Polenth Yue

It's rare for threads like this to include a set of rules that'd allow my mainland build. Which is interesting considering my neighbours are fine with it and buy things from me. This is less about being a good neighbour and more about wanting taste/style restrictions. (Keeping in mind there are already rules for things like encroaching and following the age ratings, which are aimed at being a good neighbour.) I like having a Linden Home as well, but I won't post pictures of it, because I know some people are looking for things to report. Often just things they find ugly ("not in theme" does a lot of work here) or don't really understand (thinking something is commercial when it isn't). This is the worst part of the Linden Home community and not the bit you want to be exporting. Basically, unless you want the fence police going out with measuring sticks to see if a wall is slightly too high, then sending angry IMs to the owner, you don't really want this. That is exactly what it'd mean.

So, you're saying the person who did this was a stranger and not a regular, but they had full edit rights. You really need to take our advice on the security here. Yes, people can be jerks, but no need to make it easy for them.

I don't have any interest in the bigger homes. Plus made sense as it saved a bit of money, along with free texture uploads and being able to put in a ticket for a house. The earlier release of plus was useful for people in my situation. There wasn't really much point in making everyone wait until the big houses were done when not everyone wanted one.

It's always weird to me that many people in Second Life don't consider the actual creation of the world to be art. Outside of Second Life, artists are encouraged to notice how art is in everything. The design of this forum, that flatpack furniture, the menu in the fast food restaurant... it all requires art. The question isn't about where to find art in Second Life. Simply log in. Everything around you was created by someone. It's more about whether you can find art you like, which can be trickier.

I'd strongly suggest you lock down permissions as you rebuild. Keep ownership of the objects and simply set them to the land group. Don't share or deed them or anything like that. Only give group members the minimum powers they need for their role. You can lock out the ability to return objects set to group, for example. Outside of some people being jerks, some people are prone to randomly causing disasters, so the fewer build rights they have the better. You won't get anywhere with a report as you can't demonstrate that it was done maliciously and it's not part of ongoing harassment. Most likely the support people will explain what I've just said about the permissions system. What you might be able to do is get the region rolled back if you own the whole thing (if you just have a parcel on it, you're most likely out of luck).

Autumn started in September for fantasy. I think that means it'll be September, October and November. With the winter switch at the beginning of December. We get reminders for when to decorate!

Animations don't require anything special to run. No scripts, no different viewers... you can just run them directly from your inventory. The other stuff is just to add a shiny interface to it, but isn't essential. (I never went to this place, but it's handy to know if you hit the issue in the future.)

The community places in the Linden Home area can be hired for events. You wouldn't really want a hundred bots landing in the middle of your wedding because some of the grid went down. A lot of people don't seem to know they can hire those regions, which might be worth pushing a bit more to get more activity. The only IMs I've had at infohubs are begging for money and random spam. I was sent to one when I first joined and sometimes when things go wrong. I've only stayed there for the time it takes to teleport out. They're not really great social places. That includes the one I first landed at all those years ago, so them being terrible is not a new thing.

Plus people find an empty released house and send in a ticket with the location. It's then manually assigned. So it proves the region is released. It bypasses the land page system, so isn't impacted by any errors with that system. This is a recently released region (a few houses claimed by the railway, presumably by ticket, but mostly empty): http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Allrutti/149/123/23 This is a house on an older region that's stayed empty. According to the stats, it became empty on 20th September (the claimed date), so should have been showing on the land page through all this: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mycroft Homes/119/31/21

They're not all claimed. Plenty free on the new regions and some on the older regions too. The ones that have been claimed look to be plus ticket assignments, rather than from the land page. If it were me looking for one, I'd ticket under the Linden Homes category and state that there are many unclaimed newbrooke 1024s, but they haven't appeared on the land page for some time. I'd then ask for clarification about what's happening with them. It's possible there's some issue that means they've closed them off for now, but it'd be good to at least know that (this happened with stilts at one point). It could also be a mistake (it happened with fantasy at one point). Either way, it'd be useful to know the answer. (One thing that's come up inworld is people considering just quietly dropping their premium instead of asking someone... you do pay for the support service and they're not going to be upset if you ask politely. Much as I'd like to see it sorted, it doesn't directly impact me, so I can't really ticket it.)

