How can an roadside billboard network function in Second Life?

Great, please forgive my ninja editing but I kinda realised my first bit was superfluous.

I hear Bear has a really nice one to hang out in.

Arrrrgh, you just had to didn't you?



Trifecta now in play...*heats popcorn and waits*

if you want to spend a ton of money buying land to setup billboards everyone in this day and age is naturally trained to ignore on roads that noone uses go for it

i have some magic beans for sale too

Ummm read up, people do use the roads.

Ooo... are those the kind that make you see pretty colors?

OK. So one person uses the roads.. check.

Roads are a good way of exploring. There are people who use the roads but I sincerely doubt that they focus on the ads.

Lol we are so many more than just me, its just that there are a lot of roads to play on and granted we are probably not hugely numerous compared to the population size generally. However we are there.

Agreed.

Personally, I would rather torpedo the road out in front of my place until the rubble bounces. It's annoying as hell to build anything significant on land adjacent to a curved road. :-/

Especially a road whose mean height is 10m above the raw terrain on my side.

Then why do you remain there when there is land abundant that maybe more to your liking? Roadside land is really suited only to people who like having the roads there in my opinion.

I'm in a similar position... land along a [censored] Linden road, that's still riddled with adcutters and (not for sale) ad plots. I'd looooooove to move!

Unfortunately, right now, I don't have the cash to buy an equivalent amount of land straight up (about 2/3 of a sim) and I couldn't sell the land I have for enough to cover an equivalent amount of land elsewhere because, y'know, the land NOT next to a Linden road is rather more valued by people who AREN'T adcutters and therefore costs a bit more than my non-ad land next to a Linden road.

[sigh]

yes

Well that I do understand but I get the sense that you dislike the road only because of the mess that is there and not because you don't like road? It seems Talrus just does not like roads which kinda begs the question, why buy there in the first place?

Well, I don't like the mess, and I don't like the fact that it cuts my land into two large chunks, so some neat, large-scale builds I wanted to do, I can't because I'd be overlapping the Linden road.

As to why buy there? Hindsight is 20/20. When I bought land in that sim, I had no idea what having "Linden Protected Area" in a sim would mean...

Because I have invested quite a bit of money when land prices were high, and land was in demand. Now, even IF I could sell, I probably couldn't get enough to buy 1/4 of the land I presently have.



1) When I bought the original parcel of land, there wasn't a road there.
2) I never said I don't like roads.
3) The road that was eventually built is a HIGH way, and I do mean HIGH. I figured that they would have put the road, well, down in the roadbed that was reserved for it, rather than build what amounts to a very long, thin parking garage.
4) The road makes a constantly changing diagonal through the entire sim, and the frontage on my side is exceptionally choppy along where my mall is, so there is some leftover land that I just can't do anything with. Well, I guess I can use the prims from it, but that's about all it is good for.
5) Oh, and building an entrance to the mall for foot traffic from the road (yeah I know, it's just an aesthetic, but still) is a severe pain in the tail.

See, I don't think you're really a dragon.....

That's OK. I don't really think you are a snowflake, either.

Except prices are much lower now, what you sell at will probably be what you buy at too. The only people who should be losing out are the ones who want to cash out completely.

There would have been space for a road though.
I did not say you did. I just said it *seems* like you don't.
Agreed that sucks if you don't like it.
Are you actually saying the route of the road changes? Not sure what you mean.
Agreed it is a pain.
There are always little things we don't like about the land we bought though near roads or not.

Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case. Most places around 1/2 sim are still pretty pricey, and they aren't selling. So, while I may be able to dump mine for average price, I would have to be VERY lucky to find a better half sim for the money I get.

Plus, I like my sim. It's nice and quiet, compared to most places, and the neighbors are great.



Well, there was "protected land". We didn't know what it was going to be at the time. Road, river, who knew?

Like I said, we figured it would be a road, but not the raised highway sort of road.



Well, now you know. I don't like *this* road.



It is a curving road, not only in X/Y, but also in Z. Has a very high grade over short distances. So it makes things very hard for adjacent land on my side of it.



True. In my case, it is just *this* road.

it seems this so called vocal minority you talk about is actually the majority.

So the forum regulars are all thugs and griefers, hahahahahahaha.

Funny how your trying to sell your ad network now it is no longer profitable because you can't make a profit form selling the plots like you did before the ad farming ban.

You sir are nothing but an ad-farmer in sheeps clothing!!

so im wondering how many of these billboards are located on private estates.

Me too. One of Tyrian's ad displays is in my home sim Firespire, next to the waterway that runs down the middle of my land. Note that Firespire is a PG sim, and yet this adboard (which cycles through textures for extra bonus lag) often displays ads for BDSM clubs and sex clubs.

Tyrian, if you're genuine about wanting to fit your adboards to the environments that they're in, how about KEEPING THE ADS SHOWN IN PG SIMS PG? You say in your original post that you put in a lot of effort to work with neighbours with your ad network. Well, I'm a neighbour. Care to work with me on this?

Yes thats for the most part correct. I took a psychology in advertising course last year. it's really quite interesting to me. But companies generally use billboards as the 'last stop' in the advertising world. They always get some 1-2 seconds of attention, really can't have a lot of info, because people see them usually in passing in a car. So they are really used just as a reinforcement, never really as a primary source for info. Because even in RL they really don't work. From what I know anyway.

I mean one can argue that they are better than nothing, and I suppose they are. But for the most part they are also easily forgotten. I mean seriously ask any one of these people who they are boycotting via these ads. These people who say they will avoid shopping at placed that use ad farms. They couldn't tell you who these companies are. That's how fast people forget adverts.