Abigail Longmeadow

Yes, you can use the viewer menus to abandon your Linden home. To abandon your Linden home: 1. Stand inside your home. 2. Choose World > About Land and click the General tab. 3. Click Abandon Land. 4. After you confirm your choice, the land is removed from your account. After doing that you can buy up to 512 m2 of mainland without any additional monthly tier fee (because 512 m2 is included in your permium account). If you buy more than 512 m2 of mainland, you will have to pay an additional monthly tier fee. Note that while you get a Linden Home for free, you must "buy" mainland parcels. This is a one-time payment to the previous owner. Price varies a lot depending on location, and on who the owner is. Also, carefully note the "Land impact" or "Prim count" limit of the land you are buying. Your house and everything else you want to rez in the house (furnature, plants etc) must total to less than the allowed "land impact" rating. The standard land impact rating is 117 per 512 m2. Your land impact capacity goes up if you own more land in the same sim (region). The land impacts of all land that you own in the same region is shared - so you can use it all on just one parcel, even if the parcels you own are some distance apart. But they must all be inside the same region.

The difficulty with mainland tier is the size of the jumps between levels, particularly at the higher levels: "Any tier beyond the first full region is assigned in half-region increments at a rate of US$97.50 per half region." https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Buying-land/ta-p/700043#Section_.3 If you only want a little more than 65,536 m2 of land, it makes more sense to create an "Alt" (another Second Life account) and then make the Alt premium so the Alt can buy the extra land without the huge jump in tier level. I believe you are allowed up to 5 accounts. Each Alt that is made premium (by paying the premium membership fee for that Alt) will receive 512 m2 of automatic tier with no additional monthly charge, and the next few steps up in tier are relatively small steps for that Alt. The Alt and your main account can deed your land to a group which your main and your Alt have control over. Group owned land gives you a bonus of 10% on your tier, but managing group owned land is complicated. It is very easy to make a mistake and be charged double tier for one month if you transfer land incorrectly to or from or between groups.

Possibly she accepted an Experience that can do these things? https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Experiences-in-Second-Life/ta-p/2744686 I don't know much about this, but she can check on and remove experience permissions in her viewer, through the experience profile.

From the Wiki: "When you are logged in, the top center of the screen will tell you your current map region (they all have unique names), and the X (east), Y (north), and Z (height) location within the region, in meters." In other words, exactly where you are in a named region in Second Life. Each region (sim) in Second Life is 256 m x 256 m. The X and Y distance is measured from the south west corner of each region. The Z distance is measured up from the base of the grid (which is usually below the terrain or sea floor).

Be sure you are using a current viewer. Viewer software has changed a lot since 2010. Best to do a clean install: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-Second-Life/ta-p/1375231 http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory If you were able to log in, then your account is still working, you just are having problems rezing. This is called a Bake Fail. Start here: http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_bake_fail

A while ago I heard he took a position with Sansar (the new virtual world Linden Lab is building).

1. Ebbe Altberg has said that Second Life will remain for 'years'. My feeling is that Sansar is going to be so different from Second Life that it is designed for a different audience. 2. Linden Lab has not said anything about removing mainland in Second Life. You will hear different people speculating different things. My feeling is that since 'Region Idling' was successfully implemented, Linden Lab has little motivation to destroy empty mainland. Empty, unused sims sort of run in "economy mode" on the server. 3. If you want to buy abandoned mainland that is marked "Not for sale", put a support ticket in describing the exact location you want to buy. You can ask to have a large abandoned area cut into smaller parcels if you want. There is no guarantee, but usually Linden Lab will either sell the land to you individually, or put the land up for auction. See: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Abandoned-land/ta-p/846143 https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Buying-land/ta-p/700043 http://usd.auctions.secondlife.com/ http://usd.auctions.secondlife.com/lin/auction/auction/list/ 4. The price of land in Second Life varies greatly, depending on location and on who currently owns it. You can sell your land for whatever price you think someone else will pay. Price varies from about 0.5 Linden / m2 up to anything. See the mainland Linden dollar auction page. 5. If you buy land in the same sim, it will share land impacts (prim allowances) with your existing parcel. Meaing you can use up all the combined land impacts on your existing parcel if you leave the new one you buy in the same sim empty. Allowed land impacts (prim counts) go according to total square meters you own in a sim.

