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Caledric Axon

I mkae poast now?

Join date: 9 Nov 2005

Posts: 200

03-11-2008 09:52

What would you build on it? Also can a private island consist of more then one region?

Maggie McArdle

FIOS hates puppies

Join date: 8 May 2006

Posts: 2,855

03-11-2008 09:53

a stable, with horses, and riding trails, plus a picnic area, for all to enjoy. but thats just me

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There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.

Rock Ryder

Registered User

Join date: 6 Oct 2006

Posts: 384

03-11-2008 09:59

A private Island IS a region.

Private Island = Region = SIM = 256x256m = 65, 536sqm.

You can group regions into an Estate. When you buy a private island you are asked for the name of your island, and the estate name. Any islands you buy after that you can choose whether to have them separate or to include them within an existing estate.

If I had a free island I would build The Forbidden City and populate it with the Emperor, his wives and concubines.

The attention to detail would be paramount.

Rock

Trout Recreant

Public Enemy No. 1

Join date: 24 Jul 2007

Posts: 4,873

03-11-2008 10:01

My favorite place on earth in the Real World is Mt. St. Helens. I hike from the Johnston Ridge Observatory to the tip of Harry's Ridge as an annual spiritual retreat. Anyone who has been to the Observatory probably understands. I'd love to create a reproduction of Mt. St Helens and that hike. I could have a memorial to those who died in the eruption, a slide show or some sort of streaming video, some interactive displays and some really great places to explore. I would LOVE to do that. Of course, I don't have the free island, so unless someone ponies one up or I hit the lotto, that ain't happenin'.

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Sindy Tsure

Will script for shoes

Join date: 18 Sep 2006

Posts: 4,103

03-11-2008 10:02

From: Caledric Axon

What would you build on it? Also can a private island consist of more then one region?

I'd make a tropical water park..

Palm trees, sand, pools, water slides, maybe a bar or 4, some places for people to lounge in the sun and chat, floaties, surf, etc.. Maybe a semi-small dance floor for when the sun goes down.

It's an estate that can be more than one island. Like Rock says, private island, sim and region are all pretty much the same thing - one 256mx256m chunch of land.

Conifer Dada

Hiya m'dooks!

Join date: 6 Oct 2006

Posts: 3,716

03-11-2008 10:09

Don't tell everybody, but......

You can have your own private island already, for free! I have one from OpenSim, downloaded from OpenLife as a standalone. My island, Wootnia, is 2 sims - works just like SL developed with LL's open source codes. I even look almost the same as I do in SL there - just slightly less tanned.

BUT - there are limitations - standalones can't be connected to SL, so it's a lonely existence and some of the SL functions are disabled. And you have to create all the content yourself. They give a few quite good textures but that's all.

I don't think they present a major threat to SL, though. Despite having Wootonia and building stuff there I still spend more of my time in SL.

Trout Recreant

Public Enemy No. 1

Join date: 24 Jul 2007

Posts: 4,873

03-11-2008 10:12

From: Conifer Dada

Don't tell everybody, but......

You can have your own private island already, for free! I have one from OpenSim, downloaded from OpenLife as a standalone. My island, Wootnia, is 2 sims - works just like SL developed with LL's open source codes. I even look almost the same as I do in SL there - just slightly less tanned.

BUT - there are limitations - standalones can't be connected to SL, so it's a lonely existence and some of the SL functions are disabled. And you have to create all the content yourself. They give a few quite good textures but that's all.

It would be fun to practice, but I would really want a place that would be open to everyone to come visit and explore. Why have an island that nobody gets to play on?

No man is an island unto himself...(sorry. couldn't resist)

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From: Jerboa Haystack

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Amaranthim Talon

Voyager, Seeker, Curious

Join date: 14 Nov 2006

Posts: 12,032

03-11-2008 10:14

I would make essentiallY what i have now- but BIG!!!

Buckaroo Mu

Alpha Geek

Join date: 17 Oct 2006

Posts: 106

03-11-2008 10:18

If I had an island... Ok, I'd probably need four, and have to build in the corner, to have all the prims I'd need...

