Land & Public Works

This proposal is to construct a new road to connect the Linden Protected Land in the SW corner of Seaweed Hair region with the Northern Spur Road in Dotoorak region (236, 35,25). The benefits to such a road are to give the many residents of the nearby Linden Home regions a convenient way to access mainland roads of the Jeogeot continent and to improve the sales attractiveness of a large area of abandoned land alongside the proposed route. This would be a particularly attractive road if a small pier and rez zone were also to be constructed on the Linden parcel in SW corner of Seaweed Hair. A proposed route for this new road is shown on the attached map “NJeogeot(crop).” There is currently a string of interconnected parcels of abandoned land on regions Mooloruem, Yeolmae, Saeneul, and Dotoorak, allowing the creation of this new road that would connect the protected sea region Seaweed Hair with a t-junction on Northern Spur Road at Dotoorak (236,35, 25). The proposed right-of-way is shown in white on the map with abandoned land tinted cyan and Linden protected land in green. There is a gentle upward slope to the land between the proposed junction on Dotoorak and the summit on Saeneul. The coastal approach to Mooloruem is steeper, but still easily drivable/rideable given the inclination of the terrain. The road would would be scenic and also improve the sales attractiveness of large areas of abandoned land along the the roadside. The owners of the parcels at each end of this proposed road have both agreed to abandon their parcels to LL if this road is to be built.

Having seen the exhibit at the SL Birthday this year, it is clear the moles are capable of some wonderful art. I think it would be great if a new building set of road pieces and assorted decorations could be produced, using mesh and PBR with the aim of upgrading the appearance of Mainland roads. I think this combined with the eventual PBR Terrain rollout will send the Mainland well on it's way to a refreshed new look that everyone will be able to enjoy, and help the Mainland to exist in the present, rather than just the past.

Water areas with both script and build enabled, with a decent autoreturn for building, seem few and far between. While the regions in the Blake Sea have many smaller zones that allow rezzing, these small spaces are only for extremely short term rezzing of vehicles, with autoreturn often set to 1-5 minutes. In fact, the longest autoreturn setting I have yet found on an aquatic region was 30 minutes, in Kenosaki. When asked about the issue, many will suggest the lake located in Balance/Fame, as part of the Vehicle Testing Regions (Balance, Bethel, Brilliant, Fame, Fortuna, Georgian). But when investigating the so-called “Vehicle Sandbox”, it quickly becomes apparent that very little of the 6 regions can actually be used as a sandbox, beyond short term active vehicle testing There are two small parcels that are adjacent to water within this area, an awkwardly shaped parcel in Bethel with 10 minute autoreturn, and a moderately sized (20x64) parcel in Fame with 60 minute autoreturn. However, both of these parcels are mostly land, with water only ‘accessible’ from the parcel. Meanwhile, the surrounding areas of the regions offer extremely short autoreturns of 2-10 minutes (with Balance being a strange exception, with 70 minute autoreturn (see attached map) None of these regions allow for the ability to build something ‘in the water’, and no proper sandbox that I’ve been able to find, offers that ability. And none of them offer the ability to take an experimental vehicle out to test in open waters. To that end, I’d like to suggest the creation of one or more “Nautical Sandbox Regions”, either through the deployment of new, purpose built regions, or through the conversion of existing water-adjacent regions. Attached, I’ve included just a rough concept of what such a region might look like, either slotting in to fill gaps on the map, or expanding existing, water-side sandbox areas. In my attached sketches, I’ve suggested creation of a general access G/M rated nautical sandbox west of Wanderton, south of Luna Point, and a near twin premium-only A rated nautical sandbox east of Sandbox Colborne, and north of Qrassuca. Island based sandbox regions could be an interesting idea as well, with the space between Nautilus and Corsica being an interesting location to consider (that whole area needs water regions!) Similarly, one or more Nautical Sandboxes could be used to fill out the ANWR channel, or be located north of Bay City, south of Portage Bay, or dozens of other locations.

Please consider adding golf courses to Bellisseria.

