[Grid Status - Scripts Not Running, etc.]

It bricked a lot of scripted pets. Clearly they need to buy a bunch of kitties and horses for their test regions. Fortunately, doesn't seem to have impacted the region where I keep mine.

[Overcoming Addiction??]

5 hours ago, diamond Marchant said:

For me, the Fantasy Homes are the Lost Lands. Those regions could be trivially connected by water at many places but are constrained to a single northern entrance that is only interesting the first time you cross. The area is covered by water channels yet there is no water extending into resident parcels. You can’t have a dock with a boat. All that beautiful coastal waterway edging seems wasted. I wish they would pick up those regions and redeploy along the northern coast of the Log Homes, completing the Great Bellisseria Waterway extending from the Satori connection at Stromberg to Old Belli.

They don't need to destroy one area you don't like much to build the area you really want. It's time they're lacking for getting all the things done at once. I know there's a lot of hate for the fantasy area on the forum, but plenty of people live there and like it. Some themes just might not be for you.

[Has anyone seen my wallet?]

I had to take a break to get ready for events, but I had time today and found Dyna Mole's card. I found more of the ones from before, but no other new cards. Abnor must bulk buy wallets to deal with dropping so many.

[SSP?]

1 hour ago, Leora Greenwood said:

Wow, there are a bunch of HUGE colored development areas up near the New Noirs!!

Most of them are map ghosts from previous work. When you're zoomed in enough to see region names, but they don't have a name, there isn't really a region there. The only other big chunk remaining is the pink one, which is sakura.

There are also some odd regions that are most likely things like community regions, but I'm not seeing any new action on those.

The new black bit is recent though and it seems even more likely it's a void fill given the Victorian one has begun.

[trying to create "couples item" sales giver]

I know CasperVend allows this, as I've had transfer coupons that can be exchanged for the copy item. I don't use the system though, so can't tell you exactly what you'd have to do.

[THERE ARE NEW VICTORIANS BEING BUILT!]

Hopefully they fill the whole void there (other than the buffer zone for fantasy). It does make the most sense for the community center, as the other unfinished Victorian bit is a squishy edge on the log area. There's more space to work with in the void bit and it's more central to the theme.

[When did you last see a Bellisserian home available? Starting afresh.]

16 minutes ago, Chloe Bunny said:

I got a boat in the new releases as a premium only member, they started coming out as I was hopping other boats - but I don't understand the PP system - when I used it previously I was told only homes marked LH were reservable or at least that was my understanding of it - some of these homes were marked protected land I think? Put me right if incorrect!

That glitch has happened before with a Victorian region...

They didn't assign the parcels in the sense of setting ownership on the "Protected Land" regions. It was simply a parcel name change, until the regions were released and they could be assigned properly. My guess would be that it was intended that each region would release, the ticket houses assigned, then onwards to the next. This is what happened with the last big stilt release. But something didn't go to plan, so the ones on unreleased regions were marked ready for when it was sorted out.

People start ticketing when they see the region name changes happen, which is sensible. Chances are the release will be the next day, so it means the tickets are waiting.

[How to find and block source of sound on municipal land]

13 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

So, you are of the "We had to destroy the village in order to save it" school of thought?

Personally, if I used sound and could hear it, I'd track down the problem object. But I realise that a lot of people struggle to do that, so just derendering the lot is a simpler way to handle it. The chances of a neighbour with foghorn-level ambient sounds having a beautiful parcel that would be sad to never see again is not that likely. This has nothing to do with murdering people in villages. It's a virtual world, no objects will be harmed, and it can be reversed at any point with a few menu clicks.

[LL needs to implement a way to detect bots via script - urgently]

1 minute ago, Out Jinx said:

A thought: Would setting a anti-bot CAPTCHA on log in similar to how MFA works for accounts that are presumably human (aren't marked as a bot under 'Accounts') would help streamline a way to simply tick off 'no bots' under land options as a default land management option? It will be an extra step when you attempt to log into SL as a human, but it will help force bots to function online by being properly labeled as bots under the 'Account' menu.

