Nika Talaj

Thank you, Daniel! I've started a new thread, using your post, to bring in people who don't read this thread.

In the SSP thread, @Daniel Voyager drew our attention to LL's announcement of a new Linden Homes portal, replacing the current land page. I thought this deserves its own thread.

More oddity in the SSP zone that was previously used for the Fantasy buildout (large green block). That entire area was deleted LONG ago (tho of course leftover map tiles still show, patchily). I just noticed that just two regions in the middle of it have returned. Neener neener!

And now, an update to this Wild Speculation post about possible new Fantasy homes: Today, in one of the few remaining regions in the original SSP zone Fantasy buildout, there was a person dead center. Really, I NEVER see anyone in this sort of leftover region. Then that dot disappeared, and one immediately showed up in the SSP QA Vault region, where moles seem to archive Linden Home builds. Also, on and off, there has been someone in SSP83X, traditionally used to test home controller modifications. It's quite early to be doing controller work for the new theme. OK, yes, someone might be working on a bug fix. Or a Fantasy Halloween build. My little observations mean nothing. OR DO THEY??? Is there some culture where believers get wishes granted on Halloween? If so, my personal wish would be for new Fantasy home styles!

FWIW, up in the SSP zone all 36 regions now have been created for what appears to be a new theme. Nowadays, there's usually at least one person at work there whenever I check. The speed at which this has is being put together seems to me to indicate that it's a new 2048 theme, but that's of course speculation. /me places a marker on mid-December. Also, any idea what this little block of new-ish SSP regions is for? I noticed them recently above the "Monkey" regions. Perhaps another sort of Hub? Or something to facilitate moving from first generation LHs to Belli?

YUS! If both objects are mod and you own them (and no, the scripts do not have to be mod for you to use them in a different piece of furniture). Actually, with beds it's often quite easy, because if you edit the bed you will usually see that all the scripts and anims are in a very small or invisible prim, maybe a very small cube or flat plane. Usually whatever quilts it rezzes when you go to sleep are also in that prim. Just unlink that prim, and link it to the bed you want them in, and you're all set. Why is this the case? Because anims can be tedious to adjust, so usually creators just set up their anims in a single prim and link that to every bed they make. Often chairs are the same way. BUT! Be careful to note if the little prim with anims you want is actually the root prim of the bed you're taking it from ... usually it is. If so, make sure you link it so it's the root prim of the bed you're moving it to (that is, link it last). Note that whatever the name of the root prim is, that's the name of the entire object. Before you do this, remove the anims, scripts and notecards that came with the bed you're adding the new anims to, if any. Again, these are probably in a single prim that you can just unlink. Once you do that, you may want to take the bed into inventory and re-rez it, just to be sure it's happy. All those anims you're moving are adjusted for the bed you took them out of. So TRY THEM - you may have to rotate the little prim, and possibly re-adjust some of the anims, which can be tedious, depending on the size of the new bed, how many pillows it has on it, etc..

Here's the previous discussion, really a survey, of opinions about Fantasseria, I found it very interesting: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/496466-fantassaria-survey/#comment-2563714 As to Chalets, they baffle me a little differently than they baffle you, Unilway! I like the neighborhoods a lot. LOVE the big river. I rolled a couple of nice ones, but when I tried to furnish them, all I could think of was all yodel-ay-hee-hoo. Yech. I believe this is MY problem, not a problem with the theme.

I like to get under the covers too Here are some beds that I've found with this feature: > All of the beds at Bazar (Ria Bazar), including those in the clearance room. It's quite possible that they have a bed with the right aesthetic. > Heima (previously Laq Decor, Winter DiPrima) has a nice bed - maybe not modern enough - which was on sale a couple weeks ago, half price. > Check out Dekute Decor (Debil Skute), which specializes in 1-prim furniture. We have used her Country Bed over and over. Don't tell anyone, but I've been known to take one of the bed animation engines and quilts (retextured if need be), and use it to replace the anims in beds that looked perfect but DIDN'T allow you to get under the quilts. Shhh. There is also a gorgeous red futon bed that allows you to actually get in it at one of the Japanese furniture stores, if you really want I can find the name.

