CronoCloud Creeggan

Another vote for open-plan houses. While I'm not planning on moving to Bellisseria, if I was an open-plan houseboat or house would suit my needs best. (Need a place to put the pose-stand and studio background) Oh and another thing. I'd like to see LL put some kind of device at the "Social areas" like the pools, where one could "rent" the ability to set the local stream for an hour Pay your L$, and the device asks you to send the stream URL via a channel and then sets the parcel stream to that URL. When your time is up the parcel URL is set to the default again. Note that I'm no script expert who knows if this is actually possible. I even wished they had done something like that at the old social areas in the old linden home areas.

You can't really stop the prying eyes. But I'm going to say something that might assuage your concern a bit. Think about the demographics of who is moving into these homes. What Belliseria has is a bunch of people who wanted the Blake or Bay City lifestyle, but were turned off by the buy-in. You've got a bunch of girly-girl fashionistas (and couples) filling up their cozy little homes with gacha'd tchotkes and putting in little gardens and whatnot. And you've got some similar folks moved into the boathouses with their quality sailboats and motor vessels. These are long term residents who have premium accounts and who spend money in SL. These are not the sorts of people who interlope, they know the customs of SL. And outsiders to the continent? Well some of them are similar to the people who live there and will visit and socialize. I don't think most griefers are going to waste their time messing around with private residences when they can head to a social venue or Caledon Oxbridge when there's no local "bouncer" around Just had to do a bit of a joke: Oh my sweet summer child....this...is...SL. If the Residents pulled out the pitchforks for introduction of direct teleporting, the introduction of free accounts and the changes in stipends, the removal of ratings, the removal of dwell,...well, there's going to be friction about the issues we're discussing. (I only read about the first two, but I experienced the rest)

Hartnell - Community Pool http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hartnell/87/158/21 Calm Waves - Lighthouse and one of those mini-boathouses on an island, suspect it will be a future rez point: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Calm%20Waves/220/171/22 Residentia - Public deck area with picnic table and a few chairs, South across the channel from the above lighthouse: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Residentia/203/7/22 Yuge - Small beach with deck chairs and towels to sit on, suspect this might turn into a rez point for Yuge http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Yuge/47/37/22 Glibson - Small beach with chairs and one of those road "roundabouts" nearby, suspect it will be a rez zone: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Glibson/148/16/23 Myopia Falls - good sized Beach with just 2 towels to sit on: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Myopia%20Falls/21/24/22 Kuga - Another lighthouse island with beach, towels, picnic table, chairs, etc: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kuga/53/78/21 Bellaire - A cozy little spot with a gazebo and two benches near one of those road roundabouts: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bellaire/78/97/34 Deckard - A garden shed, workbench, and sitting bench near the bridge: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deckard/186/57/29 Deckard - Small pier with a few chairs near the bridge, there's another similar one across the waterway: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deckard/194/128/22 Deckard - Another small sitting place near the "river" near the small bridge with a good view of the larger bridge. Note that this small bridge prevents further water travel up the small "river inlet" to the northwest. It might be a good idea to replace it with one of those bridges that can be raised and lowered like in Bay City. This one is also near one of the road roundabouts: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Deckard/47/109/22 Moretti - And if you travel up that waterway you will reach an area with two small docks/piers with seating: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Moretti/102/72/25 Libria - Beach at the south end of the Inlet, this one has one of those trellis things, benches, and towels: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Libria/175/163/22 Montag - Beach at the end of the above inlet with towels, bench, and float rings. The rings are actually a rezzer! There's a road roundabout nearby, suspect this will become a rez zone for boats and cars: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Montag/52/184/22 Ness - Rest area with picnic tables behind some rocks near a road roundabout: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ness/52/61/22 Ness - up further north east through the protected land there's a gazebo trellis with a bench: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ness/111/134/25 Ness - and further north east there's a small beach behind some boathouses with loungers and towels, it is near another roundabout, a pathway from that roundabout leads to ANOTHER roundabout: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ness/160/191/22 Wheelhouse - Beach on a peninsula, Loungers, towels and a tube rezzer: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheelhouse/233/27/21 I've turned into a AAA guide. Oh for those who don't know the AAA is the American Automobile Association, a motor club that started publishing road maps in 1905 (back then not all roads were automobile suitable), and hotel guides in 1917

