Archive for the ‘Renovations’ Category

New Release: Coma

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

When we recently released the new mini-continent surrounding Capricornus, Coma was not among the regions we released parcels in. We held the region back for some cosmetic adjustments, and have now released it; along with a host of new improvements to the whole area.

Coma

What we adjusted? The center protected region (Capricornus) is no longer flat – we’ve raised up a bit of a mountain into the middle in order to give residents a nicer background behind their parcels. We’ve made some tweaks to the protected content (trees, etc) and it’s now good to go – come take a look.

Teleport Now

Information about

Zoning: Residential
Prim Ratio: Double Prims
Launch Date: 17 June 2009
SLURL: See a map of

Coma[/sim]

Resizing Parcels

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

We’ve begun resizing and splitting a few unoccupied parcels on the islands – many of which were previously merged by residents into ’super sized’ parcels. Many of these parcels were too large for the average resident, so we’ve reduced a number of them back down to smaller sizes. The following is a quick summary of the changes we’ve made so far – this will be the first of many posts on the subject.

Alioth

AliothAlioth is a residential region with a standard prim ratio. It used to consist of several 8,000sqm plots, however we have added additional roads and converted several of these larger parcels down into 4,000-5,000sqm sized plots. (Average tier is approx L$1,500/wk for 1,050 prims)

[sim zone="Residential" prims="Single Prim"]Alioth[/sim]

Mercury

Mercury – We’ve sliced down the number of plots in this sim from 3 to 7, we’ve also lowered the coastline a little to make some more varied coastline (including a few additional islands). The parcels in this region all have double prims – a 1494 prim island with 3,264sqm has a tier of only L$2,220/wk.

[sim zone="Residential" prims="Double Prim"]Mercury[/sim]

Gliese

Gliese – We’ve converted the big plot in the middle from one plot to three – these are all single prim plots and a example 6,064sqm lot with 1,387 prims is only L$2,080 a week.

[sim zone="Residential" prims="Single Prim"]Gliese[/sim]

Centaurus – The big 16,000sqm parcel in the corner is no-more. We’ve replaced it with two parcels, one 9,792sqm (L$3,188wk with 2,465 prims) and a 5,744sqm parcel with 1,445 prims (L$1,983/wk).

[sim zone="Residential" prims="Single Prim"]Centaurus[/sim]

Renovating the Volcano

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Dante's Volcano

Any of the residents who live near the ‘Dante’ volcano would have noticed it went from magma to tropics overnight. We’ve begun a program on the islands to update for 2009 some of our sims, and as part of that process, we’re going to be reviewing a lot of our sims to see if we can improve things. The Dante volcano is one of our protected sims, in the middle of 8 residential ones; when we first built it, it was a highly volcanic affair – our updated version has it as a crater lake.

If you are looking to live next to a now-extinct volcano, we’ve got beach parcels availible in Norma, Barnard and islands in Wezen and Aloth.

Dante from Below