Raspberry Crystal

No, mainland has the balance of rights tipped towards those wishing privacy so free flying isn't possible without a lot of pre-planning and willingness to deal with security orbs. I think the Bellisseria continent has changed people's expectations though, and this is the difference now. It is so much more enjoyable to use vehicles when a different balance is struck between privacy and the shared environment.

I seem to remember a Mole post about the 'jelly mould' they use which defines the outer limits of all the styles of home to be rezzed. Surely if a new home would fit within that 'jelly mould' then it shouldn't cause an issue with the landscaping? Yes it is almost worse to have a view that you can't see without running outside! This had me thinking. I wonder whether larger plots with a choice of rezzable landscaping might work? Oh so true! Though I do find if you run fast enough they never get past the slow rezzing purple mist stage.

I'm not sure if this is just my perception, or if this is really happening. Back in the mists of time, when the overall active user base of SL was supposedly larger, I would log on UK morning time, when the USA was asleep, and could wander for hours and not meet a soul, or even see a green dot on the map. These days I spend a lot of my time in Bellisseria, but I do also wander about, and it seems like everywhere I go, at off-peak times, there is a chance of people being around. I am not talking large groups, or packed sims, but more activity than I remember. There are still lots of quiet spots around, but I would no longer risk a quick tp to a clothes shop to complete my outfit whilst wearing some bizarre combo of demo tags and lost hair. I have been putting this down to the aging population of SL and there being more retired people around who share my (UK) time zone, but I would be glad to know how others see this, and whether my experience is shared.

I think that question deserves a whole new thread

I don't want one these novelty forrin mail boxes, what is to stop loiterers reading my post or filling in my important government forms before I get to them? I demand we have the old fashioned but very effective security letter box, embedded in the front door, with tradional sharpened edges and an alert rottweiler dog on duty behind it in case anyone thinks of poking their hand through.

We don't really know if apartments are on the agenda, but I love your corner idea. Unfortunately I think we do know about the chance of having 'niche' designs, because it was discussed some time ago. We were told that the Moles need to build so many homes in the same design or the economics of scale don't work out, basically they can't make money from niche Linden homes. However, I suppose it could be possible if there was a premium charged, say a Platinum account with access to low volume designs in exclusive neighbourhoods?

@Nika Talaj Ooh I like this! Do you think there is any particular significance to the naming of the sim 'Shipyard'? I wondered if there might be some sort of port like construction planned, but it could be wishful thinking.

It's hard to come up with an actual home style which might realistically be picked up by the Moles but I love the idea of 'garden streets' in urban areas, ie small front 'yards' which are bursting with colour, and a walkway rather than road in front of the houses (with maybe a residents rez area for vehicles close by?) What if the joined buildings were alternated by dummy dwellings, to avoid the intrusion problems? I must admit thought hat I am doubtful that 512s will be looked at this year when the ranch and med plots are doing so well. It must be tempting to try for an even larger, 4096 even? Though they would need to choose the style for those very carefully.

@Persephone Emerald or maybe the full castle? They are a very popular trend in SL as a whole, and could be adapted for gothic, vampire, historical, all sorts of things.

Carries on feverishly derendering most of the neighbourhood whilst cackling, and then stepping into something...euck....

I wonder if there will be an adjacent theme to Fantasseria, rather than a new home style within that set-up? eg hobbit homes, or something like that? Also I apologise to @Dyna Mole for previously steering the topic towards incontinent dogs and feverishly patriotic letterboxes.

I wish to complain because I have now run out of complaints!

That is a genius suggestion @Matthieu Quander! Maybe this is the way to discourage those orbs, subject the perpetrator to the double tp twang of doom, and the oscillating neon gnome avatar sat in his aquarium.

The tiny concession of the one second warning allowed me to commando roll over the boundary and escape, on the eleventh attempt. I suspect the device was hidden in a welcome mat, but I could be feverish at this point after the trauma. Afterwards I wondered if I could have tp'd out using the mini map. Herbert Thepervert has many manifestations. The most memorable lately has been the 'art' loving neighbour, who completely filled the walls of his home with photographs of lady bottoms, posed in uncomfortable positions and set to *full bright*, and then obviously ran out of prim allowance when it came to curtains.

