Les Gens de New Toulouse
New Toulouse Covenant
The Covenant of New Toulouse - March 1, 2009
Introduction:
Salut and welcomes to New Toulouse. New Toulouse is an island community with a look and feel loosely based on the American city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and its surrounding swamps and bayous. The setting is at the turn of the 20th Century (1890-1920).
Old-time dress (Edwardian, Sack Suits, Flappers, Overalls, Creole Fashions and Straw Hats) would be the preferred way to dress but do feel free to be yourself. French Colonial, Acadian, Shacks and Shanties are preferred architectures, but anything that fits within a city on a swamp is welcome.
So what might you find in New Toulouse? Well you could probably find anything. White lightning ruckus juice stills, hoodoo stalls decorated with veves that sell gris gris, busy midnight speakeasy jazz joints, Creole kitchens filled with boiling kettles of steaming sumptuous jambalaya, sinking quicksand, fearsome alligators, ‘possum dens, and the list could go on and on. The big question is what you may find yourself becoming.
If you are looking to have your own mini-island or or avoid speaking with others in the sim, this may not be a suitable place for you. We are all very friendly and social, and we will not ignore you! Community-building will be encouraged in New Toulouse. You can find our community calendar at http://newtoulousecalendar.com and our online community communication tool, Ning, at http://newtoulouse.ning.com/ .
Waterfront Land:
As New Toulouse expands, sims will be added which may replace your ocean view with contiguous land. If you are a landowner on the border of a sim, and a new sim replaces your ocean view, you will be given the opportunity to switch to an equal or comparably-sized parcel in the new sim without a land purchase price.
Zoning:
New Toulouse is zoned residential/commercial/educational. However, New Toulouse is also zoned urban. This means that your parcel in New Toulouse *must* have a building. Empty parcels are not permitted in urban sims. Courtyards are encouraged, and parks may be permitted with permission from the estate owner.
Abandoned buildings -- e.g. any building that sits empty for more than six months, will not be permitted. Rez a chair, a table, something at least.
As New Toulouse expands, rural zoned sims will be added. In the future rural sims empty space will be allowed.
--Cemeteries
The Cemeteries of New Toulouse have a seperate set of zoning rules and building restrictions. If you rent a plot in the Cemetery these must be followed. A copy of these rules is available at the Caretaker's Shed in the Cemetery.
Builds:
Sim theme is of the utmost importance in New Toulouse, therefore we have strict rules regarding architecture and builds. When placing a build on your land you MUST use one that fits the look and feel of New Orleans and its surrounding areas from 1890-1920.
You can handle your build in one of two ways:
1. Contact Carricre Wind (the sim designer) for one of her prefabricated home. She has many, many options.
or
2. Show Gabrielle Riel the build you intend to use for her approval.
Builds that do not meet either of these criteria will not be allowed to remain on the parcel.
Rental Rights:
Gabrielle Riel is the sole Owner of New Toulouse. Residents can not claim ownership of any kind on their parcel(s). The only financial arrangement is between Gabrielle Riel and the tenant.
Residents are allowed to purchase the rental rights of parcels in New Toulouse. This involves paying Gabrielle Riel a set amount of Linden dollars per square meter of the parcel. Once this initial fee is paid, the tenant may rent the parcel for their use. The rental rights fee is non refundable, however you may sell the rights to another tenant.
Rental rights cost $12 L per sq. m. of the parcel as an upfront payment to Gabrielle Riel as of March 1, 2009. This cost is based on the fact that all parcels in New Toulouse are double prim.
Rental rights provide you with the following abilities:
* The ability to lease land in New Toulouse
* You can have any kind of Second Life membership when purchasing rental rights and leasing land in the New Toulouse
* You can rent land as an individual or group
* Full access and use of your land, provided you follow this Covenant
* The ability to sell your rental rights to another tenant, as long as that tenant agrees to this Covenant and you inform Gabrielle Riel of the rental rights' sale
Tier Payments:
Instead of paying monthly tier to Linden Lab, monthly fees will be paid to Gabrielle Riel via the sign post meters.
