Designing spii

Rather than individuals working for individual gain we ought to be working as a community for the benefit of everyone in the community...

Rather than replicating real life, with shops, offices, and living spaces that only seek to support themselves, we can build a community which progresses, which ends up doing things, and enjoying doing them.

These builds / areas have been suggested

• Community centre(Hey its mars, once again this will have a freeby shop on the ground floor.)
• Freebie store - Check out more
• Government building
• Flexible area such as an arena
• Places to meet informally eg café, Zen garden, plaza
• Places to meet more formally
• Function room
• Think tank
• Second Steps centre
• AI centre
• Marina
• Social club
• Sports area
• Main street
• Holodeck
• Ecosystem
• Nature reserve
• Open / green spaces
• Jungle / rainforest
• Rivers
• Benches
• Forest / mini-island for weapons

Resources

• Teleports
• Lesson boards
• Information
• Help buttons

Problem with some previous builds

• Difficult to navigate
• Difficult to find exits / entrances
• Too many prims
• Seemed to be owned by individuals, rather than the community
• Underused
• Claustrophobic
• Duplication of effort
• Hard to find in the sky
• Too many scripts potentially slow things down

Bigger questions

• What sort of environment do we want to spend our time in?
• What do we want to achieve? What are we doing here?
• Do we need walls? Why?
• Do we need weapons? Why?
• Do we each need our own territory? Why?
• How can we work together as a community to create what we need>
• How do we balance form and beauty?
• How do we make the island appear as a whole with a coherent design? Do we want to do this?

Web links for ideas

A report on the island of Svarga on the main grid, which is a fantastic place with a fully functioning ecosystem: weather, pollen, insects, creatures... http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/05/god_game.html

On a smaller scale, people have produced butterflies http://ebcreations.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/free-butterflies-now-at-ebc/

Thinking along AI lines, they have begun to develop ants: http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/04/the_second_life.html

Other people have been getting fish to evolve http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2005/06/evolving_nemo.html

== What Do You Think Of This == - Baso

See I think that this is better for the main street:

Community Centre AI Emporium Governing Building

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Sandbox Park Forest

(ps. the government are looking into getting a new sandbox, but slightly smaller)

Faz - some good ideas. Remember, we can't just go around building everything huge though, the island
may be bigger but not by too much.

PRACTISE!