Mercy Nightingale

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The only place where I follow SL creator are on my SL Flickr account. Else, I have no cross-population between personal social media and SL. That said, if there was a way to be able to somehow read notecards that are attached to group notices via the offline email, I would kiss a duck.

Unfortunately, an autorefresher is the only feasible option for me. Like many of us, I work and can only really check on my days off (I'm an RN), in between RL things. I understand the need to manage the server load. I just want consistent direction on how to make the autorefresher work within the parameters set by LL.

I'm having similar issues. Tried with Chrome and then Firefox. No matter how I tweak the refresh timer I'm running to the timegate page. I'd appreciate some clear recommendations from LL on addon/browser choice that is most compatible with the new restriction.

I would be content with a half random/half waiting list approach. More choices is always better and again, would address the lock-out that I'm currently experiencing.

Hi! Good questions. For sign-up, I would imagine it would still be first come first serve, but at least it's not gating out those of us who can't camp a computer and feels far more fair. Your example of a fire fighter is pretty much my work life. I'm a Registered Nurse and I'm busy with it for a solid 10 hours per shift with zero time to faff around with my personal phone let alone finding a computer somewhere to check Second Life. I could see them implementing a time limit on reservations so it doesn't hold it up forever. On the other hand, when someone is near the top of the waiting list, perhaps inworld and email notifications to get someone's attention? I wonder if it could even give the premier member an option to pick a date/time window and if it's missed, then the home goes to someone else... just random thoughts. I'm not a programmer and have no idea what's actually feasible. For alt/versus non-alt, I would guess at IP address, but then again, see above. Not a programmer. I was unaware that people are paying for premium on alt accounts as well, so that does put a different texture on it. Still, with a limited availability, promoting these premium homes as one of the major incentives for increasing the cost of premier membership, gating out those of us who do not live/work at computers on the daily feels inequitable to me and demotivating for continuing my premium membership. As to people having multiple alts, on Plurk I've seen people sharing that they have 3, 4, even 5 premier homes between all their accounts. It's frustrating to me when I can't even get one, thus this post. Thanks for the congenial discussion.

Hello. I've been a Premium account for many years. I'm posting here at the advice of LL customer service about my unhappiness with the way premium homes are acquired. Right now, the new homes are highly promoted for the premium accounts and indeed, mentioned as one of the rewards for membership and a reason for the new higher fee. My problem is that with the current system of 'first come, first serve' I will never be able to claim one of the new homes. People camp the website and I read about folks claiming multiple houseboats and such with alts. I can't do that. I'm an RN, I work long shifts, I have no ability to camp the site when these releases occur. I can't even preview what these homes look like from the land acquisition page as they won't populate the pull-down menu unless they're available. If my premium fee is supposed to be allowing me to have access to one of these newer homes, I'd like to have a fighting chance to actually HAVE one. I'm requesting the following changes: 1. Stop making it first come, first serve. Instead create a wait list queue for premium account holders. Allow us to 'shop' in advance and pick the home type we want. 2. One premium home per account. Stop allowing people to claim these high-demand homes for alts. Thank you.