No traffic jams, no traffic lights, no rules of the road - just go. There are a few land boundaries that send you off in all directions, but that's about the most hazardous thing you'll encounter.
Whether you want a big sports car or your own personal jet, you can find and own whatever you want.
Apart from the good old teleport, I have 3 other ways of travelling. First - my little car.
I do have a car in my real life, but I love my little Second Life 2CV. I found this when my boyfriend was looking at different vehicles, and I fell in love with it. It’s not the big, swanky, sporty type of thing most people would go for, but to me it’s really cute and it’s much more in keeping with my character. The only problem with SL is land boundaries. If you hit a rough boundary in a car then you end up in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and inevitably end up stuck in the air. If you’re very lucky you will eventually come back down to earth and carry on – until you hit the next boundary. If you're unlucky - you just keep on flying until you log off and start again.
One day I went out for a little drive, and hit the boundary at the next sim. I took off and ended up just sitting in the air without the car. I logged off and on again and my little car had not been returned to me. I’ve often wondered where these things go when this happens. Anyway, later on I decided to have a nose around the area and went for a little walk. I found a lounge in the middle of a field, and then stopped and looked at a house in the distance. There was a blue car in the wall with the engine running. Yes – my 2CV had apparently crash landed in the wall of their house, and was just sitting there waiting, presumably, for the land owners to return it to me. Needless to say I hopped in and drove it home.
It does answer one question though. The sim we live in is littered with cars in the sky. I’ve often thought it was griefers trying to be a nuisance. Now I know it’s poor car drivers who’ve crashed at a land boundary and lost their car!
The other vehicle I have is a raptor, which is a powerful hoverbike. Again I found this when my boyfriend went to look at boystoys at Abbots Aerodrome. I originally found a smaller hover bike which I took for a test drive. I was doing OK until- you guessed- I hit a land boundary and crashed in a forest. He was stuck in a sitting position and couldn’t move so he had to relog and start again. He, however, fell in love with this bike and decided to get me one for my birthday. (Now how many people can say that their boyfriend bought them a car, a hoverbike and an expensive outfit as a present.) I’m not terribly good on fast vehicles, and this has a real kick, but as long as you pray when you get to a land boundary, and don’t hit any full parcels of land, then it’s a pretty cool ride.
And now my favourite. I’ve always wanted to go on a balloon flight – and now I can. When we went looking for hoverbikes I saw this and immediately fell in love with it. It’s a great way to travel around, and it’s slow enough that land boundaries aren’t a problem. The only time it crashes are when you hit a full parcel, or if someone has wonderful ban lines set to evict you as soon as you hit them. The first time we flew it we found some amazing scenery, and it’s just as I imagine a balloon ride should be. To me, this is the only way to travel in style.
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