Nautilus

Anyone know where I get my hands on the schooling fish ?

How much did you pay then?

There were 10 parcels auctioned this morning at 11:00 am. Five were in Kothar and five were in Hanno.

Kothar - 5 parcels totaling L$318,340 for an average price of L$63,668. The lowest price paid at auction was L$60,010 and the highest was L$78,240. Of note, three of the five parcels sold for L$60,030.
- L$60's - 4
- L$70's - 1

Hanno - 5 parcels totaling L$311,850 for an average price of L$62,370. The lowest price paid at auction was L$60,710 and the highest was L$63,710. Of note, two of the five parcels sold for L$60,710.
- L$60's - 5

The next Nautilus action today will take place at 12:00 pm and include 8 parcels, all in Sophonisba.

There were 8 parcels auctioned this afternoon at 12:00 pm. All eight were in Sophonisba.

Sophonisba - 8 parcels totaling L$401,640 for an average price of L$50,205. The lowest price paid at auction was L$45,010 and the highest was L$63,010. Of note, this is the first time one of the Nautilus auction blocks has averaged in the L$50,000 range, much less at the very lowest part of the range - L$50,205. Of further note, four of the eight parcels sold for L$50,000.

- L$40's - 3
- L$50's - 4
- L$60's - 1

The last Nautilus action today will take place at 1:00 pm and include 8 parcels, all in Baal.

There were 8 parcels auctioned this afternoon at 1:00 pm. All eight were in Baal.

Baal - 8 parcels totaling L$526,150 for an average price of L$65,768.75. The lowest price paid at auction was L$60,010 and the highest was L$79,000.

- L$60's - 6
- L$70's - 2

Today's action totals for the three rounds: 26 parcels totaling L$1,557,900 for an average price of L$59,919. The lowest price paid at auction was L$45,010 and the highest was L$79,000.

Tomorrow, November 1, will have 3 Nautilus auction rounds with a total of 25 parcels on the block.

- 11:00 am - 9 parcels
Hanno - 6 parcels
Kothar - 3 parcels

- 12:00 pm - 8 parcels - all in Yarikh

- 1:00 pm - 8 parcels - all in Sophonisba

Disclaimer: this information was compiled at 1:45 pm, Friday, October 31, 2008. The SL map may not have caught up with all the auction sales today so the parcels set for auction in this report may have in fact been sold in one of today's rounds. This report also does reflect parcels that have not been listed for auction. There are parcels coded "purple" but have not been listed for auction as yet, and these are not included.

The first number reflects the number of parcels for sale. The second number reflects the number of parcels listed for auction.

Adherbal: 17 for sale, 0 auction
Baal: 0 for sale, 19 auction
Bomilcar: 4 for sale, 0 auction
Eshmun: 9 for sale, 0 auction
Hanno: 4 for sale, 13 auction
Hasdrubal: 10 for sale, 0 auction
Kothar: 5 for sale, 8 auction
Magon: 9 for sale, 0 auction
Shahar: 14 for sale, 0 auction
Shalim: 4 for sale, 0 auction
Sophonisba: 4 for sale, 21 auction
Yamm: 0 for sale, 0 auction
Yarikh: 3 for sale, 11 auction

It should be said again---many thanks to you for doing the work of compiling and posting these stats!

Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem with the map of Nautilus at the moment (meaning the last day or so). Everything else is just fine but Nautilus City is grey'd out...

This is LL getting me back for my comments in the Open Space Discussion Forum..it is isn't it!!

Perre...

/me would bet that they tried to get it onto the slurl/land store maps but something went wrong..

If so, they will need to find some other punishment for you. I can send them suggestions, if you'd like.

You too? I was beginning to think I was loosing my mind. Been happening to me for nearly a week now.

Thanks Ponsonby, just trying to help and delighted this is helpful.

I went exploring yesterday. As someone else said, the ceilings on the houses are too low, could see them even sitting on the floor and could not walk up the outside stairs, had to fly up.

I think the houses are too big for the size of the plot, it gives it a suburbian look on which I am not keen, rows of houses pretty close to each other. Just my personal opinion.

Will go to the market place and have a look around.

I felt the same way, and I was in a child avatar at the time, I'd hate to see how it felt with the usual giant avatars most people have.

So, I started rebuilding one of the houses, raised the ceiling and shrunk the footprint a bit (although that was mostly to eliminate the tiny prims the designer used to fill in the gaps)

McMansions.



