Land & Public Works

Imagine if you could walk/sail/drive/fly across a region border and arrive at another region border - but dozens, hundreds or thousands of grid spaces away! It would be comparable to using a "wormhole" to cross vast distances in Second Life. Uses: Imagine you're sailing a boat in the remote and isolated Gaeta I continent where there's currently no physical water path to other Second Life continents, other than directly teleporting there. That's where "Wormhole Regions" could be very useful. Theoretically, you and the boat could sail south from southern Gaeta I continent, cross it's most southern border and instantly "worm hole" straight to the northern border of another continent, such as the northern border of Corsica (which is the nearest other continent to Gaeta I) Although this sounds very similar to "Experience Teleporting", it isn't, because using vehicles with Experience Teleporting isn't possible, it only teleports the avatar, not the vehicle too. "Wormhole Regions" could have up to all four of their region borders programmed with four separate "destination" targets too. Proposal: Allow a select number of special "Wormhole Regions" to have special borders that allow non-cartesian region crossing abilities which permit region crossing directly to other distant regions elsewhere on the Second Life grid. This idea would negate the need for dozens, hundreds or thousands of expensive "filler" link regions for linking multiple contiguous regions physically together. Suggestions for placement of public "Wormhole Regions": * Gaeta I continent to Corsica continent. * Teen SL Continent (aka "Sharp") to Satori continent. * Zindra/Horizons continent to Gaeta V continent. * Nascera (old Linden Homes) continents to Jeogeot continent. Other Uses: A single private island "Wormhole Region" could be configured to allow "Pac Man" or "Asteroids" videogame-style region crossings where an avatar could move northwards across a northern region border and "reappear" in the same region on the opposite southern border. This would also work for opposite east-west region borders too, making a single region potentially have an infinite straight line travel pathway, which could be a lot of fun for those who enjoy flying aircraft. (Based on an idea and conversation between Snowlord Resident & Philip Linden, 1st May 2025. See: https://youtu.be/1Ahm4VlMQPM?t=2591 @43:12 )

Many/most water canals in Heterocera are too shallow. For example, the canal running through http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sylvata/122/102/12 Likewise, it's continuation through several other regions going eastward. There are many other places.

Zindra has rez zones, but they are not marked with the usual markings. Known water locations: - Horizons: east and west rez zones - North coast: Shell Beach, Crayfish, Foley Beach and Broadwater - South: Popke Tal and in the big river system, Karoo - Port of Kama City, south side. Please place the usual rez zone markings. Thanks.

Some of us are tightening our belts in regards to renting land, so people purchase parcels instead of entire sims. There is a huge limitation as to what can be built or done there because it must follow the rating of the entire sim. It would be super convenient if the option existed to have parcels in one sim with different ratings.

I think that there should automatically appear a 1 sim navigable waterway around any land of the mainland. When mainland expands, the buffer 1 sim waterway should expand with it. This way, naviable waters are always available. If two lands join, elimating a waterway, it should appear in the closest edge to that lost one, making sure to provide a route around the lost waterway. Thanks!

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.

With the Anniversary of Bay City coming up this weekend, it's well past time for Bay City to be connected to the rest of the Sansara road network. I've been able to physically walk out two proposed paths. Both paths would be entirely on Linden owned lands, not taking any resident parcels from existing owners.. The proposed route would start at the info hub in Dore (where the existing road out of Nova Albion ends). Continue south through the Morris sandbox and along the eastern side of historic Oak Grove, though through the portion where there are no builds. Enter into the vehicle sandbox sims and follow one of two paths from that point: Move south at Bethel and use the existing vehicle sandbox pathways and bridge system to translation to a coastal road in Ouranos, dropping into a tunnel or under-water road along the southern edge of Mnemosyne and the southern most edge of Abbotts (currently LL owned), then up the canal in Cowell, connecting to the road at the Noyo parking lot. Continue east through the vehicle sandbox, moving under water at Kapor, through the existing waterway in Stinson, under the "Bay of Space Pigs" and connecting with the roadway in either Rodeo or Omidyar. Both routes would require an underwater road or tunnel system, though considering the quality work with such routes in Jeogeot, there's plenty of precident for that! As stated, we walked both routes from start to finish and found either LDPW or Governor Linden owned parcels the entire way. Happy to walk the route with anyone as well.

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.

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.

Please complete the coastline of Heterocera continent by adding one water region to the west side of Tiger region. This will complete the perimeter coastline of Heterocera, enabling north/south boat travel on the continent's west side, as well as making a full loop of the continent possible for the first time. Request originally requested as a JIRA Request, [BUG-231433] (Accepted) see: https://github.com/secondlife/jira-archive/issues/8911