I am finding this thread....interesting. Now perhaps I've lived a sheltered Second Life, but I've never used security orbs, or ban lines. In fact, some of the places I've had parcels in, ban lines are forbidden as are security orbs below 512m. I even leave rezzing on for non group objects. The lack of them hasn't bothered me because I haven't felt the need for them. In all my landed years in SL, the number of times I've had interlopers on my personal property is less than 10. It was often a curious newbie who didn't know the ropes, and I gently explained to them the concept of private parcels. They usually TP'd out heading to someplace like the Caledon Oxbridge, The Shelter or NCI, that I directed them to. When it wasn't a curious newbie, usually a direct "this is my private house, please leave, would do the trick followed by an eject if necessary. I've only had to add one person to a ban list on one of my own personal parcels. I've been an Estate manager as well, and I rarely ever had to use such powers to get rid of interlopers, more often troublemakers were disgruntled estate residents causing "drama". So I must admit I'm finding it hard to believe that the lack of ban lines or limits to security orbs will lead to a plague of trespassing. I don't know what kind of SL some of you live in, but that sort of thing is rare in my experience. SL is full of oldbies who know the customs. Sure there's people who grief, but they tend to do it to social venues where they have an audience, not personal homes. (And I HAVE had to remove people from social venues) Heck, I haven't been griefed in a Sandbox in years, and in the old days that wasn't uncommon.

They can't do that because water level is set and determined on the Region level, not parcel. I wish the latter was the case, then they COULD do locks. This is one of those cases where the infrastructure decisions they made come back to bite them a little, though I understand why they did it. So there'd be "some" regularity instead of every parcel owner setting it different.

I said this 6 months ago on Reddit when the SSP regions were first spotted: That's a lot of docks, and what looks to be like seawall protected marinas on the coasts. But the problem is, it's not connected to anything. The Lindens made a HUGE mistake in not defining/sequestering parts of the grid for THEIR EXPANSION, so now there's private regions half-hazardly scattered everywhere instead of say confined to the West, or East or whatever. Which now leads to Sansara-Heterocera not being connected to Nautilus/Blake/Corsica/Gaeta/Satori, or anything being connected Jeogeot. Heck Gaeta 1 is still unfinished and unconnected to Corsica. What I think LL should do is move all their continents in proximity and connect them up with waterways and whatnot, shifting all the private lands elsewhere. Imagine being able to sail or fly from Bay City to Nautilus and the Blake. Or take a jaunt from the Blake and sail into the big lakes of Sansara. Also wrote this on VVO last month: What's sad is, even though you'll be able to sail from the south coast of Sansara to Jeogeot, you won't be able to go from Jeogeot to Bay City or even Heterocera because there is no inlet into the interior waters of Sansara on the South coast. They could do it if they added some more water regions from Omoo, up to Bleaberry Tarn in the Northeast. Or a similar waterway up the southwest side past the snow regions to Nonantoia (if that one river in the snow regions is navigable) or further up to about Keltham. And they would have to add regions, the existing navigable coast line is either too narrow or nonexistent. As I discovered, they'd have to go up to Keltham because the southern lakes and waterways in the snow regions aren't navigable from the sea or the other waters of Sansara because of the altitude difference in water level (high 80's vs sea level) and the dams. Also some of the interior passages in the west of Sansara NW of the Snowlands are VERY narrow and have right angle turns and there are overzealous orbs and nasty ban lines near region crossings.

Your proposal sounds like "Bay City". As I've been saying, anyone who's kept their ears and eyes open knew there was an untapped demand for Bay City and Blake Sea living...without the huge buy in those areas have. I also noticed some problematic trees and bushes.

I was wandering through Belisseria and ran into a couple who'd just got one. The fellow teleported a friend in and was explaining how Linden homes worked and he couldn't get one of the new ones. So apparently yes, they have run out (AFAIK, check with the Lindens to be sure) unless someone abandons one. As I said, a LOT of people were wanting a Bay City/Blake experience but couldn't justify the buy-in.

VERY expensive, it's why I'm not in the Blake! (Or Bay City)

I'm loving all the imaginative uses of the spaces and taking advantage of what prims you have effectively. Well done people, much better than I have done up on my 2128 up North in the Hidden Lakes area. If those houseboats had been announced (and the fact that they'd be placed in a continent like Belliseria) alongside the tier changes back last year, I might have held off and not picked up my mainland parcel and got one of those instead. Belliseria is just that nice.

