Land & Public Works

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.

So, in order for skin creators to be in compliance with this new policy skins will have to be gendered? as before they've been unisex but with the sample modestly layers they were either bra/panties or undies. This directly impacts those who create skins for kids, how does this not encourage creator to just take their products down? leaving a already niche community with even less options? These policy updates seem to unfairly target the community who were not engaged in age play. I don't feel like this solves the problem, respectfully I feel it just pushes more work and restrictions onto creators. Can you address any of my comments? The new policy for child avatars seems to unfairly impact creators and passes the buck onto us. We care about the community we support with the creation of skins/products. How does this address the issue of age play? How does this do anything other than affect creators and the kid brands we create for?

Route 8 in Satori actually ends, at North, in Soulgiver sim. Close to that, there are several abandoned lands, so the road could be extended to South West, crossing Gnoll, Dakhanavar and Vampyre. Also, some bit might be added to Ever After and Succubus sims. The new extensions would develop the whole gorgeous Inner Lakes area. The idea comes from 4lice.Cerise, who drawn the map attached.

An option to upgrade the prim allowance on a Homestead region, from say 5000 prims to 7500 prims or 10,000 prims. We have options on with upgrade option for a full region from 20,000 prims to 30,000 prims and paying extra for this and think Homesteads could do with an upgrade option also, I think this would help to get Homestead regions more popular and more online and gives people more usability for the space of the region.

The current process for Linden Homes selections allows for residents to receive the same parcel repeatedly even when there is an ample supply of available homes for the desired theme. This effectively renders the "5 selections per 24-hour" rule moot, and results in a very frustrating house hunting experience for residents. Please change the process so all available homes are rotated into the active queue on a regular basis. Thank you.

All mainland (except Gaeta I and Zindra) are now connected. Unfortunately, if someone takes a ship/boat from Heterocera, one quickly realizes there is not a "through waterway" to the southern Sansara seas. Refer to this image I propose creating a channel to connect the inland seas to the South Sansara Ocean as follows: ### Option 1: South Canal Add an ocean sim south of Shawangunk / west of Ruthenium Create a canal southward of Koscina going through Mud and Shawangunk Optionally , add 2 more ocean sims: 1 west of Osmium , and 1 west of Grand Banks ### Option 2: East Canal Add 6 (six) ocean sims as follows: - East of Gulquac - East of Nueltin - East of Hjalmer - South of Bireme - South of Teslin - South of Snafu Create a canal from Oyster that goes through Keener , Yoho , Old Wives , terminating in the bay of _Old Wives_ Note: Depending on whether there's sailable water in Gulquac , Snafu , and Promethium , up to 3 (three) additional ocean sims might need to be provisioned. Due to the amount of resources need to be deployed, I think Option 1 is more palatable. However , Option 2 also allows residents from the "Arts Sims" / "Southern Islands" (Renoir-Warhol-Picasso-Kandinsky and everything to their east) access to the waterways connecting all mainlands.

For this idea, I'm suggesting that a few giant lakes be added to the mainland continents. A 'real life' example might be something like the 'great lakes' found in the United States. Unlike many of the other mainland lakes that residents can own, these would be Linden owned lakes - ones that residents can't own and always stay the way they were intended to be built out. 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 water that didn't have any value before - a 'protected Linden water view' seemed to hold a lot of value in Second Life real estate. Volunteers could build it - even if a Mole or Linden does the terraforming and the volunteer team does the rest. 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. These lakes could be a really cool way to cater to other communities and to 'flex some of Second Life's building/creator capabilities'. What if one had an epic mermaid 'thing' at the bottom? What about ship wrecks or animesh whales or something? With PBR? Could be cool... 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 lake 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. Current residents may not be thrilled about suddenly living next to a public-ish lake. I personally think traffic would spike when it opened, and then settle down (ultimately adding only value to the property...but only if they wanted to live near water....)

it would be nice if Zindra (the continent hastily built to host the Adult refugees after the demoting of all the ”Mature” main land sims to ”Moderate” status), could get some love from Lindens and Moles... I mean, we really need it to be brought on par with older main land continents (with public rez zones on roads at each sim border, better public buildings, the addition of water sims and protected water channels to allow sailing all around the continent, the addition of land sims with some hills and mountains, etc). Also, why not moving it closer to the other continents on the grid (it's just an offset to change in sims coordinates), and link it via an ”Adult channel” to the rest of the SL seas ?... EDIT: oh, and I almost forgot... Please, fix public parcels (especially roads) permission flags, so to allow scripted vehicle entry and let people providing public transportation have their scripted automated vehicles roam freely the roads of Zindra. E.g. YavaScript PODs, SLGI Transportation System, etc...

Surfing is a fun activity that new users would probably enjoy. The sandbox region of the Welcome Hub is a beach. If there were a water region east of it with surfing waves and a small island, this could show new users how much fun it is to surf and sail in SL. There could be a surf board rezzer and a sailboat rezzer on the edge of the sandbox region. Eventually, there could also be a couple water regions connecting to the Stilt Homes to the east as well. Give the newbies another incentive to explore beyond the Welcome Hub.