Those tests are an accessibility nightmare, so it adds to the annoyance for regular users. For the purposes of this suggestion, we're assuming good faith, which means the bot runners will mark their bots because they're not actually trying to break rules and annoy everybody.

I'd rather have a checkbox on parcels (and have this allowed for Linden Homes, as bots landing in homes is a regular problem), but I don't see why we can't have that and a way to detect them via script. Then people can choose the one that works best for what they need. I'd also like to see it appear in the profiles of bots, so people don't have to use a script.

[How to find and block source of sound on municipal land]

It's probably a regular object that's playing sounds via scripts. Media isn't stopped by selecting the option to restrict sound to a parcel, so if you can keep the sounds out of your land with that option, it's not media and won't appear in the media list. (Media can now be restricted with "obscure MOAP" in some newer viewers, but this is a different tick box to the sound one.)

You don't actually need to find the sound emitter if you decide to abuse report it. Just explain in the report that you couldn't find the emitters, but give them the location you think is closest. They'll know how to find them.

If all you want to do is derender and blacklist the emitters to shut them up, pull a selection box over the parcel and just derender everything. The objects causing the issue will be in there somewhere.

[What would you spend your last 8 Lindens on ?]

15 minutes ago, Tayt3rChip said:

HOLD UP! WAIT A MINUTE !🖐️ You'e telling me people have boxes full of stuff that I can buy and just look through. Sort of like thrifting ? 

Why would you think it was a good idea to tell me this on a post about sorting out my inventory ? ** cries in lindens ** where do I find these fun little boxes at ? 

 

The good news for your inventory is it takes time to find them. I spend time wandering around yard sales and similar. Inventory clearout boxes are more likely to be on random parcels in search where the owner is just clearing stuff, rather than yard sale market regions. Regular yard sale people will also sometimes box stuff up to sell, though these boxes tend to cost more (it helps to know your brands, to know if the box is worth it).

I don't end up with a huge inventory, because I'm selective about what I buy and I only keep a few of the things. I have spaces to sell or give away the rest.

[What would you spend your last 8 Lindens on ?]

Nothing on my wishlist is that price, but I checked my transaction history. I have some L$5 purchases. One was a gacha resale machine, where people load the items in and it announces which one is for sale. I don't remember which item I got from it (I got a lot of stuff that day). The others were inventory clearout boxes that someone was selling for L$5 each. I'll buy those if they're decor items and cheap, as I can sort through them, resell a few things, and give the rest away.

[When did you last see a Bellisserian home available? Starting afresh.]

19 minutes ago, Nika Talaj said:

In Walrus Carpenter I see two named "1. Protected Land" and "2. Protected Land".   I've never seen that before, does that mean they've been PP ticketed?

That was my guess, though there also might be regions mixed in that were named by someone (I believe that auction prize comes with the option of living in the region). All round, it makes little difference in the end, as many of those ticketed houses get abandoned and there are more great houses in that area than people likely to ticket them.

[When did you last see a Bellisserian home available? Starting afresh.]

22 minutes ago, Nika Talaj said:

What shall we call this whole area, anyway?  Belli Boatyard?  Sliced Pickle? 😎

The moldy pickle, because it's mostly green with little yellow patches.

Not much movement on the regions. A few parcels have name changes that make me think they got ticketed, though I'm surprised people are risking it for the west side. That has plenty of space to build and the void view is not likely to last. Anyway, no signs of them being assigned from the regular queue yet.

[When did you last see a Bellisserian home available? Starting afresh.]

So far, Ahoy Matey, Seaspot Run and Godot Waits (over the other side on the main channel) have switched to Linden Home. But no claiming activity in many hours. Either there are lots of abandoned houseboats at the moment or something needs a kick.

[Abandoned land tickets?]

It takes as long as it takes for someone to process the ticket. Could be two hours. Could be three days. Could be a week. Generally, it slows down around holidays, as they get more of a backlog.