I'd build I-6, Castle Ravenloft. The best horror-related AD&D module ever written, with complete blueprints for the Castle and it's surrounding areas. I've built it in HalfLife 2's map editor, I'm pretty durn familiar with it - and it would rock to be able to have all of SL see the place.

Ann Launay

Neko-licious™

Join date: 8 Aug 2006

Posts: 7,893

03-11-2008 10:25

Something based on the four seasons. Maybe a tropical beach merging into a Japanese spring (complete with cherry blossom trees), up to a Vermont fall, then finally to a snowy mountainside. I think the main trick would be getting the flow right, so there was a sense of transformation, rather than just seasonal views plunked next to each other.

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From: someone

I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things.

Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.

HoneyBear Lilliehook

Owner, The Mall at Cherry

Join date: 18 Jun 2007

Posts: 4,500

03-11-2008 10:25

From: Sindy Tsure

I'd make a tropical water park..

Palm trees, sand, pools, water slides, maybe a bar or 4, some places for people to lounge in the sun and chat, floaties, surf, etc.. Maybe a semi-small dance floor for when the sun goes down.

It's an estate that can be more than one island. Like Rock says, private island, sim and region are all pretty much the same thing - one 256mx256m chunch of land.

I pretty much have this already. It doesn't get utilized to its best potential, no matter how much it's publicized.

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Claire Silverspar

Pokes Badgers With Spoons

Join date: 31 Oct 2007

Posts: 5,375

03-11-2008 10:26

I would create a place for others.
A place to explore, hangout, and have fun.
Not sure about specifics, but i just know i would want others to enjoy it.

But then I can't build - so i would just design and get someone else to do the hard work

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I'll miss this damn place.
I'll be over at SCII after the end has come.

Cunundrum Alcott

A Sardonic Pessimist

Join date: 15 Jan 2007

Posts: 773

03-11-2008 10:33

Can I sell it and use the money to buy clothes?

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Isabeau Imako

P'tite Poulette

Join date: 13 Sep 2007

Posts: 2,335

03-11-2008 10:36

From: Ann Launay

Something based on the four seasons. Maybe a tropical beach merging into a Japanese spring (complete with cherry blossom trees), up to a Vermont fall, then finally to a snowy mountainside. I think the main trick would be getting the flow right, so there was a sense of transformation, rather than just seasonal views plunked next to each other.

That would be great. I would certainly visit (if you let me...)

I recently visited Gypsy Moon and loved it - like walking inside a painting. I think that's what I would do if I had the ability. Some kind of environment you can't find in RL. I love all the nature Sims, in fact, it's usually where I spend most of my time inworld. With all the possibilities offered using SL, I just wish there were more outlandish sims.

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Just remember what my dear Grammy always says: "F**k 'em!"

Brenda Connolly

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Join date: 10 Jan 2007

Posts: 25,000

03-11-2008 10:37

I'd strand a group of people on it, with no ready way to escape, but with the materials necessary to fabricate just about anything. There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. And there would be this one guy who would keep messing things up........

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Ann Launay

Neko-licious™

Join date: 8 Aug 2006

Posts: 7,893

03-11-2008 10:39

From: Brenda Connolly

There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things.

Coconut radio?

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From: someone

I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things.

Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.

Caledric Axon

I mkae poast now?

Join date: 9 Nov 2005

Posts: 200

03-11-2008 10:41

From: Brenda Connolly

I'd strand a group of people on it, with no ready way to escape, but with the materials necessary to fabricate just about anything. There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. And there would be this one guy who would keep messing things up........

Would you then name this Island Hilligan?

Sunni Jewell

Who said so?

Join date: 22 Mar 2007

Posts: 748

03-11-2008 10:41

From: Brenda Connolly

There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things.

Except a boat.

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Toy Halfpint

Eats Paintchips

Join date: 23 Jan 2008

Posts: 88

03-11-2008 10:45

I would wait for the other shoe to fall.

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- Ex Live Helper (2 yrs)

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Brenda Connolly

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Join date: 10 Jan 2007

Posts: 25,000

03-11-2008 10:49

Nevermind designing a new one, he couldn't fix the Goddamn one they had already.

