Busy Moles

Its always nice to see improvement when there's improvement to be seen. I'm glad the OP is getting to see some.

But I hope those moles have high-powered energy drinks; there's an awful lot of ugly mainland out there.

Aren't the moles just resident volunteers? So it's not actually LL that's doing anything pretty or who should be thanked, it's your fellow residents doing the nice things for SL that LL doesn't think are important enough to pay someone to do.

Or am I wrong? From the original blog post, it makes it seem as tho workers of the LPWD would be 'contracted' but there was no response to a couple of ppl asking if the moles would be volunteers or paid. Anyone know?

Ahhh... cynicism

OK, back to the topic (I already posted this in the duplicate thread but, well, everybody else posted in this one).

A coffee shop (not a business, just a functional Linden-owned build) went in next to my store in Brownlee a while back, on Linden owned land that was not protected but set to "maintenance". Nice build and a small relief to have something put in there - the empty field was nice but I was always a little worried that LL would some day remember that old parcel and put it up for auction and I'd end up with an ad farm or some other horrible thing next door.

Re: suspicions of ulterior motives... Brownlee is pretty much smack in the middle of the old southern continent, about as landlocked as you can get. It's a roadside parcel in a nice non-crowded commercial area. They clearly did it just to spruce the place up a bit.

About a year back, I made a road through my sim (using overhanging prims) and it was continued into the next sim by the neighbouring community - we coordinated on a cobblestone texture that we both liked.

My sim is mostly countryside apart from where I have my shop, and at the sim intersection the Linden land had a lot of pine trees and shrubbery growing through the road.

This weekend I noticed that the trees had gone.

But they had left the road

I guess we are spruces down rather spruced up

Here's a good list of jobs completed by the LDPW...http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation_Directory

~Opti

There were many wonderful sights along the way, many beautiful builds. I won't pretend there were not some eyesores but where else can you undertake such a journey that spanned about 2.5 hrs of real time except mainland?

Aww, you could have hooked around the corner and visited Tigger... you were within a couple of sims of us.

There's a prim well there, but it's on low production right now (I suppose Nautilus is almost full so they can get by on the regular production at ANWR)... the seals seem to appreciate it.

Thanks Argent, I will try to include that in my next epic journey There are so many options for directions to take when sailing, that was just one possible route that was connected for along distance. I must admit to being really surprised that so many of the water bodies are connected and passable.

They didn't used to be. There used to be ban lines all around one of the critical sims for the link between the continents, with no indication they were there because you can't see them from another sim... only a tiny triangle of protected land in the corner of the sim was open... and it was to easy to miss it when you were sailing north.

I actually created a JIRA asking for another water sim to fill in the gap, but they seem to have decided to take down their ban lines more recently, Hallelujah.

Thanks!

You are kindly welcome!

I would say you have not seen very much of the mainland based upon your comments. There are some lovely parts of mainland. Most areas of land around the water sims are kept nice because a lot of people want to live on the beach in front of the sea. Go look at the lands surrounding the water areas near my sim Watchman to find land that is only as laggy as most islands, mostly adfarm free without anything I would call ugly.
Or go see where I have land in Tamsi, the areas around there are lovely. Same goes for the area around Nautilus where I also have land in San Seguis.
I am not just saying look at my land, I am saying look at the vast areas around these parts I am most familliar with before calling all mainland ugly.
Sure there are some banlines (not as many as you would think and despite what people say I have personally seen banlines on islands too) and there is not as much uniformity between sims but within the same sim you usually find people are trying to keep things nice and consistent.
There are sims and sims of waterfront that is simply a delight to drive your boats past. I know this because I boat a lot.

If anyone comes across anything made by Moles or that has been revitalised by LL for the mainland which has not been announced, report it here and whereabouts you found it. thx

Moles are beginning to gather at my build in Bay City, but I don't think they are associated with the LDPW. They look like they're up to something. Since this photo was taken, one of them has acquired a shovel.
http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=327668

Here's a photo of the build that they are standing next to, The Bay City Ball Machine.
http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=327665

I'll have to keep an eye on these guys to see what they might do.

I am assuming that Moles were given the last name Mole sooo with that presumption...It's great to have a Mole post in this thread, thanks for your efforts and the efforts of your team of Moles they are very much appreciated

When will the LDPW finish running the road through Noonkkot? Or let us take over? I'd be happy with no road there or a complete road there, but the incomplete road is silly.

Not to mention that it's *almost* complete, there's a gap of about 3 sims in an otherwise complete road...

Hey Opti,
What kind of skills, expectations and average work week is like or required to be Mole?
The thing is I didn't know if I have any references or I would have wanted as a Mole but I wasn't sure if I was good enough.
I tend to focus more on textures. I have some building skills but they tend to be
more on the cheerful side aka misalligned but I am very creative.