Land & Public Works

Bay City feels quite isolated on the world map. The new tunnel and road access are a good step toward making it easier to reach. Since there’s already work happening to improve Mainland edges and add waterways, it would be great to see some of that on the WEST and SOUTH sides of Bay City too. It would be nice to have waterways around the city, with a few rez zones where people can launch boats or stop and explore. That would make the edges feel more finished and make Bay City easier to get around.

As well as we can forbid voice in a land. I suggest a feature where private IM can be forbidden. To make public areas, events, parties, cafes more social. Going on many events where local chat is totally dead. Also many just do group calls on events talking in IM instead of letting others lonely visitors into a conversation. Incoming IM while on such land could be pending and viewed after leaving area.

On Saturday 3 October 2026, I won my single Boopie #40 (Tier 4 prize) after an intensive two-day hunt to collect 400 Halloween buckets across Bellisseria. In the earlier 2024 and 2025 events, collecting 400 buckets awarded three Boopies (Tiers 2, 3, and 4) alongside a Tier 1 shelf unit to display these Boopies. Winning only one Boopie in 2026 felt disappointing. This year's Tier 1–3 prizes felt unrewarding, the prizes felt like left-overs from the Swaginator Hunt and I would have preferred staying with the three Boopies and shelf format of 2025 and 2024. The new "Next" button on the 2026 HUD halved the collection time compared to previous years. At first, I welcomed it, but this feature quickly made the hunt feel too predictable and repetitive, removing the excitement of exploring unfamiliar areas of Bellisseria. To address this, could the LDPW please introduce a dual-HUD system for 2027? I suggest offering a standard HUD (with the "Next" button) and a separate "Hardcore Halloween Hunter" HUD (without "Next"). To prevent exploitation, each HUD should maintain an independent counter. Reintroducing the three-Boopie prize structure exclusively for the Hardcore Halloween HUD would highly incentivise dedicated collectors. Finally, I request that the LDPW issue a Bucket Placement Advisory Notecard to resident hosts to ensure reasonable Halloween bucket placement. Additionally, hosts should be encouraged to adjust their parcel security systems to allow hunters sufficient time to collect buckets without being automatically ejected from a Linden Home parcel.

I’d love to see the available last-name pool expanded, with more names that feel like realistic surnames. My own experience is that I’ve wanted to change my Second Life surname for some time now, but I’ve struggled to find anything that feels suitable because the current choice is so limited. Many of the available names seem more like adjectives, nouns, or novelty words than surnames I would realistically want to use as part of my avatar’s identity. I understand that quirky and unusual names can be fun and should absolutely remain an option, but it would be great to have a much wider selection of realistic surnames as well. Could future name releases include more traditional and contemporary surnames from a range of cultures and languages, and perhaps a larger pool overall? At the moment, it can feel difficult to find a name that sounds natural, suits a character or business identity, and feels like something you would want to keep long term. A broader mix of realistic and creative names would give residents much more freedom to choose something that genuinely fits them.

i was touring what remains of the right of way for the WARR. and believe that it could be put back in covering a least twenty sims and stopping at the coast. it could be done as there's one band and property and a small corner of one mass them that borders near the open water way that would need to be claimed in order for a deterrent to make it through cleanly the rest of it can run on parts of the roadway i definitely believe that this project could be done . i've listed the above sections that the be a problem or need negotiations . 2025-12-15 : Abandoned Land, Tiretta (241, 253, 75) - Moderate a small section of this parcel would need to be procured for as a train to go through. the parcel nearest this location would need a small section cut from it Linden Right of Way, Andraca (35, 28, 33) - Moderate for it to be used and this would be the end of the track http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Elpenor/106/51/42 which ends right at the roadway year the western coast at the south. i think it's very well could be done and only having to procure part of an abandoned land and talking to one you person who owns a part have a small section that could easily be split off not needing to take their entire land. linden lab could buy the small section off the land near Andraca (35, 28, 33) it definitely would be very cool and i'm very sure of that so parcells would be very interested and hooking up to the railroad .

