Prokofy Neva

The SL Public Land Preserve, now in its 12th year is one of the oldest preserve projects in SL. We have over 100,000 square meters on 50 sims of open spaces where you can enjoy various forms of recreation from boating to skiing and have picnics or explore or enjoy a romantic interlude. We even have places where you can have free fending or a temporary camping home. There are five ways you can support the SL Public Land Preserve: 1. Join for $5 which helps offset ongoing costs -- this enables you to set prims. You can find the group joiner and get the group gift here at the Moth Temple Preserve Join the SL Public Land Preserve 2. Rent a parcel for $150 or $250 such as one of the waterfront areas of the Moth Temple Preserve, a fishing village built around an awesome ancient temple built by the Lindens as part of the Magellan story. Teleport to Iris  3. Become a sustaining member, called Naturalist, which means that you agree to have your account debited with a group fee for search/places ads once a week. Currently I am putting together a group of people and when we get at least 24 or so, we will turn this on to get the current bill of $375 a week paid. The more people the less each will have to contribute! 4. Donate your unused tier -- any amount, even a 16 square meters is a help. If you no longer have your Linden home or sold your land but want to keep your premium account, this is a good cause, and you can apply 512 tier to get a $250/wk rental. 5. Donate content that fits the themes on all perms that can serve as souvenirs and group gifts. We have a lot of freebies and dollarbies all over the preserve locations. But we need updated, good mesh items with the theme of nature, moths, boating, woods, camping, etc. Search for "SL Public Land Preserve" in Search/Places and you will see many of our lots. Visit the headquarters at Botany's Grove to get the complete list of locations from the notecard giver. Check out Botany's Pub where there is a new bar with realistic beer and lots of gatcha bargains. Teleport to Botany's Grove Pub

No one needs YOU to do things *on their property*. They have more controls than you do, so it's absurd to think that a landowner is sitting "with folded hands" just because he doesn't want to let YOU play wannabe cops-and-robbers on HIS land. What the entire fake "super heroes" RP comes down to again and again is a failure to grasp what property laws are as well as good government and the rule of law. No one needs non-property-owners to handle land, except for the "government" which controls the servers and has greater powers. RP groups are irrelevant. Any "justice" that involves non-property-owners intervening to solve problems is vigilante justice in this context. No one needs "volunteers" who rapidly become abusive and corrupt as long and repeated experience shows us in Second Life precisely because they have neither the responsibility or their appreciation of property, both in the lesser sence of the SL "landowner" renting servers from SL, and in the larger sense of the actual property owner, Linden Lab. Again, "security forces" and "volunteers" and "helpers" who intervene in this set-up are redundant, useless and only become a problem. What's ESPECIALLY not acceptable is enabling residents WHO DO NOT PAY THE TIER to return prims other people's lands. That's just not on. Either the landowners must do this, or Linden Lab.

No one needs vigilantes or volunteer groups in Second Life to do "security," as this can bring griefing and oppression and loss of privacy as bad as the griefers. SL has a long history not only of griefers and mentors and helpers abusing their powers but of griefers pretending to be these helpers and infiltrating the volunteers utterly. None of it is needed. Another reform entirely is needed. Linden Lab has to stop deflecting abuse reports at the Concierge level, and in fact treat a request to Concierge to assist with griefing to be as routine and normal and doable as resetting a sim on a mainland or moving a private island. Lindens should come and GLOBALLY remove griefer prims rather than forcing people to return them one by one or pick their way through lagging and crashing sims to try to get no-show oldbies to return things -- or convince Lindens to move their own land's autoreturn to 1 instead of 5. Any significant grief attack on multiple sims should INSTANTLY as soon as there is a credible report that is verified lead to GLOBAL return/deprecation of the griefer objects throughout SL. Why this takes so much to do is beyond me. There's absolutely no reason why it can't be done on a sim-wide basis at the very least. LL should move from resisting the efforts of its customers to get help with griefing to routinizing them. Anyone at Concierge level with multiple sims has the power on islands at least to take care of a lot of their own griefing problems. But if they face griefers using exploits, like placing prims that can't be returned, the Lindens should respond in real time to these requests when they impact larger communities. Forcing people to write tickets and wait a day or 3 or 5 or more to get action is just not right as they are paying for these sims. Nonchalance and even collusion in dealing with griefers and mantras about "expected behavior" are not unacceptable.

