Marianne Little

How about Instagram, is it a SL community there? I need to delete pictures from Flickr, they reduce the numbers for the free accounts.

TY for your reply. Isn't it weird that I can log him in? I thought logins was stopped a day or so after payment was due. I just logged him in and has logged him in all the time since he was premium. And all my avatars use the same email and the same PayPal. No one has any trouble logging in. I checked my email and I got no messages from PayPal about insufficient funds on my Visa.. I kept an eye on the balance and always had a buffer. I got no Second Life emails about billing issues, and I receive other emails from them, like Premium gifts. Oh yes I sent a ticket. I have a 22,50 USD receipt from PayPal to Linden Research on Nov. 12 and that should fit with Quarterly and his next payment Feb. 14? My other alt with Quarterly is not due before March 11. I have his receipt from PayPal in December. I have only 2 with Quarterly payment. And I always buy 10 000 L if I need to buy some. That does not fit with 22,50 USD. It is probably some mistake from LL.

It is both, and I sold land in the same region, app 1100 m for 10 000. I had to pay tier the month when I bought a too big parcel, but I divided it so I could cover it with my small army of alts. I think I will try 2048 as Blush say over here. I am a bit sad and down now, so I will look up when the Premium payments is due for all my alts. And set all the parts for sale, not stay on a smaller part because I will not see others move in there. The first monthly alt is due for another month of premium the first days of January, but I can't cope with the dividing and sale so fast. I am moping. And I think it will be unrealistic to sell land in 3 days now, when so many people is busy with their family in RL. I wonder if I should move off Heterocera. Buy the ugliest land possible.

Yes, if they set it to auction, there are bid sniping programs, I don't think it's made in SL but as I understand, it is for any internet bidding auction. I watched the clock tick down and my name changed from the highest bid to the other person in the same second as it ended. I know it because they contacted me, the name of the highest bid is visible and I could see who won too. So they could see me and snap it up. 1120 is rare so if you ask for a parcel to be divided, why not ask for 1120. It's the same work for LL. I try to remember, I think it took more than a week, maybe 2. I got no notice about it, I saw the color of the plot had changed to purple on the Firestorm map. No, but I only took part in one auction. That was enough, so I can't tell if this is common or that it was obvious that I was eager to get it.

But I am used to spending money is SL, so that monthly stipend x 2 will be used for shopping. Does anyone know what's the most popular land size?

I have an alt who is premium with Quarterly payment of 22,50. I logged him in just a month ago. I never had problems with logging in. Payment goes via PayPal. I never received any messages from PayPal about issues with my debit card. I went to his Account to see when next billing date is because I want to end premium. The site says: My other alts have their billing via PayPal too. No problems there. One of the alts is monthly and her payment went smooth the 12.02.2018.

I have myself and one alt on annual, that runs out in March. The other 4 is a mix of monthly and quarterly, I must log them in to see. I start by removing the monthly ones from Premium. But I will sell the land now, I will not stay there on a downsized plot. It will be sad. I want to make as most I can from the sales, obviously, so I can buy some cheap ass land and save the rest, since I should not buy more L if my income is 66% of today. Something that will kick in in August, probably. I am cutting unnecessary costs to save money in RL. I need to spend them on my family and reduce money spent on SL. If I can remove the quarterly from Premium, maybe I can get a refund but I am not sure if LL allow it.

I got bad news about my job just before Christmas. I am not unemployed, but I must plan for the future since it is uncertain, and that mean pulling my alts from Premium and keep only myself and maybe 1 alt Premium. I can slice my land up and sell, but what is the most sought after land sizes? Will I benefit financially from dividing a 6752m in 2 or 3 or maybe 6 parts? The odd number is because I have six alts that donate to group. Is land sizes for groups in demand, or is it just stupid to divide the land and include the group bonus? Like 1126 instead of 1024? Or should I just set land to 1024 or 2048 and some small parcels like 204 there so a group can buy both? The land is good, between protected road and protected water with direct access to a large mainland sea.

Do not hope that 1024 land by protected road or protected water will be sold to you by default. LL know it is popular, so they can just as well set it in an auction. That can drive the price up, because you might bid on it and your bid is the highest 1 second before the auction ends, but people have some program to buy it in the last second. They snap it up for a few L more, and offer it to you for double the price. Speaking of experience. But there are so many who say the opposite. I am not sure if they asked for popular land or not. Land away from water that is abandoned should be possible to get directly from LL and they set a price to 1L per square m.

You have to know how it works and use a viewer that let you permanently derender objects like this, and not bother so much about builds that's not to your taste with too many parts to derender. If you can't live with that attitude, it is better to have land on a private estate with rules. I wish a viewer let users click on the ground and choose: "derender all on this parcel".

I have done this by a mistake myself. I search part of the word, so if the landmark start with the same as the outfit, I did accidentally click on the landmark instead of the dress. And it works in sitting position too. As you say, land change owners all the time. How many times have I not used a landmark on purpose, just to find the place changed owners and it's not the same. It is more likely than other suggestions, I say.

