✨ Feature Requests

Avatars should not be able to use llDamage against agents or objects on parcels where they are banned or otherwise do not have access. This should also extend to objects that have been deeded to a group by said avatar. Currently, if a parcel has damage enabled, a banned avatar can still use llDamage to affect targets within that parcel. This effectively allows them to bypass parcel bans and continue interacting with residents or objects despite being explicitly denied access by the land owner. This behavior undermines the purpose of parcel access controls. If a land owner bans an avatar, that decision should prevent all forms of hostile or disruptive interaction originating from that avatar, including scripted damage. Parcel owners rely on access controls such as bans and group restrictions to manage their land and protect the experience of people within it. Allowing banned avatars to continue affecting the parcel through llDamage removes control from the land owner and weakens their ability to enforce boundaries. By permitting damage interactions across parcel bans, the platform effectively overrides the land owner’s explicit decision about who is allowed to interact with their space. Preventing llDamage from working across parcel bans would restore the intended autonomy of land owners to control interactions within the environments they manage. A secondary request would be adding a flag to the region settings that can be set TRUE or FALSE to allow damage to be dealt from sources to targets on different parcels as a region wide setting and default it to FALSE

Dear Linden Lab, I am a longtime resident of Second Life and I want to begin by saying how much I appreciate what you have built. Second Life remains one of the most unique and meaningful virtual worlds available. It allows people from around the world to connect, build communities, explore environments, and even maintain long-distance relationships in ways that very few platforms enable. Because I value the platform so much, I wanted to share a few ideas that I believe could help Second Life continue to evolve and remain the leading social virtual world for many years to come. Technology and platforms naturally evolve over time, and innovation is often what allows great platforms to remain strong and relevant. Continued improvements to immersion and environmental systems could help Second Life feel even more alive and modern while still preserving the creativity that makes it special. One area that could greatly improve the experience is ambient environmental simulation. Many modern virtual environments include built-in soundscapes and environmental effects that automatically respond to the surroundings. In Second Life today, most ambient sound must be manually added by creators, which can cause many regions to feel quiet or empty if those sounds are not present. It would be wonderful if Second Life offered optional environmental sound packages that could be enabled at the system level. For example: • coastal regions could include ocean surf, wind, and seagulls • forests could include birds, insects, and rustling leaves • deserts could include wind and atmospheric ambience • city environments could include distant traffic and urban sounds Ideally, residents could control this through viewer settings with options such as: • system ambient sounds • region/creator sounds • a hybrid mode that combines both This would preserve the creativity of region designers while ensuring that environments always feel immersive. Another improvement that could make the world feel more vibrant would be the introduction of cohesive pre-designed environments with built-in infrastructure. While Second Life already allows residents to build incredible regions, many areas begin as empty terrain. Linden Lab could offer optional environments where the foundational world elements already exist, such as: • roads and pathways designed for exploration • natural coastlines and beaches • forests, hills, and natural landscapes • moving vegetation that responds to wind • environmental lighting and atmosphere • integrated ambient sound appropriate to the environment Residents could then customize these areas with their own homes, apartments, gardens, boats, and personal builds. This approach would allow regions to feel like complete living environments while still preserving the creative freedom that Second Life is known for. Water and ocean environments are another area where immersion could be expanded. Oceans and coastlines are a major part of Second Life’s landscape, yet underwater spaces are often largely empty and the water surface is mostly static. Within these rebuilds, enhancing wave motion, shoreline interaction, underwater lighting, and marine life could make beaches and oceans far more engaging. Underwater areas in particular could become places residents actually want to explore rather than simply empty spaces beneath the surface. Improving environmental immersion would also benefit activities such as sailing, boating, driving, and exploration. Many residents enjoy relaxing experiences like walking along the beach, taking a boat out on the water, exploring scenic regions, or simply spending time together in a shared environment. Enhancing these aspects of the world could strengthen the social and exploratory side of Second Life. Second Life already has an incredible foundation and community. With continued innovation in environmental systems, sound design, and immersive world infrastructure, it could feel even more alive and welcoming for both longtime residents and new users discovering the platform. Thank you for continuing to develop and support such a unique and important virtual world. Sincerely, A longtime Second Life resident

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Hello, everybody... It was so good and so very useful, that we could change the names of the groups... For example, I own the Spiritual Art Group, founded to promote the events of my previous Spiritual Art Gallery, founded in, 2008, that ended in 2014. Now, since 2021, I'm the owner and art curator of the Kondor Art Center... ti was excellent to rename the group, with a more adequate name, referring the Kondor Art Center. Can you please tell me when will it be possible ? Thank you Best regards Hermes Kondor

A resident who has been banned from a parcel/region should not be able to message other residents on that very parcel/region. (Exceptions could be, that they are on their friend list or have been contacted before yet.) Reason: This could help to prevent more drama and protect businesses. A griefer who is banned from our shipyard is frequently camping next to it and messaging our customers defaming us trying to deter them from buying our ships. I'm sure we are not the only ones who have this problem. Edit: Additionally I would suggest that a banned resident should not be able to see other residents on the land he is banned from, neither inworld nor on the minimap. (Thank you @Bavid Dailey for this idea!) I think, this would make the "work" of any griefer harder, too.

Can we please get a "Services Offered" section on the forum? I'm not sure why offering skills and services has suddenly been disallowed after so many years. All we were told was that no advertising is allowed on the forum. But if you go to any section of the forum quite a lot of advertising is still happening there. From events coming up, educators offering courses, Art, Music and Photography classes, land for sale offering land, and contests. Even sex workers are allowed to ply their trade on there in the adult sections. It just doesn't seem very fair that people offering skills and custom services like scripting, meshing, building, landscaping, etc now don't have a section to offer their services, when up until a month ago they did. Now because of that as a scripter I can't offer my scripting services to the community and make rent on my parcel. We were also told to offer our services on other platforms but they just don't have the reach or captive audience as the forum does. Since the forum is a central hub it doesn't make sense to relegate services to where people have to search hard to find what service they need. Previously jobs and services offered services offered have all been bunched into the Inworld Employment section but having it's own separate section in Commerce would clearly define lanes between services/skills offered and jobs offered.

I would like to propose blocks of 10 or 20 additional groups be made available to anyone within SL for a fee, regardless of membership level, so that when somoene maxes out their group memberships, they can add another block of space for more groups, thus removing the hard cap on group spaces.

One of the biggest problems for those of us whose business is entirely dependent on people joining our groups is that we keep hearing the same old words from SL residents: "I can't join your group because I am maxed out on groups." While the best solution would be for LL to get rid of group limits, what I am proposing would benefit both Linden Lab and group owners. Give group owners the option to pay a fee to Linden Lab to make their group exempt from the group limits. This would give group owners the choice to not pay and have their groups not affected, or the choice to pay the fee which would then make their group exempt from the group limits and anyone could join it regardless of how many other groups they are members of. The fee would be a source of additional revenue for Linden Lab. So this proposal would benefit everyone. Let's please do something about people not being able to join groups due to these limits. Thank you.

There's a limit to how many homes you can search for in a day. Why can't there be a better way? Today I landed 3 times in the same place. That isn't really 5 options, only 3. Is there a better way to do it? Have a list to pick? Get extra if you land on the same place? Choose between more homes, maybe 10?

So I think it would be cool if objects could be linked at a greater distance. And also create groups so that way people that make things like trains or large Houses can keep them all linked together. And unlinking groups of objects, instead of just individual one.