The public works
Second Life is supposed to be a world “built by its residents”… and it is, even the “government” (in this case Linden Lab) promotes some works, some like other governments do. They do it with the Linden Department of Public Works (LDPW from now) and the team of residents who build the projects are The Moles and since they are residents i presume this way Second Life remains as that “world built by residents”… 
The first work by the LDPW was Bay City, this was a quite huge project, and under my point of view is a really good work, if Linden Lab wanted to “dignify” the Mainland with a project then this was good, land in there is INCREDIBLY expensive.
The there there was urban, a city full of channels of water, bridges, a port, industry… including public transportation (tram and water-tram systems).
Other big projects were Nautilus (ancient mediterranean culture themed), Zindra (the Mainland area dedicated to Adult content), the Mainland sail sims, the Linden Homes sims… and i presume they are planning some more.
But their work is not only about this kind of themed communities, also they are developing roads in Mainland (in the top picture walking around one of the newest roads) and working a lot lately in the SLRR (Second Life Railroad) and a ferry connection between two “Maritime stations”. But loving as i love railways i’ll write a special post about the SLRR soon.
Knowing the chaos the Mainland became when Linden Lab decided to “leave it for its own” i think this LDPW is a really good project, first for Mainland residents, making their neighbourhoods better and keeping the value of the land, and second for all the residents, providing nice places to hang out or explore. Possibly the land auction system was not really smart and caused the prices of land to raise due speculation, specially in Bay City, but i really hope Linden Lab learned about it and the new projects would have better ways to “distribute” the land.
Photos by me, Shadoe Landman, Wildstar Beaumont and Alpha Auer, all published under Creative Commons license, follow the images links for more info.
Rememberance
Yesterday morning i visited the Linden Memorial Park (SLurl), one of the newest works of the LDPW (Linden Department of Public Works). It is a good place to think about people is not here anymore.
After more than two years in Second Life one meets a lot of people, people that come and go, people who only shares with you a second… or much more, friends, lovers, problems and smiles. So i was thinking there about it, about all the people that came to my life and had to go, thinking about those moments, those great moments.
The love i have for my friends doesn’t make me forget all that ones, sometimes they had to go for good reasons, sometimes not so good ones, but they left in my heart a piece of themselves. From here i’d like to say “Thanks” for this pieces.
Places to visit in Second Life #11: Nautilus
I’ve been visiting Nautilus lately, is one of the “themed” areas built by the LDPW (Linden Department of Public Works), like Bay City, and as Bay City is not only one sim (region) is a bit group of them, as you can see in this map:
The theme this time is some like “Atlantis”, partially a Mediterranean culture, partially a fantasy. The place has some public areas and spots by LDPW and plots for auction where residents can build their businesses or homes. About this auctions system Linden Lab is using there and in Bay City, well, i don’t like it much. Prices there are way higher than in any other place in Mainland and that sale system impulse the speculation on Land value, anyway that keeps the average value of Mainland a bit higher and that’s good for Linden Lab business plans, but is a false avarage, becuase it concentrates the high value on some areas and the rest is simply cheap. Maybe the right thing would be having LDPW working more, and they are doing it with the road system in Mainland, but possibly more people working there will increase the value of Mainland and will give more beauty to it. Let’s hope they keep working and working. Anyway, the objective of this blogpost is to talk a bit about nice spots in Nautilus… so let’s do it.
One of the coolest place in Nautilus for me is The Market (SLurl), a place where LDPW placed lots of quality freebies to help residents in Nautilus to keep the theme in the area and to have nice homes. I think is good anyone visits The Market if you are building something in Mediterranean style, the textures and objects are nicely done and can be really useful. The Market is in a public garden area what is nice also as a place to stay and meet people of the community in Nautilus.
Free textures and objects to customize the buildings in LPDW areas is one of the best ideas they are having, because helps a lot residents who may not be skilled on texturing or complex building.
Other places to visit in Nautilus are (in the same order as the pictures) The Gates of the Citadel (SLurl), the Eastern Sea Temple (SLurl) and The main Temple of Nautilus (SLurl). As you can see the details on this public buildings are quite good and inmersive in the “Atlantis” style of Nautilus. The influence in this buildings is mainly Mediterranean in Classic times, specially about the Minoan Civilization in some areas, but, of course, a fantasy view of those cultures.
Nautilus is full of nice spots to visit and explore, i gave you here some clues but is better you go and try to find all the places to visit, including the place where Magellan Linden arrived the first time to Nautilus.
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