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Also, there are a ton of add-ons, both interior and exterior, for various Belli home styles - check the marketplace.
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I was your neighbor at the time, and I loved that ... embassy! I was tempted to lodge a protest to LL when it was taken down, and I wish I had. ðŸ˜
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/me peers eastward from Reine de Mer and WOW! The Med coastline so far is really really nice! All homesteads, already with some nice geographical details. And it looks like there may be a ring road going through long stretches of it. Sweet! /me makes a note to pick up a nice picnic lunch basket. Fingers crossed for a homestead south of me that extends this lovely coast west of Typhoon as well! Maybe I could leave up my lighthouse then! (Unless an LL one shows up someplace near, which would be even betterer.)
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I don't believe LL would consider your "Smith & Wesson" sign political advertising; they would probably regard it as just part of a campy RP. Just don't use S&W logos or other intellectual property. "Ban all guns now" is indeed a political statement, I don't see why you say it wouldn't be. Although a single sign saying that would probably not be deemed worthy of attention. Really, the problem is with ostentatious political activity, e.g. parcels bristling with campaign signs. Those tend to cause conflicts, resulting in lots of support tickets. Exactly. I don't see anything in Belli's covenant pertaining to personal conduct, so I assume the rules re: nudity are the same as they are in any Moderate region. Ergo, tanning nude on your property is fine. I don't know how you may have gathered the impression that it would not be - unless perhaps in Belli Citizens chat? People tend to think that opinions expressed by frequent posters there are approved by LL, but no, they hold no more weight than opinions by any other resident. I remember reading some amusingly prudish comments there a while ago. BTW, there is a Bellisseria Nudists group that occasionally has events.
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Excellent! And now (or when you get a little bored), grasshopper, you must master the Game of Homes!
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Do any of the current themes use any PBR materials? If not, WILL any new themes use PBR? [I'm not asking because I want PBR Linden Homes. In fact, I'd rather ignore PBR altogether, which I fear will be impossible. I just don't have the time to read, read, read about it. And frankly, I doubt my ancient desktop with its Nvidia 1610 is up to it anyway.]
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I'm assuming that somebody submitted that question for Patch to answer during the Belliserria 5th Birthday, April 15th. I doubt he will be too explicit, though. I imagine (pure speculation) that part of the decision process will be having enough spare Belli inventory to easily accommodate residents who want to move to Belli from legacy Linden Homes. (If not all legacy LH continents will be closed, many may opt to move to a remaining legacy continent instead?) The moles have steadily been building quite a number of spare, unreleased regions of several themes. At this point they can have over 500 parcels available of each 1024 theme, counting unreleased regions. However, of the stilt theme, they may want more Stilts on Water and Stilts on Pier, it's hard to tell how many would be available because the unreleased stilt regions are so spread out. My guess is that they will build more stilts on coastlines that have not yet been built. Also, many Legacy residents may want 512m2 parcels, which currently are only available in Sakura, Camper, and Newbrooke themes. Approximately 500 parcels are available for each of those.
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My best guess is Subtle Joy, a full region with a huge bay. Judging by the accomplished Belli veterans who are moving into the region East of Subtle Joy (Promesa Verde), I'm not the only one who thinks that! The new region north of it, Midnight Waltz, now has Med parcels. The region West of Subtle Joy (SSPWindward Drift) is a homestead, which could feasibly be used to extend a Community Center's parkland. ETA: if it turns out to be Subtle Joy, it would be very cool if there were a couple of rocky jetties extending out into the bay, as in some Cinque Terra villages. Sunbathing, mooring, etc. happen on those jetties.
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I hear you! I haunted the area around Jacinto for ages before giving up. Someday I'll have a trad again, having given up my beloved Well Springs. The amazing thing about the trads in Olde Belli is that nearly every region was hand-crafted separately. The number of unique features - beautiful natural rock stairways, odd little parks, the maze, beachfronts that actually look like RL beaches, elevated walkways, brick stairways leading to trads tucked away in a corner, cliff trads ... yes there are some boring regions, but many are uniquely adorable.
