Bellisseria Rings In The New Year, Two Mainland Embassies

 

With the New Year ringing in, Gemma Cleanslate took a break from her checking out winter places. For New Years Eve, she spent the night at the party at the Bellisserian Fairgrounds. She would also check out the new embassy in the mainland continent of Nautilus, which opened a few days before the year ended, and the opening of the one in Gaeta last week.
 
Read Gemma's story in Events.
 

SL Videos: "How Big Is The Map of Second Life, Walking Across the Map"

There's a man on Youtube who calls himself "How Big is the Map?" What he does is record himself walking across various gaming worlds such as "Ark: Survival Evolved," "Player Unknown's Battlegrounds," "Elder Scrolls Online," and many others. Most take a half hour to ninety minutes, though "Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall" boasts the biggest map he crossed, which took him about 70 hours in total.



Recently, WATM decided to take on crossing Second Life., in an avatar appropriately named "HowBigistheMap." But he ran into one complication obvious to it's residents: most of the place is private regions by themselves or in groups that are isolated from one another and accessible only by teleporting. But there were the continents. So he decided to talk across those, starting with Sansara. The journey took him an hour and a half. So crossing just this continent alone took more time than crossing most of the game worlds he'd spanned.



HowBigIsTheMap didn't stop there. He would go on to cross the continent of Jeogeot, which took him slightly less than an hour and a half. Then came his third and longest challenge, traversing the triple continent region of Corsica, Nautilus, and Satori. That took him almost three hours, which got him wondering how long would it take to walk across the whole Grid if it was possible.

Luca Grabacr came up with a kind of answer in her video in November 2015, in which she stated if all the sims were lined up end to end, it would take over 23,000 days to walk across them. Obviously that's not the same as crossing the map from one corner to the other. But these videos from these two people show when it comes to ground area, especially ground area with unique content, Second Life has the MMOs beat hands down.

Hat Tip: Hamlet Au
Bixyl Shuftan

A Dragon's Tale: Making a Cross-Continental Journey

Some months ago, Becky Shamen offered the readers a challenge. From the southern tip of the Satoir continent to the eastern edge of Gatea was the longest path one could make over landmasses. Becky challenged the residents to make the trip. Months later, her alt Joshua was ready to make the journey, as their dragon character Katzu Kwattle. So how did the big Wyrm do?

Read Joshua's article in Extra.

Discovery Amusement Park

Do you want to go to an amusement park, but the nearest one is far away, the weather at the moment is bad, the place charges a lot, or something of all three? Well, you can find some in Second Life. Becky Shamen found one at the Pangea sim, Discovery, with six major rides.

Read Becky's story in Places.