I passed by your house wandering around. When I saw it I said "Well look at THAT one, that's nicely done, very attractive." As for my opinion of the continent as a whole. Rez zones are needed at those little boathouse shacks they have set up, and at the lighthouses and some corners. They also need some land based rez zones. While the community areas are nice, they have the same lack of community control that the community areas at the old Linden home continents did. However there are more of them and they're logically placed. And while you can sail from Jeogeot to Belliseria and then on to Sansara, there is no access to Sansara's many interior waterways from the South! (and those southern lakes are separated from the northern and western waterways by those dams because the water level is higher than the rest) It could be done with added water regions up the northeast side of Sansara from Omoo up to Bleaberry Tarn, and up the northwest side of Sansara up to Keltham. If that was done, one could sail from Jeogeot all the way to Heterocera. Overall Belliseria has a sense of cohesion the old Linden Home continents didn't, in fact in some ways it rivals Bay City in that regard, but doesn't have Bay City's non-residential infrastructure. I would suggest creating a "city island" off to the side of one of the coasts in concert with a Bay City-like resident group. That could be the place with an airport and city style infrastructure a la Bay City, while keeping the Linden homes..."Linden Homes" And also Belliseria gives residents a Blake/Bay City style experience....without having to deal with the HUGE buy ins in those areas. Really, the reason's I got my parcel in the Hidden Lakes when the Premium Tier bonus went up (and they dropped the price of an additional 1024) instead of the Blake or setting in Bay City and hanging out with Marianne and company, was because of how expensive the Bay City and Blake parcels were. I would also suggest that LL look into linking Heterocera-Sansara-Belliseria-Jeogeot with Gaeta-Nautilus-Satori. LL should have sequestered private islands FAR away from their own continents in the first place, reserving the area near their contients for their own expansion. If they had done that we could have had interlinked continents ages ago. Imagine being able to sail from say Bay City, or my parcel in the Hidden Lakes to the Half Hitch in the Blake!

I'm hoping they connect it up with some other land somewhere. Of course I also hope they eventually connect a finished Gaeta1 to Corsica and Gaeta5 and eventually connect Corsica/Gaeta/Nautilus/Blake/etc, with Sansara/Heterocera. I also want a BEELION L$ and a Pony.

Umm no, what stipend you get depends on your registration date. I joined on July 19th of 2006. I didn't go Premium until December 22nd of 2011. I get the blessed 500L$ stipend of the Oldbie Elite. ? I can't say for sure either since I have no plans whatsoever to EVER stop being Premium now to see if I get the blessed 500L$ stipend if I leave Premium and then later return to Premium status. I can't really, I need the group slots and my primary Home/studio is on my mainland parcel. Again, I only went Premium in 2011 and I get the blessed 500L$ stipend. Indeed /me high-fives Garnet. Mainland generally refers to the big Linden-owned continents of SL: Sansara, Heterocera, Satori, Nautilus, Gaeta1, Gaeta5, Corsica, Jeogeot and so forth. And yes, there are places that you can't go as a basic member. For one, the Premium sandboxes. And for another there's some Premium Experiences. those are the game type things like Linden Realms. Magellan's Grid Hunt and Racer's Gulch are Premium Only Premium gets you: 1024 of tier free land. Meaning you can own up to 1024m2 of Mainland without paying extra fees. It used to be 512m2. The free tier can be applied to getting one of those Linden Homes, which are currently only 512's, but will eventually go up to 1024. One note about Linden Homes, the LI of the actual home supplied by LL does NOT count against the parcel LI, only what you personally rez does. A stipend. Every Tuesday, LL will give you 300L$ to use as you wish, and it's worth about 62 US$ which somewhat offsets the $72 yearly fee For those of us with the older higher stipend who pay yearly, the value of the L$ is higher than what we pay for the Premium account, currently the L$ is worth around 104 US$. So yes, if I didn't buy L$, (and hadn't upgraded my tier level to 2048) LL would basically pay ME to use SL. Premium users get 60 group slots, Basic's get the standard 42. Those extra group slots are worth it alone. I would do almost anything to get even more. Premium users get Voice Morphing as part of the benefits, which is normally 8US$ a month. Premium users get Premium support, which means the same live chat options Concierge users get. I have used it, now and then, it's been helpful. Premium gifts, a few aren't half bad.

Oh it might, but it's not going to stop the superconsumers of SL who swarm C88, Uber and whatnot from buying a metric bleep*ton of L$ Those that even pay attention to the change are probably just going to buy L$ in larger amounts rather than buying smaller amounts more often. LL IS thinking smart. They've been extremely reliant on Land income, too reliant. This is one way to spread out their income stream a tiny bit. And as you know they've been trying to increase the number of premium accounts by increasing the Premium Tier allocation and adding more premium perks. Oh, My Sweet Summer Child... I probably spent that much in my first WEEK in SL back in 2006....just thinking about the times I've hit that Cute little buy L$ button and how much L$ I've bought. I easily spend that, a year, just on L$. Not even counting the Premium account and the extra money to take my total tier allocation up to 2048. There have always been fees for purchasing L$, well at least as long as I can remember.

