Svarga Back in Second Life

On Sunday afternoon, March 21, just after logging on I heard some great news. The Svarga sim was back! II looked it up on the map, and there it was, so I ported over.

And there was a sight I hadn’t seen in many months. What some people called one of the Seven Wonders of Second Life was back.

Svarga was started early, around 2004. By 2006, it was complete and further construction ceased. It’s creator, Laukosargas Svarog, created a grand island of waterfalls, mountains, rivers, stone temples, and the artificial life experiments, the “Eco System” project, gave the sim it’s own cycle of life, with clouds raining on the plants, bees pollinating, and occasionally eaten by a flytrap lilly, and other aspects. It was considered one of the most ingeniously built places in the Metaverse. More can be read in our April 2007 article .

In December 2008, Laukosargas made her decision to look for a buyer for Svarga. Running the sim was just too expensive for her, she felt, and Second Life seemed no better to her than when she first went about on it.

Some months later, the sim vanished from the map. It seemed that this wonder of the Metaverse had vanished into the virtual nether forever, much to the sadness of many who had seen the area and marveled at it’s details. Until now, that is.

Checking Laukosargas’s profile, she says the sim has a new owner, even though Svarga still lists her as in charge. She also asked not to be contacted, saying she plans to return to Second Life only sparingly, once in a few months.

As time goes on, someone will figure out exactly what happened and what we can expect. But for now, we can take heart that once again, this gem of a sim is once again open for visits, and not just a memory.

The entry point for Svarga is at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/5/124/22 .

Bixyl Shuftan.

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How do you spell incompetence? (2)

The small controversy surrounding Openspace sims makes me think of an easy comparison in the telecommunications industry at home, in Canada.

By selling a product, not limiting its use and cracking down on its customers, the giant company called Bell Canada alienated many people. Bell offered unlimited Internet access to its mobile phone users but put arbitrary restriction clauses in the contracts. In fact, this made people pay for unlimited use without granting them actual limitless service. Once some mobile phone customers started to use their wireless connection as an unlimited one, they were told that they were not expected to do so.

In a way, Linden Labs' decision to unilaterally upgrade Openspace sims to Class 5 by telling people that they were overusing them is comparable. It offered something that was too good to be true. It made estate ownership easy but did not put limits that would prevent people from adding textures, scripts and objects once there was enough to eat up the sim's performance.

It would have made sense to cap the use of a sim's resources instead of slapping everyone with a forced upgrade. This is yet again an example of lack of foresight from the Lindens.

Here is some of that foresight they badly need: Bell Canada is one of the most despised brands in Canada because it has historically treated its customers in such a way. As soon as competition started offering a credible alternative for home phone services, customers left in droves. On a national level. They took their Internet and television services to the competition's attractive bundles and are now enjoying better customer service.

I ask this for a second time: How do you spell incompetence?

I suggest this answer: an L, an I, an N, a D, an E and another N

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What were they thinking?

In this SL economy, why would Hellespont Hoorenbeek actually buy a couple of regions and set up a new residential community?

Find out in the EXPLORE section

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Caliber Opening!

Recently I said in an article that I had seen two fantastic, breathe taking sims one was Tyche, styles of edos' new sim this is the second one RIVENDELL.
And it opened yesterday

Find more details in EVENTS!

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Nokia opens its first sim

The phone company has had a presence in SL for some time but the new sim was unofficially launched last night.


more details in our EXTRA section

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Caliber opening

Full Details of the opening can be found in our EVENTS section

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Grand Opening of Styles of Edo's new SIM Tyche

February 2, starting at 2 am sl time.

Styles of Edo has moved to the elegant SIM Tyche.

Join us for the Grand Opening of Tyche to see the shops, towers, small village atmosphere and forest full of romantic hideaways and picturesque views.

Tyche is a perfect date and dancing spot - a great place for relaxing and playing. Tyche is reminiscent of Mediterranean villages with a fantasy twist. Styles of edo has new double-breasted suits out and is offering free stockings for women.

Styles of edo Owner and Designer edo Tone will be on hand at 2 am and SIM designer and builder Ao Kilara will be on hand at 2 pm.

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Normally that would be it, an announcement, but on a personal level I have seen two amazing sims this week that have left me speechless with their splendour and beauty Tyche is one of them, (the other I will tell you about soon). Even if you don't want to see Styles of Edo this sim is worth a visit for its pure beauty that words just cannot describe. Ao Kilara has done a magnificent job of putting this together and pictures can't do it justice. If you want to see an example of the excellence that can be accomplished in secondlife then this is a prime example!

Dana

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tyche/148/123/47/

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