So, I lost a chicken a little while ago. It had lag-walked out of it's pen, went off-world, and returned to my inventory. Ever since then, I've been terrified of losing another one. These chickens are quite important to me, and they really aren't just 'virtual chickens'. But anyway. Ever since then, I started looking at homestead islands.
At first, it was just to amuse myself, to show me that I really couldn't afford one anyway, so I should just give up. But, as I looked, I began to really wish I had one. It became an obsession. I'd find a homestead I wanted and mull over ideas how to buy it in my head. And, somehow... Jeffry got into the obsession too. :O
He found this land, and it was love at first sight, for him, and me. It was the perfect island, I loved it as soon as I seen it. Well, aside from the ugly grass textures, those were really, really ugly (I actually think the first thing I said to him when I TP'ed in was something like 'These ground textures look like crap'). I adored the layout of the island, the hills, the lack of lag, the fact that we got estate rights, everything. We talked about how we could afford it, and after much complaining and mourning at my $L balance, I decided to buy it.
I was pretty much pissy about the cost of it all night, and poor Jeffry tried pretty much everything he could to cheer me up. I played with estate tools for a while, which was soooo amusing to me. Changing the water height, sending region messages, playing with the sun. It was a great 15 minutes of amusement. xD
But, after I got all that out of my system, I looked through my inventory for some sand to change the textures. It took me a good hour, but I eventually worked out how to use the ground textures tab, and got something I was really proud of.
The next morning I woke up, and instead of being all irritated about it again, it hit me that this island is ours, and is our little piece of paradise. I am extremely excited, happy, and I adored the island even more. The ground textures are perfect, beautiful, and it doesn't even need to be terraformed at all. I love it :D
So, I returned everything to the previous owner that morning, and set to work on moving in. I laid down our house, the chickens, and started putting out furniture. I think I got halfway through setting furniture out before I got bored and started looking for other things to do. xD
July 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Very cool!
July 24, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Congrats! You're right, the terraforming is very cute, perfect for a private island.
July 25, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Oooh congrats on getting your homestead!
When LL changed the policy on homesteads Luci and I nog longer own our 3 sim region. The price is crazy indeed. Nowadays you just get 1 homestead and you used to be able to get 3 for that price. Also the 20 avi limit is pretty painful too. You can't even give a big party :/
Oh and I was wondering ... since I've never been able to test it. Are you able to get on your sim when there are 20 avi's in it? Is there a way to kick people off from a distance so you can get on your own land if there are too many avi's in the sim? :/ This is probably the biggest worry that keeps me from getting a new homestead.
If just want to share it a homestead will do just fine. So have fun with terraforming - it's truly addictive :D
July 26, 2009 at 1:29 AM
LOL - so that's what that means when my chicken is suddenly walking in the air and off into the distance.
Congratulations!
July 26, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Congrats Sai! It's lovely to have a little place all your own :) Such a cute one, too!
July 27, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Just happened to find this post while looking for other stuff related to the chickens... and I thought I'd mention something that might be useful for you to know (the important bit is right at the end of this comment) :P
Me and my partner have had a Homestead for a while now (since about a week before the first announcement of the price increases etc, actually).
It was the same for us... she'd wanted one for ages (but I wasn't sure how it'd cope with lots of scripted stuff etc), then we went looking and found one that we both loved and worked out that we could afford it, so we went for it... THEN they went and increased the price lol, but we're still managing at the moment anyway.
We've now got most of our chickens on a mainland parcel that I also own though, but the first one that hatched from one of our own laid eggs somehow managed to get out of the coop, wander onto some land nearby that had been reclaimed by a Linden but had object entry allowed, and got autoreturned, within just a few hours of being born :(
We've also found a couple of chickens outside of the coop trying to get back in... So as we've just got some ancients, which are particularly special, we've moved them back to our Homestead...
I'm pretty sure they could still go off the edge of the region and get returned that way though (which physical objects seem to do if they go off the edge), but I'm hoping that if that does ever happen, as we have estate manager rights, we could request a region rollback and it should actually get done... and then we should have our chickens back.
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