For this idea, I'm suggesting that 3-4 regions of abandoned mainland are built out as forest on each mainland continent. A 'real life' example might be something like a national forest found in the US. Each continent could have it's own theme for the forest (jungle, swamp, redwood, beachy?, etc.), and have trails/plants/flora/fauna. Each forest would have a small rez zone (so you can rez a bike or a horse or something). PROS You don't need to make any new regions. Claim 3 to 4 regions in areas that are mostly abandoned. Every mainland continent has spots like this. You add instant real estate value to all of those parcels near the new forest that didn't have any value before - a 'protected Linden Forest view' on the mainland would be awesome. Volunteers could build it. The precedent has already been laid for volunteers to build large scale events/projects in association with the Mole and Linden teams. I am confident that a call for volunteers would yield an amazing a list of mainland loving builders. Cost to build it would just be whatever time is needed for the Linden / Mole to keep an eye on how the builder team is doing. CONS I have no idea how you'd 'sell those parcels' near the forest in a fair way, but I'm sure there are lessons learned from 'the old days' about how to release new land for people to purchase etc.

An option to upgrade the prim allowance on a Homestead region, from say 5000 prims to 7500 prims or 10,000 prims. We have options on with upgrade option for a full region from 20,000 prims to 30,000 prims and paying extra for this and think Homesteads could do with an upgrade option also, I think this would help to get Homestead regions more popular and more online and gives people more usability for the space of the region.

it would be nice if Zindra (the continent hastily built to host the Adult refugees after the demoting of all the ”Mature” main land sims to ”Moderate” status), could get some love from Lindens and Moles... I mean, we really need it to be brought on par with older main land continents (with public rez zones on roads at each sim border, better public buildings, the addition of water sims and protected water channels to allow sailing all around the continent, the addition of land sims with some hills and mountains, etc). Also, why not moving it closer to the other continents on the grid (it's just an offset to change in sims coordinates), and link it via an ”Adult channel” to the rest of the SL seas ?... EDIT: oh, and I almost forgot... Please, fix public parcels (especially roads) permission flags, so to allow scripted vehicle entry and let people providing public transportation have their scripted automated vehicles roam freely the roads of Zindra. E.g. YavaScript PODs, SLGI Transportation System, etc...

Route 8 in Satori actually ends, at North, in Soulgiver sim. Close to that, there are several abandoned lands, so the road could be extended to South West, crossing Gnoll, Dakhanavar and Vampyre. Also, some bit might be added to Ever After and Succubus sims. The new extensions would develop the whole gorgeous Inner Lakes area. The idea comes from 4lice.Cerise, who drawn the map attached.

Please connect Route 3A to Route 2 at the end where it meets up with the Box Office for the Pyri Funfair. There's currently protected land that goes most of the way and then there's abandoned land that would allow it to connect the rest of the way. At the very least, please reserve the abandoned land so the project CAN be done sometime in the future! Adding this route connecting Route 3A to Route 2 will allow people to go from the inside of the continent to the outside. Currently there's no way to do this unless you go significantly out of your way either north or south. 3A itself is just a dead end. I've attached an image with the proposed routing. I'm already personally building a route connecting Route 1, Route 6, and Route 3A together via Parva and Deltote. Although it won't be fit for heavy vehicles like semi-trucks, it will allow for smaller vehicles to connect to all three. I'd love to work directly with the lab to make this route more realistically viable, but have been informed LL does not work directly with individuals on builds even when meant for the community at large.

The LL made bridge on Corsica, located at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fishers%20Rest/51/236/32 is too narrow for a lot of larger land vehicles to pass through easily. With the increasing popularity of GTFO and Drivers of SL, more residents are using the roads than ever before, and this bridge is often singled out as being an issue. The protected LL parcel on which the bridge sits has at least 2 metres of additional space to the side, which is enough space to allow the bridge to be widened. As the bridge is mainly built with prims, it would be a simple matter of moving one side of the railings across to the east by 2m, then stretching the underlying base sections by 2m and re-scaling the textures. This would make it much easier for driving residents to use this bridge, whilst still retaining its original design and aesthetics.