Second Life: I Caved For a Cabin

I mentioned in a previous post that I was reassessing whether or not I’d pony up for a subscription renewal for Second Life this year. I wrote about how the price hike for the sub was a bit of a turn-off. Though to be honest, if you pick up a year’s sub, you’re only paying $8.25 a month for a premium account, which isn’t all that expensive as far as MMO type games go. It used to be $6 a month, though.

I also discussed selling off my old land, going to a rental plot, and playing around with claiming one of the new Linden homes. Seeing that owning land is the major perk I pay a sub for, it was really going to come down to how much I liked the Linden home that came with the sub.

I tried out a traditional house style, and it was alright. I was curious, so I released that house to try one of the Victorian house styles — this was a bit cooler with some wall coloring features the traditional didn’t have. But really, Victorian is not my vibe.

It’s pretty, just not my thing.

They released some really cute campers, and I would have loved that style. But the problem was, these were only 512 lots, using only half your land allotment, and gave you half the prim count. Sure, I could have gotten two at that rate, but I’ve always felt more prims was better, and would have rather had my full 1024.

So, as it was the last time I wrote, I was still up in the air about what I was going to do.

Along Came the Cabins

The day after I wrote that post in February, the new log homes were announced for Second Life. This caught my attention as it’s much more the style of home I was interested in. However, it wasn’t until April that the log houses were actually released, so that was a good month of waiting to see if this was something I wanted, and hoping to even get to snag one at all.

Well, I was fairly lucky in that when they released cabins, instead of being a trickle of areas like it had been for the others, they pretty much dumped a huge amount of land all at one time for people to claim. It actually took a few days for people to snag these houses, though now you won’t find any again unless someone has abandoned or there’s a zone release.

I abandoned my Victorian and did a bit of hopping the first day — you can only claim 5 houses in a day, so you have to be careful how many times you abandon. I even hit my limit that day — some of the log houses were nice, but either I didn’t like their location (sandwiched between two other houses) or the name of the area.

I was a bit worried that there wouldn’t be houses left in 24 hours, but thankfully there were. That’s when I got my lot at Chuckle Pond. I love the name of the area, first of all, and I lucked out to actually have a nice natural pond across the trail in front of my house. The lot is also on the corner, so I have a bit of privacy.

All in all, I was happy with my catch, and have sat on it for a few months with only some sparse decoration. Then, June rolled around and before I knew it, I was facing the question of whether I was going to release this house or sub again.

I guess the title of this post clued you into what happened. I decided to keep it. Not only that, but I decided I was really going to go all out in decorating it, too.

While I’ve owned several places in SL over the years, I can’t say that I ever really customized and decorated a house in full. This was because my prim limit was often taken up by things like breedable pets or a little shop.

That’s not the case this time. While I do have a few pets on the lot, I’m not breeding much anymore. And Linden homes are residential, so you’re not suppose to set up a shop.

Therefore, the total prim count can be focused on decking the halls. And that’s just what I did.

Welcome to my cabin at Chuckle Pond!

Living Room with two cats that represent my IRL cat (RIP Sebastian).

Living Room – RL cat photo on the wall!

Betta tank with actual swimming fish (I’ve always wanted one).

Peeking into the Entertainment/Gaming room.

Gaming PC setup – while I tried to keep most of this kinda rustic, I let that slide here.

TV, Including several oldskool Nindendo consoles.

Oldskool stereo system too!

Rustic kitchen.

Bedroom in the loft. Not sold on that rug, might change it.

View from the stairs – the bathroom is through the door.

Somewhat rustic bathroom with a fluffy rug.

Rustic potty for the rustic bathroom.

I even have a Switch, personalized with a screenshot I took in Animal Crossing!

And outside…

A little gardening porch.

And a garden in the back…

A deck/patio with a woodstove, hot tub and Greedy Greedy game table.

The underside of that deck serves as stables for my horse.

Hot tub… or in this case, cool tub – you can turn off the steam effects for the summer.

And that was a quick pictorial walk through of my cabin in Second Life!

Comments