How do I add a second group to have build rights on my private estate?

[JosephTucker]

Exactly as the topic states: How do I add a second group to have build rights on my private estate? I've seen it done and need to get it set up so my other city groups can interact and use the city equipment.

[Rolig Loon]

In order to allow group members to build on your land, the land needs to be set to the group and members have to be wearing their group tags.  Land cannot be set to two groups at the same time, so you have only two choices:

1.  Divide your estate into parcels that are set to different groups, so that each group has building rights on their own land.

2. Allow everyone to build on your estate by checking the appropriate box in About Land >>> Options.  That can be risky, but you can limit the risk by not allowing anyone but members of your two groups to have access to the estate.  You can get a good security system that will do that in Marketplace.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

Another way to handle this is create a new group for members of all your groups.  Call it something Like "Estate Name" General Group.  And set the land to this group or deed it.  It might be handy to send out general announcements to all groups too.  Unless you actually want to let people build don't give them building rights or give them only to people who need them.  Also don't give owner or management rights to anyone other than owner's and managers.  So you probably will need to set up roles.

Build rights are not needed to just use existing equipment.  You can just set it to the group for all your group members and then click 'share with group' in the edit box.  Note this will not necessarily allow them access to most scripted features unless the script allows you to set it for group access, and it will not allow them to attach anything to their avatars unless the items are transferable (then they will own it too) OR are copy/transfer and scripted to allow temporary attachment. See the instructions that came with your items to see if it's a feature and how to set it up, if needed.

If you created these things (or whoever did in your groups allows it) and you or they are willing to have it scripted accordingly to allow group members to use all features, that's doable.  It sometimes can be done with full perm objects (that also have full perm scripts in them so, they can be modified for group access or temporary attachment, but check the license carefully to see if the latter is allowed.