Land & Public Works

Belli is great. It is beautiful and the houses are fantastic. It's been well built and everything about what it is, is on point. But, the thing that makes it not an attractive option to many users is it is just one vast neighborhood for premium members. The lack of communal places (I know there is a few like the fair grounds, but they are very few and far between) and the repetitive nature of the sims with nothing but houses is not an attractive option to a lot of people who have premium (like myself). At this point we have more houses than people interested in them and there are plans for a LOT more sims and subsequently houses to be added to Belli over time. I do not think adding MORE housing to Belli will increase premium memberships. 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. If we aren't going to maintain things like Bay City (which I personally feel is one of the best mainland cities in SL) then I feel like we should be given more space, more land, more roads, to make fun communal spaces and activities for everyone. If you look at mainland, especially by the roads, we as the users have made so many amazingly fun places that are for everyone to use, and THAT is what I feel like will bring in new users and new premium accounts. More unique and up to date places to come together as a community and have fun! I know the point and purpose of Belli was to entice people in to getting premium memberships and bring in new users with how gorgeous it has been built. But I feel like we are at the overkill point of that project, and what will REALLY drive more premium memberships and more new users is more content made for everyone's enjoyment rather than a dwelling space. Give us the Gaeta continents and let us make them fun using all the new tools for creation at our disposal. Make the roads and waterways with vehicles in mind as well, and I can almost guarantee there will be increases in premium accounts and new users.

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.

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.

From 55:00 - https://youtu.be/VjLtFOW12Fs?t=3295 Please bring back LindenWorld into the SL grid, or build an exact replica of it! It would be a great educational and historic place for all Residents to learn about Linden Lab and Second Life's prototype virtual world. It could also act as a nostalgic place for the earliest Residents and Lindens to have reunions and meetings together. LindenWorld could be placed in the Beta "Aditi" grid at the 1000,1000 grid coordinates where Da Boom should be, but isn't because there are no duplicate "San Francisco" regions in the Beta grid! I would prefer this Beta grid option as I love the idea of the two virtual worlds running at the same time in the same space, but in two parallel grids in alternative universes. I will presume that LindenWorld's "nine regions" were arranged as a 3x3 grid, as I've never seen or found an actual map of LindenWorld. This 3x3 arrangement nicely coincides with the arrangement of nine of the sixteen "San Francisco" regions of the Main grid. On the attached map (below), I've pasted these "nine regions" of LindenWorld into the Beta Grid map where the missing and corresponding "San Francisco" regions of the main grid ought to be. As you will notice, their positions are close to the corresponding Dore, Ahern, Morris and Bonafacio cluster of the Beta grid too. Another alternative location idea suggestion would be to place the "nine regions" of LindenWorld into the Main grid at it's Teen SL continent (aka "Sharp"), filling in some of the vacant spaces where the "missing" regions of the 16 original "San Francisco" regions should be, but aren't.

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!

Zindra has rez zones, but they are not marked with the usual markings. Known water locations: - Horizons: east and west rez zones - North coast: Shell Beach, Crayfish, Foley Beach and Broadwater - South: Popke Tal and in the big river system, Karoo - Port of Kama City, south side. Please place the usual rez zone markings. Thanks.

I think that there should automatically appear a 1 sim navigable waterway around any land of the mainland. When mainland expands, the buffer 1 sim waterway should expand with it. This way, naviable waters are always available. If two lands join, elimating a waterway, it should appear in the closest edge to that lost one, making sure to provide a route around the lost waterway. Thanks!

While Bellisseria is a very easy destination and departure point for the sailing communities, it isn't one for those who prefer to drive wheeled vehicles across land. Bellisseria does not have a single solitary road or rail connection with the surrounding mainland and is impossible to drive into, or drive out from. There are literally no bridges and no tunnels between Bellisseria and the Mainland. None. Nil. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Bellisseria's car-owning residents cannot drive across to the mainland to visit shops, bars, clubs or other tourist destinations usually found on the mainland. Bellisserians might purchase additional mainland parcels to start their own businesses or create second homes, if they could reach the Mainland. The Mainland would benefit from having physical road and rail links with Bellisseria too, with increased road and rail traffic from Bellisseria. Please connect the roads and railways of Bellisseria with the surrounding Mainland using some strategically placed new road and rail bridges, or tunnels too.

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.

Please complete the coastline of Heterocera continent by adding one water region to the west side of Tiger region. This will complete the perimeter coastline of Heterocera, enabling north/south boat travel on the continent's west side, as well as making a full loop of the continent possible for the first time. Request originally requested as a JIRA Request, [BUG-231433] (Accepted) see: https://github.com/secondlife/jira-archive/issues/8911