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Brenda Connolly

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03-11-2008 10:51

From: Caledric Axon

Would you then name this Island Hilligan?

No, Hooligan. And it would be one those SL Newbie Indoctrination camps like the NBA, or CSI deals

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Imnotgoing Sideways

Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=

Join date: 17 Nov 2007

Posts: 4,694

03-11-2008 10:54

I'm not sure what _I_ would do, but I'm sure many of the people I know would wonder what happened to me and send me IMs just to be sure I'm still alive. (=_=)

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Avion Raymaker

Palacio del Emperador!

Join date: 18 Jun 2007

Posts: 980

03-11-2008 11:37

From: Brenda Connolly

I'd strand a group of people on it, with no ready way to escape, but with the materials necessary to fabricate just about anything. There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. And there would be this one guy who would keep messing things up........

I know how to make a bicycle-powered record player!

MoxZ Mokeev

Invisible Alpha Texture

Join date: 10 Jan 2008

Posts: 870

03-11-2008 11:41

Puerto Vallarta Mexico with lots of beaches and Los Arcos for snorkeling - and parasailing to be pulled behind boats!

Claire Silverspar

Pokes Badgers With Spoons

Join date: 31 Oct 2007

Posts: 5,375

03-11-2008 11:54

From: Avion Raymaker

I know how to make a bicycle-powered record player!

careful! she'll get trout to kidnap you and put you on the island with the others lol.

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I'll be over at SCII after the end has come.