You must pay weekly tier, or rent, via the rent meter that Gabrielle Riel sets up on your land once you become a resident of New Toulouse. You can pay tier on your meter up to 16 weeks in advance. The tier amounts according to lot size are as follows:
* 512 sq. m. parcel - 234 prims - $450 L per week
* 1024 sq. m. parcel - 468 prims - $900 L per week
* 1536 sq. m. parcel - 702 prims - $1350 L per week
* 2048 sq. m. parcel - 937 prims - $1800 L per week
If you do not pay your tier and the meter runs out, you will have 3 days in which to bring the meter back to current, paid status. After 3 days Gabrielle Riel will reclaim the land and return your objects on your land to your inventory.
NO REFUNDS. Please understand that Linden Lab does not offer refunds nor compensation for sim owners, so we are unable to offer refunds or compensation to our residents.
If you are overdue with tier payment, we may need to reclaim your land, return your objects, and begin renting it to another paying resident to ensure the financial stability of this sim. If this happens, you will not be entitled to a refund of the land purchase price.
If you believe you may be away for a long time due to vacation, illness, lost job, internet connection issues, or any other reasons, please, please, please pre-pay the meter for extra time in advance!
The Rules (a summary):
* No refunds. Period.
* No ban lines.
* No temp rezzers!
* No security devices below 500 meters.
* Skyboxes and platforms must be kept above 500 meters.
* NO REFUNDS. Just in case you missed this.
* No obscenely tall or large builds which obstruct your neighbors' view of the sim.
* No modern dance clubs, casinos, or subleasing of any kind.
* Though we are a mature sim no openly sexual activity in public and no public nudity. If you intend to have a steamy love nest in New Toulouse, perhaps it would be best to have the heavy goings-on in a lovely skybox. :)
Please remember, this is not the mainland. Although you have full control of your own land here, we still require everyone to be considerate of their neighbors' views, and help us maintain a pleasant-looking country.
THE FINE PRINT:
Castles:
This section may also apply to other large or similarly large builds.
It's understood that castles and quite large (20m and higher buildings) are popular in the many realms of Second Life. However New Toulouse is a swamp, things, big stone things, sink in swamps. Therefore, it is a sad fact that castles are *not* permitted in New Toulouse. Besides, it's the turn of the 20th Century, who builds castles when they could build a speakeasy?
Resident Disputes and Other Resident Issues:
We will NOT become involved in resident disputes. We recognize only ONE owner per parcel, in this order:
If the land is NOT group owned:
1. The avatar name which owns the land in the "About Land" window.
If the land IS group owned:
1. The person responsible for paying tier for the parcel.
Hostility should not be returned in kind. If there is an issue between two people (or estate management), please try to be civil. Even if it is a clearly hostile visitor to the sim. If someone is causing you unstoppable grief, please ban them from your land and use the mute tools. Then contact Gabrielle Riel.
If an estate manager is not available, please file an abuse report with Linden Lab.
We will not ban users sim-wide for personal disputes. If you have a nosey ex-partner or a similar undesirable visitor, please ban them from your land and mute them.
As New Toulouse is "southern" (read: Dixie Land) ish in nature it is felt that the issue discrimination should be mentioned. Please note, discrimination;
WILL NOT IN ANYWAY AT ALL BE TOLERATED. At All.
An Avatar might be green, white, black, yellow, spotted, half bobcat,
mechanical, alien, an end table, six legged or whatever. Discrimination will be dealt with without refund.
Sim Rollbacks:
There are two types of sim rollbacks. Automated and estate requested.
Automated rollbacks happen when the sim crashes. If you lose no-copy or original items due to a sim crash, there is NO WAY to get them back. You will need to contact the person you obtained your item from, or rebuild your object. We wish this was not the case, but unfortunately this is the state of Second Life today.
Estate requested rollbacks will PERMANENTLY restore a sim to a previous state for EVERYONE. This has the side effect of *deleting* changes and newly rezzed things between the last known state and the time of rollback. Estate rollbacks will *only* be requested by the estate management in emergencies. Only estate management will determine what an emergency is.