...it was the endless twanging noises that were so disorientating!

Careless Raspberry, who has been on a purposeful but meandering hopping quest to find a home which ticks the right boxes, and isn't next door to Herbert Thepervert (not a real name). She sometimes forgets to update her home position. In most cases this isn't an issue, until.... One day, the hippy hoppy Raspberry is sent home, and the home has been taken over, by a person who has either not read, understood, or cared about the Bellisseria covenant (also known as 'do not delete on pain of death'). The new resident has set his security orb to 'send home in one second'. ...but according to the home position, Raspberry already IS home. What happens next?

I read your post and checked out your lovely pictures of that house, you had it looking lovely. Your remark about the styles feeling too big did resonate with me though. I wonder if what @Matthieu Quander said about the workload of Q&A might be relevant here, I could live with smaller footprints easily!

I am sure this has been debated before many times, but after the tree houses were created for the fantasy regions I started to wonder if the Moles might have plans to insert more models into the log homes region. I do enjoy the landscaping in this region, especially the hilly parts and the winding lanes and 'mountain' passes. The lakes are lovely too, and as I have said before, many remind me of the post-glacial landscape of the English Lake District. The planting is really well done as well, and it is hardly necessary to use prims in the garden adding to the scheme. I can't move on without mentioning the railways, which are some of the nicest rides in Belli. So why the wondering about new models? This is probably already something the Moles have thought about, but my main tack here regards orientation of the individual homes, and this has been brought into focus by my recent experience of snagging a waterside plot. Apart from the 90 degree swivel of the Grand View, the main focus and view points from within the buildings point towards the mail box / road. This works well for many lots, but there are also quite a few where the main view would naturally be from the back of the house, say where the house backs onto water, or has an open aspect to the rear. What I noticed was a pattern of occupation which corresponded to each plot's ability to take in the view. Even if a house was besides water, if the water was behind the home, it was less likely to have a resident, or to be furnished. If we could have some new homes that had their main rooms at the back of the house, I wonder if there would be more take up of those plots which have the best outlook from the rear? It could give more flexibility to the choices available.

Sometimes that does happen, when there are a lot of competing requirements we sometimes get given something that nobody (or very few people) actually want, BUT that isn't usually the case. I don't believe for a moment that Abnor or the Moles ignore feedback, I think that the response was supposed to be interpreted humorously! (bearing in mind that they are all busy with the meds and ranch houses right now).

Ooh I just spotted a poster for this at a log homes rail station, looks like fun.

Thank you! This really opens up the choices

I found a few nice trads lately which were tucked away and only had footpath access, or had an interesting set of steps leading down (or up) to the road. My lusch car is fairly forgiving, but does make some alarming clanking noises if I try throwing it off a cliff, or bumping down a stairway, so I had a search around for any nearby traffic rez spots without success. My memory doesn't reach back to the very earliest Mole new continent building, but I was inworld for the completion of old Belli, and I just can't remember if car rez spots were brought in later, or were more spaced out? Have I just been unlucky in my searching and they are hiding right there in plain sight? I saw some 'obvious' spots for boat rezzers as well that hadn't been utilised, was it just the lighthouse island facilities available back then? Maybe my memory has lapsed, or been overwritten by Newbrooke and Bellivaria where seemingly every single sim has a rez spot for cars.

I can't help thinking that sushi chef looks more benign than advertised. What you really need is a time machine to capture the look cultivated by a Northern English fish and chip shop owner for use when a group of teenagers come in asking for free 'scraps' without wishing to pay for a main meal (scraps = bits of batter that fall off the fish). Or the look produced by his assistant, used to terrify uncertain adolescents into buying mushy peas as an extra, thus causing them to walk home because they spent their bus money on unwanted processed vegetables.

I had no idea how Patch pronounced it, so I just went with the Bell - iss - seyr -reeya type thing. I'd really like to switch the Chalet district to Shalleys, it is more phonetical and less likely to cause confusion with the different style of homes which are called chalets in real life; https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chalet

Why not make another @Persephone Emerald? Use the names that have been thrown up and whittled down by use on the forums. I usually think of the desert terrain continent as 'the meds'.