Land & Public Works

An option to upgrade the prim allowance on a Homestead region, from say 5000 prims to 7500 prims or 10,000 prims. We have options on with upgrade option for a full region from 20,000 prims to 30,000 prims and paying extra for this and think Homesteads could do with an upgrade option also, I think this would help to get Homestead regions more popular and more online and gives people more usability for the space of the region.

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

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.

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.

I think Cliffside Neighborhood will be great. Different from the current themes that seem to embrace real life traditional building. These homes would offer a step toward making dreams real in SL. Here are some examples: https://gyazo.com/e016b07a76da1499d15f6c0dba5fb737 Instead of bicycles and boats you could give some kind of flying pod or da Vinci wings. I bet a lot of the non-human avatars (vampires, lycans, monsters, flying avatars and such) would flock to these cliffside homes.

Rezz parcels in Luna http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Luna/56/56/28 shown in this image outlined in red https://gyazo.com/4b065b590fde7663432be1b430a7dcfd were deleted recently! These were very important for a lot of people and store owners. Many used them to rez their inventory items so they could match what they have to what they want to purchase. Others used them to rez their vehicles. I used it to rez the holiday Dore - Luna Trolley. Yes you can still rez on the store parcel but when you do that you temporarily block that store. It was much better to have those nice big 5 minute rez zones away from the stores where people need to stand. They were used often and it would help to have them back.

snow for Linden Lab homes for winter plz add to houses to add on like you do anything else and maybe snow for land too? Especially Ranchers

I would like to request a few things, like the ability to use the mahogany floor texture and the ability to change the trim color on the outside like how the current millbank halloween victorian haunted house has a black trim. Also to let us change the inside trim color to match the newer floor textures like mahogany for example, which is an option at the newbrooke homes. Thanks in advance for reading! ^^ Edit: included a pic for anyone who would like to see the black trim option, it looks very nice!

Suggesting a warehouse district theme for Linden Homes. This would solve a bunch of things at the same time. Camera clipping through the ceiling or awkward navigation for people who play really zoomed out. "It feels too small. I'd rather be on this platform in the sky." (Paraphrased from real conversation I had yesterday.) More options for people who don't want to mimic real life. (This also checks the "I wish I could do this irl but zoning laws exist" box.) Free usage of the entire parcel while still following the covenant. (Since warehouses are rectangular, can extend all the way up the road, and usually don't have windows.)

LL should work with trusted users (well-known builders/creators) to fix some of the most glaring deficiencies on mainland roads. (EDIT: I understand people have proposed this before, unsuccessfully, because it involves giving people rez rights on the mainland. I get that, but one workaround would be for a Linden to take a copy of the relevant pieces of road, let the builder/creator fix it in a sandbox, then give the fixed version to a Linden who can rez it in-world.) Many roads on the mainland look way out of date, and there are a number of trouble spots that vehicles consistently have a hard time handling. I've attached some pics, but any resident who drives regularly can name 4 or 5 spots off the top of their head. It seems that some roads were designed to be “bad” to make them challenging, but the ever-present lag issue, among other things, makes them more frustrating than fun. Not to mention some of these roads are just plain ugly. In the ~20 years since the Mainland first opened, users have demonstrated the capacity to build roads on their own property that are at least as good as the current mainland roads, and in many cases substantially better. There are plenty of content creators who already sell road pieces, and I’ve even made a few myself even though I’m terrible with Blender. Many of these issues can probably be fixed in just a few hours by a competent builder, and would not require any interference with private property or significant changes to land impact. Users can work with LL staff to design the fixes in advance and simply “drop them in” when they’re ready, with minimal interruption to the traffic flow. Picking users for different projects could work just like a RL city picking a contractor. The Moles seem mainly focused on Bellisseria, and there simply aren’t enough of them to do much beyond that, but there are enough users who are more than capable of doing this for very little compensation, so why waste that talent? The mainland is at risk of becoming a wasteland, and while some problems might take a lot more work, these defects are low-hanging fruit that would noticeably improve the mainland experience with minimal investment of LL staff time.