SL needs much more parcelage for sandboxes!

OMG. I haven't visited a sandbox in ages. Amid the occasional 'could you give me some lindens, please?', there were tons of copters, house-in-a-box's, cars, boxes upon boxes. Noise and prims were back to back. And in a no-shooting, no harrassment sandbox, it had the kind of action that Jessie and Ar would be jealous of--shooting, bombing and cager bowing ad lib.

Yes, they were hectic when I first started. But, today..it wasn't just crowded crowded.

EVERY INCH OF GROUND WAS COVERED.

I visited another one, in the hope that perhaps these guys had been filming a sci-fi machinima about the end of the world.

Amid the shooting, bombing and cager bowing in the second one..by now nostalgic...I decided to visit a third. Ynot.

The little monsters in THAT one were great. One shot me completely out of the sandbox.
I assume that this is the Linden Lab crowd control feature we got with today's update




Yeah, I just went to a meeting about whether SL will reach a million. They'll get a 'million'. But WHERE will they put 'em all!! Some fella at the meeting said that MSFT is coming out with an XBox game that approximates SL in some important respects. Unlike Linden Lab, they don't have millions. They have billions. Hate to see a migration to a Bill Gates thing, but if we could share the wealth that I discovered in today's sandboxes. Hey.

Margot, requests for more sandboxes on here have been popular, just as you point to!

I'll add your feedback to the open project we've got--I know it doesn't sound like a hard thing to do; we've presently got a shortage of extra servers to host sims on. Related:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/09/20/land-store-currently-closed/

Nevertheless I do know what a problem a lack of sandbox space is becoming for some. In the meantime, I'd also recommend seeking out Resident-run sandboxes, there are some super-spacious ones that offer loads of extra choices. Search > Places tab inworld and just look for "sandbox".