Marianne Little

I don't think it is LL, I think it was an glitch. What happened and why it was locked up, I don't know. Does anyone know if LL announce if it was unscheduled maintenance? I see that the last scheduled maintenance was 4 days ago. Nothing about trouble since then. I don't know much about these things. I have seen lots of posts from people over the years from people who ask if they have been banned, since they get the message even if they copy and paste the correct password. It has been due to unscheduled maintenance. I don't know if you tried to write your password too many times and was shut down for security. I have never used Live chat, it is the only thing I know about besides to submit a ticket. LL announced that there will be no support the 25th, but it will be open the 24th and then the 26th and so on.

Do not think it is too late for cunomar. This happen in a very unfortunate time, I am sure LL give people leave for the holidays and run on a skeleton crew. Do you have something to do while you wait? Maybe read FabFree and go on a hunt for gifts. Since you never leave adult sims, perhaps do something totally different and explore mainland, as one other poster here does. Just to keep you occupied on the alt. I doubt that you will find your main frozen where you logged off, but if I were you, I would go there and look just because.

Then you can at least contact those you remember and tell them that you have problems with your account. Is this your profile? Cunomar is quite special. https://my.secondlife.com/cunomar/#about_tab

Can you log in as McCuno Resident?

Try to teleport here to NCI in Kuula. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kuula/55/168/29 I was living close by in Poliahu, and the road was open both northeast and southwest from NCI. Do you have banlines turned on? You can see them in time and stop if you don't travel fast. There can be a problem with security orbs that are set to a wide radius and reach on over the road. I am not sure what can be done with them. Trees and other phantom objects should not be a problem if they are planted and overhang the road. I wonder if you should make landmarks as you travel, if you are teleported home you can go back to the last one and progress slowly. If you are on Linden road or water and you find something blocking the road, you can submit a ticket and ask to have it removed, I think. I have not used the default LL viewer so I am not familiar with it. The Firestorm map is good, and I can see the roads so clearly. I can also click on the map, on the road in the next sim and teleport there, it is a way to get past a roadblock or a nasty security orb.

The Fruit Islands is another place you can sail. You can rez your boat at the public beach. These are private sims with land to rent. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fruit Islands/9/71/22 If I were new, I would sail around there, and if it was no green dots on the map, I would use the camera to look better at the houses and gardens there. Many really, really impressive boats outside to admire. People probably don't like it if you pause your boat outside their land for a long time, so just sail past where green dots show the owner is home. Or IM them and ask if you can come in and admire their place. Some will probably not answer or say no, but many would like it and let you look around. It's nice to show off your place to polite people. I rented in the Pear sim, and it was so lovely. I have a RL that keep me from SL in long periods. I could not justify for myself to pay the rent when I couldn't log in, so I let the place go.

You already have a rideable horse, actually two, in your inventory. They are a part of the new(est?) starter avatars LL released in 2017. I have not used them since 2017 so my memory isn't so good. But I used them with my own avatar (Skin/body/clothes). not the standard, I think I only attached the horse and AO. The female avatar only has a side sit since they are renaissance avatars but I found out how to trick the system and use the male horse for the common sit. This video shows where to find them, go in the library -> clothing and the female is Rihanna (Or Rihannon?) I can't log in much now, it is so busy in RL, but there is a video. 2 minutes in she show where in your inventory you find them, and 7:30 she uses the avatars with the horses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPIxpls1Wdw If you get interested in riding, you can buy the Water Horse that you can customize, I haven't bought that one even if I thought about it so many times. Again, I can't really say so much, you get better information from this blog: https://aywren.com/2018/03/22/second-life-finding-water-horse/ and a video showing the Water Horse in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scpc1xec6pg

Will you rent or buy? I live on Mainland next to the L-shaped Lake. It was expensive land, and it is not much land on offer there. Before, I lived next to the waterways in Innu, but that was too complicated to navigate to some lake. Around the Mare Secundus is perhaps a good place to hunt for land. Second Norway has lovely places. If you rent in private places, there is a covenant that make sure the look is not destroyed by huge privacy screens, vampire castles and low skyboxes. The covenant is mid/northern Europe plants and builds that will fit in. If you like tropical islands, you must check out Fruit Islands. I totally loved to live there, but it will cost you. You must pay 4 weeks rent up front, and the rent is higher than you are used to. You can sail around there everywhere. The covenant there is tropical plants and builds, but you don't have to use tiki homes, ordinary family homes is fine.

There is always one who come in and use derogatory words as "gigantess" in every thread about size.

