each avatar from 5 per day to 1 per week? That would likely solve the land rush issue, while completely killing GoH at the same time. I don't think most of us would like that, but it would certainly make things more fair. The other thing you have to consider is the financial impact of making a change. There is the cost involved to do the work. There is also the long term impact on company income. Would making a change have a positive or negative effect on cashflow? Obviously keeping customers happy is part of the equation, but what is the trade off between one group's happiness over another's? In the end, SL is a business, and decisions to make changes are always going to be made with that in mind.

I doubt this is a minority opinion, but what other people do with their money is their business.

The opportunity is there for everyone to spend the time and money that others are spending, but you are correct that not everyone has the same amount of time and money to spend. Does that mean that those who can afford it should not spend their time and money because not everyone can? I would love to live in a big fancy house with a swimming pool and drive a nice new Tesla to my three vacation homes in RL, but I can't afford that. Should no one be allowed to do those things because I can't? I guess that is an example of the class system of which you speak, but unlike RL, I can still get a really nice home, even if it may not be in the exact spot I want. What I and many others have found is that we often end up liking those reclaimed abandon spots much more than those new releases on which we missed out. I struggle to see the problem. There are plenty of absolutely lovely homes showing up in the queue every day. It simply isn't feasible for any one person or group of people to perpetually own all the nicest spots. It's true, the alt armies snatch up a lot of them when they are initially released, but to do that, they are releasing other nice spots that they previously claimed. They aren't just adding more and more alts to their armies. They have limits, just as you and I do. Theirs just exceed ours. Is it really so important to be the first owner of a home? It's not like unpleasant smells or piles of trash get left behind when homes are abandoned. Your odds of catching an abandoned spot are the same as they would be for the new ones if the alt armies weren't grabbing so many of them.

Yep. That's why I put "lost" in quotes. The item isn't gone, it just can't be easily found.

This is as good a time as any to remind everyone that having a premium account entitles you to claim a Linden home, subject to availability. It does not entitle anyone to have a home of a particular theme or a specific parcel. The rules that are in place apply to everyone. Those who seem to always get the "best" spots do so because they spend more time and money claiming homes. Even so, they don't always get the parcels they want. I have said this before, but it warrants repeating. I think people would enjoy their SLs more if they focused less on finding the perfect home, and more on making the home they have perfect. While you all work on that, I'm going to go roll a couple of homes and see what the GoH gods have in store for me today.

I'm not sure that I have actually ever permanently "lost" anything due to this, but I have certainly spent hours trying to find something that I know I bought.

I could fund multiple premium memberships for years with the money I have spent on items that I have never used. I fully intended to use all of them when purchased, but sometimes things don't look as nice as you envisioned, your plans change, or you immediately find something you like better. I try to only buy for need these days, but sometimes seeing a nice item simply means a need must be found. It happens.

I think most people who play the GoH with any frequency are already aware of all of this, but I suppose there's no harm in posting it. I do take issue with the notion that it is easy to pass a home to an alt or friend when a theme is fully populated. Yes, it is easier than when there is ample theme availability, but it is still risky. I'm happy for you that you have had some success with it, but even those who have mastered the process still suffer the occasional loss, and for the average person it's a 50/50 proposition at best. If you are okay with losing a home and just want to give it a go, then by all means, roll the dice. If you love your location, and losing it would be painful, then I would think twice before trying to pass it to an alt.

Nefarious Cattle Rustlers = Western theme

I have no insight into the why or how the names were chosen, and they were clearly made from the same multi-region template, but I'm positive the "Squishy Pickle" houseboat area existed before the "Pickle" traditional island. My first new premium home was a houseboat in the middle of "Squishy" that was released in May of 2019. My second was a trad on Willow Heights, from which I was able to see the "Pickle" get added to my open water view in August 2019. Here's a blog post from @Daniel Voyager that talks about it, where he refers to "Pickle" and "Squishy Pickle II."

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hyde Park/214/179/22 Could just be my browser, but I didn't see the image nor the link, so I reposted.

It's not just one person who would love for the Bellisseria coastlines to look more natural on the map. It was the first thing I noticed when the first group of new regions appeared on the map. That said, I completely understand why that had to be sacrificed for the things that really matter, and I definitely the Bellisseria grass. While I would prefer both, give me a beautifully immersive experience over something that looks nice on a map any day. I'll also add that having a functional map is more important to having it be pretty, though those two things likely aren't related.

Subtle sarcasm. The fact that you aren't sure how to take it confirms that I executed it flawlessly.

That's too bad. Better luck next time.

While technically this is all true, as are all of your follow-up comments, the current limits aren't entirely arbitrary, and do reflect a goal to at least keep performance within the realm of reasonable ("reasonable" being a very subjective unit of measure). My point was that it isn't likely that LL will suddenly add more LI to regions just because they technically can. I know they have done so in the past, but I don't see it happening again anytime soon.