Daniel Voyager

The new party zone in SSPE1071

Looks incredible. Nice capture

Can't wait for the new railway to launch soon.

The SSPMBC region has just changed colour on the right side of SSP1501x. The pink SSP regions and the other closed regions are located below. Bellisseria Expansion Map Comparison - March 2020 vs July 2020 The Moles and Lindens are making good progress in building new Linden homes and new interesting areas. It seems they are working in the central parts of the continent working outwards. There is still a long way to go until the new continent expansion is completed. Work did slow down due to the Second Life 17th birthday celebrations. I think work has now resumed on the new continent expansion. It will be interesting to see how the new upcoming Linden Home themes will fit into all of this. I would imagine the new regions will be added on the far east side or maybe south eastwards. March 2020 July 2020

New railway track being put down starts here in East Randolph and then it rejoins with some track at SSPE1175. Just follow the green line inworld or on the map which goes right though the centre of the expansion continent up northwards. The end of the line for now in SSPE1188.

Map - 3rd July 2020 Here are just some of the new areas being built now by the Lindens and the Moles on the far east expansion. More new Linden homes releasing very soon. It seems the focus at the moment is around the water lakes and green spaces. Map as of 3rd July 2020

Yeah. I have been thinking about it for a few months. I know it's a tiny amount who voted compared to everyone that is on premium but its a quick snapshot on whats popular at the moment. I think Stilt and other new themes will go up in popularity this time next year. I will do another one at the end of the year on my blog. I wonder if there is a way of getting the Lindens or the Moles to set up a new open Linden Home theme poll on the Linden Homes section of these Second Life Forums. Maybe 1 or 2 a year to see whats popular etc. Perhaps a poll on possible future Linden Home themes to find out what could be popular. @Patch Linden Just a open poll with all the current/newer LH themes. Surely that may help with future developments on the new homes going forward.

On 27th June I started a new poll where everyone could vote for their favourite Linden Home theme and here are the results for that poll (see above). In total there was 173 votes in this poll. It's a quick snapshot of what people think of all Linden Home themes so far. It's interesting that Log Cabins and Houseboats came out on top. The old Linden Home themes did not do very well. Hopefully the lab and moles will take note of this going forward.

For most of this year there have been no visual changes in terms of the pink SSP regions until this week. The grid survey has not picked up this region yet which is interesting. It is too early to tell whats going on but I do look at all development areas every week or so on the map. I have been doing that since the first SSP regions appeared on the grid a few years ago. It does appear now the Moles are working and building new homes around the empty water areas within the new expansion.

I like the new log homes the Moles are adding around the water areas. It's good to see the Moles are back to work building awesome new areas.

i have just noticed that SSP1551 which is linked with the SSP pink regions is actually showing the layout of the region as of today. Who knows if this is a mistake or something. Might be the layout for the next LH theme.

Congratulations

View looking down at the new Stilt Linden homes. 30/6/2020

While everyone is sleeping Bugs Bunny drinks all the lime 😂

I would imagine the next theme announcement would be at the SL Christmas Expo 2020. It could be sooner if the move to the cloud completes before then. Until then it's going to be a long wait for the release of the new Stilt homes (theme 6) release. I predict between October - December for the estimated timeframe. 2021 will be hopefully back to normal again with the release of new regions/themes. Thousands of new homes planned and new interesting areas.

Halloween or Christmas holidays ? Patch Linden actually confirmed this week the status of the upcoming LH themes 6, 7, 8 and 9. Theme 6 Theme 6 officially announced on 23rd June – Stilt homes The Stilt homes are basically done and ready for deployment The lab don’t have have the region capacity to release them right now. The lab are aiming at after the AWS project completes when region capacity becomes available later this year Theme 7 Theme 7 is nearly content complete Not set up for deployment yet Theme 8 Getting ready to enter production Theme 9 Getting ready to enter production

The demand is still huge though and it's a shame everything has been pushed back towards the end of 2020. I hope the uplift move is worth it. Let's hope next year things will be smoother.

Using 23 houses as an example per region for the next few themes. In total roughly there would be 2, 070 new homes coming later this year. If i'm wrong about this please share what you think the estimated would be. There will be more houses added when the uplift process has been completed.

This would be the pink SSP regions or the big batch of regions south of them.

Today Linden Lab have announced a new batch of last names for purchase. There will be further updates to the last names pool in the near future. VortexFluffpawSassypantsAmethystBloodroseAureliaStarlight WayfarerRoverWanderer

SL17B Enchant (LH Demo region) is now appearing right on the Map.

Thanks Patch for providing a update on the upcoming LH theme schedule. What's with the SL17B water regions ? Can you give us any updates on that please.

SSPMBC has arrived. I wonder what MBC stands for ?

The LH Demo region seems much quieter this morning so I decided to take some new photos of the area. I don't understand why there are SL17B water regions around the birthday regions. Any ideas ? If the lab does this next year for SL18B then they should have more than just one demo region. It was very laggy last night and there was over 70+ residents waiting at the border to get in.

Ebbe didn't say much about Linden Homes yesterday afternoon. Ebbe did say that Linden Homes was a "huge success" and he said "we can't make them fast enough" to keep up with the demand. I guess we might hear something from Patch Linden later on today from 2pm at SL17B about the future of Linden Homes. I hope we get more info on the LH Demo region. I've asked moles and Linden's about it but nothing yet. I think I heard someone say that the region is undergoing testing and it's coming soon.