Marriage means nothing...

In this world, marriage is nothing but an association between to people. My wife, Hazar Oyen, and I can not share the land I purchased nor can she build on it.

It turns out I had to create a group (which currently costs L$100), add her to my group and set the group in the land properties. She then had to "activate" her group so she could freely build on the land.

My user provided the following information for all users in his world:

How to give people permission to build on your land via a group in Second Life.

Creating a group in Second Life is simple and easy, but will currently cost you L$100 ( $0.68 USD ).

1. Right click your avatar and select "Groups..." or select "Edit -> Groups..." from the menu.

2. On the Groups window, select "Create".

3. Fill in the name and fill in the charter for the group in the "Group Information" window. The other tabs and options will remain unavailable until you create the group. If you have a group/family picture, you can associate it to the group either now or later.

4. Once all the information has been filled in, select "Ok" or "Apply". You will be presented with a dialog box asking if you want to spend the L$100 to create a group.

5. You should now have your "Group Information" window with the tabs and options unlocked and the "Members & Roles" tab selected. Select "Roles". Select "Officers" and select "Delete Role", we do not need this role. Select "Create new role" and enter Wife/Husband/Partner, for this tutorial I will use "wife". Under "Allowed Abilities", give your partner all the "Parcel Powers", "Parcel Access" and "Parcel Content". Also select "Manipulate" under "Object Management" to give them permissions to move things around on the land. Select "Apply"

6. Select "Members" and select "Invite New Person..." for the "Group Invitation" window.

7. Select "Open Person Chooser" and select your partner. Select the "wife" role down near the bottom and select "Send Invitations".

8. Now right click your land and select "About Land..." or select "World -> About Land..." from the menu.

9. In the General tab, select "Set..." next to Group: option.

10. In the Options tab, uncheck "All Residents" and check "Group" for "Create Objects", "Object Entry" and "Run Scripts".

That's it, your partner in Second Life should now be able to create prims on your land without any problems. Repeat the above steps 6-8 to make a role and assignments for "Friends" or "children".

Land Ownership, the initial purchase.

Being a full resident, I now have the ability to own my own land.

I've scouted all over the mainland and even several islands, such as those owned by Anshe Chung Studios. There are miles and miles of available property for sale, lease and auction. Some by individuals and others by relators. There are some places in this world where time seemed to slow down. So many things have been created there that I felt like a snail moving through the region. I certaintly do not want to live there.

Covenant's can be specified for a land, especially ones not owned by the great Lindens. For example, the covenant for the "DreamLand Gothica" specifies the region is 'zoned' for Gothic architecture and all structures must be this style. It also specifies very specific Building and Object codes for constuction.

Building Codes:

• No malls, clubs or listing of parcels as "gathering place"
• No flying structures below 250m
• No obsturctive signs, billboards or rotating prims
• No highrise structures. Max bulding height is 2 times the distance of prim from parcel border.
• Buildings must have adequate distance from parcel border.
• No major eyesores
• To perserve a consistent landscape, terraforming is subject to approval by sim management. Water must remain intact, do not raise land over water.

Object Code:

• No high lag scripts
• No spy scripts.
• No scripts that transmit data directly or indirectly to external databases unless explicitly permitted by sim management.
• No moving/rotating texture scripts
• Access Restriction to land ONLY when owner is present.
• Security scrits only if 1) they do not hinder access to other parcels in the sim and 2) if they give visitors ample warning and enough time (15+ sec) to leave the parcel before ejected.
• We reserve the right to limit number of active scripts residents use on their land if performance of sim gets to low.

There are alot of times I wish the "mainland" would force these rules, it would keep the land much nicer looking for all residents and force a common goal as a community. The only problem is not alot of visitors go to these areas, which I guess is fine if you're looking for a home.

I finally decided on a piece of land 1552m2 located in Seokcheon where quite a bit of land was up for sale. I do not remember exactly, but I think the price was L$26999 which is about L$17/m. I found out later that this is a "little" high for going land prices. As I went to purchase the land, I realized I did not have enough money. Luckly for me, there is also a money portal with my users world. We can easily send money back and forth between our worlds and he loaned me enough to cover my first purchase. Now I'll have to find a job to repay the loan.

Although I've been looking around the world for something to do and/or create, I am still jobless. The ability to create physical things is quite easy and I'm quickly picking up the LSL for programming my objects.

Power. Becoming a full resident

Today something strange happened... My user paid tribute to the great Linden gods and I now have the ability to own my own land. I'm not sure what other special abilities the gods have granted me, but as of today, I'm a full fledged resident.

SihnStarr Rosse and I have talked in length about our users desire to promote bands from their world into our world. If you are a land owner, you can specify a media stream for both audio and video that originates from the users world and via a portal, reaches our world. Clubs make great use of this feature with their DJ's users setting up playlists and communicating vocally with the residents here. SihnStarr Rosse has talked with some club owners about doing some DJ work, thus having the ability to promote his users bands from RL.

While discovering the media portals, there are other portals bridge between our worlds allowing communication via HTTP requests, XML-RPC, and email via the LSL language that all residents can program into their objects. From what I can gather, soon the residents will be able to program their objects via the Mono family of languages.

The light appears...

How long has it been? How long did I wait in the dark? Is it really February?

Five and a half months. I wonder what has changed...

I wonder around for hours. Aimlessly teleporting to back and forth noticing several of my previous places were strangely empty whereas others were gone all together.

I met some new people, who I feel are related to my user:

SihnStarr Rosse
Hazar Oyen

Hazar Oyen and I quickly became partners as stangely, it seemed we were always meant to be together. There was no fancy wedding or gathering of friends, as I only have only made three so far.