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 … 

Can you send me a Landmark for Opensim please?

On my SL profile, big and bold, is references to Lost Paradise and Heritage Estates.

I often get random people im about the references.

 

*“Free land?  Sounds interesting... Can you send me the landmark?”*

I virtually sigh, and then take a deep breath and go on to explain….

“Did you ever hear of Open sim?”

*What’s open sim?*

It’s a virtual world’s grid.  It’s not on Second Life, it is its own grid. You need to slightly configure a viewer and create an account on lpgrid.com in order to login into the world.

* Can you send me the landmark?*

SIGH……………………

Every now and then I get a person who actually knows what an Open sim grid, and can actually use a viewer other than the SL viewer.   It’s a pleasure to chat with them and give them the specifics on how to create an account and log in to the Lost Paradise Grid.

But I have a nagging question in the back of my beautiful virtual head.

How to get the masses involved in Open sim?  What will it take? Two clicks is more than the one click sound bite society we live in.  People don’t have patience and do not want to take the time to learn something new. They want quick gratification, they don’t want to think.

There has to be a better way.

I thought that Cloud Party, a fun, viewer-less experiment in virtual earlier this year, may have been the answer.

Now Arribasim, similar to Sim on a Stick but a bit more configurable has come along.

Where is the one click virtual login though?  Singularity, I think, allows a person to enter the grid URI in the location space, but even that is a stretch for some people.

If you can think of a quicker easier solution now, please let me know.

I will be right here, explaining why you cannot get a landmark to Heritage from Second Life to some opensim noob.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opensim Grids - Creating Technology NOW

 

I was pleased to learn yesterday that it appears that Opensim grids;   in square virtual kilometers; has surpassed Second Life.  It gives us hope that free virtual living is not lost.

Opensim grids come and go, some more quickly than others.  Hypergrid business reports these figures monthly on their website.

 A few very exciting things are happening in the Opensim world right now, including the rapid expansion of Variable sized regions.   In addition, recently the Arribasim platform appeared, offering better performance and faster response time, and even a prepackaged version of the software.

 

This is very exciting to all people who play in virtual… in the last year, the developers have been working on many kinks. All to appeal to Secondlifers who want the same smooth easy experience without the payment tiers.

 

With vast and rapid advancements of technology,  ideas in development will immerse you even more into virtual worlds than you already are… enter Oculus Rift – where you wear ocular apparatus to enter your virtual world.

 

No doubt that all these new advancements will be showcased in  the Opensim Community Conference in November, and I cannot wait to go check them out.

Now, if only you could eat in virtual, our experience would be complete!

JJJ

 

Govega

LOSE THE LINDENS...The 10 Reasons to Divorce Second Life

I know, I know, you have heard this over the years. 

You have tried to leave...
You signed onto a "outside grid"
You've looked around... ::: sigh::
You've missed your friends
You've went back to Second Life without a backwards glance

Like a unhealthy relationship you return... to the mess, to fees, to the nasty people.

My question is WHY? What attraction does it hold for you, the average virtual wanderer?

Perhaps you have not clearly seen your choices laid out ... perhaps you just cannot get the umph to make the move...

Well, here are some reasons to Lose the Lindens:

1. You will never ever EVER bicker about encroachment of 2 meters ever again.  Most opensim grids offer free to own, or free to rent parcels, housing, or regions.  You can roll your own and run your own Sims easily from your home computer, if you wish.  It gets easier and easier with each Open Sim update.

2. People are smarter -- really this is a NO Brainer.  Anyone who can figure out how to get a onto an open sim grid is already two steps ahead of most SL casual players.

3. All uploads are free -  Yes, really.  No fees to import textures, mesh, or xml files.

4. There is no sky building - why build in the sky when you have regions and regions of open land?

5. No Fees - what does it cost?   Nothing. There is no premium.  At most, a few dollars if you chose to rent a region (65,000 meters) from a sim rental company.

6. The same experience as SL - Most scripts, all textures, most physics work exactly like Second Life if not better.  The OS open source software is developed by volunteers and gets better every update.

7. Terrains and full rights - Unlike limits in terraforming, most parcels and all regions give you rights to change height and limits as well as terrain textures. Basically unheard of in SL.

8. No crowds. Really. The community is smaller, but much friendlier.

9 Freebies.  Almost everything, from castles to landscaping to mesh to skins to hair to shoes to homes is entirely free. 

10. Prim limits what is that?  The usual 117 prims per 512 meters is a way for Linden Labs to get you to buy more land. In fact, a 65,000 region has been proven to hold up to a million prims OR MORE as Ener Hax proved in 2012.  Sorry my pretties, prim limits is just an illusion