Thank you! Actually, I just have a parcel. The lighthouse on the left belongs to another resident. IA lot of folks are leery of private estates, I'm not. I've known this estate owner for about 10 years, she's wonderful, has a very stable life and is active in landscaping and the estate's social life. As are the folks at The Grove and Calas Galadhon. Say what you will about Prok, he also is/was somewhat active in decorating and social occasions. When the original owner/creator of the Fruit Islands estate had to give it up due to illness, he managed a transfer to Zoha Islands that was fair to all current residents. Eventually we left, since Zoha was a more "corporate" experience than we liked. But I have NEVER experienced any sort of loss when renting from an estate. You just have to pick a quality one. These estates created long-term communities with excellent retention long before LL emulated them in Belli, after years of prodding on the forums and in meetings by people like me (and, doubtless, Patch before he joined LL). I love the freedom on both private estates and on (selected areas!) Mainland. And I love what Belli offers as well.

Yes, well ... you know, many of us here are fairly capable oldbies ...it would be silly to rely on the moles to make all of our dreams come true within the LH model. In a seasonal estate, I'm having a lot of fun working on my own version of fantasy

I'm kinda hoping the 3 in a row will be for a rodeo!!! Maybe the others will have granges? I find it interesting that we can't enter the Range homesteads. I think all of us with range-oriented avatars and pets should organize a protest march about that.

The presumptive new 2048 theme up in the SSP zone is now up to 27 regions. 6 more to go (of course, they still have to finish building out all of them, and even after they seem to stop working on them, it can be months before they release.) Also, I posted my Belli map in another thread. If anyone would like a framed copy inworld, you can pick it up at my Sakura home (the same one that has the ferries). http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shiawasena Itachi/190/83/24 I intend to update this now and then. Feel free to walk in - play the game or the koto, try to get the boy to clean up his mess, whatever. The pic is above the TV, and if you touch it, it will give you a copy of the framed picture (to demonstrate its correct aspect ratio), which also contains a copy of the texture.

I'm not willing to discuss it (due to a lack of actual facts) but I doubt your assertion. If it were true, why would @Abnor Mole say repeatedly that they need to deploy about 20 LH per region to be profitable? Remember, they are not just buying raw servers or storage on AWS; they are paying for AWS services supporting SL's network architecture as well. And LL's service usage (24 hours, geographically dispersed, avg concurrency maybe 25,000, peak 55,000) is not typical for a company of LL's size (and budget!). At one point I took a quick pricing spin for just AWS's Appstream service, in a "regional" configuration, medium size servers, and came up with about $3,000,000 per month. I'm sure that's way offbase, but the point is, we're not talking $99/year for a single region.

Here is my current map. Each label is on a separate layer, so names of areas can be changed; these are just how I think of them. Note that these are just geographic labels, not indicators of exactly where all homes are. For example, the east coast of Bellevaria (Bellisseria+Bavaria!) is fringed with houseboats.

Congrats! Actually, I think they've changed the covenant wording re: visitor tracking. All it says now is: So I think you're fine, particularly since you use parcel detection instead of those horrible ancient visitor counters that used sensors. At this point I would usually share my visitor counter script, but I'm currently reworking it to use linkset data.

Well, no it wouldn't take months lol. Maybe a week tho ... between Hurricane Idalia wandering through the state (I think it missed the area where their support center is), and Labor Day holiday, yes it could take a few days. So I would definitely try messaging the owner, preferably using an alt. Sometimes it can help to quote a relevant sentence from the covenant. If it's still there Tuesday morning, say around 10 SLT (peak concurrency!), I would try dropping a distressed comment into Belli Citizens chat. Just something like "Oh lord, this person rezzed a Sky Dome that covers FOUR REGIONS and messes up environments, I AR'd it Friday, but it's still there! I love this parcel but may have to move on ... " Mayhap a mole might see your angst. Once I asked in Belli Chat if I should abandon a parcel where a neighbor had done something unsightly, and Patch showed up! Morning is not only peak concurrency, but also a common time for status meetings, aka boredom factories.

You can drive all the way through the stilts, from the lovely bridge in Beiramar region at the Northeast tip of LogLand to the Chalets. The moles put in place a carefully crafted road-and-bridge design to enable that! I used to have a stilt-on-land that had enough water in back to moor 2 boats and fronted on that looooong road. It was a beaut.