Presumably both legacy Second Life (which began with Sansara!) and the new Project Sansar will share the LindEx. Has any thought been given to the impact differing economic bases will have on the currency and economy as a whole? Likely more land revenue than content revenue comes through the original SL economy mainly because people pay more in rent to inworld landlords than they do in content purchases, overall, and because many merchants and landlords cash out Linden dollars to pay their tier in real dollars. Rents are also recurring costs; someone might buy a $1000 dress or a $3000 skin or a $10,000 car or sword but they pay that in rent each month. Meanwhile, Project Sansar, we're told, will have less costly sims, tax on content and possibly other things we haven't heard about (a fixed-rate currency exchange?) The reality is that for those cashing out to dollars, the LindEx has essentially lost a point in recent months -- it is no longer possible as it once was to get the rate of 248 Lindens to the dollar, and only 249 is the best rate possible -- unless you are willing to wait weeks, or even longer. This appears to be happening because many people are cashing out large sums in the hundreds of millions, possibly in anticipation of SL's economy becoming devalued significantly and/or people flooding out of SL to PS. Whatever the promises of keeping old SL open, the economy will affect some choices and could be a conflict or cannibalization driver. Really, can these two economies with such different bases co-exist on one LindEx, and will one pull down the other, even if LL continues its policy to "print money" by having Supply Linden inject cash? The rationale for this was to keep the Linden dollar "cheap" for tourists and even more dedicated long-term users who want $1000 Lindens to feel like something, and not $3.70 US (counting fees to both LL and PayPal). In the Project Sansar economy, will purchases on the Marketplace continue to be "sinks" rather than "sources"? Or will LL have to revise this concept and make them "sources" precisely because they hope THIS to be the revenue source creating the commissions/taxes by which LL will free itself from "land"? What *is* the plan? Will Sansar have upload fees, group fees or other fees that are sources or sinks? Or will land purchases/land market sales/land rentals/tier payment to LL continue in fact to be the basis of the economy, although perhaps reset to a lower level? Will there be groups that can handle group land, and will islands be divisible into parcels for "sale" in addition to rent?

Nice roadside seaview in a newer continent on Fyre Maven. Great stable neighbours all around. Teleport to Fyre Maven $13,000 or $3.7 meter for 3,472 meters with 792 prims or best offer. 

Here's some rooms to rent! Quaint dustbunny wintery periwinkle cottage next to the Linden slops, and free cross-country skis at our Chalet. Teleport to Chalet in Seefeld $25/25. Move right in, self-join group, then get ban permissions in the group and lockable door.   $25/25 and $50/50 New lodge at Grote River Campgrounds. Furnished with latest gatcha from ionic at the Cosmopolitanround - and here management prims don't count! Or ask to remove and place all your own, reset to $75/75 or $100/100.   Teleport to Grote River Lodge Also snowy cabins and tents on the river, $50 or $100, ask to reset.

Here's some great bargains in Free Tibet, an Asian-themed community on the sim of Wakeley on the Mainland. This is a beautiful build with a monastery, marketplace, spa, game room, and lodge. Hold events any time or just entertain your friends. A wide variety of living arrangements, from a $150/150 teahouse to a grand three-storey cliff dwelling, and sky homes, too. Here's just a sample of photos - come out and see for yourself! 1. Tibetan Mountain Retreat $150/wk, fully furnished with sleeping, cooking, meditation, and take 50 prims for your use. Or ask to have the furnishings removed and you will have 100 prims for your use. Teleport to Tibetan Mountain Retreat    2. Skyboxes - enjoy all the Asian themed-builds on the ground and in the sky, have a contrast with urban/vintage/romantic. A. $300/300 prims Teleport to No. 8 - DaD design Chelsea with heritage furnishings.  B. $250/250 prims Teleport to Love Nights Asian Skybox C. $450/350 prims - place your own, platform and teleporter are already installed, add a house or garden on the ground. Teleport to Meditation Garden D. $200/200 Teleport to Post's Floodwood urban loft 3. Large, spacious three-storey Asian Cliff Home with sand mandala garden $650/500 prims. Teleport to Asian Cliff Home  4. Waterfront homes with decks $500/500 prims - special this holiday season! Teleport to waterfront Asian home Add a skybox if you like 

