Reader Submitted Pictures: ACS Sim

 

From Kanida Delec, Hope Haven in the America Cancer Society sim.

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/American%20Cancer%20Society/119/219/25 

 

 "Edge of a sim, nothing there yet."

 

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/American%20Cancer%20Society/235/124/24

  

Relay Track Sneak Peek

 

 Taken at RFL Remember. The Meli's Maniacs team have been hard at work on their campsite. It's not finished yet, so we can't show most of it. But we can show their "under construction" sign.

 

More to come.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

Relay Track Update

 

 Several days after the Relay track sims opened to builders, the track has numerous builds up. Some are obviously halfway done. A few look complete, though it's possible the builders have some last minute adjustments. 

Among those in the middle of construction is the Sunbeamer campsite, at RFL Win.

 

 Some had some fancy ways of saying so.

 

 More to come.

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

 

 

 

RFL Track Sneak Peek: Under Construction

 

 

Taken at RFL Manage. While Team Timesville is getting its build ready, they set up some construction equipment at their campsite. It made for some interesting scenery among the empty plots and half-finished builds.

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Scenes From The SL19B: Parcel Marker

 

From somewhere on the SLB exhibition sims. One practice is for an exhibitor to mark a parcel as claimed with an object from his or her inventory. Sometimes the markers are large and detailed to the point one wonders if that is the actual build. But with this one, it's obvious there's more to come.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

RFL H&G Sneak Peek: "Under Construction"

 

With the Relay season underway, the first of the 'macro events' is tomorrow, the "RFL Home and Garden Expo." But taking a look at the grounds, east of the American Cancer Society sim, things are still under under construction. The team shops, the Sunbeamers included, are only halfway built.

There will be plenty to do at the Home and Garden from music events, contests, auctions, and of course shopping. Stay tuned for updates.
 

Sneak Peek: Harmony For Hope's Relay Track Campsite

Taken at Second Life Spirit from the American Cancer Society sim. Team Harmony for Hope's campsite is still "Under Construction." But they'll have it done in a few days.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cynthia Farshore Now Running Caledon Downs

Cynthia Farshore, the owner of Farshore Radio, now has a new sim: Caledon Downs. Cynthia is no stranger to the large steampunk community, as she DJs there sometimes and a couple years ago got a store there with Shockwave Yareach, "Yareach and Farshore Mercantile." Now, she has a whole piece of the 28-sim area.

The sim itself has a large hill in the eastern half that overlooks the sims to the north and south. A railroad goes through the sim over the hill, and as of the writing of this brief, the one complete roofed building on the ground is the sim train station, located near the southern border. Close by the tracks in the north is an airship stop, for Caledon Air Transport dirigibles, which consists partially of a floating platform. To the west, the sim is more water, with a canoe ride available on a pier. There are two rope bridges spanning chasms.

While Cynthia has gotten a good start, much remains to be done. While I visited, she was working on a forested area. She feels it will be close to a year before her current plans for the sim are done. And knowing Cynthia, she won't truly be finished with the sim.

Caledon Downs (197/24/44)

Bixyl Shuftan

Breaking News: New Project Elemenoh Sim Region, Second Life Birthday Sims, Appear

Tyche Shepherd's weekly Grid update in the SL Universe forums had some interesting news. Among the 66 new sims on the map were those for the Second Life Birthday. Each with "SLB" and "Build" as parts of their names, there are 21 in all from SLB 1 Build to SLB 21 Build. A few already have water, and roads or other builds on them. As time goes on, there will certainly be more. As of now, the Newser has heard no announcements by the Second Life Birthday organizers, but no doubt there will soon be a call for volunteers, performers, and exhibitors. The sims are closed to all but a few, and are just south of the Paleoquest game areas, which are far to the southwest of most other sims.

There was also a group of 13 sims that Tyche called part of a new project by Linden Lab: Project Elemenoh. Twelve of the sims are labled "Elemenoh 1 Build" to "Elemenoh 12 Build," with a "Elemenoh Dev" seperate and a little to the northwest. Aside from their appearances on the map, which are varried, not much else is known about these sims. There are two groups of 12 sims each nearby, Build LR 1 to Build LR 12 and Staging LR 1 to Staging LR 12, which Tyche didn't mention. Also nearby was a four sim group each with "Snuffle" in it's name and two other sims. It's unclear if they're part of Project Elemenoh, or are part of something else is working on.

The sims, along with the Portal Partk Winter Build just south of them, are south of most sims on the map, with the Black Rose sim some distance to the east being the closest open to all I could find.

Stay tuned for more information on both when it becomes available.

Hat Tip: Daniel Voyager 

Bixyl Shuftan

Oahu Sim, Home of USS Arizona Memorial, "Under Construction"

Going to the USS Arizona Memorial at the Oahu sim turned out to be a no-go yesterday as the sim was closed to the public. The reason, it was "Under Construction." Having an alt join the group, the place should be reopened on December 9 to a "Grand Opening" party.

As it turns out, Oahu has a couple neighbors now, and the memorial can be seen from the
Pacific West sim by turning the draw distance way up, panning around, and waiting for the image to clear up. But stepping onto the Oahu sim will result in a warning to get off or be teleported away.

Beginning on December 9 presumably, the memorial can be found at Oahu (176/22/23). The reproduction of the real-life memorial to those who lost their lives on the USS Arizona on the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire. About half of the over 2300 killed in the attack perished on the ship. The memorial was online for several years, including for a Pearl Harbor 70th Anniversary memorial event in 2011. The sim would be down for several months last year until it was reopened in January this year.

