Our estates all operate on one simple principle: All creations matter.
I know, it’s a little vague… So let me expound a little.
Firstly, all of our residents pay the same rates for prims (objects.) No matter how many a resident chooses to use, we don’t reward the people who buy lots and lots by giving them discounts. It just doesn’t make sense to over-charge the resident who needs less. This is the idea behind our flat-rate prim rates. Blocks of 140 prims costs you L$1250 per month and you can buy as many blocks as you need for your creations!
Secondly, when counting the prims you use on your plot we sorta fudge the numbers a bit. Our counting systems have built-in buffers of twenty prims so you’ll never be locked out of rezzing a few extra objects. Temporary overages are never a problem. If you bring out a special object to show your friends and it puts you over your limit by a few hours it’s OK with us! We’ll just IM you if you are over your limit for too long. There’s no need for strict rules when it comes to our creativity here in Second Life.
We use these flexible and bendable agreements so that your creations and projects come first and the limits come second. We always try to maintain a feeling of fluidity so that your experiences here are the best they can be. breezy
As always, feel free to comment below if you have any thoughts on the matter. We’re pretty darn proud of our custom system 
~Lefty Belvedere
CEO, CCO
Belvedere Inc.
Tags: counting, objects, prims, rental, rocks
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Live close to people you like! Inviting your friends to live in the bel Niche is always the best way to make the estate feel like a homey and invigorating place… We’ll even pay you to get them in here!
Call it shameless, call it packet change. Either way, we’ll send L$500 your way for each new neighbor you convince to move into the bel Niche estate. Simply send us an IM including the name of the friend who recently purchased a plot and payed their rental rock. After recieving an identical IM from the friend, we’ll send the money your way. Simple and clean.
Any questions? As always, feel free to IM Lefty Belvedere anytime about anything.
~Lefty Belvedere
CEO, CCO
Belvedere Inc
http://www.belvedereinc.net
Tags: belvedere, payments, referrals. recommendations, rewards
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The Autumn season here in the Northern Hemisphere is the perfect time to refresh the topic of public space in the Belvedere Estates as colder weather brings a new flood of neighbors.
Our estates are setup in a fashion which allows for small spaces to exist in-between plots. Having this “greenspace” between you and your neighbor is a luxury that everyone should enjoy in their virtual lives. Not only do they serve as little buffers for personal space, they also present miniature opportunities for decorating and designing for those so inclined.
As resident, you are completely free to add trees, flowers, and all sorts of appropriate props and decorations which you feel will look great between your neighbor’s plot and your own. Think of these little strips of land as a chance to invest in the community and perhaps get to know your neighbors.
Our estates are planned around an object (”prim”) system with prims set aside for residents to use as they wish. In short: The objects that you place into the greenspaces around your plot will be free of charge and almost always without limits. If it looks nice and isn’t too prim-heavy (in the hundreds) we are happy to accommodate your creations on public land!
As you take advantage of this idea of sharing spaces with neighbors, you will begin to notice that you feel comfortable hanging out in these public spaces and might find yourself mingling with like-minded people. If bumping into new people happens at your own leisure and perhaps when you least expect you might find yourself enjoying your time here… isn’t that what the metaverse is all about?
All too often, the metaverse fragments itself into one of two extremes. A resident can sometimes feel lost in space and surrounded by empty landscape devoid of life. This is usually the case when estates or mainland is parceled too largely. The opposite is true of space that is parceled too tightly and without regard to the lay of the land. In either case, who your nice neighbors will always seem to be in the way.
Hopefully, by maintaining our greenspaces in a community effort, we will avoid this. After all, your time spent in a virtual world should be a few degrees better than your time in the real world.
~Lefty Belvedere
Tags: buffers, greenspace, public, space
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Attention all Flickr users We have a Flicker group for pictures taken in the bel Niche estate. Share your personal photos with the rest of the community by subscribing to the picture group. Your photos will make a showing on our community’s site! Get famous! just go to http://www.flickr.com/groups/belvedereestates/ and join!
Let the shutterbugs loose!
~Lefty
Tags: belvedere, flickr, images, pics, pictures
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The link below is a video describing the best ways to report griefing. It’s the latest addition to Torley’s “Video Tip of the Week.” Torley’s post describes what to do when dealing with griefing avatars.
This is worth checking out because as soon as the Estate Owner Tool for receiving reports is finalized, the Belvedere team will be handling griefing reports instead of the Lindens. That’s right… All reports that are submitted on bel Niche soil are sent directly to us and handled within 24 hrs. No longer will your submissions be thrown into the bottomless void that is the grid-wide Linden reporting system only to be replied to three months later
In short: As soon as the feature is finished, all GRIEF REPORTS will go to Belvedere staff. (as long as your abuse report is filled out completely and correctly we will kill it ASAP or within 24 hrs.)
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/08/16/how-to-report-abuse-and-handle-griefing-video-tip-of-the-week-47/
Tags: abuse, contact, grief, griefing, harrassment, help, reports, rules
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