Land & Public Works

The outer edges of Bellisseria's themed continents are not just home to Linden Homes regions—they also serve as important coastal and aeronautical navigation routes in Second Life. When these outer edges are "missing" or left "unfinished", they hinder the flow of coastal and aerial traffic around large areas of the grid, which can be both inconvenient and frustrating for users. A fully developed coastline not only enhances navigation and accessibility but also makes the area more visually appealing and attractive to potential future Linden Homes residents. For these reasons, I strongly recommend a new policy; that all future Linden Homes themes be developed with their outer coastal perimeter edges completed first. Once the full extent of a coastline is in place, the interior regions can then be filled in as needed, based on demand, thus not restricting navigation routes in Second Life.

Bay City was great but it was tiny and it is hard to acquire plots. Linden Homes are great and it is easy to acquire a plot but they lack a community around them. Why not combine these two to create a community focused Linden Home in the style of Bay City? A new Linden Home that focuses on infrastructure, local communities and new mixed and commercial zoning. I want to be able to locate my plot near friends or be able to drive or boat down to their home. These new homes should also offer the option for full creative freedom and optionally having space for a basement area and should have access to the same high quality content that Moles create to make their home fit into the neighbourhood. There should be a little friction to go full creative, it's a last resort thing, but it must be possible, in the same way owning a bay city plot is. The friction should be in order of priority: Linden/Mole Buildings prebuilts Content Creator Buildings Limited Creativity - Grass/Concrete platform / basic infrastructure Full Creative - Rip out the concrete ground, let them build a basement, let them build stairs/ramps down to the waterways, they have to take responsibility for being in-theme / obeying the covenant. New secondary markets should be opened for custom city buildings, with good Level of Detail , for people to sell to the premium users. * This would create an incentive for premium / premium plus * Unlike other Linden Homes, they are as compact as Bay City * New communities * Urban Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Mixed Zoning as available preferences * Look at how modern cities design retail streets and combine it with how shopping region events work in SL like fantasy faire etc. * A revamped Bay City-like project and renewed excitement for Second Life again * Commercial opportunities for stores * Strong Infrastructure - roads, trains, subways, waterways/channels/rivers, public airports, public sailing docks, user-owned airports (yes, invite the airport community over, existing airports should be vetted and approved to build and manage an aiport within this continent), user-owned sailing docks (yes, invite the sailing community in by vetting and approving existing dock owner), public GTFO hubs, user-owned GTFO hubs (could be self-managed due to the commercial zoning?) * Ability to customise and integrate into the strong infrastructure - options to have a dock in the waterway (part of the infrastructure would have an indentation so it goes into the plot), options to have a road intersection branch into the plot + access to the Mole road/dock assets. Ability to have freedom to design own dock instead of prebuilt or marketplace. * Economic activity should be supported and encouraged, maybe even marketplace category/listings, with content creator guidelines. (This should also go hand in hand with new LI algorithm to encourage good level of detail usage so content creators but don't over think it with auto-LOD algorithms, thats complex work, let the market work for you) * Linden Home Covenant with regulation for airspace and building height (the large premium plus parcels could allow larger building heights / less restrictions) and obeying the parcel zoning for the city block * Potential to easily create an interactive web app map that allows for discovery and exploration because all the infrastructure and zoning is known

Scattered Across Various Parts of Bellisaria are ponds and lakes, perhaps one could consider upgrading the water textures and landscape textures to PBR ones. Also as i previously mentioned and got action on there is a Train Station on Shallow Springs that needs a Rez zone.

Why not a well regulated business park like a city in Bellisseria where all of these fabulous creators can move in and be in one place in to sell their wares, have restuarants, clubs, and other services, eventually phasing out the extremely cluttered and disorganized mainland?

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.

