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.

Maybe "urgent" about the parcel availability at the moment. The Zindra-road-network have only 1 connection from North to South. This wont change with the new lands at the South-East and wasn't with the fresh rolled out at South-West. (see "Roads NorthSouth"). I suggest a "Underwater-Tunnel" connection between Chinstrap ... to the ocean-rezzzone on Linkous ... to the road at McFarren/Novarez ... to the town-road network at Wendersley/Donathan. (see "West enhancement"). At the moment the parcel on Chinstrap isn't shown as reserved, so it is a bit urgent! Part (1b): At the road end on Chinstrap, the road can gone East down to the ocean and go into a tunnel (glass-tunnel, as like on Belli - them look matching futuristic), making a turn to North and going tough the public land on Popke and Gatcharl. At Gatcharl the ocean turn to be less deep, so it can be digged into the ground (no more glass). Part (1b, too): At Linkous is a rezz-zone. This could be enhanced to a small, sandy island, where the tunnel gets back to the surface ... "Parking Lot", some beach deco, small pier (boat-rezz) ... and back down under water. The Tunnel can going in 45° angle trough Tashina and Nine (not as I drawing it) to turn then straight North at McFarren. Part (2b): At McFarren is a "Road"-parcel on the beach, but the Tunnel can get at the normal Beach back to the surface with a road up the Hill to the existing road. On the other side of the existing road it get back down below the water. Part (3b): The Tunnel can go North at Novarez, then 45° on Desantos to Conroy and turn straight up North to connect at Wendersley/Donathan to the regular roads. This concept takes just a small piece at the new Sims for a road (barely it mit work also "half-half" on the small stripe at Popke). The whole rest is all public lands and takes no additional space. It is adding a 2nd North-South connection. It connects 3 complete different roads and includes 1 rezz-zone. Also it adding 2 attractions: Tunnel-build ... and a new, small island at the rezz-zone.

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.

Zindra is a wonderful continent to boat on but there is no way to circumnavigate it. In particular, the south east corner has private land upto the world and and some of the land owners don't allow passage. Navigable water, shown on the areas marked on this screen shot https://gyazo.com/ffc3fbe6e2610a7109dd52e8cd164d72 would provide passage. Also on the south east and east sides. https://gyazo.com/b98159452cccbda561c9cdbd5bd8ad18

Zindra roads look ike ice or glass and it's quite terrible. I'll be glad to volunteer for this if need be.

There are 6 places around the Gaeta V continent which have very narrow pinch points, and whose protected waterways run too close to region corners and private parcels which are hazardous to a smooth sailing pathway around the Gaeta V continent. These 6 places can easily be fixed without expensively creating any new regions, or affecting Resident parcels near to these "pinch points". By luck or coincidence, there are 6 outer "spare" water regions further offshore which are not currently well used or essential to sailing around the Gaeta V continent. They seem not to be used often and could be moved inshore to improve Gaeta V's inshore coastline. The map I've drawn below features these 6 "spare" offshore regions (in turquoise) and where these "spare" offshore regions should be moved to (in red) inshore. Relocating these 6 "spare" offshore regions would ease and prevent the current inshore narrow pinch points and help to avoid hazardous narrow waterways and entering into Resident's private parcel territories. This would also make the Gaeta V continent more compatible for sailing larger "tall ship" style vessels around the continent too. I strongly suggest and propose that the 6 "spare" offshore water regions (Twelve Fathoms, Qoopz, Gaeta Reef, Christarn, Sciello and Unquar) be treated as "donor" regions and relocated to these 6 new inshore positions.

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.

The New stores filled up way to quickly

For weeks now, sim crossings on the mainland have gotten worse — they're increasingly unreliable, often resulting in lost vehicles, avatars being unseated, or even full disconnections. While resolving sim crossing issues may take time — if it's even fully possible — one simple and impactful improvement would be to make Linden Roads rez-friendly. Allowing residents to rez vehicles directly on these roads would make it much easier to recover from failed crossings and continue their journey, without having to search for the nearest rez zone.

There are _many_ instances of 4-way region crossing (i.e. corner of 4 regions) that are inconveniently located on Linden Roads. These spots will very frequently destroy the vehicle, not only when the vehicle hits the "corner" (sending all entities -- vehicle & sitters -- every which way), but also when avoiding the corner because now the vehicle must face a back-to-back pair of crossing (e.g., crossing to the East, followed by crossing to the North soon after). While a solution is being sought to alleviate the crossing issues for good, I propose that for instances of this monstrosity (i.e., corner crossing smack-drab in the middle of a Linden Road), at least 2 Rez Zones need to be carved, along the general direction of the road. This will help reduce the painful experience of having your vehicle break apart and then having to walk a loooong way just to find a Rez Zone. This I think is a better compromise compared to the other Canny ticket about making the whole Linden Road area to be Rez Zones. (This one: https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/make-linden-roads-rezable-for-easier-vehicle-recovery )