Land & Public Works

Abandoned Land is a blight, in-and-of itself.. an unnaturally blank patch of land looks off, out of place. In real life, when land is abandoned and not cared for, grass with grow, weeds will take root, forgotten yard-sale and campaign signs, bits of cardboard, old tires and other litter finds it's way to the parcel and lingers. Folks without homes will build little camps, neighborhood ruffians build forts. Let's liven up these 'dead' spaces, with a little tongue-in-cheek way to say "this land is abandoned".

Now that Waterhead is indicated as the major last destination on the TSC from Luna (14 km from the Luna tunnel), would it be possible to place at least one rez zone where we can park our vehicles and/or rez them? It would not hurt to add a small road leading to the Linden Labs headquarters from the Waterhead info hub either. For now one has to drive through some phantom forest trees. Thanks.

After using/owning the various levels of LL homes that come with the various Membership levels, I end up being bored with them. Recently, I've been thinking about why this is and how they could be made more enjoyable. My suggestion is to make the layout of the LL homes more like what you would find in RL, in and around towns and villages. In real life, when you look at how a town or village has grown, it generally starts around a central feature like a river conflux, or perhaps beside a special feature on a road. Older houses and businesses are usually located in the central areas, with mostly smaller landholdings. As you move out, there are neighbourhoods of various ages and styles, and the parcels are generally bigger. What you don't see is what LL has done by creating minimal variations in housing, all in the same style for as far as you can see, all with the same size parcel and the same landscaping. When I had a Premium Plus home, the house itself was quite nice, but when I looked around, all the other houses were variations of mine. The same can be said for the other levels of membership. It wouldn't make sense to have tropical homes beside Nordic-style homes, of course, but otherwise, wisely mixing up the neighbourhoods would make things much less bland and more realistic. You could segue between seasonal homes and non-seasonal homes by buffering them with gradually changing foliage. Why not mix a 'little Italy' into the North American-style homes? Or mix a 'little Japan' beside the houses on stilts? There are many possibilities. Otherwise, we are stuck living in tract housing, and that is really unimaginative.

We have an extremely large number of empty houseboats in Bellisseria. I was thinking how nice it would be to have a bunch of those converted into yacht moors for premium and premium plus members. The houseboats could be easily removed, leaving only the docks in place. And resident could moor their own yachts in the spaces, yacht club style. The parcel ToS can be updated to ensure people don't put houses out. And truthfully, the prim count for those spots could be increased by whatever the land impact of the removed houseboats was. There are a LOT of yacht owners in SL with no place to park their yachts. This would give new life to those regions as an entirely different type of 'home' with minimal change and effort. Please consider this.

Currently, there is enormous dissatisfaction among the merchant population with the inability to find readily available commercial stores in Ridgewood Enclave, where large tracts of them were dropped in the last year. When the Moles release entire sims' worth of the stores, inevitably at an inconvenient time zone for significant portions of the population, there is a mad scramble for them. Thus, few can obtain them in a fair and orderly manner, sometimes camping the store spawn for hours or even all day in the fever to get a scarce store. Numerous examples abound where a single person has grabbed more than one or two stores and uses alts and enlisted friends to sequester multiple stores under one brand without even an effort to make them different. Worse, when a store is abandoned, a throng of people can develop waiting in anguish for the 1.5 hours or more to elapse before the AVAILABLE sign appears. While the kiosks that now give lists of available stores are an improvement on the original insane scrum, in fact the available stores do NOT appear on kiosk lists WHEN abandoned but are only listed AFTER the AVAILABLE sign appears. Only by constantly paying attention to Bellisseria Merchants, a resident-run group which has taken over store registration, as well as other Bellisseria groups, can prospective store owners hear of an abandonment coming. The Premium Plus account of $15.99 a month, a substantial expenditure for many, has the feature of requesting certain exact Bellisseria homes by location, instead of accepting a random option from the web site. So there is no reason not to add requests of stores for Premium Plus. This could be done in addition to the "kiosk" available list and the "sudden large drops" by Moles. But ideally, ALL STORES SHOULD BE REQUESTED BY TICKET to reduce the amount of hoarding and sequestering of multiple stores under the same brand/group and more importantly, the stress of the survival of the fittest in the mob rush to get a store. The Lindens can either automate this random fulfillment of ticket requests if it seems like a burdensome chore, or advisedly, eyeball them to see if multiple requests by one person are occuring. A "first come, first serve" solution that would randomly deliver an available store to each person who filed a ticket would be more fair and more predictable for both residents and Lindens/Moles.

