Skyscrapers - !!!

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The same place everyone else gets prims, by owning a larger chunk of land.

They don't take tons lol.. the Builders Union I'm helping get started has one that takes about 600 prims or so and it looks nice (Not sure exact number). Check it out at the Drakeal Prime sime, right on the border of Furnation Dragon. What we're doing is the lobby is lobby, Office amanger has a floor, the main guy (Dunno his title lol) has a flor, and a couple others have a floor. Office Manager has 75 prims to play with, main guy has something like 75, and others probably 50 or so in the end.

And you get extra prims when needed by buying more land Just cause the footprint is 1024 doesn't mean its meant for 1024. Often it's meant for a sim build, where it will be bordering street and other buildings and such.

Does all the land have to be adjacent? Can you transfer prims numerous small plots into another big plot? Is that the benefit of having a group?

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As long as land is in one sim and owned by one person it shares prims, even if not touching.

You can own a 512 on one edge of the sim and have it sharing prims with a 512 on the opposite edge.

EDIT:: Groups only give advantages to land in that they provide a bonus to your tier (So you can own more land without tiering up) and by allowing permissions on the land to specific people.

Hello conductor,

Pacels can share prims when that land is owned by the same person and or same group.

for example if you own two 512sqm parcels, must be on same sim, and both have same owner or group owned, then you can use the prims from either one on the other 512sqm.

About them Towers, they do need a lot prim, and most you need a large piece of land to cover the prims for all the renters.
A friend owns the Cyldane Tower, I manage it, we have 17 Floors each floor has 4 apartments, that come with 50 Prims, we do have a lot extra Land to cover all the Prims for the Renters, maybe you would like to have a look at it, just IM me inworld or search for
Cyldane Tower.

Greetings,
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77 Good to see you again. I saw the Cyldane tower. You gave me a tour. That thing soaks up lots of PRIMs. I think my question has been answered. Thanks to everyone!!

In general, SL is NOT designed to play well in an urban, vertically-stacked environment. Access permissions, media streams, and all that are on the parcel level, and the same for all vertically stacked areas. Open chat carries for 30 M, which means if you build actual 'floors' at every level in a 20-story skyscraper, you get to listen to your neighbors seevral floors away, constantly! But the worst aspect is that 512 m2 of flat surface area in that same sim is required for every 117 prims that you need in that tower. So if you build anything with a lot of florrs and prims, you have to surround it by a huge open field!

Some builders have come up with work-around to at least get the look. Using mega-prims for large uninhabited sections between occupied floors. "Hollow" towers that only have an actual 'floor' every 40 M vertically. Stuff like that.

But a 20-story tower, with every floor actually usable in an enjoyable and commercially feasable manner? Almost impossible. The Linden design parameters are for a one-story ranch-style home or single-floor motels, not for high-rises and townhouse apartments. They expect every occupied area to be sprawled out on the ground level.

QFT. I thought chat carried for 20m, though.

the only skyscraper i have seen is a replica of the sears tower. 166 meters tall in sl.

only the lobby and 2 or 3 floors at the top really "exist" .. the rest is empty space inside thru which an elevator shaft runs.

this building ... tho looking like a possible rental .. is just a private residence.

i was always tempted to get it .. but i couldn't do that to my neighbors.

700 meter skyscrapers are mostly found on private servers.

Some use long stilts with open space between closed levels or have multiple floors that are 40 meter high, they are more tower than skyscrapers.

True, there are a some limitations, but if you can get past the media sharing and overhearing chat problems, you can get some fun results up to about 15 stories. My 2 hi-rise hotels are successful because I'm up front that tenants need to be communal-minded.

Private estate sims have a 15,000 prim limit, just like mainland sims. It's probably true, though, that fewer people own whole mainland sims.

i visited the Empire State Building the other day and that was interesting. You could hear convos 3 floors up.

If you are going to do it then choose your sim wisely. My old neighbour put up a 400m skyscraper in our sim of mainly mediterranean style homes. That was ugly.