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diamond splains The Great Trick or Treat Event, Bellisseria! This is how I view this event. You may view it differently, 1. The Lindens occasionally do things to entertain the residents. If you like the things, participate. If not, don't. 2. This event is not a hunt. Most use SLURL lists to locate Candy Buckets. I am aware of one resident who, in a prior year, searched thousands of regions looking for candy. But this is an outlier, however, as @Polenth Yue points out, each of us enjoys the event in their own way. 3. This event is not competitive. The best place to get location info is the Bellisseria Citizens group spreadsheet. 3. Most hosts put the Candy Bucket in plain sight. A very few people require you to hunt for it but its typically easy to find. Some put it in a skybox. I have a low opinion of this practice as it is not in the spirit of the event. 4. As @Frigga Freidman has suggested, this event is more like a parade of homes, where you get to see what others have done. Also, people like to decorate their homes and enjoy the prospect of others seeing their works. THIS IS REALLY WHAT THIS EVENT IS ABOUT! 5. As @Prokofy Neva has mentioned , a candy bucket host will earn enough candy for the tier one prize simply by leaving out a candy bucket. 6. If you edit a Candy Bucket, the Description field tells you how many times it has given out candy. 7. If you are in a hurry to get the Boopies, wait until over 400 entries are in the spreadsheet, then scrape the SLURLs and put them in notecards (I do 100 SLURLs per notecard). These kind of (USB) notecards are familiar to those who navigate in vehicles and are used to load Navigation HUDs. A very simple such HUD is called Cruisette EZ (made by me) and can be obtained for free here (please read the directions). You click the HUD and the World Map pops up... you click "Teleport" and you go to a parcel that has a Candy Bucket. After snatching the candy, click the HUD again and repeat. Note that if the parcel has scripts disabled, you need to move off parcel where scripts work, You should be able to get all the candy in a few hours (not days). 8. I am not usually a fan of Boopies but I love spiders and bats, so the first two prizes are very nice for me. 9. Hope you have fun doing this event. I certainly do.

Boopies #19 - Nightfang and Boopies #20 - Twilight Squeak For those hosting Candy Buckets, please set your Teleport Routing to "Anywhere", unless your Landing Point is the same as in the spreadsheet. This might lessen some of the issues with security systems. Also, after region restarts, check that your Candy Bucket is still rezzed. There are reports that buckets may poof prematurely (only supposed to happen if the bucket is not on a parcel owned by the bucket owner, the bucket is a duplicate or the event is over).

Info from Bellisseria Citizens Group https://sites.google.com/view/bellisseriacitizens/group-events/october-in-bellisseria Form to list your bucket https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8oA1g8b0JCKdf3dSay-JjoCEeKL5Fc26wydbAkkUzZk7vYg/viewform Read only list of buckets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r_ydKJygv-bAaqTdLREzezB1lB8duhsjDLQKMOxfYbE/edit?gid=955133236#gid=955133236

Info from Bellisseria Citizens Group https://sites.google.com/view/bellisseriacitizens/group-events/october-in-bellisseria Form to list your bucket https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8oA1g8b0JCKdf3dSay-JjoCEeKL5Fc26wydbAkkUzZk7vYg/viewform Read only list of buckets https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r_ydKJygv-bAaqTdLREzezB1lB8duhsjDLQKMOxfYbE/edit?gid=955133236#gid=955133236

^^this is true

Ah ha…. Evidently someone,perhaps Squeaky, edited the OP and deleted the part about the Casino event

What does the casino have to do with the Bellisseria Trick or Treat event? Are you suggesting that scripting issues in the casino might have an effect on the scripting of the Trick or Treat objects?

This phrase got me to wondering... who exactly are these owners people speak of. According to Inara Pey's post , the owners are “an investment group led by Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager”. Note that the official Linden Lab post has been taken down. To my knowledge we have never heard from Randy and we were supposed to hear from Brad at SL21B but that got canceled and not rescheduled. It's a mystery.

Governance allows modifications to the exteriors of Linden Homes that seem obviously in violation of theme, particularly with Houseboats. I couild show you pictures but that would be frowned upon.

I suppose there is the issue of gaming this transfer process... you have a nice Linden Home... someone else wants it... they pay you to go through the transfer process. The verification that the destination account is actually your alt may be difficult. Who knows?

When will the Boopies be awarded? The post doesn't say. Hopefully, you will be able to collect your Boopie as soon as you have enough candy for each one. That way you can use the Boopie in your Halloween decor during the Halloween season.

yes Nostradamus, this is true.... but when?

My understanding of the official policy is that unreleased Linden Homes cannot be reserved prior to being placed in the queue. Once in the queue, the algorithm might assign the home if a home of that theme is requested via a button on the website. This means that a person who is constantly monitoring a region that is near release can jump in the moment the region is released. And they have up to 5 tries to get the home they want. Premium Plus members can also immediately file a request with support for a particular home, but this succeeds only if the algorithm has not yet assigned the home. We call this process the "Game of Homes". Here is a discussion of this process by Derrick Linden

1. Second Life remains somewhat of a mystery to me and the fact that as of September 19, 2024 we are still chugging along seems somewhat of a miracle. We have a devoted but objectively tiny population of residents who may be providing sufficient ROI to the owners. We are not growing and it seems unlikely that any silver bullet will reverse this situation. This suggests to me that the owners are not inclined to pursue development plans that require raising or borrowing money. 2. Upgrading the Second Life new user experience via improved avatar creation tools would, in my opinion, be kicking the can down the road. Second Life is a game-not-a-game with "no set objectives or manufactured conflict", hence any easily made beautiful avatar will eventually have to find a reason to be here. 3. I find the current method of developing/maintaining my avatar as an enjoyable activity. Over 15 years of residence, I have made at least 30 unique avatars and am currently actively maintaining my primary avatar and several alts. I truly enjoy shopping, dressing, creating new outfits, makeup, hair etc. and adapting to updates for heads/bodies. 4. Second Life and Inzoi are not mutually exclusive. If at some time in the future, I desired to use the Imzoi character tool to make some characters, perhaps as art, I might do that, assuming I have acquired a gamer pc that allow me to even run it. ^^ not a bad avatar

The railway on the western Ranch coast now has track enabled all the way through SSPWave Hello.