Well it’s nearly Christmas and you would think there would be peace and serenity in the London sims wouldn’t you. Well I suppose there is, except for the Highways Department that is!!!For a couple of months now I have had to put up with the SL London ‘Anti
Drink and Drive Campaign’ display of a road crash just outside my apartment. The gruesome virtual display of the road crash, with burning vehicles and flashing lights from fire engines and ambulances, makes the area feel like a circus instead of my home. To top it all, one of the casualties appears to be floating in the air between the houseboats and the apartment block, suspended in time after being catapulted from the crash no doubt!You may wonder why I have suddenly picked today to bring this subject up, well I logged on this morning and spotted a message informing us that the road maintenance in Chelsea is to start on the 22 December, so it looks like my lovely SL Chelsea will be subject to more upheaval in the few days we have left till Christmas, when the area should be looking great with its beautifully decorated homes and snowy park areas. There should be carolling and shopping for gifts, nice walks along the embankment on fresh frosty mornings, not ‘Men at Work’ signs and pneumatic drills making a racket. Well, I have had my moan for today!! If any of you SL London residents reading this have anything that makes you unhappy in the virtual capital, perhaps you would like to let me know!!
3 comments:
Oh wow.
Okay.
The new road surfaces look like nothing I have ever seen in London, the road markings are wrong and the pavement surfaces are rubbish. The Mayfair map is out of date. The Zebra crossings are wrong, four lights instead of the standard two.
The road accident is as you say both unnecessary and badly done anyway. None of the vehicles look British.
Lets face it the feel of the sim has changed since I first arrived where it felt like a simulation of London. Just my opinion of course.
Hi JonC
Thank you for your comments, which are, as ever, very welcome and constructive! I agree with you that the road markings and zebra crossings etc should be as near as possible to the real ones for the sim to look like a mirror image of London.
Janey :)
i would suggest that the london sims would never be a complete copy of london as its a flavour at a much smaller scale,
the previous roads were even less like london, there really needs to be a discussion about how the london sims should be, should they be an exact copy, or should it be an interpretation,
myself i would rather have the london sims as they are not exact but a fab taste of london,
the london sims are a large project that has built up over time, this shows in the difference in building types and textures, to me this sums up london, london was built over a long period by many people thats its character, yes its not perfect but rl london isnt either,
maybe praise the good that happens on the sims rather than point out the small amount of faults it has Jon,
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