No more new Bellisseria themes please.
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SarahKB7 Koskinen
There are already too many uncompleted Bellisseria themes that were momentarily and temporarily popular just because they were the latest "new shiny" theme at one specific time.
But these "new shiny" themes quickly aged when an even newer "newest shiny" theme was announced and started appearing inworld. Residents then quickly abandon their "not-so newest shiny" themes just to migrate to the latest "newest shiny" theme in another round of the infamous "Game Of Homes" to achieve that temporary "newest shiny" status and feeling. Then the latest "newest shiny" theme affects the earlier "newest shiny" themes.
Work to complete coastlines, roads and infrastructure on the earlier "new shiny" themes then completely halts and these themes look disjointed, unfinished, lack contiguous coastlines and infrastructure connections with other themes and the mainland. Its deeply disappointing and frustrates those of us who like to explore and travel through interconnected regions.
I really dislike this "newest shiny" theme ideology. I wish LL wouldn't do it or continually keep doing it. It's far too short-termist, wasteful and seems like a cash cow scheme to exploit the "newest shiny" status that (some) Residents seem to find desirable and appealing.
And what if a new Resident is assigned to a home which is in an uncompleted region or which neighbours one? Or if the Resident's home has a view of the "sea" which is an empty void they may have mistaken for real water?
So, no more new Bellisseria themes please. Not until all the earlier "new shiny" themes have fully completed coastlines, don't have vast empty voids within themselves, are fully interconnected with each other and have fully functioning travel infrastructure.
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Oatmeal Linden
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Hello Sarah! Thank you for your input on the Linden Homes project. Each theme undergoes a process of development, review, and building that takes over a year to complete. New themed areas are developed to keep Second Life growing forward. :-)
SarahKB7 Koskinen
Oatmeal Linden - 'Complete' ? Go take a look at Newbrooke, Sakura, Ranch, Mediterranean, Aspen Ridge and Ridgewood Enclave themes. They are definitely not 'complete' and lack coasts and have voids around them all. And the railway network within the Log, Ranch, Mediterranean, Sakura theme continents are still incomplete - Sakura has unused railway stations that have never had a train visit them! And how does one drive a car from Mainland into Bellisseria and vice-versa? It's currently impossible!
AlettaMondragon Resident
If we look at it like this, completing some mainland continents is taking more than 20 years! Sansara, Gaeta I, Zindra all have unfinished coastlines. Not to mention so many weird dead ends on Heterocera and the problem at Tiger with no continuous waterway around.
Nascera had the same "features" as well, even at Shareta Osumai. Maybe these open-ended world edges weren't so obnoxious in 2010, but given the design of most continents and most of Bellisseria, leaving so many edges open "for possible expansion" is plain ugly. You clearly won't expand Sakura, can we get its coastline and the railroad to Shobu finally?