After some thought these were both removed and at the moment visitors to the sim have to make their own way around. 

We have now decided to bring the train back so that people can sit on it, be taken around the sim and see all the shops and attractions that we have.  This may take us a few days to lay the track but keep an eye open for the little “chuffer” making it appearance again.

There are several new attractions including :-

• A petting zoo with rabbits, merekats, monkeys, otters, birds, wallabies, piglets, goats and other animals
• A new fairground including a haunted house
• Information (TP) boards at strategic places across the sim including the sim centre
• A monorail that goes around the whole sim
• The old cinema has been replaced with an open area cinema
• A park with plenty of plants, trees and water jets
• An information centre for newbies including helpful hints and some freebies
• A money tree – this is an old idea but from looking at the visitors it seems to bring people into the sim  - if anyone wants to donate to the tree they are more than welcome to
• We are starting to hold dances in the Peggy Sue diner.

We hope that all of this remodelling helps draw more people into the sim, thus leading to more people coming into your shops and increasing your sales.

Please let us know what you think about the changes, we are always happy to listen to constructive comments

This fantastic new venue has  much to offer everyone (not just neko’s) – it has an inworld office of our Secondlife dating service – Virtual Valentines – which allows people to leave a personal adverts if they are looking for friendship, romance, or more. In addition to this it has relaxed “Reading Rooms” where regular discussion workshops will be held, 5 themed bedrooms fully equipped, a fully equipped dungeon, the club floor and several areas to just curl up and relax.

The club opens it’s doors this Friday (26th March 2010) at 2pm SLT (9pm GMT) and will have the fantastic DJ Crusher Jewell spinning the tracks for us until 4pm (although he has said he may stay longer if the party really swings). The whole evening is being sponsored by our very good friend and long term tenant Zenobia Fimicoloud and her business Paws 4 Thought.  There will be several prizes of a Paws 4 Thought 100L$ Gift Voucher given out throughout the evening, and there will be goodie bags available to every guest with an exclusive bear, one of Zennie’s tails, and a 25L$ gift voucher in it.

For more information about the event and club please take a moment to visit the club blog.

If any of our other residents would like to sponsor an event in the future please let either Fortyniner, Sorka or Pip know and we will be happy to arrange this.

Please note that this club is on adult land on Zindra so you will have to be “age verified” to be able to visit.

Hope to see you all down there 

This extra land has given us the chance to remodel the area where the cimema was, we have converted the movie area into an open-air screen with benches and rugs while also movingthe fairground rides to nearerthe ferris wheel.

Having done this we looked at the area that held the fairground and Forty decided to convert this to a petting zoo, there are now piglets, merkats, rabbits, canaries, otters, lemurs, goats, wallabys and other animals in this area.  Once again this is being done in an attempt to get visitors to the Walleye sim so that it benefits all tenants.

I hope that Forty’s work does indeed drive up the number of visitors, this is all part of a plan that we are starting together that should see an increase in all of our areas, both commercial and residential – more information about that will follow once the plans have been firmed up.

For fresh, contemporary jewelry designs drop by Leighs’ shop.

The range includes matching personalized ID bracelets in shimmering precious metals and beautiful gemstones. Made from the finest gold, secured with tiny chainlinks and lobster claw clasps.

We would also like to apologise for the lower level of service over the past couple of weeks, due to a RL injury Sorka has not been able to log onto a computer and I have been looking after her to ensure her speedy recovery.  The good news is that she is on the mend now and is looking forward to getting back on-line and in-world so that she can meet with all of her friends again.

On the Second Life front we are planning a few events and updates to the area at Walleye, it will still have the same look and feel although one or two of the shops may be changing their look – if any tenants have any ideas please let any of the management team know (myself, Sorka, Zenobia Fimicoloud, moteand Bailey, Pip Scribe), we are interested in looking at all elements of the area and want to make Walleye (and our outlaying areas at Nanda and Klens) THE place for people to come shopping.

As I have already said, have a great new year.

49r Beck

Because we simply refuse to put up our prices to “absorb” this cost (as we still wouldn’t sell enough volume to cover the monthly costs anyway), we are simply going to be pulling any items we have made  from Xstreet SL in protest, if LL come to their senses and revert back to simply charging a commission on items sold (which we have no issue with) we may return but for now, we will be moving all items over to other SL online marketplaces – we are currently looking at slapt.me, metauniverse.com, and already use apez.biz.

We urge all you other merchants that use this “service” to do the same, maybe if enough of us bail out they will see the error of their greedy little ways, and if you don’t at least you have been made aware of the issue.

The official announcement is at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Managing_Freebies_on_Xstreet_SL_Roadmap_FAQ if you are interested.

I would also like to tell tenants about a slight remodelling that has taken place – the empty ring building on the North East corner of the sim has beeb removed and replaced by two shops – one of these is for rent, the other will be used by Fortyniner Beck for a new product range that he is developing.  The other bit of remodelling currently underway is to replace the old dance hall with a 1950′s style diner and dance area.  Finally, in the North West corner of the sim we have put some fairground attractions down, these include coconut shys, test your strength and other sideshows – why not pop over and try them out, they are all free to use.

We hope that the changes to the area will freshen it up a little and bring in some additional visitors to the area.

We took advantage of the shop in the far North West becoming empty to remove that shop, a neighbouring shop and the big gallery in that area and are replacing them with a few different designs that we feel will be more useful to tenants.  At the same time we have remodelled the area at the centre of the sim slightly, reducing the number of shops by one but opening the area up a little and changing the shop designs at the same time.

We hope to have the redevelopment completed in the next couple of days and then the new shops will be ready for rental (we have to sort out one or two rental boxes that either need to be put down or having some errors fixed on them).

On a side note our Nanda development has been taken over by our manager Zenobia Fimicoloud who now has her first Megastore covering a massive 64x64m2 plot with three floors.  Zen is an accomplished builder and her Paws-4-Thought brand is continually expanding.  We are pleased to be able to help Zen in her expansion and hope that she continues to grow.  She as promised to keep her main store on Walleye and this, we think, will benefit everyone as she takes part in many traffic generating schemes including hunts.  I have personally seen people TPing in to her store and then go off wondering around the sim to see what else is there – thank you Zen.

At present this has two empty stores with the other 5 already being used.  This develeopment is slightly different from our others in that it is divided by a Linden Road.

For information about the empty stores please contact one of the management team, we would be more than happy to give you landmarks or talk to you about costs.