Fortyniner Beck
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1 hour ago, Prokofy Neva said:
Qie, I don't have any theory about any secret bugs. What I do is ask the simple question of whether if on the client side, in the viewer, the resident opts to turn off streaming, so he doesn't hear it, if that means on the server side, the Shoutcast server on a sim can still see the IP address of the person coming on the sim -- or not.
It may have changed but a couple of years ago I used to run a shoutcast server for a plot on mainland and I know that I couldn’t see ip addresses of people that didn’t have the stream turned on, it only listed “listeners”.
This was seen both when I visited the plot and also with av’s that didn’t belong to me - in my case the ip address only appeared in shoutcast logs/ listener stats once I started to listen to the stream in the client ( firestorm).
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As a small ex-landlord I would have been very uncomfortable taking a years rent. My rental boxes would only allow people to rent for a maximum of 8 weeks at any one time and when I finally stopped renting out I made sure that tenants knew 4 weeks in advance and got a refund of any unused rental ( plus, as I’m not a good business man and it felt the right thing to do as some had been tenants for 2 or 3 years I paid them a bit extra for the inconvenience).
I sympathise with the OP though, they didn’t think that anything would go wrong, but without knowing the landlords side of things ( rl might have bitten them in the bum with illness, a death, or a sudden need to cut back on expenses or some other reason) it’s hard to “blame” them.
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Until I moved house last year I was on a 3Mbps down and 2Mps up ( in a rural location in the UK) and used SL successfully for 10 years on that speed. The main thing I learnt was to stay away from busy hunts as they would take forever to load so I used to monitor the green dots on the map for each location to decide when to visit..
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I’d suggest looking at Maya’s stuff ( I’m not in world at the moment so can’t give an lm but she is on marketplace as Maya’s buildings), she has several bathroom sets.
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Personally, I’m not a fan of videos that loop. I found it distracting while looking at the rest of the content on the page with the movement drawing my eye to it. In the old days of webdesign you might have talked about the fight or flight syndrome.
Having said that it’s better than the “blue lady” that might have raised expectations that that was what Avis looked like in SL.
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The op made me look through my books and I found…
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In over 15 years I don’t think I’ve ever used anything but the search to find a destination - not that I look for them very often.
Of course that might be because of what I do in RL ( I’ve been in seo for 25 years, going back to pre Google days - so automatically search)
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Small landlord for many years offering houses and stores cheaply. The homes were aimed at people who were getting the stipend and wanted a cheap rent that was more than covered by the stipend - typically L$50-100 a week. Then came Linden Homes and my market died almost overnight.
The shops were on the same basic, individual shops on their own plots in a complete landscaped mainland sim ( so tenants could set their own music, land descriptions etc). I can’t remember what happened but again the market dried up overnight and not long afterwards the three commercial sims were sold off.
Now I use SL to potter. After 15 years or so I don’t have the energy to try to do anything special ( and after a major inventory crash I lost most of the buildings anyway ). and most, if not all, of the people I knew and was friendly with have moved on from SL.
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You can terraform mainland, maybe not as much as a private island ( but that depends on the island settings ). I think I’ve only ever had two mainland parcels that I had a problem terraforming in nearly 15 years of mainland ownership and in both cases it was still workable by moving bits around.
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It’s a hard life being a cat in my house.
and, yes, I need to find the instructions for Oliver, the ginger one as he appears to be “broken”
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I have a main and two “alts” although only one is used much nowadays.
The first was created when I used to DJ, my main avi was running a land business and the alt was a more outgoing character.
The second is more of a bot that was used until recently for group invites for new rentals.
All are male characters. What I find interesting is that the DJ character allowed me to be a completely different personality, he would get on with everyone whereas my main is much more reserved.
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If you mean a Linden home for 2048m2 I don't think they have released those yet. What you can/should be able to do it have a 1024 Linden home and buy 1024 on the mainland with no tier (you have to pay to buy the mainland plot) or you could have 2048m2 of mainland and not have a Linden home, again you have to buy the mainland.
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Now reduced to L$95,000
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Snowy rectangular plot sloping to Linden river, near Linden Road and railway (I had a bridge from the land to the road with no problems) and not far from the skiing area.
Sim edge as you can see from the map below, with 9717 prims available.
Long established neighbours and the only land on this sim that's available.
For sale for L$101,000.
