Polenth Yue

One thing to keep in mind is not to fall for the GoH mindset. That is the idea that a new house is automatically better. Therefore, once that house is not new any more, it's not worth having. A house that someone just abandoned could be your dream house. Some of the ones people are claiming by ticket aren't houses that you'll ever want. The ticket system won't mean that there are no good houses left. Also, I fully expect people to be abandoning houses they've claimed via ticket as soon as the next new thing comes along. People who switch houses multiple times a week are very unlikely to settle. The interesting thing will be what the system does with the houses. I wonder if the regions we're in will start to fill up now that someone has a house claimed there. Will the autoassigner kick in or not when a house gets abandoned?

For the yearly, you pay the amount extra to cover plus until your normal renewal date. So if you had three months to go on premium, you pay the extra to make those three months into plus. Then you'd pay for the premium plus as usual when your renewal date comes around. I wouldn't have upgraded this early if that system hadn't been in place.

I backed off because it felt like you wanted a fight no matter what. Providing the link just would have provoked you in that context. This has been happening all day, where people ask for information, then shout at the person who answers. They don't really want the answer and often knew the answer (but were making a point that it wasn't on x page or something like that). You came across like that. But if you want a moment of assuming good faith, I'll assume you're just going to say "thanks" and stop shouting at me if I reply. You've been given some other links, so here is Patch briefly explaining why free mesh uploads aren't live yet:

My fantasy house was assigned! So far so good on people picking different stuff (which also demonstrates that there's no single best house... we all have different opinions on what that means).

I posted the information because I thought the person saying it had not heard about it and would want to know. I'm not a Linden. I'm not involved in any way in the admin of Second Life. People are aiming comments at me that really shouldn't be coming to me. Personally, plus is cheaper for me than regular premium with tier (and VAT), so it's an easy choice. I don't need the upload cost changes for it to be cheaper. They're just cake.

I submitted at 11.23 SLT. If I don't get it, I'll go houseless for a bit until some of the unfinished fantasy houses are up or the house I wanted gets abandoned again.

That's going to be added later.

A bunch of people said they'd sent in a ticket (including me) so we'll see what comes of it. Hopefully we all picked different houses.

The problem when you try to start a conversation with a stranger is that you'll find most people are socially awkward in that situation. So you have two people who don't know what to say. Joining groups and going to events helps smooth that, because you don't have to carry the whole conversation. You can just add comments here and there.

In the fantasy area, there are lots of regions that are sitting in the queue, and enough abandoned houses on currently open regions that those regions in the queue are not going anywhere. The risk isn't that someone will claim the requested house by the normal method, as that's just not happening. It'd only be if someone else with plus gets a ticket in first. Some houses might well end up with a lot of people wanting them, but this is going to be spread over a lot of themes, with a lot of people who want different things.

Things I'd be interested in knowing are whether the house request feature will be there from day one and what will happen to people upgrading from a yearly premium (does it change the renewal date, how will that work with the money, etc). The requesting feature is one of the few things that'd tempt me into an earlier upgrade. There are some great houses just sitting there.

They could use the old houses for displays about the history of Second Life and Linden Homes, which would go with the museum idea. I actually hope they do move whatever they make, as it'd be nice if it connected with the rest and people could sail/fly out there. Once they cut down the regions to the special builds and examples of each home, it'll be a smaller block to move.

There are always more clashes at the birthday as it brings people together from different parts of Second Life. That does mean more merchants who don't follow instructions, but most merchants did follow them. I've got a bunch of cute gifts. It's not terrible compared to last year or anything like that. I am relieved not to be taking part as a merchant/exhibitor this year though... nobody to complain that my mushroom shop had mushrooms as a gift, that my exhibit sucks and they could do a much better one but aren't actually going to sign up to prove it, and so on. I can just waft around collecting up all the free cake and toys.

You can do whatever you want, but it isn't necessarily the best thing from a business perspective. It's worth considering why it's confusing people and whether you can do anything about that. Refunds do also go a long way to sooth the sting. When I went to that shop, the back wall vendors did not load immediately. The bears did, so the ones that were forward looked like a potential gift. I realised they weren't free because I trust no one, but this is where the confusion is coming from. You could sort this by some moving around. Get the forward bears down the side of the main display, so they're in line with the other stuff for sale. Maybe bring one of the dress gift vendors to the front of the shop and hope that helps with loading.

