Raspberry Crystal

Just Americans having the holiday, it's a local thing.

Family portrait, before the stilt twins are born.

Let's not get carried away with fanciful notions, imagine instead what could be made with all the spare parts left over from previous builds and a bit of retexturing....

@Evangeline Arcadia @LunaThyme I believe your points about recycling may be correct...this could indeed be a Franken-farmhouse!!! Which makes me doubt if we would really get a re-shaped roof, maybe a retextured one? Leading to the idea that these won't be *that* different to everything else....

Could be sandy campers also?

A rustic farmhouse look would be lovely, but you would not find the door in Patch's example in a countryside setting, it is a 'townhouse' style. That is what is so puzzling!

Sold, thank you!

Now is your opportunity to grab an old continent linden home and see what you can do with it!

I can't resist fiddling with decor! I've added some bits and pieces. A reminder that I've derendered a neighbour's house for the photos (see original post for the 'before' shot). You are welcome to visit. Any questions welcome.

That would be my ideal too!

@Daniel Voyager do you know if we can use these railway lines? I am a little confused about how complete they are.

@Syo Emeraldwhat a gorgeous house! So pretty.

A secondary benefit of this approach, though probably not a mole consideration, is that it makes it much harder for mega-multiple account holders to dominate new regions. Imagine if an open coastal region were released, and a Sally Bigbucks with her many pcs and fast net connection, grabbed all the beach properties, then repeated the process for every further release. Unless Ms Bucks recruits staff, and sells her shares in the hand sanitiser company to fund the operation, she'll struggle to collect *all* the best homes for the initial release at least.

The weird mix of styles is really puzzling me too. The door and knocker look like victorian town-house, the inner sash windows, also victorian, so ok there, but then the render looks like farmhouse, or a whole variety of things, but not the kind of victorian house which would match the door, and the window surrounds are rustic american cabin. I think, after too long spent staring at period door knockers, I basically repeated what you just said @Vihmakass! Maybe there are options for this home which match together better and Patch just happened to show us a random styling example?

Don't forget about the fun available complaining about other people complaining! I'm not going to complain about that or we'll get caught in some sort of self referencing loop and Patch may choke on his popcorn.

Not american, any fellow internationals recognise a local style? The external wall finish could be English cottage, but the brown natural coloured timber window frames don't feel right, cottage windows would be painted.

It did float through my mind that they might actually hate us now I think that they have been put in an impossible position with pressures from all directions. All the design problems come down to one thing, budget. An open water buffer zone, costs money, reducing the density of houses and therefore lag, would cost money, moving further away from landscape clonification would cost money. It's frustrating for us, but it must be deathly for those planning this. The compromises will irk, and we are jumping on the irk while probably being completely unaware of background tech issues which will have taken untold mole hours to solve.

Yes, a poorer view for the stilts, for the sake of creating the less popular 'centipede' style house-boat regions. Raspberry chants to self 'more sailing water, think positive!'. Oh it's no good, I can't help but think of centipedes covered in horribly textured home builds and misconceived, over sized non thematic add-ons which are then left to rot when the owners butterfly on to something else without tidying up after themselves. I'll go and download an inspirational poster and do some more chanting.

When at all possible I like to line dry laundry in the garden (it's cheaper and more eco friendly), so basements or upstairs machines would feel quite inconvenient for that! Not so easy if you don't have outdoor space of course. I guess patch is going to need to throw an extra clue in here, as we've wandered off into other topics Before that happens I'm going to guess **Colonial style** referring back to @Matthieu Quander's remark about grown men crying about the door knocker.

Your solution did sound convincing, and also Quite Interesting (another uk quiz show ) I did have a niggle that it might be a bit too interesting, as in not quite fitting in with the current design philosophy, in that it would be a lot of extra work to create a convincing desert landscape, and hard to recycle existing elements. My model for Patch's photo shoots are this. He has ten minutes or less to do it, he uses whatever props he has available in the inventory of the alt that he's using, in this case Spookypatch Halloween (made up name). The props have not, so far, been relevant to the solution. My next thought is that the pipe organ is simply a large object which fills the space. It is probably wishful thinking, but I did hope there might be a window behind it, which would indicate a smaller dwelling place.

Give them time, I'm sure you will see it again!

I struggle with UC!

I've been so absorbed in current affairs that I missed the development in this thread! Does anyone else think that this is heading towards joining up the continents with a sailing route?

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shoki/185/243/22 L$ 3450 Peaceful getaway or perfect rental. This plot is in a lovely, well established area, with interesting and varied neighbours, many featuring outstanding decor.. The plot is contoured to fit the curve of the river, and there are multiple intriguing sailing routes available for sightseeing right from the front door, with a different outlook round every bend. There is an attractive 'real terrain' beach to the front, and a similar small area available at the rear. The buyer may keep the decor and furnishings shown here, which leaves 5 li to spare. (the boat takes up 35 Li and I'm leaving it as decor, it will not be driveable due to creator permissions). You are, of course, welcome to return any items you do not wish to keep. *Please note: For my stay here I derendered one large decor screen in far distance, and the home of my immediate neighbour so I could get a wrap around river view (see comparison shots below). The view out of the front window pictured is 'as seen' in world with no adjustments.*

@Milk Pixelmaid If this had been my favourite quiz show, Only Connect, then an answer that fitted all the clues would have been accepted, even if it wasn't what the question creators had in mind. I think Patch has suffered from earlier themes being too easy to guess and has now overshot in the opposite direction.