New Mainland Discovered Down Under?

I tend to explore the map for land for sale when I'm bored.

Tonight, I noticed when zoomed all the way out that there was a cluster of for sale icons on what appeared to be an island a ways South of the main land.

On closer inspection (zooming in), it ended up being a multi-sim large island with a bunch of First Land plots on one or two of the sims and most of the rest marked for auction.

Should be interesting to see how it develops as it looks rather complete already, though much smaller than the mainland and otherland.

...i'm totally fascinated by this southern island...

...any idea when it first appeared?..i saw it last night for the first time, and had to zoom waaaay out to see anything else at all on the grid...yours is the only mention i've found of it on the boards, to boot...

...i'm sure this is partially due to its presently virgin status, but i have to say that its natural (non-orthagonal) form and extensive surrounding waters make even the most lush of private islands seem positively anemic and rinky by comparison - i'm jealous...

looking at the region, says land was claimed 21st December

Always nice to explore new areas... lots of nice coves... not for sale yet but as beautiful as the ones irl in the middle of Sweden..


Have a look by yourself!! Before the regular ”invasion”))

Hmm, does anyone have a picture? A while ago there were a few sims "down under", which seemed to be the new German community thing they were talking about at the time.
I have a screenshot of them somewhere.

I meant a picture of the map, but I found that it's visible on the website map. That doesn't look like the sims I visited. The ones I somehow managed to access last summer were some kind of valley with rivers.

aww... new continent!

...

Last night, while zooming around the map, i accidentally discovered this new continent, which looked different from privates islands, due to its location (very far south east of mainland) and size (32 contiguous sims, at last count).

Ever curious, I raised a small crew of Land Investors i found online (my gf Anna, our friend Katie, and myself), and took our Mythic Airship for a ride on this unexplored country. Upon first teleport arrival, I was dismayed. The sim i landed in had No Create Object turned on, which thwarted my plans for rezzing an Airship or planting a flag in the New World.

At this point, i had not seen any green dots on the map, so i assumed the land was uninhabited. The map was wrong. I flew around the continent, hoping to find a sim which allowed Create Object, and after a minute (using enhanced flight), i found one! I quickly rezzed an Airship for my happy crew and tp'd them in, before i even realized... i saw a lost object poking out of the sandy beach. Thus far i had only seen rolling green hills and trees and beachfront land, but not a prim in sight, no avatar made object. Then i saw more structures, as i turned around from the beach, and to my shock, i saw 3 other avatars, having a conversation, in front of their home. The natives were friendly, fortunately. We had a friendly talk, and also from what a Mentor said in IM, this appeared to be a colony of new residents in a Mentor/Welcome program. We took a leisurely tour around the new land, most of it pristine and beautiful.

With the mystery solved, the country discovered, first contact made, we returned to our own homes too, tired but happy.

From the Journals of Dennis Albion

Hmmm, all of the sims have Korean names. This must be the Korean area. I guess that means the German area can't be far behind?

All new terrain... must go rallying and leave my mark via tire tracks accross the land! Woot!

Actually, I count 32 sims in total making up this new continent thus far.

i only had a quick look around them, the people all seemed quite english... talking english and english names. if this new community is for korean players, why are us english noobs taking their first land on them?

Hurray, more space for wild mammoths

Damn English newb imperialists!

I've staked my claim and would be happy to sell to Korean n00bs for a very reasonable price

Me too, I got 1024 (for sale, IM Me ), but it's no terraform... This should be interesting

Have you got a flag?

I'm quoting myself! This was sold in no time. I guess I wasn't gouging enough.

We don't need a flag! We live here, 500,000,000 of us!!


No flag, no country! Thats the rule that.. I just made up..

Eh. What the heck. Bought a 512m there myself.

It's actually got a really nice view, so I'm keeping mine unless somebody wants it REALLY bad.

And apparently more room for dragons to cloud the sky? They're cool, but can we do some population control? They seem to be reprodcuing like bunnies over the new continent.

Well, it was only a matter of time. There is already a club, a mini-mall and, of course an impeach bush sign.