Frigga Freidman

There’s a much easier way if you use Firestorm - track lots of unreleased regions and then order the results by the number of avatars present in them. If the numbers get above the odd one or two (likely to be people checking the lay of the land, or water) you’ve got a release.

Agua Fresca was one of the first regions released on December 23rd.

There are another 90 or so stilt home regions waiting to be released "after the holidays".

*cough* EFFECT *cough*

Unofficial Stilt Home Status, 6:00am SLT Dec. 26th: 92 regions with 'Protected Land' designation (~2300 homes) These regions with 'Linden Home' designation, in which all homes are still unclaimed: Bootleggers Atoll, Backwash, Cape Marlin, Belldowne. Corderosa had 1 home claimed when I checked. Many OL homes available throughout all the released regions.

Also now released, but many parcels still available: Tea Time, Long Pier, and Lorelei. (I've checked a dozen of the regions where parcels were listed as 'Protected Land', and none have changed status. I expect those will not be added to the pool until at least January 4th. Fri: Edriss released, and Shore Thing

Leaky Hold and Shining Sea have been released since I wrote that, though only a couple of parcels have been claimed in each. Ambergris released (all water) and most appear taken.

You can abandon it, but there might not be anything else available. I think Patch's warning was aimed at folks claiming/abandoning within the 3-4 hours earlier today when everything was pretty hectic. Just checked: All 3 types of stilt homes are showing on the LP now

Got it. When I looked, the earliest regions released (Bayport and 3 others I checked) had *all* their houses claimed. (Bayport currently has 1 abandoned OL.) But during the actual releases, I was keeping my eye on a couple of other regions and noticed at the time that dots were only appearing along piers rather than inland. Unfortunately, as soon as the pier houses were gone I removed them from my tracking list, so I can't easily check inworld to see if any of the OL houses were ever taken. But for those who clicked on OL as an option, I can't see that *so many* would abandon their houses, preventing newer regions from appearing at the top of the queue. Anyway, I'm happy that several of the regions I particularly like still have their parcels labelled Protected rather than Linden Home, as I have a lot of other stuff I need to get done in the next week. (Alas, not fun holiday stuff.)

Nope, not abandoned. I'm in Boggle now - there are stilts on piers that are owned but I've found one that's in Maintenance with today's date. Meanwhile, the OL ones in Boggle that I've checked all have June 30 dates, so never claimed, possibly not yet released.

OK, it doesn't look like anyone else has written about this, so this post is one for the 'Some People Have Too Much Time On Their Hands Department'. I've been tracking ~50 regions that have houses on piers/boardwalks, and have noticed that in the 15 or so of those regions that have been released, all the pier houses have been taken, but in most of them the houses on land are all still designated as Linden Home. So, it appears that either this option is spectacularly unpopular or, more likely, not all homes within a region have been released as a group. I've also noticed that in the majority of the unreleased regions I've been tracking, all the homes have the status of Protected Land, so I assume these regions will not be released until after the holidays. However, I did find 5 regions (containing a mix of house types) where all the houses are labelled Linden Home, and I suspect these may be in a queue for release before LL folk are back at work in full force: Edriss, Leaky Hold, Long Pier, Lorelei, Shore Thing. There may be more. (A few more I've found: Bootleggers Atoll, Ambergris, Getmah Drift, Shining Sea, Teatime, Backwash, Corderosa, Awash.) EDIT: Add Belldowne to the list where all houses have Linden Home status and none are taken. UPDATE: Leaky Hold and Shining Sea have been released since I wrote the above, although only a few parcels have been claimed in each.

The one I got was working OK (Blue Marlin), but it would've been nice to TP onto the deck, rather than under it!

Re-reading Patch's last status update, I interpret it to mean that no additional regions will be released after today's until after the holidays, timed release or not. Looks like it's time to start decorating for Christmas where I am. ******* Well, I've been watching the map and decided it was finally time to jump in. Got one on Blue Marlin that isn't for me, but tomorrow is another day. (Now just crossing all appendages hoping that my other fave region isn't released in today's drip feed.)

Cooperdale released. Agua Fresca, Beachy Keen released; Bon Vivant offline.

Sigh, Bayport released, one of my 2 preferred regions

Of course there are probably only 300 people max looking at Belli Cit chat, and maybe 100 here, so the majority of potential clickers may be blissfully unaware.

That appeared over a month ago!

Did you do the clicking and holding for 4 seconds routine?

[09:25] Squeaky Mole: Stilt Homes are still being tested, more info will follow soon. Someone in chat has just reported the two-house rez problem encountered in log homes.

Still only 7 dots in Bubbly and 1 in Slice of Life - if you want a HB and unobstructed views of the water, this is your time to try!

Still only 3 dots in Bubbly and only 1 in Slice of Life, so HB fans clearly think only abandons are appearing on the LP.

Whitney has just confirmed that 2 new HB regions released - Bubbly and Slice of Life. Perhaps they've grayed out the Abandon option in order to 'enforce' rather than hope for no GoH right now.

Yours was one of the reports I was referring to

Several reports in Belli Cit chat saying the rezzers in Drinkwater are working as they should.