Linden Route 14, on the southwest side of Nautilus continent is currently isolated from all other sections of Nautilus' overall Linden Route road network. But there is a relatively "easy" fix using abandoned vacant land. Link Route 14 to the closest point to Route 13. This location winds through the regions of Grolphook, Servo and Baddest. I propose this new link road be built and paved to the plan below, which has two possible route options:

Between the two regions of Camorro and Plenodyes in Nautilus continent, is a long unmarked and currently "hidden" extra Linden Route road, that I believe was only recently created and given "Protected Land" status. The two ends of this "hidden" extra road actually connects two other existing Linden Route roads together (12A and 13) as one. But the new "hidden" section is easily missed by anyone who does not use the mini-map Parcel Lines/Boundaries filter. Please consider upgrading this unmarked and unpaved road with a clear and obvious road surface which seamlessly blends in with the local infrastructure already built in Nautilus continent. The two "ends" of the hidden road are located in https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Camorro/250/7/50 and https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Plenodyes/128/128/68 Doing so, I believe people would find this paved road attractive and move to, or create new homes or businesses along it's length. Currently, the regions containing this "hidden road " are very barren.

As you can see in the screenshots below, the first is from neighboring Birchwood. Normally all regions on Corsica have these 512x512 terrain textures. For some reason all the terrain textures in New Bloom Mountain are 128x128 ever since it was built, this is why the terrain is extremely low resolution here. (This is 16 times lower resolution than everywhere else.) This can be seen in the third screenshot with the corner of New Bloom Mountain between Birchwood and Jessgate. Needless to say, the entire mountain would look much better with the 512px textures.

Second Life needs a Route 66. (Maybe 67 if calling it the real one is too much?) Like a fully signposted historic route that just goes through nearly everything on the mainland. People will come to drive the whole route as a cultural pilgrimage and people will want to set up roadside attractions and it would be like a homage to the real route 66. I don't think it would actually take too much work. We can piggy back off the existing road network and simply add some new signage. A few new bridges or tunnels might be necessary to connect some continents and make a long continuous route. But I think it would be worth it and make a huge new landmark/attraction in Second Life of sorts.

SL22B had some really cool Mole-made meshes around, things from trees to major set pieces which my RL Twin and I kept finding ourselves wishing we could buy those or something like it to create with and carry on the inspiration trains. We reached out to Anctient Mole, creator of some of those awesome pieces we were geeking over, and we were informed that there wasn't such a store yet, but they have been hearing about the desire and every voice counts... so, my Twin and I thought to create this request. Mole Made marketplace store concept Ideally allowing them to offer their specially made creations to the public for reasonable/respectable L$ prices. Ideally, the (Mole) creators would get most of the profit share, though I do imagine (since the creators were presumably paid for their work RL already) some if the L$'s would go toward a LL treasurer for Linden sponsored L$ giveaway events or hunts or whatever might be fun and agreeable as ways to give back to users and patrons alike. Ideally all Mole Made creations would be in the same store, searchable by the usual title and keywords, maybe also the name of the Mole who did the creating. THANK YOU to everyone who shares this with others to decide if they also would like to see a store for Mole made creations! * Submitting this from my phone. Special shout to the attached pics of Mole Made examples. Massive gateway. Massive willow trees and massive (and other sized) pine trees. Cool magic electric swirly portal accent piece. Cool walkway with stellar electrical magical stringy accent pieces. Awesome particle path pieces. Light and or electric magic beam. Sci-fi walkways, balcony, and foundation pieces. I am sure there were and are way more creations that could be showcased as examples but I think that's enough to make the request.