Grid Outages:
Please understand that sim owners are at the mercy of Second Life bugs, grid-wide attacks, and random outages, just like everyone else. We cannot promise 100% uptime and stability. Linden Lab does not compensate us in any way. We will be unable to offer you any refunds or compensation for any inconveniences.
Reclaimed Land:
If we reclaim your land due to repeated offenses against this covenant, you will NOT receive a refund of the land purchase price nor your remaining rent.
If you abandon your land, you will NOT receive a refund of the land purchase price nor your remaining rent, if any.
If we temporarily reclaim your land for management purposes, we will set the land for sale back to your name at L$0. An example of when this would happen is if you are not using autoreturn, and a random visitor leaves many large disgustingly offensive objects on your land while you are away.
Transfering Your Land:
You may transfer the parcel you rent to anyone at anytime. Transfers are final and must be completed by Gabrielle Riel. Both parties must contact Miss Riel to conduct the transfer.
At your request, Gabrielle Riel will also deed your parcel to the group of your choice. Please contact her for more details.
Sim Transfers / Dissolution:
As stated above, New Toulouse does not offer refunds of any kind. While you may sell your land to other residents, we make no guarantee that anyone (including New Toulouse!) will be able to recover value from land in New Toulouse.
Should entire sims ever need to go, we will do our best to relocate remaining residents to existing sims with comparable properties. The bottom line is: If New Toulouse fails, we will be unable to refund anything.
If any sim owner ever says they will back up land value and refund L$ in a disaster, do the math. Then determine if they really would (or could) when there is insufficient income to maintain monthly, multi-thousand dollar tier charges.
We limit the parcel payments to a 16 week horizon, and normally maintain 12 weeks’ worth of tier payments at 0% occupancy in advance, to ensure that we limit everyone’s liability and we all have time to react to adverse market conditions.
About The Fine Print:
If we end up having to rely on fine print word by word, we have already lost. If we forgot to write something here, like "don't leave junk all over someone's land" - just because it isn't written down doesn't make it okay. Please use common sense.
This covenant may change at any time as we see fit to maintain the stability of this sim and the enjoyment of its residents.
Questions and Support:
Please contact Gabrielle Riel for questions, clarifications, and estate support.
Bienvenue!
Miz Gabi
Introduction:
Salut and welcomes to New Toulouse. New Toulouse is an island community with a look and feel loosely based on the American city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and its surrounding swamps and bayous. The setting is at the turn of the 20th Century (1890-1920).
Old-time dress (Edwardian, Sack Suits, Flappers, Overalls, Creole Fashions and Straw Hats) would be the preferred way to dress but do feel free to be yourself. French Colonial, Acadian, Shacks and Shanties are preferred architectures, but anything that fits within a city on a swamp is welcome.
So what might you find in New Toulouse? Well you could probably find anything. White lightning ruckus juice stills, hoodoo stalls decorated with veves that sell gris gris, busy midnight speakeasy jazz joints, Creole kitchens filled with boiling kettles of steaming sumptuous jambalaya, sinking quicksand, fearsome alligators, ‘possum dens, and the list could go on and on. The big question is what you may find yourself becoming.
If you are looking to have your own mini-island or or avoid speaking with others in the sim, this may not be a suitable place for you. We are all very friendly and social, and we will not ignore you! Community-building will be encouraged in New Toulouse. You can find our community calendar at http://newtoulousecalendar.com and our online community communication tool, Ning, at http://newtoulouse.ning.com/ .
Waterfront Land:
As New Toulouse expands, sims will be added which may replace your ocean view with contiguous land. If you are a landowner on the border of a sim, and a new sim replaces your ocean view, you will be given the opportunity to switch to an equal or comparably-sized parcel in the new sim without a land purchase price.
Zoning:
New Toulouse is zoned residential/commercial/educational. However, New Toulouse is also zoned urban. This means that your parcel in New Toulouse *must* have a building. Empty parcels are not permitted in urban sims. Courtyards are encouraged, and parks may be permitted with permission from the estate owner.
Abandoned buildings -- e.g. any building that sits empty for more than six months, will not be permitted. Rez a chair, a table, something at least.
As New Toulouse expands, rural zoned sims will be added. In the future rural sims empty space will be allowed.
