Prokofy Neva

They used to send a birthday cake with the number of your years on it, and even emails. No more. Maybe the new owners...?

Yes, that is very good for the trailers, as the ones not on the river are rather jammed up.

If they lowered them, however, cars could drive on AND the vehicles could be kept on the road.

I guess the Lindens don't want people to drive on roads. As they do this all over. And sometimes it looks good, as it does here, and other times it's a bunch of bad terraforming and rocks like in Juanita. I had a driveway that jutted out 16m over Linden land just to get on the road, and animats abuse reported me in the mistaken belief that this prevented him from driving on the road. Of course it didn't, and the real issue was weird Linden boards underneath at the sim crossing, and sim crossing issues in general. So I had to re-do the parking lot, and while I thought it was now no longer on Linden land, some smidgeon of it was and the Lindens, thinking I was defying them, then banned me from log-on for a day which cost me business. It really is so annoying when people try to take over Linden roads and AR people that are in their way. Now I have a ramp that you click and for a few seconds it is available to drive down, then it disappears. This took awhile to get right, and every situation will have different angles and such. If you want to get this ramp and fiddle with it, IM me.

I sympathize, as I couldn't get a house at first and gave up and months went by before I got one, and recently when I did finally get one, it took a week. The minute the Lindens make a rule of "one per customer," I will dump my alts and keep just one on the honour system. Because that's the only system that could enforce it -- and that doesn't enforce it because too many people are not honourable, so the Lindens don't do this. They used to limit 5 accounts per person, and said "5 on one payment" figuring most people aren't going to have 5 credit cards or whatever. And I kept to that limit for years until I heard that they didn't care anymore. They want the statistics to show to board members and buyers (well, now they've sold it on the strength of those Linden Homes for starters -- which are those solid recurring profit centers. So they need the alts. And every premium gets the premium gifts and the premium stipend and the 1024 tier -- so why not the Linden Home, too? The Lindens have probably sat around and debated this even more than residents have and came up with this system. I'd be much happier if it was an actual queue. You would put in an application, and it would say "you are number 126 and have 15 days of waiting" -- the way they do with packets of Lindens on the LindEx (on the waiting part, anyway). But this is probably too hard to maintain, and the random nature of it fills it out better most likely. Another thing the Lindens might do is have a system, as they do with islands, where you can turn it over to someone you designate by filing a ticket. And people without friends to do that could put a notice on the forums and people like me would say sure, I'll give you my extra, I'll file a ticket with your name. But they won't do this because then the element of a secret cash sale might creep in, and they don't want to have these things sold so that it turns into Shermerville, or the way Brown and Boardman used to be (auctioned for US $100), or Horizons, sold for fantastic sums. So it is what it is and I find that if you keep refreshing the page, try opening different browsers, i.e. Chrome and Edge, or use that automatic thing (which I don't like) and you will get one eventually.

I'm not understanding this business of "rectangular" because you can change the style of the houseboat by clicking on the life buoy and changing it. If you mean the lot, square or rectangular, it still is crowded with so many people around. But now that I'm on a corner it's much better. I couldn't use the "set home" method because I use "set home" to be at whatever project I'm working on at the time in my rentals. But if I find myself not going there and no one in my groups wants to hang out there, I will ditch it as it seems a shame to hang on to it when they are in short supply.

I don't know anything about Kissling, but I do hope the current Lindens don't remove that excellent bridge from Eric Linden. I still mourn the great stone prim bridge in Palomarian that they removed and replaced with some smoky sculpty abomination like what they put in Zindra. I couldn't understand why they did that. To cross Linden land, as you know you have to do some fiddling with the build to put rooted prims so that people don't fall through while crossing it. Lindens themselves should not face this problem, unless their land is in different Linden groups...and why would it be? I wonder this about other sims where they have "Governor Linden" but also "Maintenance Groups". Maybe they do that to get the extra group bonus? I have idea.

The lighthouses don't have insides to them, however, in some cases.

I risked a bunch more spins and I managed to get Sirens' Rock! And even on the edge. Which does seem pretty nice. So there's more space. Even so, they feel a bit crowded. I seem to remember PegLeg as good, too. There are of course certain houseboats out on sandbars with whole oceans in front of them, at least for now, the luckies! The campers don't seem as crowded, maybe due to trees. Meanwhile, I finally landed a camper after many tries on an alt. It's on a sim with a big mountain and a pristine mountain pool or two, just like the one I left, only better. It has a railroad and log bridges, what's more. It's next to Campwhich so it has boat launches and the big lodge to hang out in if the camper feels cramped. I just wish I could get rid of those damn butterflies! The moral of the story is that if you are willing to refresh -- and over time, several days, hundreds of times, something will turn up. I also got the old Bellissaria homes which I passed by because they are too cramped. I didn't get any new ones on stilts? Or maybe they are not ready yet.