If you were given a private island for free and didn't have to pay on it ever...
Caledric Axon I mkae poast now? Join date: 9 Nov 2005 Posts: 200	03-11-2008 09:52 What would you build on it? Also can a private island consist of more then one region?
Maggie McArdle FIOS hates puppies Join date: 8 May 2006 Posts: 2,855	03-11-2008 09:53 a stable, with horses, and riding trails, plus a picnic area, for all to enjoy. but thats just me _____________________ There's, uh, probably a lot of things you didn't know about lindens. Another, another interesting, uh, lindenism, uh, there are only three jobs available to a linden. The first is making shoes at night while, you know, while the old cobbler sleeps.You can bake cookies in a tree. But the third job, some call it, uh, "the show" or "the big dance," it's the profession that every linden aspires to.
Rock Ryder Registered User Join date: 6 Oct 2006 Posts: 384	03-11-2008 09:59 A private Island IS a region. Private Island = Region = SIM = 256x256m = 65, 536sqm. You can group regions into an Estate. When you buy a private island you are asked for the name of your island, and the estate name. Any islands you buy after that you can choose whether to have them separate or to include them within an existing estate. If I had a free island I would build The Forbidden City and populate it with the Emperor, his wives and concubines. The attention to detail would be paramount. Rock
Trout Recreant Public Enemy No. 1 Join date: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 4,873	03-11-2008 10:01 My favorite place on earth in the Real World is Mt. St. Helens. I hike from the Johnston Ridge Observatory to the tip of Harry's Ridge as an annual spiritual retreat. Anyone who has been to the Observatory probably understands. I'd love to create a reproduction of Mt. St Helens and that hike. I could have a memorial to those who died in the eruption, a slide show or some sort of streaming video, some interactive displays and some really great places to explore. I would LOVE to do that. Of course, I don't have the free island, so unless someone ponies one up or I hit the lotto, that ain't happenin'. _____________________ From: Jerboa Haystack A Trout Rating (tm) is something to cherish. To flaunt and be proud of. It is something all women should aspire to obtain!
Sindy Tsure Will script for shoes Join date: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 4,103	03-11-2008 10:02 From: Caledric Axon What would you build on it? Also can a private island consist of more then one region? I'd make a tropical water park.. Palm trees, sand, pools, water slides, maybe a bar or 4, some places for people to lounge in the sun and chat, floaties, surf, etc.. Maybe a semi-small dance floor for when the sun goes down. It's an estate that can be more than one island. Like Rock says, private island, sim and region are all pretty much the same thing - one 256mx256m chunch of land.
Conifer Dada Hiya m'dooks! Join date: 6 Oct 2006 Posts: 3,716	03-11-2008 10:09 Don't tell everybody, but...... You can have your own private island already, for free! I have one from OpenSim, downloaded from OpenLife as a standalone. My island, Wootnia, is 2 sims - works just like SL developed with LL's open source codes. I even look almost the same as I do in SL there - just slightly less tanned. BUT - there are limitations - standalones can't be connected to SL, so it's a lonely existence and some of the SL functions are disabled. And you have to create all the content yourself. They give a few quite good textures but that's all. I don't think they present a major threat to SL, though. Despite having Wootonia and building stuff there I still spend more of my time in SL.
Trout Recreant Public Enemy No. 1 Join date: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 4,873	03-11-2008 10:12 From: Conifer Dada Don't tell everybody, but...... You can have your own private island already, for free! I have one from OpenSim, downloaded from OpenLife as a standalone. My island, Wootnia, is 2 sims - works just like SL developed with LL's open source codes. I even look almost the same as I do in SL there - just slightly less tanned. BUT - there are limitations - standalones can't be connected to SL, so it's a lonely existence and some of the SL functions are disabled. And you have to create all the content yourself. They give a few quite good textures but that's all. It would be fun to practice, but I would really want a place that would be open to everyone to come visit and explore. Why have an island that nobody gets to play on? No man is an island unto himself...(sorry. couldn't resist) _____________________ From: Jerboa Haystack A Trout Rating (tm) is something to cherish. To flaunt and be proud of. It is something all women should aspire to obtain!
Amaranthim Talon Voyager, Seeker, Curious Join date: 14 Nov 2006 Posts: 12,032	03-11-2008 10:14 I would make essentiallY what i have now- but BIG!!!
Buckaroo Mu Alpha Geek Join date: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 106	03-11-2008 10:18 If I had an island... Ok, I'd probably need four, and have to build in the corner, to have all the prims I'd need... I'd build I-6, Castle Ravenloft. The best horror-related AD&D module ever written, with complete blueprints for the Castle and it's surrounding areas. I've built it in HalfLife 2's map editor, I'm pretty durn familiar with it - and it would rock to be able to have all of SL see the place.
Ann Launay Neko-licious™ Join date: 8 Aug 2006 Posts: 7,893	03-11-2008 10:25 Something based on the four seasons. Maybe a tropical beach merging into a Japanese spring (complete with cherry blossom trees), up to a Vermont fall, then finally to a snowy mountainside. I think the main trick would be getting the flow right, so there was a sense of transformation, rather than just seasonal views plunked next to each other. _____________________ ~Now Trout Re-Re-Re-Certified!~ From: someone I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things. Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.
