Managing Your Land

When you have purchased a parcel in the CDS, you will have control over most of the settings on it. This is more than many will have experienced before and is one of the differences between ‘renting’ and ‘owning’.

Here are some specific settings that you will immediately need to set on your land, and how to do them.

Click on the name of your parcel, available from the very top of your viewer where you will see the parcel name. This will open the ‘About Land’ information and options window.

1. General tab: Rename your parcel and give it a description – both optional.
2. Covenant tab: Read the General Rules of the CDS and find the link to the General Covenants and the Specific Covenants for the region you are in. You should read these covenants to be familiar with what is allowed and what is not allowed.
3. Objects tab: You can see your parcel ‘land capacity’ and ‘land impact’ (LI) for the parcel here. Click the small circle with an arrow to the right of Object Owners to see who owns the objects on your parcel. If there are objects owned by someone that you do not want there, click on the line with their name so that the line is highlighted, and then click the Return Objects button.
4. Options tab: This is the most important tab to attend to first. De-select the ‘Everyone’ option from Build. You can leave the Group build selected or not at your discretion. All other options are at your discretion.
5. Media tab: You can set Media-On-a-Prim (MOAP) options here.
6. Sound tab: Media ‘Restrict MOAP to this parcel’ must be selected according to our Covenants. This restricts the sounds of Media On A Prim from spamming the rest of the region. Other options are at your discretion. Most people will not restrict gesture and object sounds to the parcel as that will stop you from hearing the sounds of nature and other sounds like horses walking past etc., but it is up to you.
   
   This is also the place where you can put the URL of music streams/radio URLs in the space at the top. There are many to choose from. Ask your friends or an Estate Manager for their favourites.
7. Access tab: You may prevent specific avatars from entering your land here, by banning them.
8. Experiences tab: If you have an item that can be used by ‘experience’, you can allow it or block it here, on your parcel. Many ‘experiences’ that are commonly used are already set by the Estate Managers for entire regions, such as AVsitter, and others.
9. Environment tab: You may customize the environmental settings for your parcel here.

If you are having difficulty understanding something on the About Land settings, CDS Estate Managers can assist.

Please note that terraforming can only be done by an Estate Manager. Contact the Chancellor to find out who might be available with the required skill level. Our covenants allow for a small amount of terraforming to aid in the placement of buildings, but you should do your best to make the building fit the land first, rather than the other way around.