Land & Public Works

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.

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.

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!

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.

I don’t understand why the Linden Home Content Creation Packs still don’t include trees that match each region’s style. I want to create beautiful landscaping for my home, but it’s quite difficult to find trees that look like they belong in the area. It would be wonderful if the packs included themed trees, making it easier to create landscaping that fits the region’s aesthetic.

Established SL businesses are claiming PP commercial plots with the intent of using them as promotional advertisements / satellite locations to drive users to main store locations. This denies smaller merchants a store location and is exploitative.

Add !Consent Script v 0.99D from the adult hub furniture to be made available at Mole Mart so it can be added by residents to current builds and furniture. I found this script to be really nice.

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...