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    🎉 Exciting Announcement: Unveiling the Next Premium Plus Linden Homes Theme at Christmas Expo! 🎄

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    1 minute ago, AzureWaves said:

    I've been wondering if these are special circumstances or Linden Lab is quietly letting tickets go through without announcing:

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    Quietly letting them go through is the effect indeed.  My preference would be that it's a mistake.  Not that everybody will lose their homes, but just an admission of a mistake to those of us who waited patiently while our Mediterranean ticketing benefits were suspended until January 8 while others were ticketing away and receiving their full concierge benefits immediately.

    🎉 Exciting Announcement: Unveiling the Next Premium Plus Linden Homes Theme at Christmas Expo! 🎄

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    Posted · Edited by First Noelle

    20 minutes ago, Cinnamon Mistwood said:

    Are they?  How do you know?

    I know because there are homes that are ticketed and directly assigned to Residents in the Mediterranean theme; I can't name names in the forum but it is happening.  I would like to know why the policy was reversed.

    To clarify, I was hoping someone in this forum knew more than I did about what was happening and why I missed out on this.

    Mediterranean Theme

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    17 hours ago, Polenth Yue said:

    baffling to me that someone wouldn't wait a couple of weeks for something they really want

    To address the befuddlement, I'd like to offer my own experience in the selection process for the new theme:  on my first roll on the first day, I got a gorgeous house in a gorgeous location (they're all gorgeous of course); but it wasn't the one that I wanted.  The specific one that I wanted is now occupied by someone else who got to it before I could luck out in the selection process.  Now my wait-until-Jan-8 will be more like a wait-until-2025-maybe (or sooner, who knows -- but nobody knows).  So it's not about "waiting a couple of weeks for something they really want."  Possibly it's waiting a really, really long time, longer than others who got what they really want immediately. 

    It is of course understandable why we have to wait (Lindens and Moles, big love to you all); but it shouldn't be baffling as to why people are upset about having to wait and then making financial adjustments accordingly.    

    I say this not as someone disgruntled; fortunately I'm really happy with what I have. But, just to help explain the big feelings some people are having right now and to say it's not out of the realm of logic that these feelings might erupt. 

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    Mediterranean Theme

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    Posted · Edited by First Noelle
    nerdy language adds that nobody asked for

    10 minutes ago, Leora Greenwood said:

    All I found by Googling was reference to a perfume company but there must be a deeper meaning.  Anyone?

    I think it means Saffron in Arabic, but my Arabic is rusty.

    In Spanish, Saffron would be Azafrán.  There is a similarity.

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    Mediterranean Theme

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    1 hour ago, Elora Lunasea said:

    Have a lovely spot in Mirandela

    I had been hoping against hope for Mirandela but instead I ended up in Cala Pescadora on my first roll; which was never on my radar but which ticks all my Mediterranean boxes perfectly.   The content pack is pretty nice too; lots of potted flowers and the good doors.  A dedicated wall / fence pack.

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    What Would You Like to Remove From Second Life Permanently?

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    The "look" of banlines is objectionable to so many; perhaps it's the "look" of banlines that I could do away with if I had my choice. 

    I would change how they look -- maybe offering parcel owners the ability to choose different looks of what bans ya.  Offering an invisible option; a fully opaque option; a single red band along the ground - or - water - level of the parcel; snow falling; water splashing; rain falling; something just to address the "how they look" complaint and actually make them more desirable to use and less objectionable at ground level.

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    Treehouses

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    🔔 LindenLab 🔔 : The Strong Need For Differentiation Between Actual Residents Versus Bots, Scripted Agents And NPC's In Second Life

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    I don't like that there are pictures of avatars with names clearly visible in this thread.  At least one of those avatars has a business title; and they are all clothed; how exactly are they hurting anybody in this world? 

    In one of the pictures, it is perfectly easy to verify their purpose and/or passion (alt and/or regular account) is Tiny Empires, a HUD game that a person pays good money to play and which requires the recruitment of and daily conversations with real people in order to get anywhere in the game.  This is not to advocate for TE but to advocate, rather, for the legit human social activity behind these avatars represented (without their consent or the consent of the humans-in-charge) in at least one of these pictures.

    This bot-or-NPC-apartheid discussion has already dehumanized the person-or-people behind the accounts of those avatars represented in those photos.  No good can come of that.

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    🔔 LindenLab 🔔 : The Strong Need For Differentiation Between Actual Residents Versus Bots, Scripted Agents And NPC's In Second Life

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    6 minutes ago, Count Burks said:

    This is the user experience Linden Lab provided me with using their Destination guide. I was supposed to find a location with 7 people, one of the more busy destinations.

    It is possible -- it is not out of the realm of possibility -- that at different times of day this result changes considerably.   It is possible that your experience at one time on one day is not the only way this plays out. 

    I do take your point; I think I arrive at it with a different set of expectations though.  If I go to Dullahan Manor it's not to see the dots; it's to see the Manor. I agree with you that it's possibly a dots game; I suppose I just fail to see the emergency of it. 

    This isn't a thing that is going to make or break user retention, in my opinion. 

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