I kept rolling hundreds of times and finally I got a houseboat, but I'm not super thrilled with it. The houseboats just feel crowded to me. Fortunately my neighbours either have no security or it isn't aggressive. Back of me is an empty sand lot but the other houseboats are cheek by jowl. I may try to roll again to get the camper. I don't want the stilts I don't think but I didn't examine them closely. Yes, I read about the methods of getting a Bellissaria home back in the day. Either they have changed something or I'm not doing it right, but it doesn't let you type in a name until you actually choose one.

So I decided since I was bored with my camp site that I should change it. Yes, I could have re-decorated it, but I had done that a few times and as soon as I was done, I didn't come back and get the use of it. I like the sim I was on (Wolfington) with this pristine mountain lake with picnicking nearby, but where I was, despite a good corner lot, wasn't near water, and it also had these annoying butterflies right by it, so I thought, why not give it a spin? You get five tries of abandonments before it stops you then I think you have to wait an hour? A day? Not sure. I was prompted by this by visiting Jingi, where I hadn't been in awhile, where we have the Mainland Appreciation Society outpost, and finding that all of a sudden (well, in the last few months?), Bellissaria, which was once so far away that it was hard to sail to from Jingi, is right next door, near a bunch of Mole islands. Some luckies got their camping sites on this wonderful sand bar/peninsula surrounded by water -- there are also boathouses there. Tons of them. Bellissaria is huge. I saw they opened up some new lake houses I believe or beach houses which they showed at SL17B. So I thought surely they have a ton of Bellissaria out, and campers may be available as people will have rushed on to the forest/chalet houses that came after and now the beach houses. Campers are only 512; the others are 1024. The first two spins took me right back to the land I had already abandoned! Boy, that was annoying. It shouldn't do that. The third then had no Bellissaria at all, nor did the fourth and fifth. Now it was "wait 10 minutes" because the system is set up with brakes. So I spent a few hours refreshing now and then when I thought of it -- nothing but the very oldest Linden Home sims. I tried again this morning, and suddenly I got "Bellissaria," but a houseboat, not a camper. I thought perhaps I'll land near Jingi, or wherever the new growing tip is, so I tried to claim it but whoops, I didn't have enough tier, as I had only 512 "on me," and hadn't "put 1024 on me" out of my reserve group. Drat! It then timed out, and I couldn't get Bellissaria again after 20 tries. I don't like using the extension that automatically refreshes so I just use different browser and try every half hour or so. Still nothing. Well, I should have kept that camp site, but I wasn't getting the use out of it, so let someone else have it. I didn't like the houseboats before due to all the ban lines. Now that the Lindens ameliorated that, perhaps it would be better... What has been your experience?

OK, but I'm telling you that even at 1500, the groups lag and don't load. Which is why I decided to divide them up. That may be a function of land groups in particular which have more to load. Another annoyance: if you paste a person's name into a group list, as a manager, to change their role to one with more powers, as I do many times a day (I have open groups for minimal rights with "tenant" status then "resident" with more powers), you will find the search produces nothing. It is incapable of searching on the entire name. Instead, you have to either alphabetize it front or back and look manually, or start typing a few letters, then some names will come up, out of which you can pick the one you need. What is the reason for this???

Sometime the group owner turns off the view of them completely. But it's also true that you can have that function turned on and not see all of them. I think it quits after like 1000 or 1500. And this, among other reasons, is why I divided up my land groups into more manageable sizes under 500. The group loads faster, etc.

