Raspberry Crystal

Clean shoes much shinier

...and then there's more. I checked to see that this plot had been taken before I snagged a trad on the land page, and....it was the same one ugain! Must have been another speedy departure. One ex-owner still in the road from before, my guess is she's been caught multiple time with this one already. Reminded me of @Leora Jacobus telling a similar tale late last year. I guess we've become accustomed to the land page being flooded with property over the holidays, and now we are back to drought season. Not that I'm complaining, I prefer slow-grown regions over rapid rise clones!

I snagged a Trad abandon in Silent Shores. It was a perfectly nice plot, but was claimed / abandoned so rapidly after me that owners started stacking up in the road (now stuck in maintenance, I wonder if that's a system reaction or a coincidence?)

More houseboats available this afternoon, campers have been available constantly. I've had three separate houseboats, all in the squishy pickled, or the re-pickled clone. Two were nice positions, but one of those had a dodgy neighbour.

I would really love to find more blogs with interesting written commentary. It seems to stretch the definition of the genre to provide a photostream with titles, and hopefully product links and call it a blog. Maybe it's a plog?

Send ladder in again

I saw another houseboat, and a fast fleeing victorian but otherwise it's been campers all the way! @Arwanja they are building some just now, no idea about release date though.

Deep as purple night

I can't edit my comment now, it was a reaction to the previous post which was later edited.

To use a phrase from lancashire, in answer to 'what is on the land page right now?' Answer = nowt much. Campers, and one houseboat floated past very slowly a half hour or so ago.

Yoda playing with fireworks

You need some time.

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Belli is the thriving evolving new face of second life, why not have something new instead of an old build? I am all in favour of recycling, but if this wasn't visited before there was a reason for that beyond the location. This is three sims worth of stuff on the servers that nobody will use past the first week of curiosity, and then that leaves an item of interest to sail around. Does nobody in the Linden team watch tv programs on how to declutter your house? Keep the small stuff as a reminder. @Abnor Mole said that if something isn't visited then the higher ups won't want to pay to keep it going, this was in relation to sailing water but seems universally relevant. So why on earth has this build been moved? Maybe someone upstairs was sentimental about the ship and wanted to give it another chance.

My theory is that those orbs are a kind of sadistic game where people enjoy inconveniencing others who accidentally wander over their boundaries.

I've been training myself to think of colours in groups / palettes so what seems like a simple question is actually quite hard to answer. My rl clothes are Grey, Black, Blue, White so the colour Gbbw Raspberry wears Tan, white blue and green, so Twbg for her. Our RL house is mostly beige, I blame indecision. In SL I really enjoy trying out different decor palettes in my houses, currently Ochre, Dark Moss, French navy and Pale Pink/Grey.. Odmfnppg.

@Drake1 Nightfire The maitreya group note described the current BOM update as a temporary fix for people to experiment with (unless I've missed a more recent notice?) My definition of successful would be to enjoy the experience of owning a shop, and also cover the rent. (though someone doing it for consciously altruistic reasons would also count in a different way) I have a feeling that some owners are running at a loss so as to have the experience of being a shop owner / fashion designer, some because they want to cater to a niche market for reasons other than profit and others because they have an unrealistic idea of what is actually involved in maintaining a business. Frankly some seem to have simply forgotten they own a shop at all and just left the half *rsed, outdated, pink shiny coated horror-cube complete with broken sales boards solely for the viewing benefit of passers by.

I will switch to BOM when Maitreya updates, and probably carry on doing what i was doing before with less impact. However, I will continue to seek out shops that have clothes I like in their original state, as I do in real life.

I've been into shops where I have huge difficulty believing the merchant is selling anything at all. You are maybe expecting more logic than is generally used? Maybe it's the same kind of mindset that holds onto a piece of land that was bought over-priced, and then continues to pay tier for years afterwards rather than drop the price to sell it on. Just because a place exists, in SL it does not mean that it is necessarily successful.

@Qie Niangao what about Veganism? That seems to be politicised right now! Ooh climate change. Changing the design of chocolate bars and reducing the amount of chocolate at the same time. No wait, maybe scratch that one

Finding pieces that mix together has been a challenge for me too. In the end mixing mesh with an underlayer of 'applier' basics seemed to work. I'm wondering if part of the problem is in who is actually making the meshes that underlie the textured clothing? How much contact do they have with the end customer? Unless someone has the ability to create a whole piece of clothing themselves, and run a shop then there's got to be some communication problems along the way. Surely most retailers are texturing ready-made meshes?

I don't have any sentimental connection to this build, this may be the first time I've seen it, and this time in the morning I can be a bit grumpy anyway, but this does feel hard to enjoy for the reasons you mention and more.

Dahm Strait is the clone twin of my current home region, Coral Bay. I did have a previous plot on the same island which was way too close to Pyri peak for me, but the view from other plots is actually much better. See the shot below from Siren's Cove, (same snap as in the Joy of Steps thread). The mountain gives an interesting backdrop. I do find it weird to have identical islands still, but it is still lovely.

If Sylvia's alt is contributing to a mainland piece of land which is group owned she could swap their contribution? (does that make sense, not sure myself now!)

That doesn't sound like enough. If covenanted Bellisseria is a central plank of the SL business model moving forward a few extra bods available, at least during this expansion phase seems desirable.