You're being autistically pedantic with me, which is being argumentative, don't you think? We both know that words modify meanings when used together, which is why a "cat house" and a "house cat" are two VERY different things. I wasn't being argumentative, I was calling you out on more on your overreacting and ignorance. It looks like an advertisement...to YOU. Don't you understand that it might not look like one to others? After all your experience isn't others experience. Which definitely makes it a difference of opinion, right? You should read it because otherwise, you're basically going "I don't want to hear what you have to say or admit that I might not be particularly knowledgeable about the modern SL fashion economy and culture so I'm just going to cover my ears and go LA LA LA LA" Don't you think that might be just a little bit "Getting personal" on your part there? I'm going to say this again: You overreacted and are making a mountain out of a molehill. You go on about favoritism, not understanding how the modern SL economy makes such things practically impossible. Xiola's picture and post is not the end of the world, the sky is not falling.

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that language is static. It isn't. The usage and meaning changes. You don't seem to understand that in regards to the term "man,y perhaps most", usage has changed. For example, there's a word used in the UK that is often used casually as a synonym for "cigarette". It is NEVER used as such in the states because it is often used as a slur. Now if you were to say "facts don't change" and try use the word in the US in the manner used in the UK, don't be surprised when some Americans would get rather angry and be very insistent that you don't. You seem to be under the impression that your "opinions" are "facts". It looks like/appears an advertisement to "you". You seem to have a broader view of what is or isn't an advertisement than most. After all Xiola bought those things HERSELF at Uber, she wasn't given them, she bought them. She's not like one of those sponsored bloggers, she paid her own L$ for those items. If anything the picture was more like a review than an advertisement. More "I like these things" than "someone paid me to wear these things." That's what makes the post not an advertisement. And as I said, should Xiola stop buying resident made items at all? I mean after wall, what if someone seens her, they might interpret her wearing ANYTHING as endorsement. I know, she should be forced to wear a Primitar or Ruth! Why are you concerned. SL of 2018 isn't the SL of 2006. Pictures of Xiola wearing items from Uber aren't even going to be on the radar for hordes of residents. There's plenty that if you said the name "Xiola" to...they wouldn't even know who she is. And even for those of us who call ourselves "fashionistas", we already KNOW about Truth, Neve, Gos, and Blueberry and have a very high probability of already owning items from those stores. And I DO own items from ALL those stores and was at Uber earlier today picking up some demos. You...are not a fashionista, you simply don't have the frame of reference to know that those brands are already well known. By wearing those brands...well she can't really be promoting them very much since they're already Big Brands, and uber is a "Big Event" LL engages in promotion all the time in the marketplace banners. Right now I see pants from Addams (which you've probably never heard of) and shorts from Blueberry in the Featured items at the top among other items. Considering how detached you seem from the current SL economy I wonder if your views on this have been set in the past when things were different. Well things HAVE changed now. This isn't the SL of 2006 and certain people should just stop bringing up "FIC style conspiracies" and reaching for the torches and pitchforks every time LL tries to do a good thing. Every time this happens LL pulls back and STOPS doing the thing that would HELP promote SL. SL isn't a democracy, it's a private company. IMHO LL should have NEVER started calling us "residents" in the first place, it's given too many of us feelings of entitlement and ownership that make us sometimes overreact badly to decisions LL makes. This is what you have done. You have overreacted and are having a "LL shouldn't be playing favorites/creating a new FIC" moment. But this is the SL of 2018. With the shopping economy of SL being what it is, it's pretty much impossible for what you are worrying about to be an actual problem. Which means that we and LL don't need that overreaction in the SL of 2018. The sky isn't falling because Xiola posted a pic with a style card of items she bought at Uber. LL SHOULD be showcasing interesting and good content, and that's what Xiola did. And as I said, she basically does that any time she's seen in public, since some of us "fashionistas" would immediately use the What Is She Wearing HUD on her the moment we see her.

Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, Don't you know what a OOTD/LOTD (Outfit of the Day/Look of the Day) picture is? Not only that, but it is Xiola, well known for shopping. I've personally referred to her as the "Fashionista of Lindens" since it sometimes it seems she's the only one that doesn't look like she time traveled from a 2006 era sandbox. Most likely Xiola bought it, she's mentioned that she shops like we do. Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, you don't KNOW? Xiola is a Fashionista. Pixel Vanity is a thing. She IS saying look at ME and here's where you can buy the stuff. But it's Xiola, she shops, a lot at many places. Practically the first thing I have done upon seeing her is to check out what she's wearing and use the WISHW Hud on her. Should she only wear things she makes? Because to fashionistas like me, she's a walking showcase of stuff to take a look at. Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, this is why you're seeing "FIC" in something that is rather innocent, you don't enough of Girl Fashion World in SL to read the style card. CC approves +10. Totally agree, we do NOT want to go back to those days. Xiola doing this is...in general, a good thing. It's not favoritism because it's Xiola, who is known as a shopper in general. She wears all kinds of things. It's not favoritism because it's Xiola, who is known as a shopper in general. She wears all kinds of things. If it's favoritism then her wearing ANYTHING that wasn't made by LL itself is showing favoritism. Should she become a primitar or be Ruth so as to not show "favouritism"? Ha! I know, right? Anytime LL does something to showcase good stuff in SL, some oldbie crank time travels from 2006 and essentially goes "FIC"! This is one reason why we can't have nice things. Oh, my Sweet Summer Child..... Probably, it's what she does. Okay, you don't know about fashion, you don't shop and you don't use marketplace? Did you just time travel from a sandbox in 2006? LL gets a cut from Marketplace transactions, didn't you know? LL gets a cut from the L$ purchases on the Lindex of all those girly girl shoppers that they spend at in-world merchants...and the marketplace. Having MASSIVE amounts of content encourages all those girly girls to shop like madwomen. There's a reason why SL is still the Queen and Champion of virtual worlds. This part I agree with, and yes the fuss some oldbies are making over this picture might discourage them from doing more of it. Oh, my Sweet Summer Child, you have some very big blinders on there. Where do you think the Land Barons get their money to pay LL from? SL is an almost pure trickle-up economy. The Land Barons are essentially middle-men. The important people are the ones PAYING the Land Barons. THOSE are the people LL needs to keep happy. How could you not know this? I've said for years that the Land Barons are middle-men, that the really important users are the ones who pay the Land Barons and shop like madwomen. Because it's their L$ that trickles up, that fills LL's coffers. Hello, Sheldon. And by the way, to most people "many, perhaps most" does mean a majority, because a majority is 51% or more. and "many, perhaps most" does imply more than 50%. He he he. It is a simple OOTD/LOTD post. Outfit of the Day/Look of the Day post. No ulterior motives need to be involved. You're reading too much into it. Darn right!

Plenty of "haute", though it tends to be priced a little higher than the quality level would dictate some of the time. I too recommend a trip to Vita's Boudoir, though those twins LOOOOVE their alpha perhaps a little too much. I have an outfit with a 1.5 million ARC that uses a Boudoir Gown. And don't forget Paper Couture in Tableau.

There are LOTS of quality skins out there, many have been mentioned. I am picky so I continue to wear my 2010 vintage 5th & Oxfords (sometimes layered with MOCk makeups) Curio's are nice, but they make me look too young as do many other of the more popular skin lines. Some have been listed that are new to me, always good to hear of new skins.

I almost always change on the fly where I'm at, a piece or two at a time, or using "outfits". I would be wasting a LOT of time if I had to keep going home to change and then returning to my previous location. Though if I'm working on a special outfit for a special event, I'll often be back in Caledon trying various hair/shoes/skin till I decide on the exact lok an daccessories.

Simply put SL is GPU intensive, integrated graphics aren't really enough, though that depens on your hardware. Some integrated solutions are probably better than my GT220. For my sake, On Linux most viewers seem about the same on my hardware. LL's own viewers tend to look a touch nicer, and Firestorm has a slightly higher frame rate but it's not a big difference: I personally either recommend LL's own viewers (I use Snowstorm development releases myself) or Firestorm. CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 240 Processor (2800 MHz) Memory: 3011 MB OS Version: Linux 3.2.3-2.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 3 20:08:08 UTC 2012 x86_64 Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: GeForce GT 220/PCI/SSE2 OpenGL Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10

There's some in-world tutorials and schools as well, but Nexeus Fatale has some very good info: http://nexeusfatale.com/?cat=4 That link WILL work. Most of t he pro DJ's I know in SL use SAM because winamp+shoutcast DSP is rather limited, the Linux using folks like me use IDJC.

I would love to see more modern tailored stuffs. I agree on wanting more events to wear little cocktail dresses to.

That's a very nice skin in that photo. I don't represent a race different than I am...for one I wouldn't feel comfortable doing so and back before I found my one true skin maker there weren't that many good non-caucasian skins anyway.

Yes I agree, those are pretty much the the things that define ones basic look, for me it became "pale skin, dark red hair, green eyes" fairly early on in my SL journey.