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Good to see you posting, Daniel! Hope all's well 🤞 I'll have to miss the anniversary, but something tells me that it's going to be quite the bash! Also, after finally snagging a Fantasy parcel that suits her, my alt went for a swim and discovered something new to her in Fantasseria! (I'm sorry if someone has already documented these, but I really got a kick out of finding them). There are 2 places where a Fantasseria water region touches, kitty-corner, a watery Victorian region.: Eiruch and Bustle Bay, and SSPE2731 and Nelson Eddy. If you go to each of those corners and stand on the ocean floor, what do you see? A portal that goes to the kitty-corner region!! So cool! If I were a mer, I would DEFINITELY be hoping to snag a Fantasseria coastal home near there! (And, in case anyone is wondering, NO YOU CANNOT TAKE YOUR SUBMARINE THROUGH THESE PORTALS!) But what of that
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There is no usual time frame for release of "finished" regions. For example, the coast of Fantasseria has been complete for over a year. For areas like the stilts along Logland's coast, I recommend using Firestorm's World/Region Tracker feature. (I don't know if the SL viewer has it). To use the region tracker, bring up the world map and just click on the region you want to track. Then, on the lower right of the map menu, click "Track Region". It will ask what you want to call it - you can type in any nickname. Bring up the Region Tracker, and you should see it there. Any time you log in, you can check all the areas you're interested in by just bringing up the Tracker. Click on any region in it and the world map will open to show the region. All those stilt regions still have SSP in front of their name, and right before they're released the regions will be renamed to remove the SSP prefix. If you select SSPShe Sells, when it is renamed to She Sells it will be grayed out in the tracker, because SSPShe Sells no longer exists. It shouldn't be necessary to track all the regions along the coast - usually LL renames a bunch of regions at a time, and they are released within the next few days. Personally, I would just choose 2, one near each end, to track. When all those are released, you might consider becoming Premium Plus for a month. You could then claim a stilt you REALLY like, and revert back to Premium to hold on to it.
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Just to be very clear, this is the new layout. The brown line shows the railroad line, which is on land until the southern edge of SSPSubtle Joy, at which point the rail bridge begins and joins the Ranches at a (newly installed) Y in Marimba. Note that the riverbank in Ouranios has been broken through, so the river now goes N/S all the way through the meds, uninterrupted. ETA: Community Regions are Full Regions, not Homesteads. And it's always nice to have rail go through them. So ... possibly Midnight Waltz or Subtle Joy?
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SO DANG TIRED OF THE FANTASSERIA CONTROLLER BUG
Nika Talaj replied to Nika Talaj's topic in Linden Homes
Claimed 4 homes today, and no message, yay! (But also no homes I wanted, lol) Great job! You should do something to get the word out that ding, dong, the bug is dead 😎 It would be ideal if you had a new home style for Fantasseria, then Patch could sort of re-launch the theme with a message in his Updates thread that mentions your triumph as well! -
All of Hmm looks promising for a tunnel from Marimba or Admiral Bligh. Both are homesteads, no homes. Marimba is less developed, and the ranch railroad already takes a bend there to go along the coast. Seems intuitive to put a Y connection there ... All of the new med regions are fully set up with homes and landscaping, almost certainly tiles. Moles are still active there, possibly QA. All also have roads clipped at the void edges. We have yet to see a homestead in the Meds, so still no idea where a community region will land. I bet it will be gorgeous.
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SO DANG TIRED OF THE FANTASSERIA CONTROLLER BUG
Nika Talaj replied to Nika Talaj's topic in Linden Homes
They are alive. Like everything else in Fantasseria, they bioluminesce.every 6 hours (the edges of the roofs, the branches on treehouse exteriors...). And yes, they're seasonal too (just recently changed from winter's blue to spring's green). [ Every bioluminescing thing, from the algae on the water to the rocks, has a script. I remember trying to do some math to figure out if the sheer number of scripts was an issue, and deciding that from the viewpoint of script time and sheer numbers, it shouldn't be. I did not try to figure out the server memory impact.] So ...perhaps there is something unique about the servers in Fantasseria regions, ergo Fantasy homes require a Fantasy region? -
SO DANG TIRED OF THE FANTASSERIA CONTROLLER BUG
Nika Talaj replied to Nika Talaj's topic in Linden Homes
By the way, if any Linden-or-Mole reading this feels godlike, if possible now would be a good time to shuffle the Fantasseria queue, if you want my alt to keep "housekeeping". All 10 or so of the parcels that are being handed out by the land page now are in good shape. (OH, and if you want me to just stop bothering you, she's found a parcel that she'd love to have, hasn't ever been claimed by anyone. Since I've already spent more money on her than I intended, I won't be upping her to P+ just to claim this one!) 😇 -
