Linden Homes: The Good, The Bad, The Holy Crap I Am On Mainland
So, with my return to Second Life I arrived just in time for Linden Homes to be announced. And I thought to myself “Self, it would be good to have a place to unpack shit and take horrible photographs for your blog of doom and hey, it’s only 10 dollars a month. You spend more than that on way sillier things”. And so I stared at the menu to select one and explored the several different options. In the end I chose the Skylight model in the Meadowbrook theme. And things were good…or so I thought.
The Author Standing In front of His Small Abode.
Now, having previously lived on a half sim I will have to admit that getting used to a small parcel was somewhat interesting. I couldn’t rez half my stuff as most of it exceeded the prim limit by itself. The house itself is pretty small and before they introduced that control panel it looked a little drab. But overall, the Meadowbrook theme has some good houses. (Note: I checked out the fantasy ones but I reserve my D&D play for every other Saturday at my friends house. And I am so tired of Asian stuff it’s not even funny).
Now, in the covenant and in the whole advertisements for Linden Homes, they keep going on about a sense of community. And while I think that would be awesome. I noticed that it hasn’t really happened. And I thought to myself “Why is that?” Well I think I figured it out.
Do you see any streets? Any community areas? To me it just looks like our evil monkey overlords just went “Hey, let’s take a shitload of small houses and drop them everywhere with almost no rhyme or reason. That is hardly a sense of community. To be honest it just feels like I’m on a chunk of Mainland and it has no rhyme or reason. Also, the houses are too close together and I have neighbors who like to have the voice sexxors. Next time they do that I am going to have a watching party. It’ll be fun.
I mean, I get why they did it. And in theory it’s an excellent idea (unless you’re a giant SL Mainland Land Baron and then who gives a fuck what you think)(Except Sarah Nerd because she’s awesome). I think it could have been better executed. Linden Lab not too long ago made a big deal about the Linden Roads and the sailing and the Rail System and unfortunately I don’t see any of that even remotely near me. Maybe if they add things like community centers, roads, gathering areas, and mailboxes (because mailboxes would be cool) a sense of community will develop.
What do you think?
