Abigail Longmeadow

I can not find MsLarisaBaily or Larisa Baily in search, but there is a Larisa Bailey (7 years 11 months old) in search. Note the space, this is an old account with a separate last name. New accounts are just a single name (the last name is actually Resident for all new accounts).

You do not need a premium account to rent land (either on the mainland or on a private island estate) from another Second Life resident. If you do that you pay the private landlord, not Linden Lab, and you are subject to the landlord's rules. The major estates post a lot of land on the marketplace, although they are usually 'renting' it and not 'selling' it. If you do have a premium account, you are then allowed to either apply for a free Linden house, or buy mainland. The first 512 m2 worth of monthly fees (tier) is included in your premium account, but if you own more than 512 m2 you will have to pay additional monthly 'Tier' fees to Linden Lab. One way to get mainland is through the Linden's parcel auction. The other way is to fly or walk around on the mainland continents with the big map (Control M) open and with the check box for 'Land Sale' checked. Parcels that show up in yellow are for sale directly by the current owner. Those parcels can be bought directly by standing on the parcel and opening the About Land menu. A third way to buy mainland is if you find Linden owned land that is not in use, you can submit a support ticket and ask the Lindens to sell it to you (or at least put it up for auction). They may be willing to do that. Yes, many groups own mainland, and some of them set a selling price that you may feel is too high, but it is their land. They can price it as high as they want. Don't buy it if they want too much money for it. Notice that waterfront land usually costs more, particullarly if it has an un-blockable view (directly connects to a Linden ocean). P.S. You can buy group owned mainland directly with your avatar, converting it into individually owned land.

You can't run a club or any kind of business in one of the free Linden Homes. You can however run a business or club on the rest of the mainland. Be careful to obey the sim rating (G, M, or A). http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Maturity-ratings/ta-p/700119 You must have a Premium account to buy mainland, but you do not need a premium account to rent mainland or any other land from a private landlord in Second Life. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Premium-membership/ta-p/1054477 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Buying-land/ta-p/700043

If you are using wireless, try using a physical LAN cable to connect your computer to your modem or router. Wireless internet connections are not as solid as completely wired connections. The other option I can think of is to sign up for a subscription to SLGO https://slgo.onlive.com/ Read their site, so you can understand which computers it will work on, and how much it will cost. They run the Second Life viewer software on their server (instead of your computer). Your computer only acts as a display, so it does not have to do much work. There is a monthly fee for SLGO, because you are using the OnLive servers. They are a separate company, not part of Linden Lab.

I think the reason profiles must be G rated, is because minors can access profiles. It does not matter if you are on the same sim as the minor, or the rating of the sim you are in. Profiles are searchable by anyone if you did not hide your profile. There is no age or rating filter in profile search. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Maturity-ratings/ta-p/700119#Section_.4.2.5 "People tab The search system does not filter keywords when you search for avatar names or profiles. Information in Resident profiles should be General. Please refer to our Community Standards for details."

No. Once you sign up for a premium account, it runs for the whole period you paid for when you signed up (one month or three months or one year depending on which plan you signed up on). If you abandon your land over 512 m2 you can avoid any future monthly tier payments. The premium account covers the first 512 m2 of land with no additional monthly tier payments. If you own any land more than 512 m2 it will cause additional monthly tier fees. Land rented from a landlord is not part of the "Premium Account" system. Rental is strictly a private agreement between you and the private landlord. It does not matter if you are premium or not.

Are you speaking about your Feed? It is on the web site https://my.secondlife.com/ ? Following and Trending default to public access, although you can restrict access to your own personal Feed if you want (Settings --> Privacy). Feed is something that works like Facebook. See http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Profiles/ta-p/1101055 and http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Second-Life-Quickstart/ta-p/1087919

Premium membership benefits are the same if you pay for your premium monthly, or quarterly, or once a year. The benefits are automatic once you enrole, although you have to request the Linden house if you want one. The only difference monthly vs quarterly vs annual is the cost: You pay less (per month) if you pay quarterly or once a year.

The classic controls, skin etc. don't work on all-mesh starter avatars (or any all mesh avatar). Use the Avatar Chooser in viewer to switch to a classic avatar, then the controls will work. You can also find classic avatars in the Linden Library folders in your inventory. You can drag the folder onto your avatar to replace your current avatar with the one in the folder.

Rolig is right, your alts are two separate accounts. It does not make any difference if both alts use the same payment source. However, you can deed land to a group that you own and control without being double charged (if you are careful how you do it). See: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Group-owned-land/ta-p/700079 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Creating-managing-moderating-and-disbanding-groups/ta-p/700111

Teleport to Voice Echo Canyon and try your microphone. You should hear an echo. It is working for me right now. Maybe your region has a problem with voice.

The IP address you give, 54.230.51.248 resolves to cloudfront.net which is a content delivery network (CDN) owned by Amazon.com. I am not able to ping that individual server, which could mean the server is down, or it could just mean pings are blocked for security reasons. Linden Lab recently switched most texture downloads to commercial content delivery networks. These CDNs provide local caching of textures in each country/region, so you don't have to download every texture from LL's server. This should make textures load faster for people outside the USA. But it depends on the local CDN working correctly. Disabling HTTP textures in the viewer will bypass the texture CDN, downloading all textures directly from LL's server. Which will be slower, but may be worth a try.

