apartments / arcology ?

hey people !

first post, hello everybody !

i'm pretty new to SL and i wanted to know if there were places where people actually lives in towers, renting flats, or in arcologies (if such things are already in place). i catched a thread where someone talked about a cyberpunk city where you can actually rent apartments but i can't find it - is it Devil's Moon ? Chaos ? Nexus Prime ? i would be very interested hearing from residents who actually want to live this kind of experience in SL.

pennies for your thoughts/informations

cheers

shinya

Hmnnn. I've seen several. I even built Ravenglass tower, and it's being rented out as apartments right now.

Try using 'find' in SL with the keyword apartment?

Hiya Shinya

Welcome to Secondlife

Yes you can rent apartments, Condo's, Houses, Land.

The best way to search is to hit the find button in game and type in keywords to match what your looking for.

Talk to people in world, Don't be afraid to ask questions, Majority of secondlifers are a friendly bunch and would be willing to help.

Type in freebies (in find) to get alot of cool stuff for new people.

(In find) Under classifieds people also list available rentals ect.

In the forums down further there is a rental classified sections aswell.

Well if you need any help feel free to IM me in game, Hope you have a great secondlife

Nat

For technical reasons, mostly related to privacy, apartments dont tend to be popular in SL.

<nods> Not that privacy was ever an option anyway.

What he's referring to is the fact that chat (normal chat, not yelling) travels a distance of 20 meters away. In a sphere... Including up and down...

Sooo, any building with apartments would need 20 meters space between apartments to stop that from being a problem. That's a lot of wasted space, as I'm sure you can see!

There's no such thing as wasted space in building (especially in SL), Foolish.... it's an opportunity to get creative. In an SL high-rise the only possible 'lost space' might be the section that crosses the cloud line. Other than that everything up to 768 metres is fair game.

And with debug, clouds can be removed.

Sure there is. Space = prim use.

The Grid All Hail The Central Grid itself might be considered arcological. Come to think of it, as we don't really need anything provided by the wora'uld to survive in Second Life, we could consider a purely residential tower as arcological.

Honestly though, what gets in the way is the incredible lag caused by packing more than a dozen avs into a sim. If they are far enough away from each other, they might not cause each other so much client side lag, but you still have server processing everybody and everything they do.

Another factor is the fact that rentors tend to display as many unique textures as possible and run every script they have in their flats. Those problems will exist until we have tools to monitor and control such abuse (I use that term broadly because most of them simply don't understand the havoc they wreak), and until we can define parcels in Z coordinates to set prim limits and such.

Additionally, what makes apartments viable in RL is the land the apartments are on need only be as large as the footprint of the building, and you can cram as many renters on that land as your building will fit. This is not so in SL, you would need a much larger parcel to support the prims, so it encourages low density.

yes, indubitly. the whole SL world could be viewed as arcological. i used to live in LeCorbusier building in marseilles and it felt the exact same way. i'm still looking for a true closed city inside a virtual world - reminds me the walled city in gibson's Idoru. Not closed in terms of "closed to the rest of the world" but closed on itself and trying to figure out how inner spaces can be as exciting as exterior ones - personnaly, i like corridors.

thanx to all for your insights and details about prims and privacy. enlightning stuff. i'm still looking for this cyberpunk place where i could live ^^

cheers !

sh

I have condo towers with suite rentals on Serpent Isle. 350 pw 250 prims.

Plenty of room left.

Serpent Isle

When I was new, I lived in some GORGEOUS towers Tiger Crossing used to have. They had glass walls, so you knew you weren't going to have any privacy, but what a view!

Privacy I didn't need. A home I did, and the apartments were free and offered 30 prims - enough to sit and learn to build. I remember on Valentine's Day a moon with a couple in it slowly slid across the sky over the river, and I wondered how I could possibly feel so peaceful and romantic watching it from my apartment - all alone!

Those aren't there any more, but there are Ravenglass and the others, and I'm sure you'll find one you'll be happy in.

coco

A cyberpunk apartment setting? Go to the Malibu sim, bring a flying vehicle for the no fly zone, and fly up from the ground. The place is amazing.

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