Hi, I can set you up with a skybox parcel at $700/600 prims wk with 10% discount for one month in advance. IM me inworld. Prokofy neva

$650/wk, 400 prims for your use in a beautiful new lakehouse by ocean Craft as seen at the Cosmopolitan Event. This is a gorgeous spacious home on a dock that has either a "high-rise" or "low-rise" version. TELEPORT TO LAKE HOUSE ON HIDDEN LAKES ISLAND IN HITE  The textures are great -- the roof is green slate. There is a tree in the middle -- which can be removed -- and a fireplace and plenty of room.  There is one fully-closeable room and another partially-closeable room for privacy.   Additional stairs and decks can be added. IM Prokofy Neva

Hi, you might want to take a look at the mainland sim Wakeley where there is "Free Tibet," with a Tibetan monastery and Asian builds but not strictly in theme. There is land for sale on the waterfront there and I have rentals as well of different sizes. Teleport to Free Tibet Cliff Home in Free Tibet

Come to the Tiki bar in Dicycla, have a Moscow mule or an Experience-enabled realistic pouring wine by RavenGhost, and gaze out to sea!  Teleport to Ravenglass Rentals in Dicycla  This is where you will chose your rental. 1. $150/150 for a small home or skybox. - RENTED  2. $750/wk for fully furnished interactive Tiki hut with a lot of nice features. Take 285 prims for your use, or ask to have our prefab removed and place your own, then you'll have 500.   3. Also a lot for $450/350 prims waterfront unfurnished by the docks.  4. And another Tiki for $600/450 prims.  5. Skybox for $300/300 (Tuscany) - RENTED Nice long dock with boats to sail out into the Linden sea!  Great sim in the atoll continent where you can ride your car or horse as well.

Come to Itame and live in a container house! $150 a week, prims for you to use vary from 60-120 depending on the house -- and you can ask to remove and place your own if you have one in this theme. These are really cool houses by ocean Craft, Starmark Creations, Yasyn Azemus, L2 Studio, sureyya Aura, and junk. This area is beautiful as it has roads for driving, a lake to hang out at and boating, seating and a campfire at our docks. Teleport to Itame Container Community!      Prokofy Neva Owner & Manager

Rent a riverfront winter vacation lot in the fine Old World sim of Grindlewald. $600 a week with 490 prims unfurnished, or if you opt to keep the cabin and furnishings, you'll have 402 prims to use, enough for a skybox (ask to have one installed with a teleporter if you like). Cosy Adirondack chairs from LISP let you rez a laptop to write your blog or roast marshmallows. Cocoa and cookies from {what's next}. Next door is our Chalet in the SL Public Land Preserve where you can pick up free cross-country skis or try the Linden slopes across the road. This is a beautiful area! Teleport to Grindlewald 

Gosh, Innula, could it be because there are three distracting paragraphs of geek snideness that precede it? Again, take a look: To start the fun, attach the Sleigh HUD by finding it in your inventory and double clicking on it. When you attach the HUD, only three of its buttons will do anything. UM, WHAT? The small MINIMIZE button in the middle of the HUD will shrink the HUD when you want to save screen space. Click the HUD again to MAXIMIZE it. WHERE'S MY SLEIGH, GUYS? The HELP button (question mark) gives a copy of this notecard. DOES THAT REALLY COUNT AS DOING SOMETHING? The REZ button (the magic wand) will create a new sleigh for you, if you are in an area where you are allowed to rez objects. You can only rez one sleigh at a time, and the sleigh will delete itself if you leave the region or log out of Second Life. So ... click it now well, why doesn't it START with telling you to click to rez your sleigh in the first line? why does it introduce distraction and doubt and irrelevancy? why does it suddenly put in a subjunctive clause that isn't clear -- well, wouldn't I be in such an area to start with, rezzing a thing? There isn't a system in SL where you can rez something out in the world if you ARE NOT on land you own or rent from or in a sandbox with delayed autoreturn. THAT is why it's just confusing. It's ESPECIALLY confusing now that "Experience" enables things to rez and come at you and NOT go into inventory -- as in fact this thing allows WHILE you are flying -- even over someone else's land -- enabling you to rez a cup of coffee into your hand with no land rights under you. AND GUESS WHAT INNULA!~!!! I DID go to group land I own and try to rez the slay. And I got this all-too-common message "THE OWNER OF THIS LAND DOES NOT ALLOW YOU..." This is false, of course, because I'm the owner, and I have my group tag on. But it's mesh, which delivers those kinds of erroneous messages ALL THE TIME. As for "no one else asking where the sleigh is," do you realize that 2 percent of the population read the forums, if that? And those who read don't contribute -- an even tinier percentage of that speak up because they know if they ask a question,they will be ridiculed and mobbed (just look at most of the answers). I'm unafraid of asking, in a corporate offer for an account I pay for, where's the thing when I can't see it. I went to 4 different parcels of my own before I finally got the thing to rez out and start working. it's a cool thing for sure.

