Holocluck Henly

Bay City and Bay City West - the original minicontinent will always be just Bay City. The two are separated by non-Bay City Linden channel regions. Confused about San Francisco. This includes regions like Welsh, Clementina & Hawthorne Grasmere, Campus and other regions are part of Linden Village but you've categorized them as Hidden Lakes. We sometimes call them Shermerville for convenience but the community refers to itself as The Suburbs. Only two of their regions and the strait to the south include Shermerville in their names. And yeah we call it the Shermerville Bridge, but that's not an official name.

Velly nize place, Ever! I've got an event coming up the night of the mixer which ties in. Look for my notice tonight with a graphic

Well Qie, Abbotts Aerodrome is private property. He has every right to run his planes there. Beyond that, as mentioned, any plane over mainland is occupied by an avatar. The planes are temp and disappear. If you caught one flying over Rizal then it's 100% guaranteed there was a passenger. Another big difference is while in flight, Cubey's planes are out of everybody's way and not dominating a protected route. As for Oona Opinion's free cars, someone riding a car on an SL street is what the streets are for. A genuine avatar riding on protected land or sea or airspace is what it's for. Not for some unoccupied monstrosity to push people aside for the enjoyment of nobody.

Understood Qie. No group has taken a position on this topic and no one should assume any has. That's another distinction - these problem vehicles are not running on any specific path. They feel their way around. I took a test ride once to get a first hand of the experience before taking assorted action - which I'm sure was tallied for some illusory "satisfied avatar" list - and found the ride a bit nauseating with its lumbering here and there. As for LDPW's designs on the SLRR, I thought they had originally planned to offer sporadic rail service on molemade trains, with enough leeway for rail fans to ride their own trains between scheduled runs. Somewhere along the line it became all-residents and no SL presence. It disappointed me. Kinda glad I let go of the land by the tracks (although I miss being close to the TMA community)

Ditto my pic from the Bay City thread:

In Bay City, an artist has a corner where you can rez a free convertible and ride down the street. I like this. First, the vehicles don't ride off by themselves like THOSE OTHER ones. Also, it derezzes when you get out. Truly an altruistic gesture with the intent to let people have fun. They aren't even automated. Cubey Terra's AI planes are phantom / temp. Every few minutes a plane on HIS runway announces its destination and you have an option to jump aboard. If no one does, they take off on HIS runway and fly as far as his neighbors' village in Cowell (which they condone), then derez. If you jump out of them (I've been known to parachute down into Nova Albion from a plane I took from Abbotts), Cubey's planes derez. His planes are for enjoyment and do not solicit his products. They are high up and out of the way of builds. These are the offerings of a responsible, considerate individual who provides a service and shares our love for Mainland. Cubey Terra is a class act. There we have examples of GOOD use of vehicles for the public. Their examples should be followed by those others. A garbage truck pushing a biker into banlines is NOT the product of a class act.

Hello Baloo - when you refer to the rails, do you mean these same random type vehicles that push us around, shoot at us, and solicit product, or the Trolleys? I have to say though that the automated trolleys someone output on the SLRR tracks were a problem at first, but have dropped off to a more reasonable frequency AND are phantom. They're now a mild, tolerable annoyance IMHO.

Whomever is running the vehicles is very selfish. Their vehicles bully people off protected land intended for everybody. Clearly they want to keep the routes to themselves as if they owned them. Most people despise the things. I sure don't want them passing MY property. Being that their creator is not a parcel neighbor, this isn't a property squabble but disturbing the peace; I should not have to be subjected to them and neither should my friends.

Yeh Ann: you're missing an essential piece of name to be the culprit Can that thing of yours eat and spit out the ones we're discussing? Preferably spit far from mainland. Qie: If anyone should be making scheduled vehicles on Mainland, it's the moles or a special project in close cooperation with LDPW. What we have is a problem and the cons way outnumber the pro's. Anything pushing or shooting weapons is a violation of terms right off. Soliciting to purchase while on the road instead of from a vendor on their own parcel is also a blatant TOS violation. Pity I didn't take down all the names of people I met along the way during my travels. I could have contacted them... btw off topic: what is "robot happy?

Don't forget the Retro Metro Fishing Marina for 7Seas fishing & custom catches by a certain Mark I EMH in Sistiana.

Marianne McCann wrote: You said it! Proud of our community! That's right an ever expanding family, and recently most literally now that Bay City Junior was attached. Now I am calling the PG regions Bay City West. We should have a special party day when the new Mole Midway is ready. Any talk about that yet?

I want to clear up some myths: Bay City is alive and well. Bay City has an active community. Bay City is exceptionally productive for a Mainland community. And last but not least: If someone who claims they have 30,000 friends alleges I'm one of them, it isn't true. Not here OR on Facebook*. *I bear the distinction of playing Café World with friends and not padding the game with strangers Pic: Me love the Bay City Trolley.

Want to belatedly say Happy 7th Birthday to Nova Albion! We celebrated last Saturday with a parade around the city and ended with a live concert by Christov Kohnke. The actual birthday was yesterday on March 23rd.