Taxi to the land --> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Skari/155/198/110View from the river.
Map of the area showing plot for sale, waterway, road and railway.
Any questions please ask
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18 hours ago, Garnet Psaltery said:
I put that disclaimer on information notecards when letting parcels ... in the hope that people actually read them.
That's something I used to (and still do on the areas that I have now) do - but as you say, it's in the hope that people actually read the information and tenants notecards. Sadly some don't.
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8 hours ago, Mollymews said:
this is the best advice ever for anyone looking to rent
the time it takes for a landlord to answer a would-be tenant, is indicative of the amount of time that the landlord invests in their property. And that if we never get a response to our query about renting then we can assume that we will never get a response to any subsequent support query either
Bear in mind though that there can be time differences, I remember when I was landlord (commercial and residential) several years ago that I had a tenant that seemed to expect an immediate answer at 3am my time. Unless you are dealing with someone that has support staff located around the world - or that work night shifts - it’s never going to happen.
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I own a largish plot of snow land (30,000 m2) and, although I would respect your right to "seasonalise" it as you wish, I would feel a little miffed that someone has brought snow land (that there isn't a great deal of) and is changing it to summer for example. If it was next to me I'd probably try to screen it off so that my visitors didn't see the clash in seasons.
As I say though, there's nothing to actually stop you doing it but ...
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On 5/4/2019 at 12:12 PM, Walpurgisnacht said:
The 'websearch' tab on the Firestorm viewer has a sub section for 'land and rentals'. You can do a search in that with a word in the main search box like 'castle' or 'Forest', and then have parcel sizes and sales or rentals selected in the sub section. That may open things up for you in your search a little.
After many years of using Firestorm I didn't know that - I always use the land sales tab, set the size parameters and the look on the map to see where the plot is. That way you get all the land marked for sale. Of course, it takes a bit longer to narrow down the land you are looking for.
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Moonglow on Skari is a winter themed area (not a whole region but it is 20,000m2) at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Skari/233/149/107
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I can remember many years ago paying over $20/m for waterfront and thinking it a bargain.
Mind you, 8+ years ago you never saw land at much less than $10 and getting abandoned land for $1/m was a real bargain -
The USD trick works well - I use it almost monthly to trickle USD into my account to pay tier.
Basically you offer to buy L$ at 999L per 1USD (no one would sell at this conversion rate) via the limit option. Then click the purchase button and let the transaction go though. Check your transaction history for the conversions and you will see that it's outstanding - cancel the offer and the USD then hits your Linden Labs account.
Of course, this doesn't actually pay the tier until LL run their monthly billing cycle so the money would be there for you to convert to L$ and spend in other ways but if you are planning on being away from SL for a while and want to keep some land that's probably the easiest way if you don't want to just have a balance in Paypal (or use your credit card/ debit card on a monthly basis).
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I am selling this unique homestead (shaped as a paw).
The tier is paid up until the 27th July and I will pay the transfer fee.
This homestead will only cost you $250 (USD).
Take a look at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Maenan/181/194/23 to see the actual land - it currently joins onto out full region and must be moved after purchase - you don't have to rename if you don't want to, that;s entirely up to you.
As always, to buy this homestead you must already own a full private island.
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Come and visit Argoed at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Argoed/223/159/40 - this beautifully landscaped sim has several areas for you to explore as well as Dragons, Dwarfins, Yumis and others both in their natural surroundings and for sale in Bargain Breedables.
Come and explore the whole sim, feed the swans, spot the fish, see the "Northern lights" and enjoy yourself in this relaxing region.
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We are renting out our homestead at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Maenan/228/191/23 for $L6895 a week.
This is a uniquely shaped set of islands ideal for a neko or furry as you will see from the world map.
We have some decoration down so there are only 3300 prims available and we ask that any ground level buildings are in keeping with our neighbouring full sim (although you are obviously welcome to build anything on a sky platform) and that you don't alter the terrain.
Please come and have a look at the land (and our full sim next to it). The rental box is next to the bridge but I'm happy to move that to somewhere else on request.
If you have any questions just give me a yell, either in world or on here.
Thanks for looking.
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Sims tracking your IP adress and with it no longer allowing alts. Is this legal?
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In my case I always have the viewer set to ask about streaming music and most of the time say “deny” - being on a work machine tends to mean that I don’t want music ( or voice) on in the office.