You have to stop well before 4096 because at 4096, you can no longer rez anything, and your attempts just get error messages and bounces. You can't edit cam things into place either. So just go below to like 4000 to prevent frustration. Well, it's always fun to try rentals, maybe you would at least offset your costs. Yes, there are lots of skyboxes that have skyscapes surrounding them or even built outside of them. The best ones have texture changes to change the scenery. I've made some of those myself. So yes, you could rent a stack of skyboxes but I would urge you to put the first one above 500 so it is not in the view. Nothing forces you to do this but it's a good practice on the Mainland. As Rey said, you could use "go anywhere doors" -- I prefer to use teleporters simply because people can be scared off from "go anywhere," they don't understand where they are being taken, but a teleporter lets you click and see a destination that is labeled. I don't like MOaP because it's so annoying to control. It zooms you in and it autoplays and you can't stop it even if your own YouTube is not on autoplay. I think the media devices are just that must less of a nuisance. But nothing is perfect. I have found that making a "Bed & Breakfast" like real life actually works. I was so determined to do this, and when I started it, I was the only one, and people didn't understand it, and it was hard to rent. That was 4 years ago. Now I have customers who get it and like it and move around from one to another. The way it works, they walk into say an old Victorian house, or a Hacienda type house. They have their own room. The door can be locked but that's of marginal use as you know if you know of the sit hack. More to the point, you put in a teleporter. Then they can go up to the skybox. That teleporter can be locked more effectively, and then you can also put in an orb. But you have that room down below to entertain people, and not have to bring them into what is your bedroom or private workshop unless you want to. PS 20 m is the limit not to hear room chat. But no amount of spacing fixes the stream issue unless they are on dedicated parcels. So you'd have to have a structure that has one on a little 192 or 256, then the next one on the next little 192 or so over, etc. Takes up a lot of room.

There is so much abandoned land around now you should dump the Linden home and buy 1024 of abandoned by scouting out a nice place and then filing a ticket with the Concierge to get the parcel for $1/m. Be sure to check the area with volume and water and land owners showing to make sure there are no hidden surprises. Put draw distance high and see if the area has anything you don't want to look at or keep de-rendering. Look at your neighbours' parcels as see their claim date to see if they are keepers. And if you hate it then dump it and find another. You can also contribute 1024 to a mainland rentals' group and get an equivalent rental -- I have this system as do others, 1025 = $700/wk credit which generally will give you a lot of prims, more than the Linden homes certainly.

If you charge less for a space than $100 or at least $150 ideally, you are losing money. As Rey said, there is a huge turnover on the lower-priced units. I already said that the way to solve it is to stagger the apartments so they have their own stream and spacing beyond 20 m. I realize that it's important for you always to contradict whatever I say, even if it means saying the same thing differently lol. But even if you use textures instead of built mesh or prim windows, etc. etc. it's hard to do on 4096 or 8192 and beyond that it becomes ridiculous. You should take that same space and just rent it out as townhouses or ranches or whatever. And I don't just have my own experience to draw on. All around me in the massively abandoned Nautilus 2 region (the pink mountains) are people trying these cheapie "holodeck" apartments with tiny spaces stacked up forever. They are all empty. No one comes. What does rent are those giant 4096 domes that uglify the landscape because to cram in as many as possible, they start at nearly ground level to allow for the 20m issue. They should be outlawed. Those are fuller, but still half empty I find. At one time in SL's history I had 4 apartment towers, all nearly always 100% full. That was because there were a lot more newbies who wanted an inexpensive pied a terre until they could figure out land better. But today, there are Linden homes and abandoned land and island rentals and people go to those rather than an apartment tower.

The short answer might be: don't. It's as very hard way to do rentals; it's hard to build and hard to manage and hard to rent. Why? Because everyone is in a tower on one parcel, so they do not have dedicated media streams or privacy. Yes, you can build towers (and I have had them done for me) where you allow little micro parcels for streams and "avatars can't see me"; where you space things out beyond 20 meters (so chat can't be seen), and so on. But you are still left with certain problems. One is security orbs, that are just an annoyance in such a small space. At first people might think, oh, wouldn't it be great to live in an apartment, sitting on my balcony looking at the Manhattan skyline and sipping wine with my honey. Except...you have 8-10 or more other people in the same tight space with you. One boon is that they rarely all come on at the same time -- they are on different time zones or don't log on. But still, the thrill ebbs quickly as soon as you hear other chat or see other people so close by. It's hard to get people to understand at first how to use a teleporter. You would think this is basic and simple. Believe me, it isn't. You would think if you tell people all apartments look exactly like the foyer they would grasp that they don't need to view it before renting, but they don't. I would explain that you can use the TP to view apartments but that they look like the foyer, and it never sunk in - a sign saying "You must read at a 12-year-old's level to rent in this place" actually did work as it either got people mad enough or amused enough to comprehend the sign. What Mollymews is describing sounds more like town houses in terms of their spacing. I have towers large and small, and here is how I solved these problems. I put out the tower with closeable windows and locked teleporters -- that's a little privacy. One build I have wasn't done with 20 m -- another was but that really isn't enough to solve people's need for privacy. So on an adjacent parcel, where on the ground level I have docks and stalls for rent, or a shopping mall or a forest or whatever, I cut up 256 or so parcels to fit skyboxes -- that's often enough for small ones. Then I place a teleporter inside the apartment that takes them up to that skybox, where they have a dedicated parcel for media, and can have an orb above 500 m. That's often still not enough and they rent poorly. Another direction I go in is to make them very cheap with no skyboxes or anything, so that people just use them as a little hangout and a place to change clothes or sort inventory -- their expectation is not high. If you are going to work with 4096 or 8192 or more to rent out, why kill yourself with apartments? Put out cabins or homes. The other issue with apartments is that you can't really charge a lot for them, given their lack of amenities, yet you still have to ,make up that $11 US or so per 4096. Can you get people to pay $150/wk which is only about $2 a month (if you give a discount for advance payments)? Can you charge more (US $2.25 would only break even)

