The New Continent with Free Houses for Premiums

Yeah I just had a wander round. It's basically four huge housing schemes on a square continent. It starts out nice enough at the infohub - there's some quite good sculpty candles and bottles and things you can grab. You can catch fairies to win wings (they wouldn't rez for me, but the fairy jar was fun), and I bumped into Mari, which was nice. There's lots of purple crystals that sort of remind me of something ... but anyway, quite picturesque in a hobbity way. I like the fantasy buildings, but they are way too densely packed.

Then there's the Endless Desolate Wasteland of Triangular Houses and the Endless Desolate Wasteland of Square Houses. These areas feel like suburban business parks or perhaps Butlins. They'd feel a bit more residential with a scattering of dogsh*t, a few cars on bricks and the odd broken fridge.

The Japanese housing is prettier, but again, too densely packed and too sprawling.

I hope LL are going to set home automatically for these newbies and provide prominent information about the ways to find "home". There's been a couple of "I can't find the land I bought" threads on here. I can foresee a flurry of "how do I find my Linden Home?" posts on the flogs.

Linden Homes ... this is housing, not homes. I wish they'd reread their Jane Jacobs.

As for the covenant ... no skyboxes and no sandboxing? So basically, "here's your home, now sit neatly and enjoy it"

Possible new growth areas ...

- low prim furniture built to match the themes
- skybox rentals by the hour (can you do this on Mature these days?)

I took a few pics and will try to upload this evening.

Curious about the no skybox part.....I wasn't sure what to make of the way it was worded, does it mean 'no skyboxes' or 'no skyboxes outside of prim limits/landlines and no megaprims?'

Actually you are getting a house pluse 117 prims for L$3800 per year, or L$73 per week.

* Land cannot contain sky boxes, temp-rezzers, or individual prims beyond the allocated size of the Second Life Viewer build tools - 10x10x10m (no megaprims).

Last i looked it was $9.95 a mo heh, $10 bucks, minus the 1200 L you get in stippend, still comes to about $5 a month..

which is still higher than 40 cents a week.

Where does it say no Skyboxes?

As long as they're paying for a premium membership, what reason is there to kick them out or impose some time limit on occupancy?

There is a reason I say this is aimed more at new premium accounts, rather than existing ones and that's.. most of us know better.

I know I could look this up, but since you're chatting, what's the criteria besides being premium? Cannot own land already? Have to be a certain number of days/months/weeks young/old?

You simply have to be premium and have 512 of tier available.

Where does it say no Skyboxes? I see:


To me that says no megas? Or is it "no sky boxes, no temp-rezzers AND no megas?"

I dunno, Faithless. Given that this is for new premium accounts, I don't see how this could honestly hurt your business too much. I honestly don't think that this will encourage a whole lot of the basic accounts to suddenly want to become premium accounts.

Not for new premiums, I was invited by LL to choose one today and I am here 3 years...and own a few regions.

...and never have posted a critical remark about LL.

Oooh but never bought mainland, so, your 512 is still unused, even though you own lots of estate land. That's why you were invited, right?

Damn, I'm out.

Haven't read the whole thread but...

Has anyone else noticed the tatami flooring in the Japanese-styled houses has the mats meeting in cross shapes, which is considered unlucky for a home?

Has anyone else noticed the tatami flooring in the Japanese-styled houses has the mats meeting in cross shapes, which is considered unlucky for a home?