Are all the SL roads going to be turned into parks?

ooo lelia, I may just check that road out. I'm sure that they are everywhere but i have never come across one. I may just explore SL using your place as a starting point lol.
Wow...I'm getting excited over a road o_O... lol

Graph that would be fun. I have never seen a car, thinking about it, I have never seen any vehicle at all! I certainly have never rezzed any of the freebie ones that I have. Wow, I must miss loads of stuff! Either that or i am seriously ignorant!

Here is both a car and a street inside of Second Life:

You can also come to my Vehicle Rez Area. I have Rolls Coupe set out. It doesn't drive too good (lol), but it's a freebie (right-click and take copy). When driving it, for best results, go slow and easy. The others are ones I paid for and just have sitting there. Also, there's a little car dealer ship to the south a little bit. I haven't bought one from there so I can't comment on their quality.


--Hugsy

Most don't look like roads, Claire, just vacant spaces not developed into a road yet. If you look at the map while on the mainland you'll frequently see clusters of yellow spaces for sale with an open area in between that runs the length of the sim. That's the easiest way to spot one.

Havok 4 will fix sim border crossings?

I guess you've never met a Californian before?

roads don't really much 'mean anything' in tp-able sl... however as a sort of 3d-ish 'classical crossover', i like that they and other public works/areas exist. i do like to occassionally boat thru what open areas i can; i imagine land racers like to do the same.

All the SL roads lead to hell.

When I explore I don't fly or TP. It kind of ruins the experience. So I walk or use my bicycle, jetski or hangglider. The reason why roads and rivers are empty is the fact that using a vehicle is such a mess! Sim borders crash you, full parcels orbit you, banlines make you stuck... Too bad SL is not more vehicle friendly.

Errr I'm from New Zealand and I said no, so it's not just the Americans who want their roads.

I enjoy taking my dog for a walk, or going for a sightseeing trip in my pony drawn buggy. (nice and slow scenic ride).

It's just a pity the road running past my place is still a dirt track

Well, Ianthe, sounds like it's not just the Americans who want the roads.

If you are wearing your "vehicle" you won't have any problems with sim crossings. That means a bicycle, horse or skates. I know of no other finer way to travel.

There is a nice cobblestone road behind my house in Griffin that I frequently use. Actually now that I think of it roads are also nice as a helicopter path as you can fly along them and not get stuck in the ban lines that so many people seem to enjoy having.

I love roads. They keep everything from becoming a mish-mash of buildings all clomped together, half of them with ban-lines.

I have a road in front of my shop in Rosieri, and yes, people do go down it. A friend of mine likes to rez a vehicle - a school bus, a metro bus, etc. - and take a few of us on little trips down that road. The only thing that happens is every time we cross a border, we drive into and under the ground for a bit before popping up.

In Asure Islands, I have streets on two sides of my house, and frequently walk down them, or see others walking down them. Last night there was a guy on a horse going along them!

It's more like a neighborhood to have the streets there.

coco

Still I wonder what would have happened if I had originally suggested turning the SL parks into roads instead....

Anyway it now seems to me that it is absolutely essential to have a network of continous rights of way in SL that cannot be built on or banned. It helps the feeling of physical space and 'place' - I don't know why I didnt see that.

(BUT, mutters, no reason for them to look like tarmac and white and yellow lines. Could be prettier... and all that nonsence about cars, oughta go to fairground and sit in dodgems, mutter mutter, I'm going out for a walk, mutter, trails off into the distance down the road.......

(...met a man walks into an SL pub and sits down. Large square of tarmac covered with dotted lines and cats eyes comes in and sits next to him... HI There! Hi!
Hey barman says the man - I'll have a double scotch. And one for the road...)

The roads I've seen (and enjoy) are generally in planned communities - Galveston Island and areas of the Caledon sims come to mind. Or really anyplace that simulates a city - London, Greenwich Village, NYC, Nerdagara Falls, areas around Metronome Jazz dance ballroom in San Fran, etc.

One of the first sims I visited when I was new to SL was Galveston Island and loved the trolley system where one rides to each location rather than a tp platform.

Keep the roads

Oh...and motorcycles!! There are several biker clubs in SL and some great open road for zooming around.

Tegg, how do I do this? I split off a parcel, and activated Buy Pass for it...but then it wouldn't let me in, even though I was the owner. I want a parcel that will let me and my group members enter, but require a pass from outsiders.

Roads can be fun for flying, too. I like taking my Huey a few feet above the road and following it along at high speed.

I think it takes a bit to update, because I had that problem initially, now my group members can walk in ok. You can always buy a pass, the money comes back to you anyway

Damn straight...I love riding my motorcycle all around SL, but you can hardly rez anywhere. *shrug*

The thing that really bugs ME about roads right now is how prim roads are acting in BETA, which I'm hoping gets fixed soon...

...slows the vehicle down by about 75% or something. Avs could run past you, lol

...of course given the fact that with cross-Sim-lag, we can barely stay above ground, this is always a pretty funny topic to even mention. We can barely even call these things roads anymore

"Vehicle" always means a scripted object that has to be rezzed and sat upon. Otherwise it's an attachment with an AO (and just cosmetics). My bicycle for example is a real vehicle.

I guess I object to the "just cosmetics" label for attachments. Granted, they're severely handicapped, not having the very special connection to Havok that's granted to vehicles, but still one can do a lot of fun physics in an attachment. It's just a lot more scripting, and only practical for things that just don't fit the vehicle model.

I live on a bend on a mainland "finished" road, and even though I don't myself drive, I love it!

I like:

1) the sense of real geography the roads and waterways bring

2) going for a run across several sims

3) (this might sound a bit cruel ...) The road crosses a sim border right next to my property and it is one of my favourite spectator sports to sit under my tree watching vehicles roar along then disappear underground in a hail of expletives. I am thinking of putting up a few little roadside shrines to commemorate the most unfortunate victims.

Oh yes and I am from a very built up area of the UK ... thinking about it, if the sl roads were as busy, smelly and noisy as the rl roads near me I would hate them.

For those wanting somewhere to rez a vehicle and drive away, I can recommend NCI Kuula, where they have a ramp from their sandbox onto a very extensive finished road network:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kuula/54/175/29/

when is the havoc upgrade happenning?

LOLOL....I did that last night. We were at Inspire Space Station and then dropped to the Matrix and came out and I freaked. "LOOK....A ROAD!!" Stood there admiring it, while Gav looked at me thinking I had lost my mind! *giggle*