Heritage Estates Now with More Room (Varregions) !

I am very pleased to let you all know that we are expanding our horizons... in the form of varregions!
For months I have been dreaming of having more than a single region for sailing and flying sports. Now, I am pleased to announce we have them both!

We are developing a region called Heritage Ocean which will be specifically for sailing so here is a few photos of the 1024x 1024 region....

Small area of the Heritage Ocean Marina... many slips for all to dock their boats, ships, whatever.

Windlight settings "An Incuregent Truth" and "Placida Bright" view of the orginal Yacht Club

A sailboat bobs placidly in the water
 



Slate patio, wrought iron fencing, large swimmable pool and a well appointed seating area.  This home also overlooks the ocean sim edge.

Also up, a friend of mine, Burke, is developing the Heritage Regional Airport ... a semi industrial sim which will have plenty of room to fly. What to be done with the rest of the region? Maybe residential, maybe farmland... I love the idea of flying over geometric farms.... yea I am liking that idea...

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Lastly, the Heritage54 Yacht club will be a mirror to the Heritage Ocean Yacht club, and I will have a convenient teleport to take you from H54 to the new sailing region. Here I am sitting on the deck, wondering just what kind of teleport system will be appropriate for the yacht club?  How about life raft...?  I am thinking... :)

As Doc is currently master building in another Lost Paradise project, I am flying almost solo with these idea.. so I hope it comes out okay...

How to Join our Free Affiliate Program

Hypergrid link: http://lpgrid.com 54


Hey all.  We are ready to launch our affiliate vendor program. It's FREE to anyone who becomes a Lost Paradise member.  It's also simple.

Here's how it works.  I am using my own "Heritage Formals" shop in Heritage 54.

In this example, I am offering my formal gown "Midnite Dreams" for free in Lost Paradise and for a very discounted rate of 15.00 lindens in SL.

Click to buy for free in Lost Paradise. Touch prim to buy for Second Life

Click to "buy" the freebie for LP.   There is a hovertext that says "Touch to Buy for SL".  Touch the prim and the link for your marketplace store comes up. The player then has the option to buy the same for use in Second Life.

Sign in and  buy for Second Life...

You may use your shop in any configuration...  1)either all freebies in Lost Paradise and links to your Marketplace shop, or 2)nothing to offer for the SL Marketplace items except a link to buy for Second Life, or 3)Link to buy the item for Lost Paradise via Virwox or Paypal and link to buy the item for Second Life.

You choose.

The only thing that is required is that you offer several freebies in your Heritage Store and that you retain a presence in Lost Paradise while rent the store.

We have free housing for all vendors so they have a hang out space in Lost Paradise.  All free.

We are excited in this opportunity for increased traffic in Lost Paradise and more Marketplace sales for you.

Come join us! 

Join the Heritage Merchants Group and TP to Heritage 54 to claim your shop.

Pictures below!

This is a really spacious shop adjacent to the Jazz club.

Midsize shop with tiled floor near the Yacht Club.

Overview of the beautiful Heritage 54 Emporium area



Opulent Option small store adjacent to the Yacht Club

The Lure of Virtual...

The Lure of Virtual

Why we keep coming back, again and again and again….

When someone asks what I am doing during the weekend, I usually say I am busy, and no one really can imagine. Busy doing what? Well, shopping, decorating, landscaping. Dancing and hanging out with friends.

Sounds like a typical weekend right? Yes… except…

I do all of these things behind a computer screen, immersed in a 3D environment that mimics real life. Although not all of the five senses are represented, most of them are.

When I first came onto Second Life, I found it clunky and frustrating, with no real instructions. Plus the avatars looked much too much cartoonish. That was back in 2005.

When I tried again to go back on Second Life, in 2008, things were different. Cltohing had developed with the use of multiple attachments and flexi primitives, allowing lifelike movement and flow of hair and fabric. Scripting had also developed, and there were many beautiful modes of transport. Regions were plentiful, with many people from many countries to meet and chat with.

By 2010, all sorts of things were happening. There were plenty of beautiful RP regions. Necessity being the mother of invention, and people were using MLP animations to do all sorts of things, but of course mostly for sequenced sex. The Second Place Marketplace gave vendors an inexpensive online storefront to sell their wares with an easy delivery system that delivered goods directly to the recipient, directly inworld. The first SL real estate mogul made over a million USD by selling virtual land. Hundreds of regions were developed by real life companies, corporations and education facilities.

As you know, SL has made a steady decline in recent years, losing players and contributors with a sharp decline in private region rentals.

So, why, you may ask, are people still inclined to go there?

I admit it. I love virtual. In virtual I can own a beachfront home, complete with a crashing surf and the sound of laughing gulls. I can live in the city, on the top of a high rise. I can hang out at midnight in some dark and lonely underground tunnel, being pursued by bad men. I can be bitten by a vampire, but not die. I can dance all night, get a partner, get married even, become a clothing designer, and sail a cruise ship.

Really. I can can do so much that I cannot do in real life.

And.. I can learn. I can learn how to script, how to texture, how to build.

I can market my ideas, and I can make friends.

I can turn into a mermaid and explore the bottom of the Blake Sea, I can buy and sell land at will. There is so much to be done, and so little time.

I can create things. With blender, there is so many ways to create and I am still learning.

I love virtual. It’s everything I cannot do in real life, and more.

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

What’s been happening Heritage Estates August 2014

I admit it, the last few weeks have been relatively quiet in Heritage. What with a few immediate things I needed to take care of and the inevitable summer holidays, the traffic in our areas have been light.


But that does not mean vacant at all.
I have been working on rigging some mesh clothing for our members and hopefully will soon be offering them.   I am not an expert on it but I have to admit that I am happy to be walking around in clothes that is not melded to my body.... lol.


A new store, Meshedup Hair, in Heritage Plaza is already offering some Mesh hair for both men and women. I hope to accompany that store with another for clothing.Several styles of mesh hair available now for the price of free.

 
I am pretty sure you will like the region RIverwalk… a nature preserve/botanical park, and we have added a little sailboat ride that swings you around the region.  http://lpgrid.com:8002:Heritage50  




A sunset sailboat ride around the Botanical Park, "Riverwalk"

 

The light commercial, sort of residential,  sort of post-  Apocalyptic region Westhorpe in Heritage Estates Lost Paradise

 I am in the process with a new member of developing a regional airport for Heritage Estates… more to come soon…   He is doing the creative work and in just a few short days it has been developed to this already!

New Member Burke Millar is hard at work creating the Heritage Regional Airport. It is great!

possible new stores in Heritage 54, our Dance Club venue.  Please check out our Affiliate Vendor program here...  

We have welcomed some new tenants to Bramford, our residential region….   All in all the last week has been really jam packed with enthusiasm …