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You search forever to find the right piece of land to build your home on SL, a place where you and your significant other can call your home away from home.

You find the perfect spot… you decide on a private estate because with all the problems SL has, you don’t want to renew your 72 USD a year payment for a premium account. After all, with the issues, is it worth it anymore? Besides, you can buy on a private island and just pay the owner the tier fee with out paying the price to LL for membership plus land tier…

You find the PERFECT place, you set up your house and other things so that when your husband who is deployed can manage to go to the MWR tent and come online to see you, you have your house already to go and he has a home to come to.

Everything seems perfect…

You have ppl who just walk on into your house when ever they want like they own the place. You could be naked and getting it on with your significant other, you could be just watching a movie, but in they walk, no asking hey can i come in… etc some of them are friends of yours… show up and walk on into your house with out asking. I think that is the time I get pissed off the most.

Some of you may say door locks… in SL those are a joke, those wanting in will get in regardless. It’s kind of like having windows that darken for privacy, doesn’t stop ppl from panning in to see anyway. I am not going to list all the ways door locks can be worked around, I figure if you have been in SL long enough, you already know, plus if the new ppl don’t know yet, they aren’t hearing it from me.

Ban lines and security orbs can be use, or can they?? Most private islands do not allow ban lines to be used, sure, black list ppl so they only get it but, how do you always know who to black list before they screw you over?

Security Orbs work but on a private sim, when SL isn’t lagging so bad the scripts work. Also, in many private sims, you can only use a security device when you are on your property. Ok, fine, but what do you do when you show up to your plot to find some hooker in your bed fucking her client of the day?

Anyway, after a couple months of searching, I found the perfect place to build a house on…. at least at the time I did. I get a nice sized plot, big enough for a house with all the decor, a cabana beach, and another place for a garden. I do a lot of work, it’s perfect…..

Perfect until the island owner starts redoing stuff. He tells you your spot is getting made a little bigger but won’t cost you extra, ok fine TY I would pay extra, I am happy with the area… what he forgot to tell you is, he also readjusted your prims… you now have 100 prims less then what you paid for…

Ok, no biggie, you arent even close to your prim limit and your house and everything is done; you are happy with your SL get away.

Then the day comes…. the island owner constantly redoes everything. Every day you go to your happy little place and have to fix something with the terrain because the island owner has done stuff again. You sweep the dirt out of your house, clean up your porch, pull pose balls out of the ground… no biggie… doesn’t take much effort until it starts happening DAILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You stop enjoying your home away from home because you can no longer just hang out and relax. You have to fix something EVERY TIME you show up…

You finally say enough is enough… you decide to let it go. Look around to move. Reanalyze your way of thinking…

You search for a new place on another private sim, ask questions, read the covenants… then look at the prim count to price… umm yeah, ok…

You find yourself once again rethinking that LL membership and their tier fee… is it worth it to own mainland where you don’t have someone telling you what kind of house you need, and having to always fix their mess ups and get your prices and prims altered with out warning?

For me, YES IT WAS! In this case, my husband decided to reup his premium account. We now have mainland… moved the house over to it, was happy… UNTIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, folks there is an until in here…

The other night, I was looking on the LSL wiki, I am trying to learn scripting… I click back over to SL from good old firefox, all ready and excited to try out what I just read, and as I do, I watch half of my house disappear…. POOF into thin air. Course, half of my furniture disappeared in the process. I look in my inventory, not there.. I search it, look into the trash folder, and the lost and found… GONE!

I relog, clearing cache. Look for my stuff again, still gone… THREE TIMES I DID THIS!! STILL GONE!!!!!!! The rest of the house looks like a semi hit it… I start to clean up the mess, preparing for my rebuild. As I click to take things, a message pops up from SL “asset server error, item is being returned to parcel”…

Didn’t they tell us this issue had been fixed a month or so ago? Does it explain why my house disappeared and the rest of it is mangled… so I wait, then finally, get things cleaned up, leaving my server boxes for SLX, Hippo Vend and Onrez where they were… after all, if someone is able to make a purchase, I need to make sure they get it…

Finally, rebuild in progress. I drop a prim, resize it, move it, just to watch SL resize it and move it back to the original rez position and size that they come out of the builder at… it also rotated it off by .002 on the Z axis… great wonderful, I am expecting my hubby to come on this weekend, and NO HOME FOR HIM TO COME TO!

What’s a Marine wife to do? She does the same as always… she presses on.. nothing but a thing. House looks good, I am almost finally done.

On conclusion to this rambled mass of babble, there are actually points to be taken from this:

1) SL, as messed up as it can be at times, is worth the time and money. For me its been a place to keep in touch with family who live far away, get time with my deployed hubby, and make friends from around the world. It is an addiction, if you don’t have it, I guess you won’t understand this point.

2) There is no such thing as privacy on SL, suck it up and deal with it. You can give your self the false sense of security that its there easily. Do that if it makes you feel better, but just know, even with your blocked shades, ppl can see you having sex if they want to anyway. You could if you wanted to, charge for the Peep Show.

3) Security orbs are helpful when you are on your place and have some weird gorean guy trying to force collar you while you are in your house, or the asshole who thinks that all women on SL are there for sex and no other reason, yes, the kind who you say no to then they say how much will you charge me….. turn that on and watch them bounce. It’s poetic justice and I HIGHLY recommend Hippo Secure…

Now, if you will excuse the interruption on your happy SL day, I am off to try and log in. I have a few things to finish before my husband comes home this weekend.