--Cemeteries
The Cemeteries of New Toulouse have a seperate set of zoning rules and building restrictions. If you rent a plot in the Cemetery these must be followed. A copy of these rules is available at the Caretaker's Shed in the Cemetery.
Builds:
Sim theme is of the utmost importance in New Toulouse, therefore we have strict rules regarding architecture and builds. When placing a build on your land you MUST use one that fits the look and feel of New Orleans and its surrounding areas from 1890-1920.
You can handle your build in one of two ways:
1. Contact Carricre Wind (the sim designer) for one of her prefabricated home. She has many, many options.
or
2. Show Gabrielle Riel the build you intend to use for her approval.
Builds that do not meet either of these criteria will not be allowed to remain on the parcel.
Rental Rights:
Gabrielle Riel is the sole Owner of New Toulouse. Residents can not claim ownership of any kind on their parcel(s). The only financial arrangement is between Gabrielle Riel and the tenant.
Residents are allowed to purchase the rental rights of parcels in New Toulouse. This involves paying Gabrielle Riel a set amount of Linden dollars per square meter of the parcel. Once this initial fee is paid, the tenant may rent the parcel for their use. The rental rights fee is non refundable, however you may sell the rights to another tenant.
Rental rights cost $12 L per sq. m. of the parcel as an upfront payment to Gabrielle Riel as of March 1, 2009. This cost is based on the fact that all parcels in New Toulouse are double prim.
Rental rights provide you with the following abilities:
* The ability to lease land in New Toulouse
* You can have any kind of Second Life membership when purchasing rental rights and leasing land in the New Toulouse
* You can rent land as an individual or group
* Full access and use of your land, provided you follow this Covenant
* The ability to sell your rental rights to another tenant, as long as that tenant agrees to this Covenant and you inform Gabrielle Riel of the rental rights' sale
Tier Payments:
Instead of paying monthly tier to Linden Lab, monthly fees will be paid to Gabrielle Riel via the sign post meters.
You must pay weekly tier, or rent, via the rent meter that Gabrielle Riel sets up on your land once you become a resident of New Toulouse. You can pay tier on your meter up to 16 weeks in advance. The tier amounts according to lot size are as follows:
* 512 sq. m. parcel - 234 prims - $450 L per week
* 1024 sq. m. parcel - 468 prims - $900 L per week
* 1536 sq. m. parcel - 702 prims - $1350 L per week
* 2048 sq. m. parcel - 937 prims - $1800 L per week
If you do not pay your tier and the meter runs out, you will have 3 days in which to bring the meter back to current, paid status. After 3 days Gabrielle Riel will reclaim the land and return your objects on your land to your inventory.
NO REFUNDS. Please understand that Linden Lab does not offer refunds nor compensation for sim owners, so we are unable to offer refunds or compensation to our residents.
If you are overdue with tier payment, we may need to reclaim your land, return your objects, and begin renting it to another paying resident to ensure the financial stability of this sim. If this happens, you will not be entitled to a refund of the land purchase price.
If you believe you may be away for a long time due to vacation, illness, lost job, internet connection issues, or any other reasons, please, please, please pre-pay the meter for extra time in advance!
The Rules (a summary):
* No refunds. Period.
* No ban lines.
* No temp rezzers!
* No security devices below 500 meters.
* Skyboxes and platforms must be kept above 500 meters.
* NO REFUNDS. Just in case you missed this.
* No obscenely tall or large builds which obstruct your neighbors' view of the sim.
* No modern dance clubs, casinos, or subleasing of any kind.
* Though we are a mature sim no openly sexual activity in public and no public nudity. If you intend to have a steamy love nest in New Toulouse, perhaps it would be best to have the heavy goings-on in a lovely skybox. :)
Please remember, this is not the mainland. Although you have full control of your own land here, we still require everyone to be considerate of their neighbors' views, and help us maintain a pleasant-looking country.
THE FINE PRINT:
Castles:
This section may also apply to other large or similarly large builds.
It's understood that castles and quite large (20m and higher buildings) are popular in the many realms of Second Life. However New Toulouse is a swamp, things, big stone things, sink in swamps. Therefore, it is a sad fact that castles are *not* permitted in New Toulouse. Besides, it's the turn of the 20th Century, who builds castles when they could build a speakeasy?
