If you had a whole sim, what would you do?

Id build the island of Tapioc (short for tapioca ). Itd have a huge mountain in the center, which you could take a lift up to, and then fight a band of yetis on top with a gun, and 3 orange grenades.

Then, once the yeti tribe had been defeated, you could take one of their skins, and trade it in for 25L. After you had done that, you could go compete in XTREME Tennis or something.

On the other side of the island, you could play Robin Hood, and kill deer, and noblemen. You could then go kill all the king's guards, and invade the castle with a bunch of other people.

Of course, there would be a dock where you could rent a boat, and sail all over the Tapioca Bay. Then you could come back, and play on the beach, and build a sandcastle.

Next, you could go to the residential area of the island, Tapioca Neighborhood, and rent out a house or apartment, or visit a friend. Or if you had a few lindens burning a hole in your virtual pockets, you could go shop in Tpioca Bayside Mall.

To top it all off, there would be a space monorail willing to take you to a space station... in space. The station would cover the island, and would be able to transport you to and from the mainland, and you could of course buy all sorts of cheese there.

If I had a whole sim....


I'd go broke!

The "silly" commercial reason is one of practical reality. Linden Lab can no more hand out free simulators than can their bandwidth provider hand out free internet connections or their electrical provider hand out free megawatt hours or their support team can hand out free troubleshooting hours. Because, of course, their bandwidth provider must pay for electricity, their electrical provider must pay for fuel and linemen, their support team must pay for bills and feed themselves.

In short, for the luxury of creative preservation, someone needs to foot the bill. And maybe someone will. But the cash *must* come from somewhere. And if it comes from Linden Lab, there's going to be a huge fracas about who deserves free islands and who deserves to pay.

And then, to pay for all these free islands, Linden Lab will have to get the money from somewhere else...

Ultimately, *everything* must make money in order to support itself, or it must derive money from generous individuals. If you really want to raise hundreds of dollars a month to preserve those simulators, you're going to have to do a lot of convincing.

I'd stick it full of giant packs of Rizzla's and invite all morons to write nasty letters about me to Rizzla Inc.

uh... host SL LGBT Pride 2005!!!

mostly have classes, hold primtionary, host mature captions, have a few stores, sandbox, put up art, have building contests, lotsa terraforming ('cuz i think it's fun), socialize, let people hold discussions and events, have celebrations (birthday parties and graduation parties and anniversaries), and uh... stuff

I'd name it Tamed Frustration and from then on, stew in the middle of it, suffering a quiet builder's block. Then I'd hurl prims around and cuss at them.

IF I could get enough prims in a sim, I would build a copy of the High Clerics Tower from the dragonlance novels.

I already have the entire blueprints. Just need a sim to begin building it. It would be an amazing thing to try.

Problem is, I don't think a sim could hold it with the normal number of prims. I'm not even sure how many prims it would take.

<sigh> But a man can dream!

File for bankruptsy?

Actually, if I had that many prims to work with I'd like to go heavy into sculpting... turn it into a delightful hodgepodge of plants, ponds and sculptures, with a small keep and medieval village in the center.

Arcology.

Failing that, various urban environment experiments.

You sir, are a capitalist pig.
hee hee

That was a free insult, (Lindens please note how it totally skirts the new rules)

I was thinking not of whole sims for free but of the fact that a lot of interesting builds go belly up because of short term lack of interest or lack of ability on the part of the creator to pay tier.

Linden Labs already subsidises worthy projects and events and makes tons and tons of money off of us that could easily be redirected towards the occisional item that is beneficial to SL as a whole.

NOT big dollars spent and NOT unfair (or anti capitalist) just plain good sense.

All economies, even the most right wing capitalist ones engage in government support in this way whether it be to big business or to social groups deemed worthy.

In this case "laissez-faire" means lots of things are lost.
I just think some of these projects are worth keeping.

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If I had a whole sim, it wouldn't be around long. I'd crash it constantly with LSL "experiments."

Oh, wait. Did that three times now with Game Dev 3.

Someone buy this guy a sim!

First I'd work up a way to swap out the entire sim on demand, so I'd have enough space to do my different projects but at different times.

Such As....

> a town as you'd imagine from a Medieval Romance Fantasy. That would take up alot of the sim.

> Labyrinth, with changing walls, random shifting areas, puzzles, etc...

> elaborate Brockian UltraCricket stadium, with a 4000m wall around the playing feild, and so on and so on.

> ThunderDome. Two Dooks Enter, One Dook Leave!!!

> Faction-Based Combat Game, with the ability to add groups as their own faction. Imagine w-Hat or something versus the Black Thong Mistresses.

> A 14,000 prim shiny toilet.

> A white room.... with a MOOSE!!!!! (Please tell me someone gets that joke)

> Really Long-Ass Dinner Table with seating for 40 and shout relays.

> Multiplayer maps from the likes of Goldeneye 64. Hell, SL almost plays like that anyway.

I would have rotating themes based on books and movies.

I would start with the Evil Dead!

"We're going to get you. We're going to get you. Not another peep. Time to go to sleep."

Thrust-O-Porno land... a theme park where dreams come true!
(when you wish upon a bra..........)

Failing that... I'd ask Cyrus Apollo to make 3 flower.. there'd be no prims left for a forth.

Siggy.

well, i own half a sim now, so i'd probably do twice as much if i owned a whole sim.

I'd release 512 m2 in the center, danger-enable the rest and shoot everyone when they try to get to the goodies.

I would build a garden of Second Life Words.

The idea would be that anyone who wrote a fictional story or a poem would put it on a note card and then create their own plant/tree or choose a plant/tree I created (I have many to choose from) as a sort of illustration to their story. A script would dispense the note card to anyone who wanted to come and sit in the garden and read, all they would have to do would be to sit in one of the gardens and click on a plant of interest.

The stories (or poems) could be fictional and could be related to SL, such as the one Foolish wrote or just a fictional story or fantasy concerning anything. The criteria would be that the stories have to be authored by the person giving them to me and would be changed every 30 days or so to make room for new stories.

I'd create multiple gardens for different story types (and let the writer choose their garden). I'd have a garden for each season, a goth garden, ethnic gardens, herb gardens, and each plant would contain a story or a poem.

I'd probably even have a little private cave garden with a sex ball or two for people reading sexual fantasies.

The possibilities are unlimited because it gives people both a way to create by writing and a way to illustrate it through a plant they create if they so wish.

In the best of all worlds, there would be no charge to either the writer or the reader.

I know - b o r i n g - but I've just read a lot of really creative things people in SL have written and I thought it would be cool to have an interesting avenue to share.

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I'd open mine up to Dark Life. 1 sim right now just isn't enough.

I would plant a zillion trees.

Recreate Discworld from the Terry Pratchett novels...
then wander around in a DEATH avatar so I could
TALK LIKE THIS.

Although it'd probably take more like 9 to 12 sims looking
at the discworld maps, lol.

-Sunshine

Build a shrine to myself.

That'd be awesome! Death is my favorite character from that series. I'd love to see somebody attempt this. Can I be The Luggage?

Or how about recreating Milliways, from the Hitchhiker's Guide series? How cool would that be? Especially if you could have some sort of scripted particle-effect thingy of the universe ending.

put out 15000 sex balls and have a sex-ball-a-thon?

disclaimer: have not read entire thread.
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i would probably make a mock-up of the RL island i would buy if i won the lottery.. which in turn would be declared as a country.

of course, if/when the RL version was up and running i'd keep the SL version going as a supplement and virtual gateway to the real thing.


...either that or i'd make a completely psychadelic island that would make Wonderland seem like your local park.