The reaction is because there are other fishing systems in Second Life that are make money fast pyramid scheme things. So people don't always realise that 7Seas is a different sort of game. You can still join the social group and people run contests, if you want to meet people. Or set up one of the aquariums. Or just wander about and fish in places. I don't know of other fishing games that have that relaxed social feel to them and aren't about money.

I ran the numbers for my account and I'd save about $6 a year. I'd also conclude that it was aimed at people with one premium account and extra tier payments (like me), rather than someone who uses a group of premium alts to cover the tier cost. I don't want a big expense in the middle of summer though, as it's the worst time to make money in art/writing, so I'm not making any firm decisions until autumn.

The recent coasts often use the corners for little community bits rather than putting houses on them, so it isn't necessarily significant to have a houseless corner.

In Firestorm, you can clear the browser cache in the "Network and Files" tab of "Preferences". Then tell it to only use your default system browser in future. Set up an external browser like Firefox and you can edit settings to deal with security risks. However, that risk is not all cookies. Cookies are simply tools, like web pages are tools. It is possible to see what cookies are doing using the instructions I gave before, but if you're not very technical, it's going to look like random nonsense to you. At some point you have to accept that you won't understand everything and not view something as inherently bad because it's outside of your area of knowledge.

It was said in the old thread you bumped up, but to repeat, it's not that the cookie behaviour has changed. It's that some places set rules that meant they had to add a popup to tell you the cookies were there. The cookies are functional and needed for sites where you have user accounts. Deleting them and refusing to let them be set means you can't use the services. The only way to fully avoid all cookies is to not use the internet. They're stored by each program in that program's folders and they will be managed by that program. They're not being randomly spread everywhere. They are deleted when they expire without any action required from you. If you just want to look at them for fun, in Firefox you go to "Tools", "Browser Tools", "Web Developer Tools". A thing pops up at the bottom. Then you click "Storage" on the bottom window and "Cookies" on the side menu that pops up. You can then see a list of the cookies for the current website. You'll notice that none of cookies store a lot of data. They're a short line of text and they don't contain things like your password and personal details. In theory, you can now use that window to delete all the Firefox cookies. Just right click a cookie and it'll offer you various options. I don't recommend it unless you're having issues with a site, because all it really means is you have to log back in everywhere.

You have the same problem as most people who have grand ideas to fix Second Life. You don't really know how it works now and are still stuck in the past of what it was like when you first joined. So your ideas will either try to fix things that aren't issues, focus on things that might be issues but not the biggest ones, or suggest fixes that won't fix anything. My advice is the same as all the other times this has happened. Get out there. Find things to do in Second Life. Join communities. Then you can join the rest of us pressing for a better new player experience and wanting progress reports on the avatar 2 idea, rather than thinking that NFTs will solve everything for handwaving reasons that you can't quite explain. I've spent a very busy weekend at events and there were other events I couldn't get to because there weren't enough hours in the day. Running out of things to do isn't a problem with Second Life.

The whole project is still in progress, so you'll see a lot of coasts and edges being constructed. It changes daily.

Steinhagen, Gibbons and Halbert. Bardwell is also named, but still protected land at the moment. This is the coast edge at the bottom of the chalet area. The previous batch was at the North end and this one is continuing a pattern of working down the edge (with a few regions missed here and there).

A few more chalet coast houseboat regions have now been released.

Outside of Second Life, mostly trying to persuade people to read my books. In Second Life, I put up the Second Pride posters on my land and I'll wander by at some point to look for rainbow things. Everything looks better in rainbow.

I've seen a number of new people describing basically this. They realise they need a house, they see they can click and get a house, the money doesn't seem bad... now you have a few days old account with a premium subscription and an increasing collection of furniture. I can see how this would have made my early Second Life a lot easier. There are still other areas that need work, but the housing side does look to be working as intended.