1. This is a user to user forum, the Lindens do not answer here. 2. A lot of people are reporting this error. It only affects certain acounts. 3. All you can do is to file a support case here... https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ Select "Account Issue" from the first drop-down and "Second Life Viewer Login Issues" from the second. Fill in the required information and copy/paste the following text... Login failed. Updating friends list. Note: many others are having this same problem. ...into the "What is the error message" box. Then click "Submit" and hope for the best!

Was the last thing you saw before that error message, something about "Updating Friends List"? "Updating Friends List" has been causing log in problems this week for a number of people. It only affects certain avatars. You may be able to log in using an Alt. Best advice is for you to file a support ticket with Linden Lab, giving as much info as possible (what viewer and version, what location in Second Life, and which accounts are affected and which are not). File a support case here... https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ Select "Account Issue" from the first drop-down and "Second Life Viewer Login Issues" from the second. Fill in the required information and copy/paste the following text... Login failed. Updating friends list. Note: many others are having this same problem.

The whole Teen Second Life is G rated. That is all the land between Hyperion at the North and Appalachia at the south. (Years ago teens were confinded to that area - teens could not go to G rated main grid lands.) The other big G rated region is the west part of Bay City, which used to be part of Teen Second Life. That is why there seem to be two copies of Bay City side by side. One of them was made for teens. The color sims are mostly G rated (from Violet south and east to Pandora). These are the largest G rated mainland regions I know about.

There are some mainland all water parcels for sale by owner in the Sea of Fables area. Fly around with the map open (Control M) and the For Sale box checked so the parcels will show up on the map. You can't raise terrain by more than 4 m in most mainland areas, so you can't usually make an island that way, but if you own a mainland water parcel, you can buy a mesh island and rez it just like you rez a skybox (either on the sea floor and then edit it to elevate the mesh object up to the surface, or use a HUD or Viewer that is able to rez a platform in empty space, then drag the island onto the platform from your inventory. You can't rez anything directly on the surface of the water unless you have a special HUD or viewer tool made to do that.) Note: Water and protected water front mainland parcels are going to be expensive to purchase, but the monthly tier is the same as any other mainland. You must have a premium account to buy any mainland parcel, but don't need premium to just rent mainland from a mainland landlord. Note2: You don't want an "offsim" island for this purpose, you want a real island that you can walk on on your own parcel.

Blake Sea? The Blake Sea is east of the continents of Satori and Nautilus. Search the map for sims with Fanci Deep or Blake in the name of the sim. The Blake area contains both many Linden Lab ocean sims, and many private sailing type sims (and some mermaid areas).

It is rigged mesh. It says so on the Marketplace. The only edit you can make to rigged mesh is to change the texture if you have modify permission. On the Marketplace these come with a texture changing HUD. Unrigged mesh can be edited if you have modify permission, but unrigged mesh does not flex and move like rigged mesh will. Traditional flex-prims can also be edited if you have modify permission.

Avatars come in two types: Classic and mesh. Most clothing sold in Second Life only works right with a classic avatar. Outfits that work with mesh avatars (in most cases) have to be made specifically for that avatar. You have both kinds of avatars available to you in your viewer/inventory as starters. You can also buy avatars (to replace your current avatar).

Log into your Dashboard, it is under Account - Premium Membership - scroll all the way to the bottom of the page for Manage Membership. https://secondlife.com/my/account/membership.php?lang=en-US

I have had that problem before. Two suggestions: 1) Read the TOS on the Linden Lab web site - before you open the viewer - then you can check the box and click Agree quickly when it shows in the viewer. 2) Open the viewer, then very quickly click the link to read the TOS in your web browser instead of in the viewer. Read it, then go back to the viewer and check mark the box click agree.