The 9-region "Monkey" area up in the SSP zone has been stripped down to only 2 regions. This is what it looked like yesterday, today the red regions have no names. At no point have I had any idea what these were supposed to be used for. Work continues on SSP45xx (probable new theme). Still 16 regions. I noticed that with the Ranches in place, the moles now have TWO missing coastlines where they could provide a shorter water route between Olde Bellisseria and the Stilts: the northern LogLand coast, or the southern Ranch coast. Maybe someday.

I know of 2 volcanoes in LogLand, in addition to the Devils Tower butte. Their locations are documented in Jon Ree's notecard about Special Interest locations. All 3 of these features occur at the juncture of 4 regions (this fact has actually led them to be documented redundantly in Jon's card, which gives the impression that there are 4 or so volcanoes). Nika has not edited the wiki in a long time, but I'll try to add them to the page you so kindly linked, @Istelathis, unless someone else does so first. @Matthieu Quander, you may be thinking of the big volcano party that the Moles threw in Millbank around the time that Logland opened. It was a blowout, so to speak!

Aren't there 2 ... or is it 3? ... volcanoes in LogLand? Not counting Devils Tower. If memory serves, some sort of lost creature ... was it a Mole? or a Hobbit? ... dropped a "One Ring" near one of them. How precious!

The (presumed) new theme buildout continues, it's now up to 16 regions.

I had a houseboat down there for a while, on the South Clump facing a lighthouse on the edge of Squishy Pickle South. Sailing around there really reminded me of island hopping in the Caribbean - lots of unexpected "destinations" close together. I also did some moody photography utilizing Pyri Peak's brooding presence. Incidentally, Pyri has a dock on its east coast from which you can walk up to the "Fun Faire", and thence blunder into the funky hunt that will take you far down through the mountain. IIRC, it's all prim builds with MANY scripted objects that say odd things and may trap you. And don't neglect Jeogeot - one time before all the Belli areas down there were built up I was sailing around there on my little IF, and someone appeared on a huge aircraft carrier, probably from the Jinsil airport marina. He boogied out into some open water, and then a 2nd person on the boat got into an airplane on the deck and TOOK OFF! That person did loops etc in the air for a while, then flew over the Vics and eventually crashed. I was agog. If you are ever looking to sharpen your sailing skills on a small/medium boat, I really enjoy Fourze Lake. It's big enough so one can tack and jibe to one's heart's content. I owned a boat there for a long time, and at one point I had a small sailing obstacle course in a rezzer that I could practice with. That lake is underutilized, it really seems to beg for a marina, with boat rezzers for people to use! Also, that lake is connected to several rivers that go to interesting spots. The lighthouse in Fourze has rez zones.

Both animats' and Persephone's methods work. Or, if you are in a region that has boatable water BUT your home is not near it, you can use a script to jump the boat into the water from your yard. Just rez, sit on it, and voila. (I no longer own the property where I had this script out to grab, but send me a msg here or inworld and I'll send it to you.)

You're right, that's a violation of the Bellisseria covenant. Not only is that a large enough floating object to be classified as a skybox, but even if you viewed it as part of the ground build, it clearly extends over 15m above ground level. If your neighbor were to bring it down to ground level, it might be OK (to my eyes, it's clearly a boat), depending on how big it really is. (Also, it would be more in-theme on the ground if they rezzed its cradle). From the covenant (find it on tab 2 on "About Land"), my bold:

It's a nice idea, but we don't know enough to say whether this would be worth the bother to LL. There might be more at stake here than just the servers for regions - there's got to be some (now very old) inworld scripts, backend web services, and databases to service the old Linden Homes. Maintaining all that, in parallel with Belli's new backend support, probably will become increasingly burdensome as time goes on. Not to speak of keeping customer service personnel up to speed on both systems. If that's the case, personally I would be honest about sharing that problem with residents. Just about the only visible system that services both older LHs and Belli is the land page; and if I were a Linden, I'd be itching to replace that with something more flexible. It might be best to put together a historical region or two to preserves some of the best building in the old regions (including a bit of the very nice underwater gardens) and do some splashy things to get the attention of current LH users and lure them to Belli. Then, over time, shut off the land page for the old homes, and finally rip off the bandaid and evict the holdouts. If there's fewer than, say, a thousand holdouts, perhaps LL could hire a couple of temps to manually allocate them 512s in Belli.