Some joysticks work better than others. The old Logitech Attack 3 works well for steering and flying, but the buttons mostly don't work. You will need to experiement with each joystick. These are approximately the settings I use with a Logitech Attack 3: Plug in the USB joystick. In the viewer (Firestorm for example): Preferences, Move and View, Movement tab, Joystick Configuration button. Joystick – Enable Checked – Logitech Attack 3 Joystick Joystick – 3D Uncheck Joystick – Avatar & FlyCam Checked Joystick X = Sliding sideways is disabled with -1 mapping. Joystick Y = Helicoptering straight up and down is disabled with -1 mapping. Joystick Z = Axis 2 moving forward (engine) scale 3.00 when flying, dead zone 0.25 for both flying and avatar. Joystick Pitch = Axis 1 Scale = 1 Joystick Yaw = Axis 0 Scale = 1 Joystick Roll = -1 disabled. Joystick Zoom = -1 disabled.

Ginger Murdock shows in search in-world, so is a valid name. Also, you were able to log into this forum, so your name and password must be OK. There have been a lot of technical improvements in Second Life just in the last few years, so you need an up-to-date viewer. Either the official viewer, or one of the approved 3rd party viewers. Note some older viewers are blocked and can not log in. http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/?lang=en-US http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory Since it has been a while since you last logged in, are you sure the home point or region you are trying to reach still exists? Try starting your viewer with a log in point of one of these regions: Pooley, or Smith, or Lime. Note Smith is General rated so anyone can log in, while Pooley and Lime are Moderate rated so you must have your viewer set to allow (M) content and regions. If you just "clean installed" a viewer, it will default to General rated only.

You can not change your user name (log in name). Also you can not hide it effectively in-world. You can however delete this avatar and create a new avatar with a new log in name. P.S. This is a resident forun, the Lindens rarely if ever post here. We are just other Second Life residents, just like you.

Maybe the region the parcel is on has gone off line or the region has been removed by Linden Lab?

SWA Security went out of business and left Second Life in Feburary of 2014. I do not remember much about it, but there was some drama. The box was given away for free at that time. I think it was a going out of business sale. Since they went out of business, there is no support for any of their products. It is possible for scripted items to self-delete if they can not reach their server (which they need to do to register a new owner). I am not sure if that is what is happening, but it could be. Are you able to rez normal prims? Maybe you need to go to land such as a sandbox where you are able to rez things. Much land in Second Life is locked down so only the land owner and his group can rez anything.

Region Idling is now grid-wide, and has been for several years. Regions that don't have any avatars on them, or looking in from neighboring regions, will go idle. This means they run very slowly, so they don't use many server resources. They speed up to normal as soon as an avatar enters or even just looks in. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Second-Life-Server/Region-Idling-FAQ/m-p/1535497 Moving people to a different continent would be very disruptive. Many residents could just quit rather than move. Not a good idea if it can be avoided.

I found the Explorer's web site: http://www.protected-routes.com/ There are lots of good maps here. You can also get maps in-world from the Explorer's information centers.

This page links to more detailed pages showing roads on each continent: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_Road_Network_Directory The road maps all on one web site: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Department_of_Public_Works_Roads Additional info: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation_Directory http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Continents And for off-road driving, try this Linden region: Salt Gulch (39, 62, 51) (I think this is a premium account only region. It is 4 sims of rocky hilly desert land with rough trails. This is the main Rez zone and starting line.)

You must have a Premium account to purchase mainland. Premium also allows you to create more kinds of support tickets. Create a ticket here: https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ By following the instuctions here: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Abandoned-land/ta-p/846143

The fine print on the web site says "Linden homes are accessible for only those 18 years and older." I believe all Linden homes are on "Moderate" regions, so you must be over 18 years old in real life, and you must enable Moderate content in you viewer. The viewer default is "General" only, when you log into Second Life for the first time. After that the viewer should remember your settings.

You were probably wearing a full mesh avatar on top of an invisible standard avatar. You took the mesh body off. You can wear a new avatar from the avatar chooser button, or by wearing a folder from inventory, or by adding clothing one item at a time. Lindal Kidd tells how to wear the starter avatar folders found in your libaray: "Open your Inventory, CTRL+I or the button with a suitcase symbol. Navigate to the folder Library/Clothing. Each sub-folder there is a complete avatar outfit. Choose one, drag it and drop it onto your avatar to change into the new one."

You don't have to buy mainland. You could always apply for a free Linden house through the web site. If you do want mainland, there are two different ways to buy mainland parcels. 1. Through the auction web site. The land will say "Not for sale" if you teleport to it, however if you win the auction your avatar name will automatically become the owner, and the price in Lindens will be taken from your account. Be sure you have enough lindens in your account. 2. Directly from the resident land owner. In your viewer, Control M to turn on the big map, then click the Land Sale check box and look for parcels that turn yellow. Those are for sale by owner. Teleport to it, then bring up the About Land window. It will tell you who owns it, how much money they want for it. If you click the Buy Land button you will become the owner, and that many lindens will be taken out of your account.

Yes, Rolig is right. There is one more thing: When you own a regular mainland parcel every object on the parcel counts against the parcel's land impact/prim count maximum limit. In most area of the mainland, each 512m parcel is allowed 117 prims/land impacts. The number of prims/land impacts you can have is directly related to how much land you own in the same sim. So if you own 1024m you can have twice as many prims/land impacts. Your land does not have to be all in one piece, it can be scattered over the same sim. Even if your land is scattered, as long as it is all in the same sim all parcels will share prims/land impacts. Linden homes are special, the house does not count against the parcel limit. Only the objects you add to the house count.