I was just in-world when a group chat channel exploded over the apparent disappearance of an important Second Life island: Svarga, a self-contained ecosystem, easily one of the greatest creations in SL. A search reveals that Yes, it's not immediately displaying on the SL grid. I'm checking with the creator, Laukosargas Svarog, who put the island up for sale late last year, for more background. Until then, I'd caution on making any hasty conclusions; hopefully, this absence may just be a temporary situation.
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Search for it under Lauk's Nest, which is the name it actually seems to have been going by for at least a year or two... it's still there in Alviso region, even if it does not seem the ecosystem functions as it once did (I may be mistaken on this).
Posted by: Elisha Paklena | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 03:38 PM
I check it periodically and it's been visible on the map, but unreachable ("Location not available") for the last couple of weeks that I'm aware of. I figured it was sold and either closed temporarily or permanently.
Posted by: Caliburn Susanto | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 03:50 PM
In March or April it was no longer possible to go to Svarga.
Svarga is/was an amazing build especially when one considers when it was built.
In January (09) I made a tutorial for Myst-Uru fans that were missing their closed MMO Myst Online: Uru Live MO:UL). Many were claiming SL could not even come close to the graphics found in MO:UL. Many of those people had yet to even spend 8 hours in SL. I used images of Svarga as an example of what SL could look like and the complexity of the eco-system. See: http://www.guildofmaintainers.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=1180
Posted by: Nalates Urriah | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 09:33 AM
Yak misses playing New Age music on the Elven Instruments in the little pavillion on Svargas.
We had some interesting jam sessions, even singing via voice...
Posted by: Yak | Friday, August 14, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Elisha, Svarga and Lauk's Nest were both built by Laukosargas Svarog, but they're two different places. Lauk's Nest was actually her home, and is still there, maintained by Graceful Aeon. I talked with Graceful today, and she said the last time she saw Lauk was last spring. Graceful didn't seem to know anything more about the fate of Svarga.
Posted by: Boughan Humphreys | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 04:46 PM