Land & Public Works

Hey, I recently tried to go skiing with friends in Wengen and wanted to use the ski lift from the info hub in Wengen to get up the mountain and ski down from there. Unfortunately, we realised that the ski lift wasn't working at all and the Cable Tower ski lift in the valley was completely missing. Is there any way of restoring the tower and getting it up and running again, or can we tick off this leisure activity? http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wengen/103/240/95 https://ibb.co/WWGLTsW

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.

Nowadays it is so hard to find nice land at reasonable prices for anyone who just wants to run a small business or have their own private little place. I looked near water and land after land were Renters with outrageous prices made to lure in tenants to rent their lands. I tried in auctions, but any nice spot goes to those who can afford it. I finally found some abandoned land along a road with a few pretty homes around and an open view to the ocean and so I asked to purchase it. A little over 5000 sqm. Across the road in front of my new land was another abandoned land facing the ocean but not right on the water. The shape of the land would not have suited my purpose. After a week, someone else asked to purchase it. The built a huge elevated platform, and a house with several floors with high ceilings. And to make it worse they erected a huge prim with an image on it the width of their land. The house and image was right up against the road and totally blocked my view of the ocean. I would have had to raise a platform 125m to be free of the obstruction. A day later they put up their parcel for sale at $9.49 per sqm, a day after paying Linden only 1L per sqm for the abandoned land. In my opinion, anyone who buys abandoned land should not be allowed to sell it during the first 30 days or so, or they should have to return it to Linden if they change their mind. I feel it's about time Linden starts to take control of something that has gotten way out of control. I would love to just find a beautiful spot to build without the invasion of Real estate tycoons hogging up all the beautiful ocean view lands.

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.

Right now, most airports in Bellisseria are a strip of asphalt, a small rez area, and that's about it. Belli Fairgrounds and Shell Yeah are a little bigger but they're still cumbersome to use if there's more than one aircraft there--even small ones. I know LL has many reasons to not want to deal with airport nonsense, but Bay City has been around for a very long time, and if it was impractical to manage, presumably they would have closed it by now. Bay City has a terminal and plenty of room to move a moderately sized aircraft, but still functions with a short auto-return time and a limited rez area. It's perfect for pilots who like airline roleplay and still requires very little oversight day-to-day. A larger airport in Belli would draw more pilots/sailors to the area, potentially for LL-run events, and make more Belli residents aware that SL aviation exists, giving some of them one more reason to stick around. It seems your business plan is to jam-pack Belli with (revenue-generating) residential areas rather than make it a free-for-all like the original Mainland. But with a buffer of one or two sims (like Belli Fairgrounds, and Bay City for that matter), pilots could get in and out and residents would experience little to no increase in low-flying aircraft. We appreciate what you've already done to make Bellisseria aviation-friendly (existing airports, the covenant, etc.), but if you want to make it appealing to a wider audience, you need at least one airport that can fit more than one or two single-engine prop planes at the same time.

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...

I would like to just see LL remove the rolls feature, and just have the letterbox on each property have an inbuilt default AVAILABLE sign. Then as an actual awesome experience, people can meander around regions, until they find their ideal 'home', they like the neighbourhood, they don't see any signs of things that may annoy them like strobe lights from next door etc. Then they just click the sign which understands that they are premium or plus that they have the linden home allowance to use, and it is theirs. If they already have a linden home, it will say ' by proceeding with this transaction you will lose your other home' and you agree, that then sets the other home to AVAILABLE. This means that if you do have multiple homes, with multiple accounts, this way if someone wants to swap homes between accounts or just let a friend have theirs, they can make it available when the person is standing there ready to snap it up, in the wee hours of the morning while the moon is covered by clouds (lol had to set the sneaky scene). This means that LL no longer has to deal with any of this stuff, the only situation they would be needed in is if there was some sort of glitch and it didn't work, lag hitting something like that. This also as mentioned gives people a more realistic fun experience, like buying that first home, and it ties in with the older promotion images of the couple in front of the home.

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.

Water areas with both script and build enabled, with a decent autoreturn for building, seem few and far between. While the regions in the Blake Sea have many smaller zones that allow rezzing, these small spaces are only for extremely short term rezzing of vehicles, with autoreturn often set to 1-5 minutes. In fact, the longest autoreturn setting I have yet found on an aquatic region was 30 minutes, in Kenosaki. When asked about the issue, many will suggest the lake located in Balance/Fame, as part of the Vehicle Testing Regions (Balance, Bethel, Brilliant, Fame, Fortuna, Georgian). But when investigating the so-called “Vehicle Sandbox”, it quickly becomes apparent that very little of the 6 regions can actually be used as a sandbox, beyond short term active vehicle testing There are two small parcels that are adjacent to water within this area, an awkwardly shaped parcel in Bethel with 10 minute autoreturn, and a moderately sized (20x64) parcel in Fame with 60 minute autoreturn. However, both of these parcels are mostly land, with water only ‘accessible’ from the parcel. Meanwhile, the surrounding areas of the regions offer extremely short autoreturns of 2-10 minutes (with Balance being a strange exception, with 70 minute autoreturn (see attached map) None of these regions allow for the ability to build something ‘in the water’, and no proper sandbox that I’ve been able to find, offers that ability. And none of them offer the ability to take an experimental vehicle out to test in open waters. To that end, I’d like to suggest the creation of one or more “Nautical Sandbox Regions”, either through the deployment of new, purpose built regions, or through the conversion of existing water-adjacent regions. Attached, I’ve included just a rough concept of what such a region might look like, either slotting in to fill gaps on the map, or expanding existing, water-side sandbox areas. In my attached sketches, I’ve suggested creation of a general access G/M rated nautical sandbox west of Wanderton, south of Luna Point, and a near twin premium-only A rated nautical sandbox east of Sandbox Colborne, and north of Qrassuca. Island based sandbox regions could be an interesting idea as well, with the space between Nautilus and Corsica being an interesting location to consider (that whole area needs water regions!) Similarly, one or more Nautical Sandboxes could be used to fill out the ANWR channel, or be located north of Bay City, south of Portage Bay, or dozens of other locations.

Right now, super premium members can own 2048 sq. meters of land, regular premium can own 1024 sq. meters of land, and the new premium members can own 512 sq. meters of land. Lets raise that amount. Super premium would own 4096 sq. meters of land. Thats the same for charter members. For regular premium members, set the amount to 2048 sq. meters. For the lower tier premium, set the amount t0 1024 sq. meters. Theres lots of abandoned land on the mainland. If LL were to double the amount of land that residents can own, then there would be less abandoned land. People would then buy more land, and the price of land would go up. Lookup, and see how much of mainland is abandoned.