Land & Public Works

There are _many_ instances of 4-way region crossing (i.e. corner of 4 regions) that are inconveniently located on Linden Roads. These spots will very frequently destroy the vehicle, not only when the vehicle hits the "corner" (sending all entities -- vehicle & sitters -- every which way), but also when avoiding the corner because now the vehicle must face a back-to-back pair of crossing (e.g., crossing to the East, followed by crossing to the North soon after). While a solution is being sought to alleviate the crossing issues for good, I propose that for instances of this monstrosity (i.e., corner crossing smack-drab in the middle of a Linden Road), at least 2 Rez Zones need to be carved, along the general direction of the road. This will help reduce the painful experience of having your vehicle break apart and then having to walk a loooong way just to find a Rez Zone. This I think is a better compromise compared to the other Canny ticket about making the whole Linden Road area to be Rez Zones. (This one: https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/make-linden-roads-rezable-for-easier-vehicle-recovery )

Second Life needs a built-in original soundtrack. You could have cool ambient vibes when logging in, exciting beats when teleporting. It would greatly add to the immersion and atmosphere when doing anything in SL. Imagine zoning out to cool tunes when teleporting or the excitement of zooming through Blake Sea with cool electronic tempo. I urge you to upvote this important proposal.

Goal: Create a new Mainland continent with updated textures, objects and infrastructure as well as a new covenant to provide a more appealing base than the existing mainland continents. Current situation: The current mainland looks outdated for the most part as far as ground textures, Linden objects and infrastructure are concerned. I don't believe I need to prove this with examples.. everyone knows. The Gaeta 1 precedent (closing a continent and moving people) made me think that everything's possible now, as in creating a prettier continent and closing another one, but such a process would still be ugly in parts. Creating a new mainland continent for Premium Plus members would be a compromise, but it would probably be relatively easy compared to the alternatives. We could use that opportunity to introduce a new mainland covenant. There are enough people calling for stricter mainland rules which would include things like prohibiting skyboxes on the ground etc. The covenant could be inspired by the current covenants for the Bellisseria homes and commercial districts. What could be part of the covenant: Land cannot be subleased or rented No skyboxes below 2000m Parcels cannot be subdivided No 2D walls* *No 2D walls: allow this continent to provide immersion. 2D walls have skybox character and separate spaces on a meta level. If people place a 2D wall, they say on a meta level: I do not want to be next to the other parcels but this is my own separate space. This counteracts the shared environment that is provided by a connected landscape. Using fences or hedges as separators would be fine of course, since they do not separate on a meta level but as part of the immersion. The financial risk would be relatively low since we could have just a few sims at the start and see how it all works out.

When an avatar turns 21 they are given a FULL sim to live on to do as they wish until the end of their time.

We all know the classic LLCS. A heart that acts like a capacitor. You get teleported home instantly because someone hit you with a prim. It's flawed, it's frankly bad, but some people like it that way. However, since Combat2, we now have options. You can set a region to be no-teleport, you can set health to be no-regen. So effectively, you can set a region to be "combat enabled", where the relevant script events will fire and where people who want to engage in combat can do, while leaving noncombatants in a completely safe state. For classic combat regions, the old LLCS rules can remain in place just for minimal disruption. However, with no-regen, no-teleport rules, combat damage and their associated script functions could be enabled on huge swathes of mainland without affecting anybody beyond them now having a heart that may reach 0 but then nothing happens because they aren't taking part in combat, and are not using a HUD or other means to make "damage" or "death" meaningful. Could be a good way to let people who wanna pewpew do more pewpews, without causing grief to those who would rather not.

I'd like to request that when LL release new Linden Homes, or things like the shops, or new names, that LL keep in mind that not everyone can be around for the moment of release. We're from around the world, some will be at work when these releases happen, some will be asleep, and what-have-you. It would be more fair, in the case of the shops that you submit your name in some fashion before a deadline. Then random people that put in their name and qualify (Premium Plus subscribers in this case) gets assigned a random store upon the release date. This only applies to the release dates though, if you like to abandon your place and try get another, that should be possible afterwards through a different mechanism. The same idea above should work for new Linden Homes as well. A bit like a lottery. With new surnames, you should be able to buy a ticket for a certain name or name(s), and the same principle as above should apply. If several people have picked the same name, a random person gets it on the release date. It would be good if you could buy a ticket for several names at once, either to put in a bid for them all, or in priority order if you don't get your first pick. Do we have other releases that needs to be made more fair? I didn't know where else to put this, so feel free to move this.

I am very happy to hear that Zindra will be expanded and that new waterways may be opened along the southern border (please do that). I've made this request before https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/add-navigable-regions-or-channels-to-zindra and glad it is being tracked. However, Most of the available land is held by land barons who are either jacking up prices beyond the reach of most players OR slicing up the sky with sky boxes that are ugly, impact ground level dwellings with shadows, and add load. It is likely the land barons will gobble up the new land on Zindra exacerbating an already overpriced market. While I understand SL gets their tier each month it would be worth exploring ways in which the new land is available only to users and land barons that are speculating and stacked sky box rentals are prohibited. I am proposing governance somewhere between the strict rules on Bellisaria and the free for all of Mainland. For example, Land can only be sold for what it was purchased for. If its sold at $1L per SQM, then speculative pricing would dissapear and might have a depressive impact on land pricing elsewhere on Mainland. Prohibit rentals. This would encourage land owners to use the land they bought to live on, put a business or or some other purpose than slicing it up into bits vertically and horizontally. After accommodating the residents of Gaeta 1 who might want a parcel on Zindra, allocate some portion of the land to residents as a Linden Home without the strict covenant. Users can choose a 1024 or 2048 parcel as part of thier membership. If you must allow land barons, then prohibit prims below 1,000m above the ground to reduce the impact on neighbors. For rentals, charge tier not only by the SQM but the altitude of the highest skybox. If a landlord can make 5x tier or more renting vertical space, why not take a healthy nibble of that revenue. Vertical rentals are lost revenue for LL. Those are just a few ideas and there are others, but the point is to encourage users living and making a business on the new Zindra land and discourage or prohibit land barons buying up the land causing inflationary land prices which results in abandoned, unused land.

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.

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.

I'd like to request mesh model templates, basically simple models of the interior shapes of the stores, to help with designing the interior in programs such as Blender or Maya. Trying to "prim them out" and then exporting the prims is a bit difficult, and means a lot of trial and error. Thank you! =)