In terms of realistic and functional, I struggle more with how my avatar look in houses and furniture. I am too old in SL to adapt a new camera angle so in the default camera position, it is a balance between ceiling height and height of windows and doors. I like a bit higher ceiling, but I really don't like it when doorknobs are placed as high as my nipples, if you get what I'm saying. A functional height for me is 6' or 1,8 - 1,9 m. I have found houses and furniture who fit well together. I am 5'95 in front of the house, and it works because it is a manor style build. Manors are bigger that average houses. But 6'10 would look better in the furniture. I can resize everything down because most of what I have is mod, but is it realistic to do it with all things? I buy much from the same designer and it is more convenient to change myself. I know some people have a different view, that they should never adjust their avatar to match SL furniture. They are entitled to their opinion, but I take the easy way out and change 1 thing, myself, instead of everything else. Low quality photos, sorry. I took them on medium graphics because I don't have time to change to the photo setting with ultra, shadows and all that. Entrance with 5'95 avatar: Furniture with 5'95 avatar: Furniture with 6'10 avatar:

This difference in height is the standard SL. Men prefer to be among the tallest in the crowd. Maybe they shrink a bit, since so much good quality furniture is made towards a bit more realistic size. But I will say that the females has been at least a head shorter during SLs time, and still is. It is not all, of course, but I think it's the majority.

True, from the front. It is only the triangles next to the nostrils, and it can be hidden with the correct windlight. From the side and half profile, that is different to me. I was using the Loud Mouth before mesh heads, I see a big difference in the mouth from the side with mesh. It is fine if you have no interest in animating the face, or have a slighly open mouth. I also like to move the hands and fingers individually. You should do what makes YOU happy. Don't care if all others use mesh. You are you, with your style.

Thank you. I don't think I bother to pick it up. I have a new winter cabin from Schulz Bros, from the Snowstorm edition of Builders Box. It looks better and is 90 LI. I have never picked up a premium gift, not one. It is because I started as premium late, I suppose. I am spoilt by all the amazing creations I get elsewhere. I sometimes think I will get a gift, but always forget it. But by all means, it is nice of LL to offer it, and it looks nice. For one like me, I would prefer some more LI added to my land for free, but hey, I know I can't get it.

I can't log in right now. How many LI is it, and is it modify?

300 animations sound like a lot to handle. Do you use it for dancing in clubs? Maybe you need advice from professional dancers, I never had that many in an AO. If you will just walk, stand, fly and all the common moves, I use the built in AO in Firestorm. Video tutorial: https://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/video_animation_overrider Of course this is only for Firestorm.

Catwa offer more diversity than ever, it's not just one mouth to rule them all now. What people buy is a whole different picture. I, for one, hesitate to switch heads because of the price. I am sure others think the same and are used to the lips. New head buyers perhaps only hear about the Catya head, the oldest with ducklips. So they buy what are recommended for them, or they see all the products for "Catwa Catya" and think that's the head with best options.

It can be smart to start looking at demos now, in case there will be a Christmas gift or sales. If you find heads that you think will work for you, you are prepared. I recommend you to join the groups that are free to join, so you don't miss messages about this. It can be a flash sale.

I recommend this thread too, if you go back a page or more, you will find @Coby Fodens posts on a 512 plot. She has very low land impact furniture and build.

The bolded: What do you want? Do you like what you see around you on the ground? If you don't, then a skybox is the best. Or do you want a garden and house/cottage on the ground? Is it flat or flat/ish? And, a budget. Do you plan to spend L, and what's your limit? Are your style modern, classic, dungeon (lol)

Haha. Usually I don't wear tattoos in SL but if I do, it's all in. The only way to tell it's the default head, is zooming on around the nostrils. The mouth is either a teeth tattoo, an alpha that show teeth, the PXL teeth, or the Loud Mouth mouth. The Loud Mouth add-on improved my profile so much, but it was hard to edit and had a seam. I see that I wrote that the picture was unedited, so I did a good job with the windlight, or I used another solution than Loud Mouth.

I do the same as Skell did and take a Flickr photo, no way I bother to make a look without the head. But here I have the Wowmeh mesh body and Slink hands.

That is a driveway, Arden Point from Roost, stretched individual pieces to fit all ways, and textured with this: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Vitas-Textures-SNOWY-TILES-3D-Seamless-1024-2017/10693924 I had to nudge the driveway z position to get it under the asphalt.

I also saw that you say it was a box symbol with a "no" over. This can be land permissions getting borked a short time because LL does some maintenance. The "copy selected" should still work on prims.

So you were able to rez one set? It should not be the floor that is an issue then. Try ctrl + alt + T to see if it is a red shape where you will rez. This can be from a rug, you will see the real size of the rug is much larger, or from a tree on the outside. (ctrl + alt + T takes you back to normal view) A smart tip that saves me time when I rez many similar items like curtains: The edit box has a tab with a magic wand symbol for creating prims inworld. But the "copy selected" is genius. If you click on that and then click an object, it duplicates it. The benefit is that it is created in almost the same spot so you don't have to adjust every set of curtains up and down. Just use the edit tool and slide the new set of curtains over to the next window, and nudge it a bit closer to it. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Building_Tools Of course this does not work on all mesh and you get that unable to rez or is it unable to copy message. I just decorated the house with wreath and garlands, and had to edit 26 of them in place.

Can you see some edge of the tattoo? Do you wear clothes with lace? It can be an alpha sorting issue. Else, what Resi said. A Club is laggy and it can be a problem.