Land & Public Works

I think the land cutting policy should go further. Parcels under 128sqm should not be resellable at all unless they're combined with adjacent land owned by the seller. Right now micro parcels are still being used to pressure neighbors into paying ridiculous prices, because the land is basically worthless to anyone else except the surrounding owner. If someone ends up with an isolated micro parcel, the choices should be to keep it or abandon it, not use it to pressure neighboring landowners into overpaying for it. It would help reduce land extortion and discourage abusive land cutting.

I'm a Premium member since forever, and I was delighted when semi-regular gifts got offered for Premium members. They often were from a home/garden or gadget category, which was perfectly fine. Later, when the Lab sought collaborations with popular designers and released designer branded gifts, they became more fashion and accessory oriented, but as such, still catered to all genders, with the collaboration partners usually offering 1 gift for female AND male avatars. This is what I expected from the inaugural event at ACCESS, but I got dearly disappointed. The number of participating designers was impressive, the number of gifts that could be used with male avatars was not. It was not even close to the roughly 40% in previous installments, but more in the range of 1-digit percentages. As a paying Premium member for almost 2 decades, with those gifts by now included among the officially announced perks of a membership, I felt duped. Sure, I did not become Premium because of those gifts. And I would stay Premium even if those gifts would vanish. But if you say (paraphrased) 'Premium members get cool gifts every now and then', then you should make sure that ALL Premium members should get those gifts. I'm not even expecting 50% (or 100%, like when the gifts were not primarily fashion items). SL is a rather feminime world when it comes to fashion, but I would have hoped for at least 30%, better 40%, of the gifts being usable for male avatars. And yes, the irony of suddenly being the disadvantaged gender does not escape me. You're preaching to the choir here. I have my doubts though that this was an intentional message, and merely assume an oversight, or negligence. So, please, more male fashion, or more gifts - like before - from gadget, landscaping, home and garden, vehicles, etc. Thank you!

Just south of Corsica continent there was a line of private estate sims which provided passageway for marine craft, aircraft, space craft. Recently, the owner of these regions took them offline permanently, eliminating a key passage way to western Corsica and places in that environs. This request asks that only FOUR regions be created, each one south of the existing Neyaci, Optiman, Plague Port, and Feersum regions. This would provide marine, air, and space traveling residents clear passage across the stretch of Corsica south shoreline that was eliminated above.

I need to give direct feedback on the Ridgewood commercial release system because right now, it’s not working in a fair or realistic way. People are being forced to sit there for long periods, sometimes hours, just to spam refresh and try to click a parcel the second it becomes available. It’s not a proper release system anymore; it’s just luck and timing with who clicks faster or who’s got less lag. And on top of that, when land actually becomes abandoned, you still have to wait ages for the sign to even show. So by the time anything appears, people are already sitting there for hours watching and waiting for nothing. That is not a functional system for commercial land. It also creates unnecessary conflict between residents because everyone is under pressure doing the same thing at the same time, and people end up speaking to each other badly. That is a direct result of how this system is set up. The “7-day rule” enforcement also doesn’t feel consistent. We are told to send abuse reports, but parcels still stay claimed with no clear change, even after repeated checks over time. From the outside, it looks like inactive or unused spaces are just sitting locked while others can’t access them. At this point, the system feels unclear, slow to update, and not fairly managed. If the intention is first-come, first-served, then it still needs to be done in a way that is actually transparent and updated in real time, not based on waiting for signs and hoping you catch a window. This needs a proper review because right now it’s frustrating, inconsistent, and does not reflect a fair commercial allocation process.

I've not seen it in SL, but it could possibly be fun idea for the LL Moles to build. A British style canal network. Sure, on some suitable continent where there is some space available, or maybe Bellerissia. I as a boat builder would be happy to build a selection of canal boats, and I know a couple of other builders who have already built canal boats. Narrowboats as they are known, 6 foot 10 inches wide and 57 feet long (that could be scaled up by say 15% for SL avis), travel around a network of canals that are often only as wide as two or 3 boat widths. Allowing boats to be moored on the side, and others to pass. Locks that are often only one boat width take the narrow boats up and down gradients. Locks make the whole journey interesting, and could be fun in SL if done well. I'd be happy to get involved with designing and building some locks too. This could be a fun activity.