Well I've blogged and tweeted about them. you know where I stand on something that lags regions in multiples with a dozen scripts per object while pushing people into banlines and ditches, shooting missiles, soliciting (network advertising), encroachment, datamining, and more. Sorry but we're not the ones who should leave mainland. The instigator and the subject of countless ARs from dozens of angry residents should either comply with TOS and output phantom/temporary sans weapons or solicits -- or set up their own sim. And I agree - moderation is key. Either allow the vehicles to output on click and meet a genuine demand by residents or output one per hour PER continent. The roads are empty because a LOT of people gave up after being bullied off routes from these things.

It's nothing like it was when I first came here years ago, with adfarms and spinning junk and one 512 crowded by superglow hot pink and particles. While this no doubt goes on still, it's a minority and not the norm. In many areas, it's not such a mess. I've found in my extensive route travels that people tend to take queues from the moles and build up the land from the road outward. An interesting thing I discovered was that I've encountered less lag on the Mainland as a whole versis private estates. there's the issue with region crossings, but considering the number of regions and the different sim server versions interconnected, it's pretty amazing.

Very elegant Jessica! Which goes to show how nice it can be on Mainland. I have several favorite spots - 1. Abbotts Aerodrome 2. Bay City - various spots esp my friends' places 3. Nova Albion - various spots again 4. My Diner in Hydrangea. I made it to hang out in. I got two chickens inside as pets. They're fun to click. Food replicator. I throw parties there: innocent dance parties for all ages allowed to step on mature land. Beside the diner is my personal sandbox for now. 5. TMA aka Nessus region. Tragically Misunderstood Artists is an art colony / Jewish neighborhood owned by Bluegrass Fiddler extraordinaire Beth Odets. The members of the group are a true community, hanging out, supporting eachother, making art. 6. I love long distant hoverboarding (that freebie mole one). It's not unusual for me to travel from my place in northern Heterocera to TMA to Sansara. I've gone from Hydrangea to Abbotts or Bay City often. 7. Last but never least is Hawthorne where the Giant Snail Races are held most Sundays. Yes, right on Mainiland! Lots of fun if you're racing or sitting in the stands watching (default view from the stands are the show's camera shots. It's like sitting back and watching TV)

Kudos to Second Life community folks who listened to our request and recognized a need to add this board. You have our gratitude!

I've never relied on these forums. SL is so big that most of the inworld yammerings and biases discussed reflect activity which never crosses my path. That's the beauty of Second Life. I'm here and the drama is happening with those little dots on the map wayyyyy over there.

I'll be honest with you. In some of the sims I frequent, they've had kids faking their ages to get in for some time. The fakers are very conspicuous and immature. I think the few times I've conversed with a "legit" teen resident, they've been far more mature and articulate. When Teen Bay City merged with ours, most of the teens promptly sold, so they don't seem to be evident there

I was participating in Blaxxun VRML based communities (virtual 3D cyberculture's been around since Win95 and 32 bit in the mid-1990's; I was a late bloomer in 2002). These followed a template of experience and jobs and a management hierarchy to maintain blocks neighborhoods and colonies. In 2004-2005 many participants began a dual life there and here in SL, but only those with NT-based systems like Win2000 or XP could register. Many friends who came in at this time now own islands or mini-continents. Suffice it to say it's been easy for them to never look back on the game/rp based social structure of those old communities. Phillip was wise to avoid that road... In 2006 my friends and I escaped to Toontown Online (an MMORPG game), which a couple of us still enjoy from time to time. When I upgraded from Win98SE to VISTA in 2008, here we came! It was nice getting back to building again. And exploration was on such a grander scale. This place still boggles my mind. It truly is the most successful of its kind, and there have been so very many of its kind since the mid-90s.

Presentation is everything.

I agree. The means to get them are bogus anyway. It's like the popularity rank in vB forums. I disable mine there - you can do that at least with those boards.

Carnival. It translates into Fat Tuesday which I guess pertains to the excesses people indulge in before they repent on Ash Wednesday and deprive themselves of something they like until Easter. Or so I understand it. In many places like Rio and New Orleans it's a party the entire city gets into. *** UPDATE*** Studied one I had and made my own from scratch. Wasn't too hard and everybody enjoyed themselves.

I'm throwing a Mardi Gras party tomorrow night and want to get Second Line umbrellas that: 1. are either transferable or come from a dispenser so guests can take one, and 2. animate with one or a choice of dances. The latter is optional. If they can hold their umbrella up and use their own dances it's okay too. 3. I'd like it to be cheap. I'm rilly rilly broke right now. LOL So I guess the umbrella I get is not copiable but transferable. Dont know think there's any real need for modifiable. From the dispenser it doesn't really need to be transferable either, does it? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

The new boards are sorely missing landish forums. And by "landish" I mean not for selling (seems SL only acknowledges the movement of money and not Customer Satisfaction based on board choices) Mainland, routes and rails, estates, themed minicontinents, whatever. As it is, Nova Albion might lose its 7th anniversary parade next week because there is for the first time no cohesive center of communications for its residents and supporters to converge on for discussion. And that's a shame.