HoneyBear Lilliehook Owner, The Mall at Cherry Join date: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 4,500	03-11-2008 10:25 From: Sindy Tsure I'd make a tropical water park.. Palm trees, sand, pools, water slides, maybe a bar or 4, some places for people to lounge in the sun and chat, floaties, surf, etc.. Maybe a semi-small dance floor for when the sun goes down. It's an estate that can be more than one island. Like Rock says, private island, sim and region are all pretty much the same thing - one 256mx256m chunch of land. I pretty much have this already. It doesn't get utilized to its best potential, no matter how much it's publicized. _____________________ Virtual Freebies now has its own domain! URL=http://virtualfreebiesblog.com The Mall at Cherry Park - new vendors, new look!
Claire Silverspar Pokes Badgers With Spoons Join date: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 5,375	03-11-2008 10:26 I would create a place for others. A place to explore, hangout, and have fun. Not sure about specifics, but i just know i would want others to enjoy it. But then I can't build - so i would just design and get someone else to do the hard work _____________________ I'll miss this damn place. I'll be over at SCII after the end has come.
Cunundrum Alcott A Sardonic Pessimist Join date: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 773	03-11-2008 10:33 Can I sell it and use the money to buy clothes? _____________________
Isabeau Imako P'tite Poulette Join date: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 2,335	03-11-2008 10:36 From: Ann Launay Something based on the four seasons. Maybe a tropical beach merging into a Japanese spring (complete with cherry blossom trees), up to a Vermont fall, then finally to a snowy mountainside. I think the main trick would be getting the flow right, so there was a sense of transformation, rather than just seasonal views plunked next to each other. That would be great. I would certainly visit (if you let me...) I recently visited Gypsy Moon and loved it - like walking inside a painting. I think that's what I would do if I had the ability. Some kind of environment you can't find in RL. I love all the nature Sims, in fact, it's usually where I spend most of my time inworld. With all the possibilities offered using SL, I just wish there were more outlandish sims. _____________________ From: Macphisto Angelus Just remember what my dear Grammy always says: "F**k 'em!"
Brenda Connolly Un United Avatar Join date: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 25,000	03-11-2008 10:37 I'd strand a group of people on it, with no ready way to escape, but with the materials necessary to fabricate just about anything. There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. And there would be this one guy who would keep messing things up........ _____________________ Don't you ever try to look behind my eyes. You don't want to know what they have seen. http://brenda-connolly.blogspot.com
Ann Launay Neko-licious™ Join date: 8 Aug 2006 Posts: 7,893	03-11-2008 10:39 From: Brenda Connolly There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. Coconut radio? _____________________ ~Now Trout Re-Re-Re-Certified!~ From: someone I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things. Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.
Caledric Axon I mkae poast now? Join date: 9 Nov 2005 Posts: 200	03-11-2008 10:41 From: Brenda Connolly I'd strand a group of people on it, with no ready way to escape, but with the materials necessary to fabricate just about anything. There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. And there would be this one guy who would keep messing things up........ Would you then name this Island Hilligan?
Sunni Jewell Who said so? Join date: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 748	03-11-2008 10:41 From: Brenda Connolly There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. Except a boat. _____________________ Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain-The Wizard of Oz
Toy Halfpint Eats Paintchips Join date: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 88	03-11-2008 10:45 I would wait for the other shoe to fall. _____________________ "I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow..." - Ex Mentor (3 yrs) - Ex SL Instructor (3 yrs) - Ex Live Helper (2 yrs) I learned my lesson
Brenda Connolly Un United Avatar Join date: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 25,000	03-11-2008 10:49 Nevermind designing a new one, he couldn't fix the Goddamn one they had already. _____________________ Don't you ever try to look behind my eyes. You don't want to know what they have seen. http://brenda-connolly.blogspot.com
Brenda Connolly Un United Avatar Join date: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 25,000	03-11-2008 10:51 From: Caledric Axon Would you then name this Island Hilligan? No, Hooligan. And it would be one those SL Newbie Indoctrination camps like the NBA, or CSI deals _____________________ Don't you ever try to look behind my eyes. You don't want to know what they have seen. http://brenda-connolly.blogspot.com
Imnotgoing Sideways Can't outlaw cute! =^-^= Join date: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 4,694	03-11-2008 10:54 I'm not sure what _I_ would do, but I'm sure many of the people I know would wonder what happened to me and send me IMs just to be sure I'm still alive. (=_=) _____________________ Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ferguson/54/237/94
Avion Raymaker Palacio del Emperador! Join date: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 980	03-11-2008 11:37 From: Brenda Connolly I'd strand a group of people on it, with no ready way to escape, but with the materials necessary to fabricate just about anything. There would be one really smart guy who could design all sorts of things. And there would be this one guy who would keep messing things up........ I know how to make a bicycle-powered record player!
MoxZ Mokeev Invisible Alpha Texture Join date: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 870	03-11-2008 11:41 Puerto Vallarta Mexico with lots of beaches and Los Arcos for snorkeling - and parasailing to be pulled behind boats!
Claire Silverspar Pokes Badgers With Spoons Join date: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 5,375	03-11-2008 11:54 From: Avion Raymaker I know how to make a bicycle-powered record player! careful! she'll get trout to kidnap you and put you on the island with the others lol. _____________________ I'll miss this damn place. I'll be over at SCII after the end has come.

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