*grabs harpoon* Let the hunt begin!

Nothing the moles said suggested that they were upset at the people reporting stuff that needs sorting. I'm not sure how what I said was taken to mean that, but that's really not what anyone was saying. It's more that if more people followed the rules, there'd be less that needed sorting. I don't think a global message will help much, as people who haven't read the rules think they don't need to read them (and the message didn't include the main problems), but I guess we'll see in the following months.

Lucario and Pokemon. Remove all mentions of those and anything similar. In future, don't use names from books, toys, films and games unless they're in the public domain (usually very old things). Be aware that sometimes things will still be removed for looking too much like someone else's copyrighted/trademarked stuff, but they only asked you to remove the words, so you might get lucky. It doesn't matter that other listings haven't been taken down yet. Forget other products. Just focus on sorting yours.

When asked about it, we were told the reminder was because people weren't following the basic things like the orb rules and the moles were spending a lot of time sorting that. It doesn't look like the updates were anything major. Just clarifying language. My reading of the delivery system thing is it means a box that delivers items to people across the grid, such as a box that delivers products to someone buying from vendors. Not a game that delivers a prize to someone playing on the parcel (as long as it's free to play and doesn't use too many system resources and so on).

Someone said they were going to send in a ticket about the newbrookes, though I don't know if that happened. If I knew how to mention people in posts here, I'd have done that, but I couldn't find any instructions. I've never needed that function before. Anyway, I hope it gets resolved soon. Let us know if you see them reappear.

They slowed down adding new regions after the big push to make the connection. That means most of what's happening is border colour changes and the odd release. It's useful stuff that needs doing to get things finished, but there's not a whole lot to discuss.

Things also come and go from the list, so nine years later, you might have a different experience.

I'm sure people would be jealous of all my pets.

Stilts were showing on the land page and people do seem to be moving in without tickets, so I haven't seen any weirdness with that. There were a lot of releases, so slow filling is to be expected. The problem is when the houses are clearly there, but they're not listed as available on the land page.

In the citizens group, it's been noted that no 1024 newbrookes are showing on the land page, despite there being many empty ones. So people who abandon one to get another find they can't get any at all. I know fantasy had an issue where they stopped appearing on the land page and someone fixed it, so raising this as something might have gone wrong.

You've given the solution here. Log in. Get settled. Do the things you want to do. Then check your IMs when you're ready. It's not realistic in Second Life to expect an instant response to an IM, especially from someone who has just logged in and has to load and do all the other stuff they need to do.

A bunch of the named stilts and newbrookes have been released from the looks of it. The newbrookes are along the train route for anyone looking for that.

The new stilt area by the log homes is also renamed. Doesn't look like any of the houseboat areas yet, unless I missed something.

On the page to manage listings, make sure there's a tick in the checkbox for each listing you want to edit (the checkboxes just before the date column). I'd suggest turning "items per page" to the max and clicking the checkbox on the column headings row (this will select all the items on the page). Then go to the dropdown at the bottom where it says "Modify selected items:", pick "Edit", then click the go button. Now you can change the slurl field across all the selected listings at once. Once you've done that, go to page two of manage listings and do the same thing again. Continue until you run out of pages.

A ban that comes just after arrival when you've not taken any actions is probably due to your avatar. Some places have strict rules on which avatars are allowed. Some might assume you're naked because you took a long time to load. Some might think you're the alt of someone who stole their husband because you have the same hair colour. Nothing you can do about that, other than find somewhere better to go. Now, if you did say something, that was likely why you were banned. But I'm not going to say that some places don't ban people on sight. It happens.