Land & Public Works

Since LHs are residential and commercial activity is already disallowed, one could deduce that that ban includes Skill Gaming. BUT the recent blog entitled: "Skill Gaming is Breaking Out Grid-Wide!", containing the sentence " Approved Second Life Skill Gaming Operators (SLSGOs) can now set up and run their games outside of dedicated Skill Gaming regions on any Moderate or Adult land where land policies allow." may be construed by SLSGOs to permit Skill Gaming on LH regions, creating a support burden for LL (which presumably would deny any support ticket naming a LH region as a site for Skill Gaming deployment). E.g. I suggest the residential LH covenant clause banning commercial activity be updated with 3 words, capitalized below: "*Activities and items that could be construed by Linden Lab as commercial and for profit are not permitted in the residential homes and houseboats in Bellisseria. This includes using parcels for storing delivery servers, dropboxes or working vendors, OR SKILL GAMING. Tipping/Donations are allowed at functions held in Community Regions only." Btw, the residential covenant 1st paragraph seems to have a redundancy caused by an incomplete edit: "Welcome to Linden Homes for Premium account holders. Linden Homes is a residential community, Welcome to Linden Homes for Premium and Premium Plus account holders. Linden Homes is a residential community, located on the Bellisseria continent, owned and managed by Linden Lab. " I suggest this be shortened to read: "Welcome to Linden Homes for Premium and Premium Plus account holders. Linden Homes is a residential community, located on the Bellisseria continent, owned and managed by Linden Lab."

I’d love to see the available last-name pool expanded, with more names that feel like realistic surnames. My own experience is that I’ve wanted to change my Second Life surname for some time now, but I’ve struggled to find anything that feels suitable because the current choice is so limited. Many of the available names seem more like adjectives, nouns, or novelty words than surnames I would realistically want to use as part of my avatar’s identity. I understand that quirky and unusual names can be fun and should absolutely remain an option, but it would be great to have a much wider selection of realistic surnames as well. Could future name releases include more traditional and contemporary surnames from a range of cultures and languages, and perhaps a larger pool overall? At the moment, it can feel difficult to find a name that sounds natural, suits a character or business identity, and feels like something you would want to keep long term. A broader mix of realistic and creative names would give residents much more freedom to choose something that genuinely fits them.

Abandoned Land is a blight, in-and-of itself.. an unnaturally blank patch of land looks off, out of place. In real life, when land is abandoned and not cared for, grass with grow, weeds will take root, forgotten yard-sale and campaign signs, bits of cardboard, old tires and other litter finds it's way to the parcel and lingers. Folks without homes will build little camps, neighborhood ruffians build forts. Let's liven up these 'dead' spaces, with a little tongue-in-cheek way to say "this land is abandoned".

Now that Waterhead is indicated as the major last destination on the TSC from Luna (14 km from the Luna tunnel), would it be possible to place at least one rez zone where we can park our vehicles and/or rez them? It would not hurt to add a small road leading to the Linden Labs headquarters from the Waterhead info hub either. For now one has to drive through some phantom forest trees. Thanks.

After using/owning the various levels of LL homes that come with the various Membership levels, I end up being bored with them. Recently, I've been thinking about why this is and how they could be made more enjoyable. My suggestion is to make the layout of the LL homes more like what you would find in RL, in and around towns and villages. In real life, when you look at how a town or village has grown, it generally starts around a central feature like a river conflux, or perhaps beside a special feature on a road. Older houses and businesses are usually located in the central areas, with mostly smaller landholdings. As you move out, there are neighbourhoods of various ages and styles, and the parcels are generally bigger. What you don't see is what LL has done by creating minimal variations in housing, all in the same style for as far as you can see, all with the same size parcel and the same landscaping. When I had a Premium Plus home, the house itself was quite nice, but when I looked around, all the other houses were variations of mine. The same can be said for the other levels of membership. It wouldn't make sense to have tropical homes beside Nordic-style homes, of course, but otherwise, wisely mixing up the neighbourhoods would make things much less bland and more realistic. You could segue between seasonal homes and non-seasonal homes by buffering them with gradually changing foliage. Why not mix a 'little Italy' into the North American-style homes? Or mix a 'little Japan' beside the houses on stilts? There are many possibilities. Otherwise, we are stuck living in tract housing, and that is really unimaginative.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Modest/4/142/35 I was in the neighboring region of Obscure when I got a notice that the region was restarting. I jumped over to Modest on the road, and sank into the floor once I changed regions. It seems that the road tile has a prim on Obscure, but the space is blank when Obscure is offline. I think a prim needs to be added here, to support pedestrians and vehicles before/after a crossing.

Look at that tide mark ! Update old zinda to use the new zindra land textures. Put all land textures in the library. Make Second Life less ugly! Ignore the #nochanges haters!

We have an extremely large number of empty houseboats in Bellisseria. I was thinking how nice it would be to have a bunch of those converted into yacht moors for premium and premium plus members. The houseboats could be easily removed, leaving only the docks in place. And resident could moor their own yachts in the spaces, yacht club style. The parcel ToS can be updated to ensure people don't put houses out. And truthfully, the prim count for those spots could be increased by whatever the land impact of the removed houseboats was. There are a LOT of yacht owners in SL with no place to park their yachts. This would give new life to those regions as an entirely different type of 'home' with minimal change and effort. Please consider this.

It looks like object entry was turned off during the tunnel construction on the Coastal Waterway parcels in these 4 regions and it wasn't restored ever since. This is not great for vehicles since on a failed region crossing or if you have to stand up and sit again, the vehicle gets returned and this is completely disruptive for automated vehicles. All other Coastal Waterway parcels in the other regions in the area have object entry enabled as these used to as well.

Currently, there is enormous dissatisfaction among the merchant population with the inability to find readily available commercial stores in Ridgewood Enclave, where large tracts of them were dropped in the last year. When the Moles release entire sims' worth of the stores, inevitably at an inconvenient time zone for significant portions of the population, there is a mad scramble for them. Thus, few can obtain them in a fair and orderly manner, sometimes camping the store spawn for hours or even all day in the fever to get a scarce store. Numerous examples abound where a single person has grabbed more than one or two stores and uses alts and enlisted friends to sequester multiple stores under one brand without even an effort to make them different. Worse, when a store is abandoned, a throng of people can develop waiting in anguish for the 1.5 hours or more to elapse before the AVAILABLE sign appears. While the kiosks that now give lists of available stores are an improvement on the original insane scrum, in fact the available stores do NOT appear on kiosk lists WHEN abandoned but are only listed AFTER the AVAILABLE sign appears. Only by constantly paying attention to Bellisseria Merchants, a resident-run group which has taken over store registration, as well as other Bellisseria groups, can prospective store owners hear of an abandonment coming. The Premium Plus account of $15.99 a month, a substantial expenditure for many, has the feature of requesting certain exact Bellisseria homes by location, instead of accepting a random option from the web site. So there is no reason not to add requests of stores for Premium Plus. This could be done in addition to the "kiosk" available list and the "sudden large drops" by Moles. But ideally, ALL STORES SHOULD BE REQUESTED BY TICKET to reduce the amount of hoarding and sequestering of multiple stores under the same brand/group and more importantly, the stress of the survival of the fittest in the mob rush to get a store. The Lindens can either automate this random fulfillment of ticket requests if it seems like a burdensome chore, or advisedly, eyeball them to see if multiple requests by one person are occuring. A "first come, first serve" solution that would randomly deliver an available store to each person who filed a ticket would be more fair and more predictable for both residents and Lindens/Moles.