Innula, Read what I wrote. Telling you that "only 3 buttons will do something" is just bewildering. The other buttons are there then because...why? They don't "do anything"? Yet they do, that's why they're there. Like one of them dispenses coffee while you're flying, that's "doing something." You have to explain to people HOW TO GET THE SLEIGH in a box in which THERE IS NO SLEIGH. I realize some SL residents are hardened already to the idea of HUD's 'rezzing stuff' because they use it to produce whips and chains from their beds. The rest of us normally see HUDs only changing colours on pants or trees or whatnot. "HUD-as-rezzer" is not a norm except for some demographics. Most people are used to the idea of a thing rezzing "as is" out of your inventory" or rezzing after you put out a "rez-faux". I'm glad you took the button to mean "now". But anything that says NEW to me implies it's going to be the next version after the first thing. The Lindens would lose nothing by reversing their instructions so that people can understand where the sleigh is. I'm sure I'm not the only person who didn't figure this out. And people wonder why there is no retention...

Dakota, As I noted before, many categorizations in Second Life are really arbitrary precisely because it's a virtual world. There's no more reality to the "candle lighting" than there is to the "bug repellant repelling." In real life, the pet food section has food, flea collars, toys, etc. Everything is all in one section near each other. I don't have to go to a completely different store or a completely different aisle with animal home decor to get, say, a rubber bone for the dog to gnaw on that isn't real but just a toy. It's right there next to the real food for the dog. That's why your analogy doesn't work. Since most of my SL mail goes into the spam file routinely, in fact, that's exactly where I look every day for important message. There is no email about these violations. And again, they don't save somewhere on my user panel but fly by. I'll try to force the update to the settings as you suggest.

Read what I put above. That phrasing of it makes it seem that while you are out riding it, if you come to an area where you can rez, you can rez it if you've lost it as it says A NEW ONE. It doesn't say "TO START, CLICK ON THE WAND TO REZ YOUR SLEIGHT".

I read the notecard. There isn't anything that tells you to do that. The Snowman doesn't work that way, it rezzes out, and the wand is used to remove it. PS Here's exactly what it says, copied from the card. What is confusing about this is that it doesn't say CLICK YOUR WAND TO REZ THE SLEIGH. Instead, it says the wand will let you rez A NEW one as if you can do this after you've lost the first one. If this was in fact clear, a person like me who has been in SL more than 11 years, and unpacked a zillion things including with every kind of HUD and wand and whatnot, would get it. But it wasn't. Your Winter Sleigh truly is magical. It flies! You can drive it on land or water! You can carry friends with you! You can hand out candy and other goodies, or bombard your friends with snowballs! You can enjoy the jingle of sleigh bells or listen to a selection of seasonal music as you travel! And yes, there's more! To start the fun, attach the Sleigh HUD by finding it in your inventory and double clicking on it. When you attach the HUD, only three of its buttons will do anything. The small MINIMIZE button in the middle of the HUD will shrink the HUD when you want to save screen space. Click the HUD again to MAXIMIZE it. The HELP button (question mark) gives a copy of this notecard. The REZ button (the magic wand) will create a new sleigh for you, if you are in an area where you are allowed to rez objects. You can only rez one sleigh at a time, and the sleigh will delete itself if you leave the region or log out of Second Life. So ... click it now. Here's how this should be rewritten so it isn't annoying and geeky -- with this snarky and distracting "do anything" said before it even tells you what to do. To start the fun, attach the Sleigh HUD by finding it in your inventory and double clicking on it. It will appear in front of you on your screen. You will see three buttons. Click on the magic wand icon, which is the rez button that will create a sleigh for you if you are in an area where you can rez, or place objects. You can only rez one sleigh at a time, and the sleigh will delete itself if you leave the region or log out of Second Life. The small MINIMIZE button in the middle of the HUD will shrink the HUD when you want to save screen space. Click the HUD again to MAXIMIZE it. The HELP button (question mark) gives a copy of this notecard.