A couple of folks I spoke with that are a part of the First Person Shooter Community find that having the mini map on does ruin the immersion of combat in the region and would like to know if it would be possible to turn off the mini map and tags for those that enter the region/parcel. It would be preferred to disable the option as well so users cannot just use the developer tool so they would not bypass it. The current workaround is using RLV to disable the mini map and tags and it would have to be called on command and it can be a waste of script time

This is only cosmetic. Almost all mainland regions have a 20m water height. Some inland regions have other water heights. which is fine. That's how mountain lakes and rivers work. There are four exceptions, regions at the edge of the world with non-standard water heights. This produces a discontinuity in SL's infinite ocean. These edge regions all have a 7m water height, instead of the usual 20m. Sandbox Wanderton Sandbox Cordova Sandbox Newcomb Sandbox Goguen They don't have deep lakes or anything. They're mostly flat land. This is probably some artifact from the early days of SL. It may not be worth fixing but is worth logging. Attached is a screenshot of what that does, from Firestorm. I happened to encounter this in Sharpview experimental viewer testing. It raised an internal warning and so I had to chase it down.

Second Life needs a built-in original soundtrack. You could have cool ambient vibes when logging in, exciting beats when teleporting. It would greatly add to the immersion and atmosphere when doing anything in SL. Imagine zoning out to cool tunes when teleporting or the excitement of zooming through Blake Sea with cool electronic tempo. I urge you to upvote this important proposal.

Currently the entirety of the interior linkset is set as a "Clickable" object. This is because the touch handling script is in the root prim of the object, and checks when the configuration buttons are clicked. Ideally, the interior meshes would be set to have the "None" click action, while the buttons remain the same. This would improve visual feedback to Residents on what is and is not clickable, especially in a place where buttons are likely to be used (EG: Vendor navigation buttons). See the attached image where the cursor shows the floor as clickable, even though no action takes place upon clicking.

Proposal: Modernizing Mainland Infrastructure with Mesh Roads & Cloud Optimization Our current Mainland road system relies heavily on ancient, prim-based geometry. A typical legacy prim road segment eats up anywhere from 15 to 24 Land Impact (LI) (averaging about 19.5 LI). If Linden Lab replaces these obsolete prim roads with highly optimized, modular 1-prim mesh roads, the grid-wide resource reclamation is staggering. The Infrastructure Math There are over 9,300 Linden-owned regions on the grid, with thousands dedicated to Mainland infrastructure and roadways. If we conservatively estimate an average of 15 road segments per roadside region: Current Prim Road Total: ~2,340,000 LI Optimized Mesh Road Total: ~120,000 LI Total Grid Capacity Saved: 2,220,000 Land Impact points. Why Doing Nothing Costs More Than Fixing It The Silent AWS Cloud Leak (The Physics Overhead) In an AWS cloud hosting environment, Linden Lab pays directly for compute cycles, memory tracking, and physical server overhead. Legacy prim roads use complex, outdated bounding physics boxes that the simulation physics engine must calculate constantly. Multiplying this unoptimized physics lag across the entire Mainland translates into a silent, ongoing premium on the Lab's monthly AWS hosting bill. The Cost of Fixing It (Hiring One Mole/Contractor) Updating this does not require a massive team. Linden Lab can hire a single contract developer or assign one LDPW (Linden Department of Public Works) mole for a short-term, 3-month project. The Task: Create a modern, low-impact 1-prim mesh road system, write a background deployment script to pull coordinates, and swap out the old geometry grid-wide. The Investment: A minor, one-time project expense. The Direct Financial Payoff Immediate Server Cost Reductions: Slashing the grid infrastructure load by 94.9% slashes simulator memory bloat and lowers AWS compute costs instantly. The project pays for itself in infrastructure savings. Unlocking New Revenue: By freeing up over 2.2 million prims previously wasted on legacy asphalt, the Lab can redistribute that capacity. Adding a minor "Infrastructure Prim Bonus" to paying Premium or Premium Plus tiers would give basic accounts a massive, tangible reason to upgrade—driving new Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). Leaving the old prim infrastructure in place is a permanent drain on server resources and cloud budgets. Spending a small amount upfront to deploy highly optimized mesh roads fixes physics lag, lowers hosting costs, and cleans up the grid for everyone.