There's a lot to love about Mainland. But I don't think that finishing subcontinents and improving connectivity on Mainland will lead to appreciably more land being purchased and more premium users. For me, the main barrier is the risk ... nay, over time the near-certainty ... of having a neighbor create some god-awful build or social situation. I think that is the issue that drives people to Belli, even though it is so very suburban.

My own wish is for a new land product, something that is lightly covenanted but not strongly themed, with the flexible parcel sizing and ability to terraform that mainland offers, but with more landscaping and thoroughly protected waterways. If LL governance made clever use of AI, covenant enforcement for things like encroachment and height limitations would be less salary-intensive than it is now.

I have been thinking the same things for quite a while, Beylana! Right on!

Oatmeal Linden the problem with the mainland that residents find frustrating is the inability to terraform and change the texture of the land. without the use of platforms and such, it makes building very difficult. if you gave us more options on how we can build on the mainland, i think more people would buy it. i live on the mainland and without the use of platforms and other building aids, i wouldnt be able to develop my land. i love living on the mainland, it would be nice if we had more options. i would love to be able to level my land out and not have a hill in the middle of it.

I agree, Non Gaeta needs to be connected to Corsica so that you have all the continents connected, Gaeta IV is connected now, but you need to add more protected water coast line around the northern and west part of Corsica with no building, ban lines or orbs allowed so that travel by boat and plane are useable. And it needs to be finished on the west side of it also so that it can be navigated by boat or plane, and it needs roads all over it so the residents there can travel their own continent. I have driven every road on all the main continents and this one is by far the worse. Even the Adult continent has some of the best roads in SL to drive, just not much there as most of it is all sex, sex, and more sex.

O V E R K I L L - so many other things need this level of attention

"Slow Down On Adding To Bellisseria"

To be honest, they have already slowed down the Bellisseria project big time, which is not a surprise with so many homes staying empty. At this point this is not a matter of Bellisseria vs Mainland, there is really no development or expansion to expect. Especially not while losing many users every month.

I too would also like to see the Gaeta continents completed.

Gaeta I was the second Gaeta continent to be built, but only partially. Its entire eastern side was never completed in 2008 and is still missing today.

Gaeta II, III and IV continents were also planned, they were never built due to the late 2000's worldwide economic recession. But their locations were marked out and remain "hidden" within the current online World Map, which when clicked reveal their provisional region names too!

Gaeta V was the first Gaeta continent to be built. While looking completed, Gaeta V has some problems with it's coastline which need fixing too. It has six narrow "pinch points" around its coastline which can easily be fixed by moving some redundant offshore sea regions inshore to fill in the gaps. I wrote a Feature Request for this idea, which has recieved Tracked status already: https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/fix-gaeta-v-continent-coastline-by-moving-6-spare-offshore-water-regions-inshore .

Gaeta I, II, III and IV could be completed by recycling regions reused from the original Nascera (Old Linden Homes) continents too. I also wrote another Feedback Request for this idea: https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/recycle-old-linden-homes-continent-regions-for-reuse-elsewhere .

Below, I've attached maps I drew in 2021 of all five Gaeta continents. While they contain no extra detail of interior terrains (hills, mountains, rivers, lakes and forests all ignored), I did ensure that these "missing" continents all had navigable coastlines, which at the time I drew them, was my sole interest. You will have to imagine what these inland areas might have looked like!

Hello there Linden Labs, yes, I'm kind of looking at you. :) this quote from Beylana's original post:

"Where the real opportunity lies is in land sales on Mainland in my opinion. If we could get Gaeta I finished and connected to mainland, then get Gaeta II, III, IV, done as well with nice roads and waterways there will be a ton more interest in that I feel like, than in living in the vast repetitive suburbia that is Belli. "

Could use some deep consideration. As an avid 'explorer / driver / pilot / sailor dancer' ok dancing doesn't count! I Believe, not feel, but believe we need more infrastructure and places like mainland A.K.A. I finna build a gas station here or a bowling alley. ad nauseum... You will get more interest. One sim Jonny's that only go from their home to a sim of their choice do not bring any new discoveries or new interest to Second Life. let's remember when Second life was about creating things and exploring, more emphasis on the exploring part.

Nostalgia aside, a vast amount of income and interest is to be had with more opportunity like mainland. Oh wait, this is a new era, one sim Jonny likes his dance sim and still pays his tier. We get it. BUT there is also GREAT interest in manufacturing of vehicles and events that encourage vehicle use and exploring. This may be negligible, however, it had causes much of many to be gluefoot in SL and keep coming back day after day, whether it be group drive / fly / sail events or just exploring.

These are just my thoughts as an avid user of this most unique, user created platform, and the only one of its kind in the entire world. Let's make this bigger in interest and USE, not so much one sim Jonny and the premium home in an identical neighbourhood that you can get lost once you round the block. I am not throwing shade, just want to see more exploring, as new 'things' equals MORE revenue, if that is the bottom line.

Broken Voxel, out.

I've always wondered why we have continents dedicated to premium housing, rather than a few region clusters making a neighborhood. Having a few regions break between for publicly purchasable land would greatly increase the value of the land, since guaranteed residency is somewhat nearby. For the most part, in the Linden Homes, roads are decorative at best. They're not often traversed and the idea of traversing them sounds like griefing to me.