With PBR being rolled out, Linden Homes should be updated: * To use PBR textures * Have pre-placed reflection probes for each house * Region and parcel default environment presets updated with PBR compatible settings. * Reflection probes setup for public spaces (if needed) Having Linden Homes updated with PBR features would show off the capabilities of PBR, as well as give people an example of how Reflection Probes should be setup in variety of house configurations.

Suggestion for a more understanding water themed merfolk etc region. Houses based on shells, corals set on the ocean floor. Allowing for both boat navigation above & the deeper ocean for submersibles & swimming for the merfolk community. Examples below given for general ideas, the Grotto could be repurposed & tikis given coral/ shell exteriors with continued tiki seabed style on the ocean floor. Small islands/rocks rezzes the homes.

During my recent consideration of moving to a Linden Home developed community, I considered the Log Home community. I notice that the vacancy rate is extremely high at 2,298 available homes today. I find the community very nice however, it does not support Premium Plus members at 2048 sf or a small plot which supports the same amount of LI or Prims as if it were a 2048 plot. Due to the large vacancy rate, I'd like to suggest the community be adjusted by converting some of the home sites to support premium plus members. If it were possible, adding more prim allowance to the existing plots would be easiest and would eliminate moving the current landscaping and layout.

Hello! We are seeking your ideas for new Linden Homes themes. If you have already suggested a theme or style on this board, it may be linked to here. :-) (Merging posts seems to disable access, sorry!) 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!

The question of what would happen to the infohubs and other public features on the original Linden Home continents came up several years ago when Bellisseria was introduced and it was first hinted that the original LH continent and its copies would be shut down at some point. With the recent announcement that it is going to happen, this just became a pressing issue. This includes 10 regions: Shareta Osumai, Shareta Osumai Garden, Elderglen, Tahoe Springs, Meadowbrook, Hyperus, Cape Ekim, Libani, Blendard and Threesun. The Shareta Osumai infohub is probably one of the two most important out of these all, along with Cape Ekim. The Shareta Osumai build could fit perfectly into the Sakura area of Bellisseria. Not necessarily in its original form, but with Bellisseria's Sakura terrain and mesh trees instead of the old prim and sculpted ones. However the main features of the two regions are beautiful even if not state of the art quality and it would be foolish to simply remove them from SL's legacy. Cape Ekim is not only a unique build but also hosts a quest starting at the lighthouse and then involving the dragon. While 2008-2010 public builds by LL often feature hidden places to explore and quests or treasure hunts with collectible items, Bellisseria has little to no such features. Cape Ekim, due to its theme, could be added to the fantasy theme of Bellisseria. Libani, Blendard and Threesun host the Three Suns quest. Basically these regions could be moved to any part of Bellisseria where the layout of regions isn't complete yet, the only important thing about them is to place them close enough to each other so the quest wouldn't need much travel if someone doesn't want to teleport between the three regions. Hyperus features a large tree house that, while its interior isn't stunning, would look really great in the fantasy area of Bellisseria - probably only if you remade the building out of mesh, though. The design is too nice to just let it go forever. Elderglen would fit perfectly into the fantasy area of Bellisseria, especially since there are some interactive features: a fairy hunt and collectible items scattered around. The landscaping could be replaced with the high-quality items of the fantasy theme while keeping the inn and its features. Meadowbrook would obviously belong to its new counterpart, the Newbrooke theme in Bellisseria. Basically the features in this region could fit in there as is, probably the terrain would be the only thing to replace with the Newbrooke grassy terrain. The modern art pieces, while not mesh but sculpted, basically look just like what you can expect in the Newbrooke theme as well. Tahoe Springs... personally I have to say this build is such a low quality compared to all of the above that this could just go down, but I attached some photos of this too. There are a few similar community buildings at the trailer and log home areas of Bellisseria, so this one doesn't seem to be as important as the other ones. It would be nice to have these regions preserved. If for some reason they couldn't be integrated in Bellisseria (even though the only thing about them is the lack of mesh items since they're from 2009) it would be appreciated if they could be moved to some museum estate on their own so people could still visit and explore them.