It seems so, I checked two premium sandboxes. Go and duplicate for yourself in Astutula or Admiranda - click on the gift giver then: 1. Rez Winter gift 2. Inside Winter gift are items sleigh, sleigh HUD and Snowman Companion 3. Rez Sleigh and get another box, not a sleigh 4. Inside that box is only Sleigh HUD, not a sleigh So I think they left the sleigh out by accident. It does look like a very cool thing.

Actually, that's not true any more. V1 of the Sionchicken was indeed laggy and caused a lot of pain but most of the lag was caused by people leaving them simply to breed and they would just breed and lag the sim until you ran out of prims. But V2 cut down the lag to the same as any breedable, even less. And there is a "radio static" that acts as "birth control" so the eggs don't hatch. Landlords writing "no sionchickens" into covenants is just outdated ignorance -- they've stopped lagging years ago and horses or rabbits or meeros are no different, all breedables lag if too many of them are put on a sim, especially a homestead. I've had a dozen or more on my homestead with no lag and dozens on a full-prim sim with no lag. You have to avoid putting them in cages which causes collisions as they are on physics and that can be part of lag. They are still going strong, and you can see them on my Belarus Free Range-Chicken Farm. I like them better than other breedables because in fact they aren't as demanding or costly. The breedable pack of food for a month is only $1. If you keep an eye on them and don't let them breed and make sure no black scarce chickens get in there which are killers, you won't have to even spend the $90 on healing. To be sure, they are more fragile than other breedables -- you can't take them back into inventory or they die. But there isn't something like the kittycats with 7 days of sickness you have to wait through and expensive food and complicated breeding. Amazingly, people still trade the eggs and people still buy eggs from me, imagine. There's even a more elaborate sion breeding game now with online chickens and robots but I couldn't get it to work, sadly.

Dakota, Thanks for the detailed explanation. Can you answer whether you or other Lindens are the ones that scour the MP for violations and flag them or do you only respond to flags from residents? Also, the system doesn't work as you say. In fact, what happens is that although I have an email on file, when I log on, I see the message flash by telling me that I am in violation. There isn't anything about any category it could go in at all. And it says that it is now resetting and won't show the message again. So I don't even have a copy of the message to study -- it just flies by. I have never received a single email with any of this information about flagging or categories or proposed new ones at all. I realize you believe the system works the way in which you say and maybe it does for many but it sure doesn't for me. Why should it matter if you have put a candle in home and garden/lighting whether you have gone the extra mile and put it in yet another sub-category, "candles"? This should be viewed from the perspective of whether a merchant sells or not and his problem, and not become a grounds for punitive action that stops sales. It seems to me that a not-fully-categorized item doesn't diminish from the Lab's Linden dollar sink project, after all, these are all sinks and not sources, right? Not real revenue when in Linden dollars? Or? The problem with the "animals" versus "breedables" as a concept is that breedables really are separate. Animals are often just decorations for a lawn. Breedables are companions and fun and resellable and all the rest. So if you make things for them you're in a different world. I really think there should be a category called "breedables/accessories" precisely because not only do the original breedable makers make accessories, third parties also make them. The goal of the MP should be to sell products, not stop sales.