Bixyl Shuftan

Sansar: First Impressions

Yesterday July 31 was when Linden Lab finally opened Sansar to the general public. So yours truly signed up for an account and got in. So what's my initial impression? To sum it up in one sentence, "It's a start."

You have only a limited choice of avatars to choose from, but you can customize them some.

Sansat differs from Second Life as there are no contiguous sims. but each area is separate from everywhere else. The Sansar Atlas provides a list of them. A few we have seen in Linden Lab's previews. I noticed there was one called "Luskwood" by Tengu Yamabushi, and decided to check it out.

 There was no "Big Tree" it turned out, but a dry and hilly savanna area. I didn't notice any lag, but getting about, there was no option to run. And you couldn't interact with anything. I didn't see any names on the other avatars, but I did notice someone was wearing a spacesuit. That was an item one could buy in the Sansar store.

Bryn Oh had an area, one that had a few lit-up decorated scenes. After this it was time to head back.

Right now, Sansar looks good, and I didn't see much of any lag. But all one can do is explore around. There is no object interaction. Even when Second Life first came out, you were able to run. But Sanasat is still in an "open beta" state. No doubt there will be improvements as time goes on. But for now, as has been written earlier, while an interesting place to visit, you can't really "live" there like Second Life. Further improvements are necessary.

I'll explore a little more in the next few days to show what more it has.

Bixyl Shuftan

Relay Track Sneak Peaks

Going across the Relay track sims, there was much left to do with some empty plots, but much that had been set up. In one corner was this display, a pair of hands on a column holding up the world as a pink waterfall flows.

This team is planning on making a game for it's game. What will it be? They're still developing it.

Obviously this sim is still being worked on. Nothing says "under construction" like bulldozers.

The Second Life Cheerleading Squad was developing a cannon (and catapult for those who wanted a little extra challenge) shooting game. It was still being tweaked, so the target will be shown later.

Stay tuned for more sneak peeks of the Relay Track.

Bixyl Shuftan

Setting Up The Relay Walk Team Camps

With the sims of the track for the Relay for Life Walk now open, the various teams of the Relay for Life which have camps there have been busy setting up their builds. At the Sunbeamer camp in RFL Support. Cynthia Farshore and Shockwave Yarreach, with some assistance from the other three builders, have been busy at work setting things up. While most of the work is done, they have requested that other than sneak pics, pictures showing the camp in detail will wait until at least tomorrow.

Cynthia did explain that many of the builds would help tell a story, a "young farm girl gets skin cancer, and the journey of her treatment. I'm writing the story, which is a twist since normally the wolf here does the writing. (But) I may just get the jest down then hand it over to him."

With Relayers anxiously awaiting the Relay Weekend, the committee went ahead and decided to let team members over early, although limited to their own campsites. This includes out own.

Beamers:  The Campsite is now open to ALL TEAM MEMBERS so if you wish to check it out, be our guest,  It still needs some work, but feel fre to see how far we have come and make any comments and or suggestions to Cynthia or Shocky.

But it's not just the Sunbeamers whom were hard at work, I ran into a few members of Team Harmony of Hope in RFL Health busy with setting up their camp. It was about halfway done at the time. By now it's mostly finished, mostly.

More pictures are to come as the setting up of the Relay camps, and other builds, continues.

Bixyl Shuftan

Addition: As for the grape-colored mouse in the first picture, I had just come from the "Best in P" event at Club Cutlass. Shocker joked, "He did that on Purpleose."

Raglan Rebuilding

Just in time for it's ninth anniversary, the Raglan Shire area, the home of Second Life's best known "Tiny" community, is getting a makeover. Last week, the sim the community gets it's name from was closed to the general public as older structures are taken down, and new ones, apparently to be built on huge trees. Zayn Till gave some details via Facebook on April 1.

So with only one more day until EVERYTHING is cleaned off the Raglan Shire sim, just a reminder to our amazing Merchants on the sim that everything must be taken up and into your inventory including any physical buildings that you may have built on the grounds.
Tomorrow while Bunneh tornadoes fly across the sim, there will be a Grand celebration on the central grassy grounds of Raglan Shire that we have dubbed:
THE ULTIMATE SPRING CLEANING AKA THE EXTREME CLEAN SWEEP PICK UP & PICNIC™ Starting at 1pm SLT and featuring live musical performances from Cranston Yordstorm, Grif Bamaisin and QQQUARTZZZ Plus tons of delicious NOMS.
Come to Raglan Shire for the Shindig, hear some great live music and watch everything around you disappear as we prepare to turn the sim over to NIL & THE CATS™ Sunday as the New Tree City begins to be placed down and the entire sim undergoes Transmogrification!

While the community as a whole was  excited to see what was to come, some locals had mixed feelings. Peach Lartel posted on Facebook this picture of a mock protest, "I'm not leavin.' "

Yours truly went over, and panning above, yours truly saw some of the crew, a few in hard hats, working away. Work was far from finished, so by now, no doubt the place looks much different from what I saw then.

Yours truly will soon be back for another look at Raglan. The Raglan Shire community has a reputation for industriness, low drama, and no shortage of humor and general wisecrackery. It should be interesting to see what they come up with.

Bixyl Shuftan

SL Newser At The SL12B : Sneak Peek Part Two

And what might this contraption be? This is Ranchan Weidman's contribution to the SL Newser exhibit for the Second Life Twelfth Birthday celebrations, or SL12B. Or rather, this is how it looked when she was about halfway finished. Since then, she's completed the structure and resized it.

So what does it look like now? You'll see for yourself in a few days when the SL12B opens.