This month is now “Membership Mania Month” in Second Life. The first of the surprises announced was Thousand Island Linden Homes on Friday last week. I know, another range of homes that are good for a starter, but not much else. However lots of people like them and are very happy in thiers. The uprades announced today, see below, now makes them even more attractive though.
What got me interested in these new ones though was that among the options of buildings, you can choose on the water continent, are Mer Grottos.
I just had to get one to try it out and show you all, and an excuse to put on my Mermaid tail too.
I thought the easiest thing to do to show you around was just to take a swim, from the circular floating hut.
As you can see it’s quite spacious inside and out, but then you have a 2048m parcel, so it’s not surprising.
There are some customisation options for the interior, but they are quite limited and I had to switch the environment to Midday to be able to tell the difference.
This Home name is “Scallop”, but if you want one of the regular Tiki Hut buildings, you can change it using the floating mailbox thing.
In case you were wondering how far your patch of water extends, there’s an option to “Show Parcel Boundary Marker”, Which temporarily rezzes a big screen to show you where you can put your stuff. This is however transparent from the inside, so you wouldn’t know the option had done anything unless you were by the mailbox.
Upgrades!
Today Linden Lab announced some more surprises, a whole load of extra upgrades to different paid (and free) account features. There’s more Group slots for everyone, more stored offline messages and more animesh attachments. However the upgrade that will be most important for many: More Prim/Land Impact allwance for Linden Homes!
Obviously this will immediately have Mainland owners screaming inequality, and who could blame them? So hopefully todays announcement will preceed a similar one for Mainland regions. (We can but hope!)
You can read the exact numbers of what’s changed on the offical announcment post: Member Mania Week 2