Hep Island Sandbox

Helper Island Sandbox

It's on the right track, with things such as screen shots, and the directions from Orientation Island being there as well. I think this theme should be persued. I hope the long term plan is to expand the total sandbox area in this zone.

I think having the Ivory Tower type circuit along one border in a no script zone would be useful as well.

However, I also think the Helper Island Sandbox is getting too cluttered. While I can appreciate the nice builds, i think island should stay focused.
Right now it seems to me to be Overwhelm Sandbox.

It should have shorter cleanup schedule, with new residents being encouraged to venture out after a few hours, once they are comfortable with basic controls and concepts.

Hey Max

I agree with you, but also have a thought to throw in as well. Right now, HI is barren and needs some interest to draw people over when they reach the end of orientation. The final design is supposed to be ready Nov 29 according to Jeska.

The sandbox IS getting cluttered and should be cleaner, but having lots of cool and interesting stuff visible from the Orientation sims is, I think, a critical concept. By the time most new residents have reached the exit area, all they've seen are some trees, signs and very minimal structures. Even the WA isn't very visually exciting in terms of all the possibilites of SL. My thought is that a second sandbox for volunteer helpers to rez stuff in is a cool idea and enables us to add interesting things to draw traffic and show off SL.

I also think us doing things like having vehicles, planes, balloons, etc and giving little impromptu tours of HI and the OI sims just adds to the "see how cool SL is" factor. Lecktor flying around with a car full of newbies is one the more fabulous things I think I've seen in SL in a long time.

there already 3 normal sandboxes....1 non scirpted ...1 weapon sandbox what else you want....if you only want to show things off use the non scirpted one as its never really busy

Hey guys. In case you were not online when it was announced, the temporary Help Island sandbox now has a 3 hour auto-return set. If you want anything to stay out longer (freebie box, etc) set it to your Mentor Group.