I should have planned more than I did, but I find it more fun to jump in and start doing things. Of course, you begin to regret this later, especially if you already rented out parts of the sim and can't go back and re-parcel. The very first part of the plan is: how will this sim get paid for? Unless you are paying for it as a hobby. So I did plan out the rentals from large to small. I should have perhaps first parceled out the sky platforms, then put out the giant villa with the landing points for each platform, but I did it the other way, to fit the landscaping (Mainland only goes up or down 4 or so meters so you are sometimes limited in what you can do). If you go to the sim of Crespo, you can see how I made my community called "La Montana Rosa". o Italian villa on the top of the mountain o Sky platforms divided up across this area o Adobe homes at levels going down the mountains o Small cabins o Adobe build from which small skyboxes are reached o Inca ruins and caves o Stone steps o Towers (to hide a neighbours ugly purple tower top -- well, it's Mainland. So I was left with little problems here and there which I solved over time, sometimes re-classifying some of the rentals from homes to platforms, which sell better. But it was a lot of fun. It's the first whole sim I have done since my original flagship sim of Ravenglass. On that sim, I had help as a newbie from a landscaper and builders. I also put levels of cottages, and a big Celtic tower on the little Mainland island. So I have larger waterfront parcels and cabins and also skyboxes. I wanted to make sure it had a park running through it to provide nice views. I then later put a Celtic forest in the sky for quests and hangouts. I have gone back and built a lot more in the skies in recent years as I see prims not used up and ways of doing things differently, and also saving prims with mesh. Professional builders like Aria Baroque plan out their sim builds to the meter and spend weeks on them. I'm an amateur and for me it is more fun stumbling along some times so it doesn't feel like a job. There are certain sims I look at only now in horror at how poorly planned they are, and I try to remedy it a bit. But there is an inimitable law: every meter costs US $0.00267 and has to get paid for.

Then it's not likely the same issue as I faced -- and I don't use Firestorm and there is no issue about administrator, I'm on the regular SL viewer. My inventory is at 144,000 and counting over 15+ years. And at a certain point last year when it was still only like 120,000, I got so that I couldn't even log on. And I repeatedly had this content issue, and nothing would load. The Lindens finally took over my account for several days, purged the inventory of a few bad files (not sure what they are but things can get corrupted), then more importantly, sorted unsorted files by alphabet and/or year, "My Inventory A-F" or "Notecards 2007" etc. After that, I could log on, and things loaded.

How large is your inventory?

How to you make seamless textures for SL? And with Paint.net, not PhotoShop, because I'm a beginner. I got the extension for Paint.net to do seamless textures, I downloaded it correctly, got it working, but what it generates doesn't work in SL. But I may not be doing it right.

The chairman of the board is Jed Smith, and at least formally, wouldn't he be the seller? https://www.lindenlab.com/about

I wonder what you see as SL's assets. Servers with content on them aren't assets, they're cost centers, they have to be run, billed, fixed, etc. The content is an asset I guess but where else can it be used? Most of it only in SL. The users are assets only if they are bundled with the other things, the servers and content, if those aren't there, they flee. So how can it strip? What can it strip? I wouldn't assume it will go the way of say, Toys 'R Us.

I realize that you wish to be cynical to appear cool, but seriously, why is Tilia even a thing in a world of not only PayPal but Venmo and everything else? They can handle small amounts of currencies, too. If the value-add is micro-currencies, well, there are plenty of wallet projects including some bought by Facebook but just not implemented because they are a management and regulatory and security chore. They need constant watching. It isn't Tilia that has that experience of watching and implementing, but Tilia. And again, if there's nothing to buy with your microcurrency, it's as useless as Joe's Bitcoin, so content is still at the center.