(Or maybe McSLansions?)

There were 9 parcels auctioned this morning at 11:00 am. Six were in Hanno and three were in Kothar.

Hanno - 6 parcels totaling L$403,530 for an average price of L$67,255. The lowest price paid at auction was L$50,340 and the highest was L$76,880. Of note, two of the six parcels sold for L$76,880.
- L$50's - 1
- L$60's - 2
- L$70's - 3

Kothar - 3 parcels totaling L$182,410 for an average price of L$60,803.33. The lowest price paid at auction was L$50,340 and the highest was L$81,030.
- L$50's - 2
- L$80's - 1

The next Nautilus action today will take place at 12:00 pm and include 8 parcels, all in Yarikh.

The final Nautilus action today will take place at 1:00 pm and include 8 parcels, all in Sophonisba.

There were 8 parcels auctioned this afternoon at 1:00 pm. All eight parcels were in Yarikh.

Yarikh - 8 parcels totaling L$505,600 for an average price of L$63,132.50. The lowest price paid at auction was L$50,020 and the highest was L$85,010.
- L$50's - 5
- L$60's - 1
- L$80's - 2

The next and final Nautilus action today will take place at 1:00 pm and include 8 parcels, all in Sophonisba.

There were 8 parcels auctioned this afternoon at 1:00 pm. All eight were in Sophonisba.

Sophonisba - 8 parcels totaling L$441,920 for an average price of L$55,240. The lowest price paid at auction was L$40,010 and the highest was L$69,010.

- L$40's - 2
- L$50's - 5
- L$60's - 1

Today's action totals for the three rounds: 25 parcels totaling L$1,532,920 for an average price of L$61,316.80. The lowest price paid at auction was L$40,010 and the highest was L$85,010.

Tomorrow, November 2, will have 3 Nautilus auction rounds with a total of 25 parcels on the block.

- 12:00 pm - 9 parcels
Sophonisba - 3 parcels
Yarikh - 3 parcels
Hanno - 3 parcels

- 1:00 pm - 8 parcels - all in Baal

- 2:00 pm - 8 parcels - all in Dido

Thanks, as always, Jean.

One note: the auction page shows the times as I've changed them in the quote.

Terrific Ponsonby, my eyes must have glazed. Appreciate the correction.

Has waiting a while during the land sales put you off buying into Nautilus ?

I did consider buying property around the harbour, some of the marginal harbour plots looked good, the prices were astronomical but then we always knew they would be. Since then the map being greyed out has frustrated me and I haven't a clue what's for sale anymore. Really the only place I'm still interested in now is Hannibal, one building to be precise, and if I'm honest I really don't care if I get it or not (my trust in Linden Labs has been in decline over the last week or so).

As the map is still greyed out I'm having to check regularly to see when the plot becomes available. Today I dropped in on my prospective buy only to find two towers (how ironic) peering up over the horizon...




..is it not enough that the owners should ruin the surrounding landscape below that they feel they need to ruin the view for the folks up top as well...sigh!!

A couple of days ago I walked around the area and snapped a few pics..here's how it could look folks..



...isn't that beautiful.

I said it once before..take those pics now folks because it won't stay that way for long.

Perre..

Only two? That's actually an improvement. For a while there were eight towers in that sim, all of them blatantly modern, and several using megaprims in their construction. They belonged to a couple of land flippers who were asking fairly high prices for those parcels, likely in hopes that someone would buy them out so they could delete the ugly builds to improve the view. Looks like the ones that use Megas may have been deleted by the Lindens, at least...

Here is how it looked just a few days ago:



I just looked, and only the two black towers are there now, and those two lots are no longer for sale. The rest of the lots, almost all of which belong to the owner of those two black towers, are for sale in the L$130K range - higher than what most of the Nautilus parcels sell for.

Good point. I seem to remember just one last night but did not get up to Magon where there were 4 the previous day. We did see a low flying skybox at about 100 meters and a blood fountain was a nice touch. And the pink trees did indeed glow in the night.

What was fun was four of us met up in the Harbor district last night, a little bit by chance. Cynebald was first. We learned that all four of us had horses after we chatted for a while. A despite the late hour, and even though we would pick up an hour overnight, we decided it would be great to see how good Nautilus was for riding.