SO DANG TIRED OF THE FANTASSERIA CONTROLLER BUG
Nika Talaj replied to Nika Talaj's topic in Linden Homes
What surprises me about this issue is not that it hasn't been fixed. It's clear that Quartz gave attention to this when the problem was first noticed, and some bugs can take SO long to track down that it may be deemed a bad use of mole (contractor) dollars to fix them. No, I'm surprised that no kludgy workaround has been put in place to help residents deal with it. There are two problems here: Sometimes the controller falls into a locked-up state The current workaround, resetting via a long touch, doesn't work very well and isn't well known. Long touch detection, which for me works every time in other themes, is not working well in Fantasseria. Possibly there's an infinite loop somewhere which is impeding it, perhaps the consequence of problem #1. So why not, for example, replace or supplant the long touch detection with a different reset trigger? And tell users about this reset mechanism in the error message? E.g. can one of the 3 scripts in the Fantasseria controllers detect 3 touches by the parcel owner within 2 minutes? Or a certain chatted phrase? If so, make that the trigger. And tell users about it in the "still initializing" message. It's hard to believe that NONE of the 3 scripts have enough code space to do something like that. Or, @Patch Linden, is there some management logjam that's preventing a solution here? It's costing you Fantasseria uptake, and probably customer support time as well. -
SO DANG TIRED OF THE FANTASSERIA CONTROLLER BUG
Nika Talaj replied to Nika Talaj's topic in Linden Homes
I had no idea that controllers could fall into this state multiple times. What a pity. I wonder if they can spontaneously emerge from it as well, if one had the patience to wait and watch? I give up, I've filed a bug. https://feedback.secondlife.com/scripting-bugs/p/bellisseria-fantasy-controllers-lock-up Please go to the bug and vote for it (press the up arrow in front of the bug title). The new feedback system is much easier to use than Jira was. You will probably have to log in, using your usual avatar name and password. -
I've set an alt that I accidentally let renew for a year the task of finding a Fantasseria parcel which is close enough to a rez zone that I could run ferries from it, and also close enough to a shore that said ferries could go to Eyrie etc. easily. I see that many such parcels are available, just haven't gotten one yet. She's hopping 4 or 5 times a day, and has abandoned many gorgeous parcels with the wrong geography for my needs. What she HAS found is that many of the parcel controllers give this message when she touches them. She's been successful at resetting most of the ones she's found. It takes a long touch of anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute. It does not matter where she touches on the surface, or if she touches the root prim (a small white cube inside the controller, near the ground). She tries a few times, often just getting the same message over and over. Then, if I have time, she'll go away and try again an hour or so later, and often that works. (I'm beginning to suspect this bug is time-of-day related; perhaps the reset message gets lost if a server is too busy). If I don't have time to fool with it, she files an abuse report, which amusingly turns out to be on Quartz (sorry, my friend). You might think I should file a bug report, but the moles are well aware of this issue, so I don't see the point. I believe they've done something to this script over time, because I think the "reset" message has changed. It is now: So far, about a fourth of the homes she's caught had this problem. Earlier in her search, the percentage was higher, but perhaps the top of the Land Page queue was a bit clogged with nice parcels that had stuck controllers? Anyway, she's told me that she feels like she's a Fantasseria housekeeper. Poor little fae!
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Can a Linden Home be in the Destination Guide?
Nika Talaj replied to diamond Marchant's topic in Linden Homes
This line from the Covenant might be relevant. One could argue that the Destination Guide is a form of search. Personally, I would ask Mini Mole about it, she seems to be handling a lot of social activities for Belli. -
There's really only one likely possibility. You can tell just by looking ... or at least, an Italian could. While considering other possibilities, tho, the following question popped into my mind. Do SLRR scripts implement gravity, or could an SLRR train follow a track laid in a vertical loop-de-loop, like a roller coaster? Switching might be tricky.
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Wow! There are many new regions - I'm sure they will show up on the map tomorrow, and I don't have time to map them now. The railway enters the Meds from the south in a new region (SSP Etoile Brillante) immediately east of Mirandela - presumably that will eventually link to the railway from the Ranches? It then goes straight north for 2 regions, and bends to the northeast in SSPSignal Crescent (east of Dos Palmeras). There's a station north of that, in SSPCondor Pass. After that the line heads due east for 4 regions, and runs out of regions in SSPOtro Gallo, just south of Grande Baguette. BUT just before the line is cut off, it takes a slight bend to the south! An eventual link to rail from Sakura's lovely community region, Shobu? Time will tell!