Dear Linden labs,
A major part of my second life involes traversing the SL universe, Flying is one of my greatest passions, but ever since the introduction of invisible barriers around private status parcels, it is becoming increasingly less immerive experience for me as I am always ramming into them and getting booted off my flying balloon.
I have thought of a solution that would make property owners and adventures happier I believe. In the real world, everyone has a private right to their property, and governments have rights to the skies above those properties, but Second Life is beyond real life. It can be more than our difficult realities.
I would like to request the implemention of a new feature for property owners who wish to mark their parcel private. Here are some examples I believe might make both parties satisfied.
Current SL issue: Jane would like to make her property closed and only available to her friends and family members. The problem is, if she makes her property private, Solara who's sailing the blue skies in her beautiful balloon might end up crashing into Janes invisible boundary 50 meters up!
We can see from this example that becuase Jane wants to make her property private, she is impeding on other player's enjoyment of SL. Here is a scenario I have come up with which would make SL alot less laggier and funner for everyone.
Solara's Second life: Jane would like to make her property closed and only available to her friends and family members. When she activates the private mode, her parcel will vanish and be replaced with an open parcel (maybe covered with some simple forest for eye candy) until Jane deactivates the private mode. During the private mode, Only the people on Jane's private roster will see the parcel from their viewport while those not on her roster will see a beautiful forest that they can traverse. Jane and her friends are happier, and Solarra floating above in her beautiful balloon is happy with her uninterrupted flight! Also, Since since forested parcel has less prims than a parcel with some architecture, it will reduce the lag for those who are not on Jane's private roster for the time being.
This can work for islands too!!!! Private islands can vanish when in private mode.
If you implement this feature. you can lift the invisible boundaries on all sims and islands and allows players to fly their aircrafts through any part of the sim without adversely affecting those who do not wish to be disturbed with flying aircraft!!!! I'm sure all the adventurers would love this feature for they could travel nonstop to any part of the SL grid!!!!!