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Bay City Linden Homes
Bay City was great but it was tiny and it is hard to acquire plots. Linden Homes are great and it is easy to acquire a plot but they lack a community around them. Why not combine these two to create a community focused Linden Home in the style of Bay City? A new Linden Home that focuses on infrastructure, local communities and new mixed and commercial zoning. I want to be able to locate my plot near friends or be able to drive or boat down to their home. These new homes should also offer the option for full creative freedom and optionally having space for a basement area and should have access to the same high quality content that Moles create to make their home fit into the neighbourhood. There should be a little friction to go full creative, it's a last resort thing, but it must be possible, in the same way owning a bay city plot is. The friction should be in order of priority: Linden/Mole Buildings prebuilts Content Creator Buildings Limited Creativity - Grass/Concrete platform / basic infrastructure Full Creative - Rip out the concrete ground, let them build a basement, let them build stairs/ramps down to the waterways, they have to take responsibility for being in-theme / obeying the covenant. New secondary markets should be opened for custom city buildings, with good Level of Detail , for people to sell to the premium users. * This would create an incentive for premium / premium plus * Unlike other Linden Homes, they are as compact as Bay City * New communities * Urban Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Mixed Zoning as available preferences * Look at how modern cities design retail streets and combine it with how shopping region events work in SL like fantasy faire etc. * A revamped Bay City-like project and renewed excitement for Second Life again * Commercial opportunities for stores * Strong Infrastructure - roads, trains, subways, waterways/channels/rivers, public airports, public sailing docks, user-owned airports (yes, invite the airport community over, existing airports should be vetted and approved to build and manage an aiport within this continent), user-owned sailing docks (yes, invite the sailing community in by vetting and approving existing dock owner), public GTFO hubs, user-owned GTFO hubs (could be self-managed due to the commercial zoning?) * Ability to customise and integrate into the strong infrastructure - options to have a dock in the waterway (part of the infrastructure would have an indentation so it goes into the plot), options to have a road intersection branch into the plot + access to the Mole road/dock assets. Ability to have freedom to design own dock instead of prebuilt or marketplace. * Economic activity should be supported and encouraged, maybe even marketplace category/listings, with content creator guidelines. (This should also go hand in hand with new LI algorithm to encourage good level of detail usage so content creators but don't over think it with auto-LOD algorithms, thats complex work, let the market work for you) * Linden Home Covenant with regulation for airspace and building height (the large premium plus parcels could allow larger building heights / less restrictions) and obeying the parcel zoning for the city block * Potential to easily create an interactive web app map that allows for discovery and exploration because all the infrastructure and zoning is known
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Bring Back LindenWorld!
From 55:00 - https://youtu.be/VjLtFOW12Fs?t=3295 Please bring back LindenWorld into the SL grid, or build an exact replica of it! It would be a great educational and historic place for all Residents to learn about Linden Lab and Second Life's prototype virtual world. It could also act as a nostalgic place for the earliest Residents and Lindens to have reunions and meetings together. LindenWorld could be placed in the Beta "Aditi" grid at the 1000,1000 grid coordinates where Da Boom should be, but isn't because there are no duplicate "San Francisco" regions in the Beta grid! I would prefer this Beta grid option as I love the idea of the two virtual worlds running at the same time in the same space, but in two parallel grids in alternative universes. I will presume that LindenWorld's "nine regions" were arranged as a 3x3 grid, as I've never seen or found an actual map of LindenWorld. This 3x3 arrangement nicely coincides with the arrangement of nine of the sixteen "San Francisco" regions of the Main grid. On the attached map (below), I've pasted these "nine regions" of LindenWorld into the Beta Grid map where the missing and corresponding "San Francisco" regions of the main grid ought to be. As you will notice, their positions are close to the corresponding Dore, Ahern, Morris and Bonafacio cluster of the Beta grid too. Another alternative location idea suggestion would be to place the "nine regions" of LindenWorld into the Main grid at it's Teen SL continent (aka "Sharp"), filling in some of the vacant spaces where the "missing" regions of the 16 original "San Francisco" regions should be, but aren't.
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enhanced Time for the SLB event
More time for the exhibitions and "use" of it to keep the residents along the summer busy and take it for Marketing. The SLB-event is one/the central yearly event in SLB. There are a lot other awesome events ones, too - I don't wanna "declassify" any of them, but the SLB is kinda central, include a lot work from many residents, too ... and is controlled and sponsored (eg. the costs for the Sims) by LL. I, as resident, try to participate in all offered activities: * Events with Lindens/Moles * Music Fest * various Hunts * exhibitions * Shop&Hop But doing it in the 4 or 5 weeks, beside RL, beside regular SL-activities ... while maybe having just 1-2 hours the day for SL ... is stressful. Beside of the other activities, I barely made it to just take pictures the exhibitions ... but not find time to get in touch with them. Actually the Event have 2 timed states: * 1 or 2 weeks "active": Festival with Music and LL-staff * 2 or 3 weeks "chilling": No special events, but still running. Then it is been taken down. After that, the awesome work of residents at the exhibitions is gone - same as them of the Moles ... and as them are contract workers and be paid for work (you could use at other public works), you can say "Time is cash, Time is Money". So it would be nothing wrong with to use that invested money a bit more. The idea would be adding a 3rd "state", for example "conserved": * After the regular 4-5 weeks, the "Shop&Hop" becomes switched off. * The event Sims (in 2024 them was appear to be all "Event Sim"-class, so 170 people and more script-power) ... become switched to "normal" Sims (mainland class, 40 people ... so far I see, the number of prims/LI is same at event and normal). The Sims can stay up until the next "big thing" (Halloween). While this time, additional and new (?) activities can take advance of the area.
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Recycle old Linden Homes continent regions for reuse elsewhere.
The original Linden Homes continents (aka Nascera continents) are planned to be removed from the Second Life grid. Their Residents have been urged by LL to relocate to newer Bellisseria Linden Homes regions. If the Residents can be relocated, why not recycle and relocate the old Nascera regions as well? There are plenty of areas in both Mainland and Bellisseria that could benefit enormously from having additional "new" recycled regions added to them to improve or complete them. For example, 13 of Nascera's regions could be used to create a water and air transport corridor between Gaeta I and Corsica continents. Sansara could have it's roads extended into Bay City. Newbrooke theme in Bellisseria has a massive "hole" void inside it, as well as a missing northwest coastline. Bellisseria themes Ranch, Mediterranean and Sakura all lack completed land and coastline areas. Jeogeot continent could have a full perimeter of protected inshore coastline regions added to it, as could Sansara, Heterocera and Satori too. Unfinished continents such as Gaeta I and Zindra could both be finally completed to their original intended plan by reusing Nascera's regions. I propose that Nascera continent regions should not simply be deleted. Some regions should obviously be saved for history and sentimental reasons. But what of the other masses of soon to be vacated Nascera regions? Reuse them to improve the rest of Second Life. Waste not, want not!
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