So off we went, trotting at first and then at full gallops. Nim, Cynebald, and TexasKat led us along the south shore. Some of the sim crossings were quite funny when running at full gallop. The best sim exchanges were when we kept to the open sims along the shoreline. LL and the moles put in hiking paths in these sims which worked great for horse racing as well.

We arrived in Shahar and too all of our dismay found quite a number of the flippers had embarked in building a quite comic look and feel for the sim. I suppose they want someone to buy their builds out or they are truly self-absorbed.

Almost thought of running off to buy one of the excellent SL Trebuchet's. NOTE to SL weapons builders. Some of the medieval Trebuchets are terrific looking. It would be great if you could build some of the early Roman, and better yet, Greek catapults or ballistas that fit nicely on 1,024 parcels. It looks like we will have to use the SL weapons cowammo since thankfully SL does not enable push objects in Nautilus...but I might be wrong on the Trebuchet requirements. A flaming cowammo would probably draw the ire of SL PEDA, however, the effect at night would be quite spectacular.

But I digress...we found that all four of us riding at full gallop actually did very well following the shorelines. It was fun and helped us get to know each other a little better. It does appear we can use the shorelines and some of the paths for a Nautilus wide race track. We'll have to see if jumping the canal is possible. One other note to Moles, there does not appear to be a path to walk up or ride up to the Citadel. This might be something to think about although we could fly the horses up the wall.

All in all it was a great ride and a lot of fun. We'll have to organize some more rides and see about putting on a few races. We wondered how Chariots will do in Nautilus so if anyone has a Chariot, we would be interested in how they work and where you went.

I've been thinking about this and somewhat regret the dismissive tone I used (though I prefer not to change history by editing; I'd rather explain than change). Anyway, I was wondering if the Nautilus creative team debated the size of the houses and just decided that since they were leaving a lot of open space in the sims, and since there would never be more than four parcels actually touching each other, then making houses that would fill the parcel almost to the borders would be okay.

In practice, it can look pretty crowded. But on reflection, having some parts of the NC sims look very urban, while others remain more park-like, may be a good idea.

It makes for more variety.

Hi Ponsonby, reflection is always a good thing

We agree on the cam issues...but the Nautilus creative team did have some design constraints and appear to have put some good thought into their builds. They needed to ensure the buildings looked appropriate on the 1,024 parcel; had a design reflective of the time--open air with lots of windows, rooftops, and porches with awnings; and provided people who were not builders with something they could put on the parcel quickly. They provided a number of designs and color schemes. All-in-all it was a good starting point and helps prevent a ghost town or multi-time period collage of buildings. Also, for Nautilus sims that had builds on them at the outset, they seem to be keeping to theme a little better than those that did not include buildings on the parcels. I may be wrong because I have not been out and about as much as I would like.

This approach also gives those of us who are builders some time to modify the existing structures or create an entirely in-theme build. If we are not full-time SL builders it will take some time for these to develop due to RL demands. While I was not in Bay City when it started, it seems like it took a while for some of the really terrific builds to begin appearing. This may be the case here.

In our case (RL/SL spouses) we chose to purchase two parcels. We'll keep our two islands in their pirate theme but this gives us a chance to work in an earlier historic theme with some Atlantis ideas thrown in. We also like the opportunity to help support a broader community of residents who want to live, play, and work within the theme. We'll start by modifying the initial builds with new textures and see where it goes from there.

The ride was GREAT fun, and it was good to get to know you and Kat a little better along the way. I'm looking forward to other informal and formal gatherings like that so more of us can get to know each other better (both neighbors and people that just enjoying being there! Nautilus is for everyone on the grid. ). Chariot races sound GREAT!





Even though I like the Nautilus houses, and am modding one for myself, your point about them being so big and filling the parcels is well taken, and the same thought has crossed my mind at times too. Had I ended up in one of the eastern sims, particularly with a park view, I would likely have made the house much smaller and used the rest of the parcel as a walled garden. Still, I think the big houses fit when I imagine Nautilus as an ancient, semi arid, urban space. All of the wreckage along the sea beds surrounding the island indicate a great deal of trade, so I don't see it as an agricultural or pastoral space. Making the parcels all 1024's seems to encourage that urban crowding.

I think too, that the houses are big, but the exterior stairways suggest either combinations of private quarters upstairs with a small family business downstairs (I am working out something like that in my mind for my own place) or extended/multiple family dwellings.