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Abnor Mole last won the day on August 18 2022

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  1. It will be even nicer when it is done. Thank you for not feeling the need to point out it's not deep enough for large submarines. 😏
  2. We literally just started on it. It's not open or even finalized yet. Unless you want us to go back to not allowing access to live built regions before they are finished you all might want to wait until it is before you start picking it apart in your rush to list your complaints. 🙄
  3. Many settings in a group can be dependent on a factors such as: Whether the land a only set to a group or is it owned by (deeded to) the group Whether they have they group active Whether they have the correct role active within the group
  4. "I've been playing Game of Homes for WEEKS now and I can't find a single home on a snowy mountain top with no neighbors and an unobstructed view of the ocean with a sandy beach."
  5. Guesses are fine... it's when it goes well far beyond that and into campaigning for detailed plans for "this is how they should do that crazy thing I want" or "They didn't to do this thing I assume they need me to tell them to do". It's the difference between calculated speculation and presumptive direction.
  6. Sometimes we rough in a region so it's at least useable to some extent with the intention of coming back to finish it later. We don't ignore feedback... but we also don't 'take requests' per say. We also notice when people are working out obvious clues to what our plans mostly likely will be to formulate those 'requests'. So they can claim it was their idea I guess? Score some bragging rights points? I don't know. But all that really does is make us less enthusiastic about completing those plans. Especially if it means they just become more vociferous in directing us with even more 'requests'.
  7. Point of order: The only person who can decide on official names is Patch. Anything else is purely a colloquial name... and you all can debate about those all you like.
  8. Most of those homesteads there are not finished yet Edit: Let me expand on that. We have a plan for that whole area we know you'll like just fine when it is finished, but most of it is still in the process of being built. You'll just have to wait and see. There is thing in high end sushi restaurants where you can order "omakase", which basically means "chef's choice". It is a way of saying you trust the skill of the chef to choose for you and no matter what it is you know it will be delicious and you can watch as they masterfully create your meal. Compare that to peering over the counter and saying "are you going to add that little dab of wasabi under the fish?" or "that one doesn't have nori around the tamago yet" or "is this fish fresh?" or "can you put a dab of cream cheese in there?" or "do you have any ketchup?" If he doesn't kick you out he'll at least give you a look. Close your eyes, picture that look and hold it there.
  9. Yes, when I read the part about it "giving travelers what they say they wanted" I thought it was aimed at diffusing conflict through a reasonable compromise that everyone could be happy with.
  10. I think there is a lot of hyperbole going on and painting with a broad brush making the distinction between those with reasonable expectations and those with unreasonable ones difficult. Terms such as anti-privacy griefer, privacy haters, or privacy zealots don't help matters. Very few people actually want to invade anyone's privacy and bristle at the accusation that they do. Consider also the possibility that extreme reactions tends to elicit responses. I don't personally know many people who have problems with greifers but the ones who do I notice tend to do things that actually attract them. Specifically, people who grief want to provoke a response and live rent free not on your land, but it your head. If you give them that they will keep coming back. Is it a possibility that your problem isn't from travelers but instead with a handful of actual griefers targeting you because they know they have gotten under your skin?
  11. Until we have switches installed that work properly and consistently you have to stop your train, move it over slightly so it picks up the other track and continues on that line.
  12. I don't really think they really are stepping back though. In the end they are simply swapping one very hated edge for another that they know will most likely be equally reviled for the same reasons but it lets them fire back a "this is what you said you wanted" volley in their arguments. Overall the needle has shifted though. I encounter far fewer zero second orbs than I used to on mainland and I think we (LL and the LDPW) did help with some of that with the security orb policy in Bellisseria. Combine that with things like GTFO that show you can have places that use autoreturn and allow rezzing and groups like Drivers of SL who encourage residents to explore and find interesting things across all of SL and you'll see there is an overall and increased positive interest in mainland as a whole other than only as a home for walled gardens with no trespassing signs.
  13. Ah, okay. I was under the impression this was being offered as an option for people who are looking for an easy security system and plop one down without really having to think about the settings, then wonder why they get nastygrams in their IM boxes because it default sets to zero seconds and covers the whole parcel. A system that can give normally reasonable people a sense of security and deal with the "bad actors" without instigating heated arguments with other normally reasonable people over "rights". You're right, you'll never convince everyone, but I think over these last few years I have noticed a reduction in the number of such places on mainland as a result of having such a policy in Bellisseria. I believe this marks a shift in public perception as more people are discovering that you actually can make your home secure without putting your entire land into an aggressive lock down state. But I still don't believe people switching from using zero warning to using parcel ban lists will have the same effect. I suspect it will just add more fuel to the arguments if the people who use it can say "I was told this is what you wanted so f-off. You people will never be happy" when it really isn't what they wanted at all, which is just to be able to pass through briefly as long as they aren't bothering anyone.
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