Welcome Twister, my new Trudeau 12 Metre!
The 12 Metre represents a return to the big boats, another America's Cup racer that lasts well into the 1980s, after the J-Class. It's a lovely yacht and it has fantastic lines - literally. Watching the ropes move and slide along the pulleys as the sail swings is fascinating to watch. I can understand why it took so long, I think, for Jackie to come out with a new yacht.
So I took a spin in the Fruit Islands, as my original trek starting at the Leviathan didn't go so well. A few sims away and then I was left behind. I still don't know where the boat is...
But hey, can't complain about sailing around in paradise.
I've yet to really put it through its paces, with a full crew. I'm not a racer anyway, but still, it would be nice to see how it handles with a full crew to stop the heeling. My first impression is that this thing can really pick up some decent speed very quickly. But it can, through cap'n's ineptitude, come to a dead halt quickly too. This yacht is soooo not meant for shallow water. Try not to cut it too close by sailing too close to shore. I think I've already scratched up my keel...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
Change Keeps Coming
So, after some consideration I closed the sim for Lightbridge. The most important thing is to maintain balance, and the stress of trying to grow it was not something I could really endure - I had to be honest with myself.
There are a lot of maybes of things that I could have done differently, but the bottom line is that it wasn't growing anymore. It felt like I hit a limit and what I had wasn't satisfactory. I had a profound sense of waste, being the only one in the sim and hearing again and again how it was just too hard to get into the rp. I thought differently, but that's not something you can just change people's minds about.
So upon suggestion from a friend, instead of closing completely, I downsized and moved - there is a village but it's atop my new home on a half homestead, instead of having a full homestead and only a closet's worth of prims for a home away from the rp. And I love my home:
Life rebalances itself, and in the end, I always come back to the water.
There are a lot of maybes of things that I could have done differently, but the bottom line is that it wasn't growing anymore. It felt like I hit a limit and what I had wasn't satisfactory. I had a profound sense of waste, being the only one in the sim and hearing again and again how it was just too hard to get into the rp. I thought differently, but that's not something you can just change people's minds about.
So upon suggestion from a friend, instead of closing completely, I downsized and moved - there is a village but it's atop my new home on a half homestead, instead of having a full homestead and only a closet's worth of prims for a home away from the rp. And I love my home:
Life rebalances itself, and in the end, I always come back to the water.
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