Resident Disputes and Other Resident Issues:
We will NOT become involved in resident disputes. We recognize only ONE owner per parcel, in this order:
If the land is NOT group owned:
1. The avatar name which owns the land in the "About Land" window.
If the land IS group owned:
1. The person responsible for paying tier for the parcel.
Hostility should not be returned in kind. If there is an issue between two people (or estate management), please try to be civil. Even if it is a clearly hostile visitor to the sim. If someone is causing you unstoppable grief, please ban them from your land and use the mute tools. Then contact Gabrielle Riel.
If an estate manager is not available, please file an abuse report with Linden Lab.
We will not ban users sim-wide for personal disputes. If you have a nosey ex-partner or a similar undesirable visitor, please ban them from your land and mute them.
As New Toulouse is "southern" (read: Dixie Land) ish in nature it is felt that the issue discrimination should be mentioned. Please note, discrimination;
WILL NOT IN ANYWAY AT ALL BE TOLERATED. At All.
An Avatar might be green, white, black, yellow, spotted, half bobcat,
mechanical, alien, an end table, six legged or whatever. Discrimination will be dealt with without refund.
Sim Rollbacks:
There are two types of sim rollbacks. Automated and estate requested.
Automated rollbacks happen when the sim crashes. If you lose no-copy or original items due to a sim crash, there is NO WAY to get them back. You will need to contact the person you obtained your item from, or rebuild your object. We wish this was not the case, but unfortunately this is the state of Second Life today.
Estate requested rollbacks will PERMANENTLY restore a sim to a previous state for EVERYONE. This has the side effect of *deleting* changes and newly rezzed things between the last known state and the time of rollback. Estate rollbacks will *only* be requested by the estate management in emergencies. Only estate management will determine what an emergency is.
Grid Outages:
Please understand that sim owners are at the mercy of Second Life bugs, grid-wide attacks, and random outages, just like everyone else. We cannot promise 100% uptime and stability. Linden Lab does not compensate us in any way. We will be unable to offer you any refunds or compensation for any inconveniences.
Reclaimed Land:
If we reclaim your land due to repeated offenses against this covenant, you will NOT receive a refund of the land purchase price nor your remaining rent.
If you abandon your land, you will NOT receive a refund of the land purchase price nor your remaining rent, if any.
If we temporarily reclaim your land for management purposes, we will set the land for sale back to your name at L$0. An example of when this would happen is if you are not using autoreturn, and a random visitor leaves many large disgustingly offensive objects on your land while you are away.
Transfering Your Land:
You may transfer the parcel you rent to anyone at anytime. Transfers are final and must be completed by Gabrielle Riel. Both parties must contact Miss Riel to conduct the transfer.
At your request, Gabrielle Riel will also deed your parcel to the group of your choice. Please contact her for more details.
Sim Transfers / Dissolution:
As stated above, New Toulouse does not offer refunds of any kind. While you may sell your land to other residents, we make no guarantee that anyone (including New Toulouse!) will be able to recover value from land in New Toulouse.
Should entire sims ever need to go, we will do our best to relocate remaining residents to existing sims with comparable properties. The bottom line is: If New Toulouse fails, we will be unable to refund anything.
If any sim owner ever says they will back up land value and refund L$ in a disaster, do the math. Then determine if they really would (or could) when there is insufficient income to maintain monthly, multi-thousand dollar tier charges.
We limit the parcel payments to a 16 week horizon, and normally maintain 12 weeks’ worth of tier payments at 0% occupancy in advance, to ensure that we limit everyone’s liability and we all have time to react to adverse market conditions.
About The Fine Print:
If we end up having to rely on fine print word by word, we have already lost. If we forgot to write something here, like "don't leave junk all over someone's land" - just because it isn't written down doesn't make it okay. Please use common sense.
This covenant may change at any time as we see fit to maintain the stability of this sim and the enjoyment of its residents.
Questions and Support:
Please contact Gabrielle Riel for questions, clarifications, and estate support.
Bienvenue!
Miz Gabi
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