Any SL exploration groups?

Anyone actively look around for cool builds or skyboxes?
I'm looking at joining or starting one. I'm just bored with SL lately and tend to wander about alot. It's more fun with other people.

The ROAM search tool has a nice little "Random" feature that I love. I like to just press the random button, and then go look at where ever pops out. In fact, I've talked someone into paying me to do that. <evil grin>

You can find ROAM at http://www.roamsearch.com/.

Norinn Richard

I meant a group. Not a tool I have to buy. I'm looking for things people don't usually submit to search engines

No group, but I do as you do. Just wander around checking stuff out, breaking in...er, um... looking at the nice builds.

Side note - my wandering with P2P has taken a strange turn in that it is too easy. Part of the wandering previously was in the walk to a target, which would then reveal a number of other interesting sites. Now I just stare at the map and wonder what spot to hit. The enormity of the decision is paralyzing

Sinde note 2 - last night, i randomly picked a spot on the map and tp'd, only to land in a house that, apparently, had not been there for the last map sweep - the shock is still reverberating from that

Yeah, because you know how often they update the map and all. I'm anticipating the junk I built a couple weeks ago will show up sometime in the first quarter of 2006, but some have called me optimistic. I can't help it, I'm just a cup-half-full kind of guy.

Well. I'm still thinking of starting a group or using an existing one I own like Stupendous Badasses

Should you find a group, or start one of your own, please let me know. I would love to join a group to explore SL in the company of like-minded residents.

If you're up for driving around the grid, count me in. It gets crazy and fun! My notes from a recent edge-to-edge trip:

11:39am Blumfield. Target: Weber, 11.2 km away
11:39 bounced from first parcel (bounced a total of a half a dozen times)
11:41 go unphysical on first sim crossing. Add timer event to set physics to true in the car.
11:45 Games1
11:45 Fuschia
11:47 Games1 (border issues)
11:47 stuck on celadon sim border
49 stuck on brown sim crossing
51 come upon a huge max Case in Green. Funny, cause he’s white
53 Kazenojin airfield, promptly run over by a Terra blimp
mired in uneven terrain on tan. Jump functionality on the car is a godsend. Reverse north to Lime
57 Mesede and Tan too choked to navigate, went underwater
59 Balkansi, Beirne underwater void sims
00 Clyde: drive through someone’s campfire before it rezzes, stuck in sim border
01 over to rachleff and void sims
02 stuck in kremer
02 see first intersim road from Paroo in Hooper
04 Finally made it to hooper, high side on a pair of poseballs called BJsit_M and BJsit_F. Wonder what those are for?
06 crossroads at Montara. Check the map
09 Gualala first billboard
11 Betty Boop hawking nascar?
13 Crescent road changes types and widths
14 first impeach bush sign
15 stuck at hookton border. Driving’s been much better on the road till now. I wise up and add a nonphys bump for sim crossings that get stuck
19 Clarksburg, drive out over an unrezzed bridge. Eerie feeling
20 Refugio under the pink glow of a disturbing strip club sign using Barbie dolls, I fall into a phantom section of roadway
22 Svan, grayroad snowsim
25 Kania “Guest Greeting: Welcome to SEX CLUB: Your Dark Secrets Adult Playground! Take the green teleport to the dungeon, check out the shopping, yard sale table, 5k raffle, freebies & casino games. Dancers escorts are here for your pleasure! Tip those sexy thongs. Al”
26 new personal record: no less than 6 impeach Bush signs within my 64m draw distance
27 I realize I can follow the road even before it rezzes by reading the terrain
28 sugarloaf: snowing to the left, raining to the right
30: Cavanaugh: Sophia's Romantic Gifts and More shouts: Welcome, <alt's name>! Please enjoy your stay!
36: orbited in shepherd, knocked into Star (5 sims away)
39: still trying to get back on course, run across this beautiful neogothic structure. I reflect a moment on God.
43: orbited again upon reaching shepherd, from a parcel named BYE BYE, appropriately enough
50: finally back on the road
56: difficult going in Sammamish. Bumpy!
57 orbited again in Sammamish. Relogged
1:01 victory!

I only got orbited by asshole security scripts 3 times badly enough to need relogging. Not a bad trip overall.

Go ahead and drop me an offline IM or register in the League forum and say you want to join.
I'm gonna go pass out for the rest of the night

That's a really fantastic idea. If anyone knows of such a group or starts one please drop
me an invite. I'd love a fun reason to log in.

-Sun
(who loves SL but is bored with logging in and hanging out and exploring alone.
I know, wahhhh huh? )

I built a ship based on that concept that handled border crossing fairly well. Was a single passanger is why and each person was ment to have their own ship. And they all link together so they don't drift away. I found, more or less, no market for it. Except for a few that just collected ships and liked the design.
Then the last update "1.8?" came along and destroyed the drift ability it had. So trying to look around while driving is kinda stupid when you have to keep reseting the cam.

Anyway I got another idea for group exploration I may come out with soon.
Unless 1.9 says otherwise and screws that one up too.

Oh and then there is the stupid security push systems that blows you out of the ship.
I think those are aginst tos are they not? I remember seeing a linden quote about them.
Ah well.