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Second Life Land Auctions Change

2018/07/11 by Nalates Urriah

Today the Lindens announced the Land Auction process is changing, A Face lift for Auctions.

Auctions are now a subset of Places Pages… or something along that line. See Second Life Auctions. Notice the URL of the page starts with places.secondlife.com/auctions.

You can see the land up for auction as open, scheduled, and recently closed. There are links to the land so you can see it. The link on the Auction page opens a Places Page. There is a SLURL on the Places Page.

The details of how to use the Auction are in a walkthrough, Land Auctions. And there is FAQ page, Auctions FAQ.

Soon we will be able to setup our own auctions. For now the Lindens are setting up the auctions using the new system. Once they feel it is working to their satisfaction, they’ll open it to residents.

Second Life Land Prices… Drop 2

2018/07/06 by Nalates Urriah

Land Prices – A couple of weeks ago the Lab announced they would be lowering land prices. Those prices went into effect. Now, as of July 2^nd the prices drop again. See: Another 15 for 15: LOWER Land Prices and Reduced Set-up Fees!

Full Region price remained the same. Homestead and Open Space prices dropped another 15%.

Second Life Breaking: Land Prices Drop

2018/06/20 by Nalates Urriah

About 40 minutes ago the Lab posted a SL15B surprise, Another 15 for 15: LOWER Land Prices and Reduced Set-up Fees!

Private regions tier will drop by 15%, setup fees by 41%… does not apply to gaming regions… the money games.

To offset some of the loss of income the fee for converting L$ to RL$ bumps up from US$0.99 to $1.49.

Second Life – New Thing…

2018/06/08 by Nalates Urriah

Today the Lab announced New Feature to Make Life Easier for Estate Owners!

The feature is about allowing region owners and estate managers to restart their regions from the web.

This is needed because in griefing situations it is often not possible to get into the region to use the viewer controls to restart and clear problems.

Part of the feature allows the region to be restarted in ‘safe mode’. Safe mode disables scripts, collisions, and physics.

Second Life 2018 Road Map?

2018/05/30 by Nalates Urriah

Designing Worlds has done an interview with Linden Lab’s™ CEO, Ebbe Altberg. You can see their video of the interview here, Designing Worlds DW370 – Ebbe Interviewed. (Run time 1hr 51min)

Ebbe Altberg 5/2018 – Designing Worlds Interview

There is talk of a road map for Second Life™. This ‘map’ apparently isn’t a published document. The interview focuses on where Ebbe is taking Second Life. So, I take it as a word picture.

However, Ebbe does talk about where they hope to take SL and what will happen with various aspects of SL.

If the video is too long for you, check Inara’s article. She has a summary of the interview. Designing Worlds In Conversation With Ebbe Altberg – Transcript + Audio.