How to let friend set home point to my land

Hi,
I bought an island and have a friend living with me...but they can't seem to set their home point to it. I tried giving a group access and they activated that group while trying but it still didn't help. Also tried adding them as a resident. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Gracie

Land must be group owned to allow setting home by other group members. Deed the land to your group.

Yep. Specifically you have to use the 'allow deed to group' option in About Land. Just setting a land group is not enough.

Oh, and you must also designate in the group powers that home can be set to any land owned by the group.

Thanks guys for the quick response...i've been banging my head over this for weeks Thank you!

BTW, if you don't want to deed the whole plot (group land can be a hassle), just carve out a small plot and deed that.

There's a jira about fixing this so that you don't need to deed your land to the group and risk losing it...

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-404

This one actually got a response from a Linden so there's actually an outside chance of it happening!

When you say you bought an island, do you mean you purchased a private island from LL (with real money)? Or do you just mean that you used L$ to purchase a plot of land that looks like an island?

If you actually purchased a private island from LL, you have estate owner powers. That means you can subdivide out an area for your friend, "sell" it to them (for zero or whatever you want), and then they would have all the normal "owner" privileges. When you no longer wish them to "own" the parcel, just repossess it.

Of course if you meant you purchased an island parcel from another resident in-game, then disregard everything I just said!

And for the record, the Everyone role in any newly-created group has 'Set Home to Here' permissions by default. You only have to worry about checking this option if you've ever toggled it off for Everyone.

This is a real pain, you shouldn't need to make a phoney group just so people can set their home there.

If you're using a private island, create a new group, deed the land to that group, you don't want your mainland and private groups conflicting.

I'll second what Learjeff said about deeding just a small parcel, and I'd add that once your friends set home you can safely "undeed" the parcel (sell it back to yourself) and your friends' home locations will remain how they were.

I created a group, tried to deed my land (512 sq. m) to the group and got a message saying, "Deeding parcel failed because the group does not have enough land credits".

Does anyone have any idea what that means? I just want my partner and a couple of 'homeless' friends to be able to set home there.

Grace

Never mind. Apparently I had to set an amount of land to deed, but even then I got the same message. According to the notecard my friend gave me, this is a known bug and I have to e-mail LL about it. I guess I won't be deeding any land since I don't have the patience for that.

Grace

Did you check Owner Makes Contribution With Deed? If this is your first piece of group owned land, you should be able to make a tier contribution to your group with the deed. If you have larger holdings, or land spread between multiple groups, you need to take the contribution away from one, bump up the other, buy the land, and then re-adjust the contribution. Pain in the arse, yes, I know.