In the historic sim of Obscure, we have lots for $150/150 prims or $250/250 prims. Some are up on the hill and some are down by the roadside. There's a big sandbox on this sim if you are looking for space to try building and creating. This is mainly residential but if you want to put out some vendors in your home or breedables, that's fine. Pets welcome. I just got Nomad's Scandinavian House from the Tannenbaum event -- it's a beautifully textured, spacious old farmhouse with fireplaces upstairs and I've added logs you can control as to sound and light. The camera angles are comfortable and you can take the stairs up to a spacious loft - so you get a lot out of this house. The total of 100 prims leaves you still with 150 for furniture which we can supply from our showroom or you can place your own. Teleport to Obscure 1    Another house for $250/250 is by Creative Decay, the Seafoam, also very spacious and interesting, taking just 58 prims, so you have 192 prims to use. \ Teleport to Obscure 2 This house has multiple rooms and generous porches on both sides of the house. As always with Ravenglass Rentals, it's a self-join group so you can start decorating right away, then you are added powers like ban, plant, media etc afterway you join. You can refund any time for a small fee which is waived if you move to another one of our rentals.

Why are you always so sour, obnoxious and cynical especially to new people? There's no call for this on the forums. No one requires you to accept this "role" you so delight in fulfilling. Whatever your own bitter experiences and cynicism about SL, and we all share some of this, there's no reason to be nasty to people asking questions.

Usually when you can't place things down on land there are three reasons: 1) The land is on autoreturn and/or grouped and set to a group, and you haven't joined the group so it automatically sends back your items to the Lost & Found folder. That's not likely, however, as Linden Homes aren't grouped to start with and are put in your name. 2) Mesh is acting up and won't let you put things down on it -- VERY common problem in SL. The message you get may go like this "Owner of this land will not let you place objects" -- even if YOU are the owner of that land now. It's just a system error. To get rid of it, first lay down a prim or board -- you can do this by right clicking on the land, selecting "build" and making a wooden block, then put the table or chair on that, then go into edit mode to bring it into place. Or if you find this confusing, take a ready-made board (I can send you one) and lay it down, then put the mesh object. 3) You've already reached the prim or object limit for that parcel. This can happen accidentally if you just put out some high-prim thing, perhaps jewelry or there's something crashed on your parcel, perhaps a motorbike, taking your prims. You might also just have latency or packet loss or some other issue. So IM me when you log on next and I'd be happy to help. SL is so frustrating, and not only for beginners. As for the issue of can you "forget" this and buy land elsewhere, you could, but then what is called your "tier" will go up unless you formally release it Tier is a land credit attached to land, So let's say you start with the Premium Account for $9.95 a month, you are given a 512 land credit. You can opt to use this on a Linden Home, or buy land separately inworld on the mainland. But if you already accepted the Linden Home, it used up your 512, you can't just go on buying land without the credit ladder going up, i.e. to 1024, 2048 etc. and then automatically billing you more money. So first you'd have to release the Linden Home using the secondlife.com page, then you will free up your 512, and then that can be applied to a purchase of land that size, or contributed to a group to get a rented parcel in a community (I have that system as do others).

I think this is a very pernicious practice myself. There are several well-known rentals companies that do this "stacking" and the HUGE drawback to it is that you cannot let people then have their own dedicated media stream. They can't run TVs or radios and select their own movies and pictures -- because they are all stacked up on one lot like that, any time anyone changes the channel, everyone on that parcel has to watch this. These companies have ONE radio station which they think is "enough" for all their customers. And I guess it works for some. They also make these very sculpty "nests" of mountains or hills and plunk down cheap prefabs into it and people then live on that sculpty/nest thing. And everyone around can see into that area -- they aren't boxes in fact. So the only thing I suppose is you can have "avatars can see me" unchecked so that no one can see avatars, but they can peep into your house and yard. What I find the most annoying is that these companies park all these stacks of pancakes alongside any other rentals they can find to "compete" -- although I never see green dots there so they aren't really "competing". They hog the map view with an ad to show up on the map, and then you have a hard time putting your own skyboxes -- on dedicated parcels -- anywhere they AREN'T because they are literally at every level, every 100-200 meters or so. So as you can see, I think this is a tacky practice and no, you shouldn't buy land next to it because it will be hard to find a level. On the other hand, on numerous sims where I've seen them, I don't see the green dots that much so the people aren't there. Yet they are so pervasive that they must get business. All of this is preparation for Project Sansar, of course which people conceive of as a holodeckers' dream with no contiguous land.