Land & Public Works

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

it would be nice if Zindra (the continent hastily built to host the Adult refugees after the demoting of all the ”Mature” main land sims to ”Moderate” status), could get some love from Lindens and Moles... I mean, we really need it to be brought on par with older main land continents (with public rez zones on roads at each sim border, better public buildings, the addition of water sims and protected water channels to allow sailing all around the continent, the addition of land sims with some hills and mountains, etc). Also, why not moving it closer to the other continents on the grid (it's just an offset to change in sims coordinates), and link it via an ”Adult channel” to the rest of the SL seas ?... EDIT: oh, and I almost forgot... Please, fix public parcels (especially roads) permission flags, so to allow scripted vehicle entry and let people providing public transportation have their scripted automated vehicles roam freely the roads of Zindra. E.g. YavaScript PODs, SLGI Transportation System, etc...

Zindra roads look ike ice or glass and it's quite terrible. I'll be glad to volunteer for this if need be.

Please Develop Abandoned Land and place out Regions in and around Bellisaria and mainland with Activities and large parks for residents to take part in. hang gliding, Surfing, Hiking, Skating, Bowling, horseback riding the list is endless. while both areas have some they are usually small endeavors second Life has been on a decline in public spaces with activities in recent years. we as residents need activities to do and that will also attract the new comers. you could also collab with existing creators to set up some of these places.

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

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!