Land & Public Works

Hello! We are your ideas for new Linden Homes themes. If you have already suggested a theme or style on this board, it may be merged to here. :-) Suggest features, favorite house styles, or ideas that could serve a community. Our region designers will handle the execution, but your starting points are valuable for sparking creativity. Mood boards are encouraged! Please keep in mind that Linden Homes regions are designed as neighborhoods, with limited infrastructure such as roads, paths, small water features, and landscaping around the parcels. Comments are open!

There are 6 places around the Gaeta V continent which have very narrow pinch points, and whose protected waterways run too close to region corners and private parcels which are hazardous to a smooth sailing pathway around the Gaeta V continent. These 6 places can easily be fixed without expensively creating any new regions, or affecting Resident parcels near to these "pinch points". By luck or coincidence, there are 6 outer "spare" water regions further offshore which are not currently well used or essential to sailing around the Gaeta V continent. They seem not to be used often and could be moved inshore to improve Gaeta V's inshore coastline. The map I've drawn below features these 6 "spare" offshore regions (in turquoise) and where these "spare" offshore regions should be moved to (in red) inshore. Relocating these 6 "spare" offshore regions would ease and prevent the current inshore narrow pinch points and help to avoid hazardous narrow waterways and entering into Resident's private parcel territories. This would also make the Gaeta V continent more compatible for sailing larger "tall ship" style vessels around the continent too. I strongly suggest and propose that the 6 "spare" offshore water regions (Twelve Fathoms, Qoopz, Gaeta Reef, Christarn, Sciello and Unquar) be treated as "donor" regions and relocated to these 6 new inshore positions.

Dear Linden Lab/Moles/Second Life can you please finish the Twenty Four ( 24 ) region in the northeast of the New Brooke theme, you could make into a park or Forest Area an attraction where not only longtime residents would visit but newcomers as well. Also perhaps an in the theme scenic road is needed North of the stilts but connecting the Aspen theme with the Sakura Theme as well as the Medi. theme. with small bridges and waterways also down south are SSPpeacework, SSPLittleredmound, SSPOutlandish, in the stilts is SSPFullDeck, the ENTIRE North, Norhteast Coast and WESTERN coats of the ranch theme is unfinished.

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.

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.

Locations: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woorermal/239/164/65 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Leomund/170/14/56 I've just noticed that the railroad crossing signal devices at the above two locations, on both sides of the crossings, are stuck in a state where the red lights are flashing but the barriers are up. I tested with a locomotive to try and trigger the devices, but nothing changed. When I highlighted transparent surfaces I noticed the "Crossing Trigger" objects are missing from these two crossings for some reason. For example at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woorermal/94/82/58 there is a "LDPW - Crossing Trigger" object, and also at the other end of the upcoming crossing at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Leomund/239/75/57 are in place, and the signals at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woorermal/48/74/58 work correctly. However the Crossing trigger located in Leomund should probably be placed in Woorermal instead because my test now showed inconsistent results. Eventually the Crossing Trigger at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woorermal/94/82/58 also triggered the signals at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Woorermal/239/164/65 on a third test. However after that, instead of shutting the flashing lights off, they kept flashing when the barrier went up - so this is inconsistent at best. This is not a new issue at these two crossings, they might be doing this ever since they have been placed here. Also as you can see in the second photo, all of these crossing signal objects have a convex hull collision physics shape, which reaches onto the sidewalk, which means in every single railroad crossing in Bellisseria which is equipped with signals, if we walk on the sidewalk, we bump into the invisible obstacles created by the convex hull physics shapes. I know the railroad here is exempt from QA and that's how these objects were able to pass, but it would be nice if at least the 6 objects at these 3 crossings here could be fixed, either set to phantom or replaced with a properly uploaded mesh that has a proper physics shape. (You can upload a custom physics shape in the mesh uploader.)

Currently, there is no established way to request that an individual mainland region be reviewed for reconsideration of the region rating. This limits both current owners of the region and prospective owners and potentially devalues the land itself. For example, there may be a region that's rated Moderate, but surrounded by General. Because of the content permitted on Moderate, residents may feel uncomfortable purchasing neighboring land to the Moderate region or even expanding into the neighboring region. The opposite may be true with a General rated region surrounded by Moderate, as the content and behavior of the residents using the land may not be appropriate for General. The region Furvata is a perfect example of this issue. The region is surrounded by Moderate land, but Furvata is General. There is content neighboring Furvata and even in the region that is not appropriate for General rating. Yet there's no system in place for the residents who own parcels or who would wish to own parcels to request that the region rating be changed. My suggestion would be a dedicated section for Feedback or alternatively a support ticket option, which would allow the region rating to be changed if ownership equalling 51%(or a prospective owner wishing to purchase abandoned land on the condition of it being changed) requests the rating change.

The original Linden Homes continents (aka Nascera continents) are planned to be removed from the Second Life grid. Their Residents have been urged by LL to relocate to newer Bellisseria Linden Homes regions. If the Residents can be relocated, why not recycle and relocate the old Nascera regions as well? There are plenty of areas in both Mainland and Bellisseria that could benefit enormously from having additional "new" recycled regions added to them to improve or complete them. For example, 13 of Nascera's regions could be used to create a water and air transport corridor between Gaeta I and Corsica continents. Sansara could have it's roads extended into Bay City. Newbrooke theme in Bellisseria has a massive "hole" void inside it, as well as a missing northwest coastline. Bellisseria themes Ranch, Mediterranean and Sakura all lack completed land and coastline areas. Jeogeot continent could have a full perimeter of protected inshore coastline regions added to it, as could Sansara, Heterocera and Satori too. Unfinished continents such as Gaeta I and Zindra could both be finally completed to their original intended plan by reusing Nascera's regions. I propose that Nascera continent regions should not simply be deleted. Some regions should obviously be saved for history and sentimental reasons. But what of the other masses of soon to be vacated Nascera regions? Reuse them to improve the rest of Second Life. Waste not, want not!

Location: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Derwent/30/150/35 There is a mesh road sign at the marked point which is linked to many other objects. The object has an extremely distorted convex hull collision physics shape that keeps making vehicles crash on the road as they would pass under the sign on the right side towards Waterhead, effectively blocking this side of the road. The object has been causing this problem here since last November. You can easily test this on foot by trying to walk under the sign on the right side facing it the same direction as shown in the pictures, and your avatar will bump into it. It stops vehicles the exact same way.

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.