[When did you last see a Bellisserian home available? Starting afresh.]

13 minutes ago, Fay Starlight said:

Probably a LOT of new Houseboats are gonna be available--on Ahoy Matey and there abouts

Ahoy Matey looks to have been released now, though none claimed yet I don't think. (For those unsure, this is the new houseboat area at the top and many other regions were named yesterday. Some newbrookes in the newly named regions too.)

[SSP?]

Regions in the new houseboat area have been given their final names and the border removed. Start looking at Walrus Carpenter (or SSPWalrus Carpenter if it's not updated) and the area around there.

[Find A Home HUD?]

On 1/24/2023 at 12:55 PM, Tary Allen said:

I was looking at that BonnieBots site yesterday and was surprised to find that there are still more than 15 000 first generation houses occupied. When we consider all the options in belli, even if people want to keep the 512 plot, I wonder if info about the new home are getting to all the residents.

It isn't getting to all residents. We see people who've only just discovered the new homes popping up. Also, people who did know there was an update and got an early new home, but don't realise there are other themes and it's not so hard to get a house now. Anytime they do a theme display at an event, there are people wandering around asking very basic questions about how the homes work. Most people don't check the forums, blog or login messages. So if they don't stumble across it, they won't know.

[Any update on when we can expect Premium Plus Linden Homes?]

3 hours ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

Phew, I was there for it last year with some "only-expo" art and planned to apply/attend this year and thought I'd missed some notification from the organizers, yay!

The Living Expo is open for applications and they have an artwalk thing they announced, so I'd suggest that now is a good time if you haven't applied yet. It didn't happen last year in this way with these organisers, as this is the new rethink on the Home and Garden Expo. There's now an inworld group for keeping up with it (SL Living Expo founded by THE AmericanCancer Resident) which has the main links in the group description and notices as stuff happens.

There hasn't been any comment on the expo channels about Linden displays and such. Even if they don't do a reveal, it's an obvious one for some sort of demo area with house examples. I almost wrote demon area, but that's something the moles have done before as well, so it still works.

[SSP?]

7 hours ago, Nika Talaj said:

FINALLY!!!  Looks like they've started building out a set of tiles for a new theme. 

Black was the newbrooke colour, so it could also be they're working on whatever is going in the void there.

[SSP?]

3 hours ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said:

I had always imagined and assumed that a "Ranch House" theme would be a rural house that look like this (below), on a ranch. We don't have Ranch Houses in the UK and Europe. But we did get to watch "Dallas" !

I'd originally assumed it meant a rural farmhouse type thing too, but a lot of the houses don't look the way I'd imagined from the theme name. The chalets aren't Swiss chalets. The Victorians are made of wood, rather than the brick ones I grew up around. All in all, it's best to assume nothing about how a theme will look until it's revealed.

[Has anyone seen my wallet?]

I've not had any luck finding Dyna's card, but I did find some of the other cards (and left them there). So they're still out there for people who haven't got them yet.

[Help! Abandoned some land by mistake! Whitney? Help!]

One thing that can go wrong is that bits of unconnected land can end up in the same parcel, even though they don't touch. Suppose you had a long piece of land. You subdivide the middle to make a new parcel. The two ends are still the same original parcel, but they don't really look it as the middle parcel is between them... so it'd be easy to abandon one end thinking the other end was a different parcel. One trick to be really sure is to rename the bit you plan to abandon, then check the name of the bit you want to keep. If they've both changed, you know you messed up somewhere.

[Any update on when we can expect Premium Plus Linden Homes?]

15 hours ago, Eirynne Sieyes said:

Wasn't there talk at some point that the 2048s might offer a selection of homes from various themes?

They changed how things worked so that any theme (except fantasy) could be combined on one region. That doesn't mean they were suggesting there'd be regions with houses of random themes mixed up. I expect it'll be used for things like the edges of areas where one house type meets another. There are some regions where this happens already, but some themes didn't play nicely together apparently.