New Zindra Blog Post

not bottles, cases.. a couple of dozen bottles should just about see it though..

/me looks over at sindy who is *still* sitting stunned on the couch.

*sighs* OK

The REALLY annoying thing is that I had a bunch of people throughout the day ask if I should poke LL for status but I didn't because the ticket was "work in progress" and LL explicitly asked us NOT to poke them for status...

/me sighs. Maybe there will be a round 2 of swaps that they'll let us in on. If not, I guess we'll get some boring landlocked region with a couple shouty & laggy microclubs for neighbors.

Let's go to sleep and wait for the Zindra Adult Land fairy to make everything right overnight (sprinkles xxx dust on her pillow and fades away).

I talked to Teqi, she filed her ticket at 10:01 am

My 10:03 am ticket status is still.... NEW.

My supervisor complaint is still.... New.

I'm running out of a limited supply of patience.

~brie

WHich is why I'm in favor of Kid AV's being careful. *You* know that there's no keeping the moralists from freaking out, and *I* know that, but neither LL nor the moralists seem to get it.

The moralists are in a constant state of "fix this or else!", and companies like LL bend over backwards and make things worse- for example, by doing things like saying publicly "there's a special place for adult content, and people pretending to be children can go there"

They have made their (and *our*) position *worse* by doing this. s long as there was no special category for sexually explicit (commercialized) material, the idea that "Mature" meant other things than sex held water. Now, however, they make their intentions plain by telling people that their parcels aren't sexual *enough* to deserve a swap for the land they purchased and are now being told is limited in content .

LL has made it all about sex- and no one else. which is why mentioning Zindra and Child AV's in the same sentence is *crazy talk*.

Leave things as they were, and you can get away with something like "no sexual ageplay, but access to mature areas". draw attention to the sexual content, say "it's over there" and you cannot justify allowing child AV's in the same place.

I am not against Child AV's- I'm fine with them. I'm even fine with them if they are wielding machine guns, setting fire to nekkos, or killing and eating each other if they like. It's not my problem. I am against the LL *policy* which alone has made it difficult to impossible to rationally defend the prospect of CHild Avatars playing in Zindra.

LL has segregated the grid in a number of ways with this policy. the CHild AV policy is simply one of the many ways the grid will not be the same. Pretending otherwise is simply asking for trouble of varying shapes and sizes.

This isn't about *rights*, it is about reality. or rather, reality as perceived by those who can make some sort of hay by flogging SL and the reality faced by LL when the pressure builds to a sufficient point.

That isn't anyone's fault but LL's for making catastrophically poor choices like putting PG and Mature Sims next to each other, and then trying to fix the problem without separating them now.

Just one vampire's opinion, but there you go.

^V^

Well said. But sadly, it will be ignored. Until it becomes a problem again.

Well... It *MIGHT* have stayed at around 2-4% IF they hadn't outright completely banned ALL adult activity on mature parcels!

So, yeah - this was not well thought-out at all.

Ok, trying to get exact details but it appear one of the first large land swaps was COMPLETELY EMPTY ladn, but still it was swaped. Can anyone say Linden alt and special treatment.

Meanwhile my partner gets a message that because I own the bdsm vendors on the land, they want an explanation and basically saying tht if it is not her alt then they will deny the swap.

This is bullshit!!!

I check of either pofile and they would know we are partners. The content of the vendors is all hers, I just run the vendors. Just like i own the sims and she owns the mainland plots.

We are partners for god sakes.!!!

It seems they ahve no problem letting empty plots get swapped for some whel trying to find any reason to deny others!!!

this sounds like they are going to have so much of the same thing so close together..

i can see it now..5 club owners ending up in the same sim.

If you go to Zindra, you will die.

Be happy you got contacted. Just go along with it and get your land.

Makes me think that they should have added a few more fields to the ticket and let the software sort it for them.

Hahah, looks like the tickets I put in at 11:00am will be handled somewhere around Christmas.

Where did the 600 number come from? I saw a few speculative guesses but nothing semi-official.

The point is we don't ahve it. They have implied they will deny the ticket because i own the vendors and she owns the land.

An idle question:

Are tickets still open only for those who currently have 'adult content' in the mainland and wish a trade or a move to Zindra?

Or can the general public begin requesting parcels too?

As they still arn't up to the 7th minute of tickets sent from the businesses and clubs soon to be devistated, I'd guess it may be a while.

Not even had the heart to check my allowed three picks for possible location to see if they have been given to line jumpers yet.

Okay thanks Grey Mars for the answer, and so quickly too.

Best of luck to everyone. I truly hope everyone gets a spot that will turn out to be wonderful.

Based on the present statuse of tickets and the strange order in which tickets have been processed i recommend everyone make a hard copy of your original ticket with a timestamp and tuck it away for possible use later.

For toilet paper.

sorry i don't really think any of this is funny or a joke Lias.!!

For anyone curious.. i have had folks out checking parcels, and seeing what time tickets were filed to see if they were, in fact going in order... so far.. no. The first were all 10am tickets. Then 10:01 tickets. Then 10:02 tickets. I got excited, i am a 10:03 ticket. Well guess what.. here it is over TWELVE HOURS later, and i got NOTHING. My ticket still marked NEW. (See /327/a6/327672/16.html#post2480949 for my 2nd conversation with live concierge chat)

This was my THIRD convo with them, about 10 minutes ago. And so the wait continues.

Sheldon: Hello Brieanne_Bomazi, what can I help you with?
Brieanne_Bomazi: hi Sheldon, i just wanted to know if they are still processing land migration tickets overnight, or if they have stopped for the day.. i filed my ticket at 10:03 am and am still new.. not even a WIP yet.
Sheldon: They're processing them 24/7
Brieanne_Bomazi: ok, thank you

But if Char said that WIP means that the tickets are just being picked up and not an indication that there is any work being done on them, then why haven't all the early tickets been picked, doled out, assigned to CS personnel, whatever?

~Impatient, disappointed, and very very unhappy....
Brie

I am currently turning the thread into a pdf and will put it on the slapt.me wiki and our ticket submitted

4051-6484546 29/6/2009 10:16 AM PDT Migration to Adult Continent New

is till reading new at time of posting 0845 GMT +1.

Don't forget please put your ticket details on this page:

http://www.slapt.me/wiki/index.php/Governance_Team_Actions

so that we can track any pattens emerging in allocation or denials of moves as they will get lost in this forum thread and it is important for everyone to be able to see fairness in action on behalf of LL.

Thanks for your support

Morning everyone - well, was expectcting some news when I woke up, but my ticket (filed at 10:36am) is STILL marked as new...

Somez,

Tickets filed at 10:02 are still nto processed.

Yet at least one ticket filed after 11 am with completely empty land it appears was processed!!