We have an extremely large number of empty houseboats in Bellisseria. I was thinking how nice it would be to have a bunch of those converted into yacht moors for premium and premium plus members. The houseboats could be easily removed, leaving only the docks in place. And resident could moor their own yachts in the spaces, yacht club style. The parcel ToS can be updated to ensure people don't put houses out. And truthfully, the prim count for those spots could be increased by whatever the land impact of the removed houseboats was. There are a LOT of yacht owners in SL with no place to park their yachts. This would give new life to those regions as an entirely different type of 'home' with minimal change and effort. Please consider this.

Make the Zindra interior river navigable: add lock mechanics at Terri and Oritz dams Issue: The Zindra interior river (the "3"-shaped waterway between Terri and Oritz) is currently non-navigable because both ends are blocked by dams. Water level differences between sims prevent boats from crossing. As a result, this long interior waterway has almost no vehicle traffic, and GTFO deliveries cannot pass through. Why it matters: The river is already there. It just needs to be connected. Oritz has an SL Hub. With navigable locks, it could become a real waterway stop instead of a dead end. Dams currently consume prims and space but generate no activity. Making them functional would turn them into visitable, useful infrastructure. Proposed solution: Add localized lock mechanics at Terri and Oritz — similar to real canal locks or water elevators. When a boat enters the lock zone, the system raises or lowers it to the target sim's water level, then releases it. This is a known, feasible approach and does not require reworking SL's entire water system. Request: Please evaluate lock mechanics as a navigable-waterway feature, prioritizing GTFO-compatible vehicles, so interior rivers like Zindra's can support continuous boat traffic instead of ending at a dam.

As you can see in the screenshots below, the first is from neighboring Birchwood. Normally all regions on Corsica have these 512x512 terrain textures. For some reason all the terrain textures in New Bloom Mountain are 128x128 ever since it was built, this is why the terrain is extremely low resolution here. (This is 16 times lower resolution than everywhere else.) This can be seen in the third screenshot with the corner of New Bloom Mountain between Birchwood and Jessgate. Needless to say, the entire mountain would look much better with the 512px textures.

At the moment, East Sansara has almost zero protected coastlines, except for a few between it and the nearby "Islandia South" microcontinent (all named after artists) to the southeast of Sansara. On the World Map, East Sansara already appears to have such a coast, but it actually doesn't. The entire coastline is overdeveloped with private parcels and ban lines. No provision of a Protected Waterway was ever made, except for a short four region long strait at the west end of Islandia South. Boat-owning parcel owners on this faux eastern "coast" are basically trapped within their own parcels with no direct access to open seas. An east coastline would be wide enough to extend and join with nearby Ranch Homes continent's own waterway, which would be widened and shared between both continents, rather than being an exclusively Ranch only one. Islandia South could also be encircled with a perimeter of protected water channels/regions, allowing it's boat owning residents a way to explore further than their own tiny microcontinent. Similarly, Islandia North (the northeast sister microcontinent of Island South) could also be encircled too, allowing the movement of boats from a proposed eastern coast to Sansara's already existing northern coat, via Islandia North. Please consider building Sansara a fit and proper eastern coastline, something it has never had for the last 23+ years and is long overdue for.

At the moment, South Sansara has almost zero protected coastlines, except for a few around the rentable "Elements" regions near Bellisseria. On the World Map, Sansara already appears to have such a coast, but it actually doesn't. The entire coastline is overdeveloped with private parcels and ban lines. No provision of a Protected Waterway was ever made. Boat-owning parcel owners on this faux "coast" are basically trapped within their own parcels with no direct access to open seas. A southern coastline would give the Snowlands regions full north and south accessibility to boats and aircraft. Chamonix City could be encircled with a perimeter of protected water channels/regions, while allowing space for Chamonix City to expand further, should it wish to do so in the future. A southern coastline would link to existing protected coastlines north of Chamonix City that extend further north along the Snowlands, the Vehicle Testing Sandboxes, to Nova Albion, Bay City, the ANWR Channel and Heterocera continent. Please consider building Sansara a fit and proper southern coastline, something it has never had for the last 23+ years and is long overdue for.