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4 comments:

1. Tony Walsh on April 28th, 2006, at 11:20 am:

   I love the narration in this video. It’s so matter-of-fact. The village is of course a great find. I wish there was more of this in SL.

2. Prokofy Neva on April 28th, 2006, at 12:41 pm:

   Walker, as this is a subject I’ve studied somewhat, let me add: it’s entirely built on Governor Linden land, BTW, over 13,000 m2. That’s at the $75 USD tier level, then. This Hobo project in Calletta (PG) was very long in the works all year, but the people involved eventually had Governor Linden take over their land. Don’t know the specifics. Eventually, when the Lindens concieved of this idea Torley called LINDEXPERIMENT to revive the old abandonded telehubs when they went to p2p, they decided to make this large area replace the telehub/infohub. It’s now essentially a very huge infohub.

   Since the Calletta space, as cool as it is, still seemed to be about 3 times the size any other project team was working with in the Infohubs (i.e. we have 4096 m2 in Ross), I queried Torley Linden about it. I never got an answer. What I did get was an offer of more prims at Governor Linden’s expense in Ross (see how it works : )). I was then told they had given their land to Governor Linden. I’m just not sure, though, if I abandon *my* old telehub land to Governor Linden that I’d get the same deal, an extention of project territory where I get to keep my build or commissioned build with my objects.

   Despite its name, the Hobo Railroad is a very elaborate, well-done build and makes the Linden railroad and train, which is cool, but doesn’t work that hot (and the train itself is kinda cardboardy as a build) look a little bit lame (when the whole thing gets done end to end it would probably be worth making a less modern-looking Amtrak train and making multiple cars). This is all part of a very cool railroad project Nigel Linden worked on and others across the atoll continent in the north. The Lindens held a building contest last summer and the winner of the Calleta bid, where the Hobo RR is, built a kind of dilapidated, abandoned-look station with neat boards poking out everywhere and holes in the platform and weeds, etc.

   At one point I bought five RR parcels up there myself to develop in concert with the Linden-funded RR stations myself, but I couldn’t find people willing to build for the world, and not just the Lindens. I held a contest, too, but it was hard to get enough submissions for every parcel of minimum quality to make it work. I’ve put it on hold for now. Also, I could never get the formula right myself: win Linden contest, get more Linden land to build on, get even more Governor Linden land to build on, etc. I’m not good at those things. Like a chump, I actually *paid* for this land *myself* and then was going to *pay for* builders in a contest. I realize this is a novel concept, I guess I’m too early with it. Oh, well, I ended up renting out or selling all the parcels and did pretty well. My world, my imagination…

3. VTOR - Virtual TO Reality on April 28th, 2006, at 3:40 pm:

   The Hobo Village…

   Today I was checking some stuff out on the web and found an interesting blog entry here:
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4. The Hobo Village » VTOR - Virtual TO Reality on March 29th, 2007, at 11:43 pm:

   […] Today I was checking some stuff out on the web and found an interesting blog entry here: YouTube has an interesting video of a pretty extensive hobo village that’s been built in Second Life. […]

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