Land & Public Works

I am a Premium member since forever. The Lab just dropped a whopping 21.1% price increase on me, without adding additional value. My landlady (and close friend) is Premium since forever. The Lab just dropped a 14% price increase on her, but since she owns the land, the Lab also granted her a 13% reduction on land costs, which will save her several hundred US$ per year. This new pricing seems to me to be a redistributing from residents to landowners. We regular Premium residents pay more, and the landowners pay significantly less. We non-land-holding residents subsidize the land barons. This is hardly fair. I understand costs are rising across the board. I understand the Lab's costs are rising as well. Had the Lab argued "everythign gets more expensive" and raised the prices - SLIGHTLY - for ALL, I would have understood. But a 21.1% price increase for Premium residents, paired with a 14% subsidy of landowners - in percentages this seems harmless, in absolute US$ amounts it's massive - sends the wrong message. I ask the Lab to reconsider, and restore fairness.

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 was so excited about my new land purchase...until I realized that I'd accidentally purchased USELESS land that I'd have to babysit constantly because no one is allowed to say a bad word or wear something "revealing", which is, every article of clothing sold in SL. UGH, now I have to wait for some other sap to accidentally purchase it, or abandon my hard earned money. Why oh why is G rated land STILL allowed at all? Why not put it on sims that people wouldn't visit anyway? At LEAST give a head's up to say- HEY! You're about to purchase a USELESS parcel! Are you sure you mean to do that?

Since Plus members have recently had some perks removed I think it would be nice if they were allowed access to Premium sandboxes in consolation... or just because it increases value to the Plus tier and costs relatively little to implement.

I've not seen it in SL, but it could possibly be fun idea for the LL Moles to build. A British style canal network. Sure, on some suitable continent where there is some space available, or maybe Bellerissia. I as a boat builder would be happy to build a selection of canal boats, and I know a couple of other builders who have already built canal boats. Narrowboats as they are known, 6 foot 10 inches wide and 57 feet long (that could be scaled up by say 15% for SL avis), travel around a network of canals that are often only as wide as two or 3 boat widths. Allowing boats to be moored on the side, and others to pass. Locks that are often only one boat width take the narrow boats up and down gradients. Locks make the whole journey interesting, and could be fun in SL if done well. I'd be happy to get involved with designing and building some locks too. This could be a fun activity.

I'm a Premium member since forever, and I was delighted when semi-regular gifts got offered for Premium members. They often were from a home/garden or gadget category, which was perfectly fine. Later, when the Lab sought collaborations with popular designers and released designer branded gifts, they became more fashion and accessory oriented, but as such, still catered to all genders, with the collaboration partners usually offering 1 gift for female AND male avatars. This is what I expected from the inaugural event at ACCESS, but I got dearly disappointed. The number of participating designers was impressive, the number of gifts that could be used with male avatars was not. It was not even close to the roughly 40% in previous installments, but more in the range of 1-digit percentages. As a paying Premium member for almost 2 decades, with those gifts by now included among the officially announced perks of a membership, I felt duped. Sure, I did not become Premium because of those gifts. And I would stay Premium even if those gifts would vanish. But if you say (paraphrased) 'Premium members get cool gifts every now and then', then you should make sure that ALL Premium members should get those gifts. I'm not even expecting 50% (or 100%, like when the gifts were not primarily fashion items). SL is a rather feminime world when it comes to fashion, but I would have hoped for at least 30%, better 40%, of the gifts being usable for male avatars. And yes, the irony of suddenly being the disadvantaged gender does not escape me. You're preaching to the choir here. I have my doubts though that this was an intentional message, and merely assume an oversight, or negligence. So, please, more male fashion, or more gifts - like before - from gadget, landscaping, home and garden, vehicles, etc. Thank you!

Openspace regions currently cannot allow the land to be deeded to a group and it would be a fantastic if this could be changed and allow the land to be deeded. While these regions are very limited to what they can be used for and great for allowing residents to sail boats across them from some full prim regions or homesteads and have some openspace regions between them. Please look into this change and see if it would be possible to do so, it would be a very welcomed feature so that not only myself but for others with these regions to offer sailing abilities more easily without needing to keep build/object entry options for boats or planes open to non-group members and enable us to share the regions setting menu with some group members without adding to the estate manager list. Many thanks, Mark Legendary

One of the big things that SL can do that few other virtual world-type platforms can do, is its in-world building features and the ability to collaboratively create and build. With this in mind, including some kind of sandbox region in SLB, suitably isolated to prevent damage to surrounding regions, could be a good showing of this feature. It can be used as an unpack area, or to do basic build lessons in, show off effects and toys, maybe even enable Combat2 with teleport-on-death set to no action for weapons use up on a sky platform. So long as the region/parcel options are properly set and someone's around to run clean-up or hit the stop button as necessary, the full insanity of open sandboxes doesn't have to impact the other regions. But it can be a good showing of the toys and collaborative silly shenanigans that other VR platforms just don't really do. [attn: Web User Group]

i was touring what remains of the right of way for the WARR. and believe that it could be put back in covering a least twenty sims and stopping at the coast. it could be done as there's one band and property and a small corner of one mass them that borders near the open water way that would need to be claimed in order for a deterrent to make it through cleanly the rest of it can run on parts of the roadway i definitely believe that this project could be done . i've listed the above sections that the be a problem or need negotiations . 2025-12-15 : Abandoned Land, Tiretta (241, 253, 75) - Moderate a small section of this parcel would need to be procured for as a train to go through. the parcel nearest this location would need a small section cut from it Linden Right of Way, Andraca (35, 28, 33) - Moderate for it to be used and this would be the end of the track http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Elpenor/106/51/42 which ends right at the roadway year the western coast at the south. i think it's very well could be done and only having to procure part of an abandoned land and talking to one you person who owns a part have a small section that could easily be split off not needing to take their entire land. linden lab could buy the small section off the land near Andraca (35, 28, 33) it definitely would be very cool and i'm very sure of that so parcells would be very interested and hooking up to the railroad .

I think that there should automatically appear a 1 sim navigable waterway around any land of the mainland. When mainland expands, the buffer 1 sim waterway should expand with it. This way, naviable waters are always available. If two lands join, elimating a waterway, it should appear in the closest edge to that lost one, making sure to provide a route around the lost waterway. Thanks!