I had many chances to log in this Christmas, but I barely did it. I will have to seriously consider downgrading what I pay for premium since I got a not so nice financial message just before Christmas. The downside of having much land, is that I am not sure how to handle going back to a lower land impacts number. One side of going premium that I didn't think about.

Now I remember something from a month ago. Lots of people had problems with their alphas not working properly. The fix then, was to just go into appearance mode and out again.

Does the skin look correct when you are naked?

I couldn't live on Mainland unless I had some attitude of "I don't care what's in the neighbors parcel". And I decided that if I was unlucky and got some really horrible things next door, I would move in a skybox and wait for them to move again. I like the Linden road. I liked to live in Fruit Islands too. Fruit Islands had some of the same feeling of "life", always some green dots and often boats sailing around.

Firestorm has a lot of information in the wiki: https://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/ I must admit that I never read the wiki, and so I suddenly learn about features after years of using it. 😄

Aesthetics -- Attractive because it's by the L-shaped lake and easy to travel by boat to Bay of Space Pigs. It is a few eyesores. I am surprisingly numb to them. Maybe because I always have eyes on my land and fuss with it. Some derendering of a certain eyesores, a lower draw distance and I am ok. Community -- Don't meet locals, but meet people who travel. Time zones may be a factor. I had 2 neighbors before that I talked to quite often, but they moved. It was sad. Amenities/Infrastructure -- Water and road and I own my land. Neighborhood -- Well I don't know. It is Mainland and so put up anything and all. At the moment it is some ugliness but that is really old residents that has owned land for ages, long before me so who am I to complain. Best thing is no skyboxes really low. I wish a viewer let me click on land and derender all on it. Maybe some viewer has it? Cost of Living -- I made my alts premium. No additional cost. Safety/Security -- I can set land to group. Can use banlines and all sorts of security. Freedom of Movement -- No banlines around me. Have not encountered security orbs. Never been griefed. Like to chat to people who travel around in SL. I feel that private land is so closed from all others. IDK how to place points. I had no problems selling land in the sim. I bought too much land and sliced off some so I could get a big piece of land instead of spread parcels. I think it's 8/10 resell value for mainland outside places like Zindra and double prim land. Because of road and protected water. Aesthetics. Average for mainland. 4/10 for those who don't derender stuff. 6/10 for those that do. But no mainland can ever beat a private estate aesthetics with a theme and a covenant that is enforced.

Firestorm - it's addictive. 😉

I think only Firestorm has this kind of map? I have not used the default viewer in years, literally. I like that I can hoover the mouse over the green dots in mini-map and get up avatar names, see their profile, zoom in on them and so on. If I see an avatar standing on the road next to my parcel, I often do this. Also Firestorm, yes?

It must be a HUD. Look at all the "worn" or "wearing" items with a box icon. Do not think it has to be named Laq. It can be Master Hud, Control Hud, Main Hud, tinting Hud. Or not named Hud at all. Do you see box icons you do not understand what is? You know what type clothes you wear, what hair, AO and so on. If it is an unknown box icon, try to remove it. You can try a relog. Some times items appear to be worn even after you removed them. A relog is often enough to clear it up. I never use the default LL viewer. The window over is Firestorm. If you use the default LL viewer, right-click your avatar and select Edit my outfit. The Appearance window opens. Click on Attachments to see all attachments, try to find unknown items and detach them.

I think you have attached a HUD to your avatar. Try to look at worn and see if it is something named Laq Hud and detach it.

Niramyth Enzo or Smith avatar, includes head, 2799 L. Try demo first. There are other bodies and heads, but this is the best price for a full, very strong avatar. But you will look just like any other avatar with it. You can add another face, like the ones from Nivaro. That is 950 L more. Try demo first. Use Aesthetic as search words for tattoos on the Marketplace. That should give you an idea. You can find ordinary mesh hair that works for the Aesthetic head, but then it must be unrigged. Caligula sells Aesthetic hair. Full gladiator outfit like PFC - Glory, 750 L. Can be possible to find cheaper parts, but then you often find low quality. Check that all pieces shown is included if you buy cheap sets. You will need an AO for your Bento Hands. Voir, TuTys, Oracul,Sinse or Vista. Price from 399 (Voir) and up to several thousand. Try demos in the stores. Try demos first, always. Make sure you understand how the mesh avatar works. Read instructions. Join the group, there is always a group joiner in the stores. You can probably get answers faster there.

What does a bit limited budget mean? No use to suggest items that's too expensive. We had people asking for full mesh avatars, hair, clothes, body and head with just 1000 L to spend in total. Do you need everything, even hair? What about armor and weapons system? You will be fighting in the arena? What is your friend going to use in the arena, is he providing weapons?

You have time to change your passwords.

All those Bloodlines payments? You are not into that?