Is this a mainland parcel of 65,536 m2 filling up one whole mainland region, or is this a true private region? It makes a big difference. Transfer is different, tier rates are different, and you don't get estate manager rights on the mainland, even if you own all land in a single mainland region. https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Managing-Private-Regions/ta-p/700115#Section_.3 https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Buying-land/ta-p/700043 https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Premium-membership/ta-p/1054477 A mainland parcel of 65,536 m2 (one full region) costs US$195/month but you don't have any more control than any mainland parcel owner has. You must have a Premium account, so you must also pay the Premium membership fee. Linden Lab remains the estate owner for all mainland.

You must mean you installed the latest Firestorm viewer (from the Phoenix Firestorm Project). The actual Phoenix viewer is gone. If you are having trouble, Firestorm recomends performing a "Clean install" when upgrading. This involves additional manual steps to clean out old settings files and cache files which can corrupt a new install if not removed first. Firestorm provides instructions for doing this, then re-install the latest viewer. http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_update_viewer

Most debit cards don't even work with Linden Lab. Some may if they act like credit cards, but maybe your bank charges a fee for overdrafts? Or something like that? Check your Second Life Dashboard to see what Linden Lab has charged. https://accounts.secondlife.com/account_history/?lang=en-US#?current_month=2015-11&page_size=25

Lindal Kidd and Amethyst Jetaime are correct, assuming you do not own a free Linden house (on the Linden homes sims). If you own a Linden house, it uses up your free 512 m2. So if you do own a Linden house, abandon it before you buy more land on the mainland. Second, if you contribute tier to a group, it counts just the same as if you owned that much land yourself.

The Lindens don't post here in these forums. We are just residents like you are. To regain access to your user account you will have to contact Linden Lab support and open a case. See: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Password-and-account-information/ta-p/700017 Second, if you have old chat conversations saved, they will be logged to a folder on your computer. The folder may be hidden, but that is controlable from the Windows Control panel (to hide or un-hide folders). In Windows 7 the usual location is C:\Users\<name you log into the PC with>\AppData\Roaming\<Name of the viewer you use>\<Log in name for your Second Life account>\

We are all just residents, the Lindens don't post here. But I can make a guess. Do you have two accounts (log in names) that are both premium accounts? So they both get the 300L stipend per week, and both can own mainland? If you have two premium accounts, it is normal to be charged your annual premium membership fee ($72) twice.

As a last resort, you can derender most objects in many 3rd party viewers. This makes the object invisible to you (but does not affect anyone else).

It could be: 1. A bad attachment containing an animation. Possibly shoes or a HUD. Remove all attachments. 2. You lost/dropped/rezed an object that contains both animations and animation privlidges on the ground. Animation HUDs are very small when rezed on the ground. You need to rez them on the ground to replace the animations they contain (assuming they allow mods and that you bought better animations you want to use). It is easy to lose an HUD while doing this because they are hard to see on the ground. Dance HUDs may do this. Teleport to a different region. If the animation goes away, but then returns when you teleport back, something somewhere in the region is animating you. Use beacons to search for scripted objects. Firestorm viewer also has search functions. 3. Stuck animation. Use the Stop Animating Me option in the viewer's menus (location depends on which viewer you use). In Firestorm it is Avatar menu -> Avatar Health -> Stop Animating Me.

I have never had it happen (so far) but I have read that a corrupt group tag can prevent you from loggin in. Linden Live Chat may be able to fix this for you (assuming you have a Premium account). If you can remember which group tag you were wearing, you can ask the group owner to expell you. Then later you can ask to be invited back into the group. Rolig's idea of using a text-only viewer may also allow you to log in. If you can get in, stop wearing the group tag.