Worlds End: Now delivering all over the metaverse thanks to Kitely!

A big development in the last few days!

Kitelys hypergrid market is now delivering to any grid that signs up to the marketplace program. This means that 99% of my inventory is now available to customers metaverse wide!

Presently the only item not available for export is the Medieval Tudor Wall Set. This is because I sell this set on behalf of Zelest Fall of Zelection in Second Life. it is her wish that this item and any items build with it remain within the Kitely grid. My apologies to my customers for this but there is nothing I can do about it. If you wish to use that set on your grid, I would suggest contacting her directly and politely asking to come to a deal. Shes very approachable.

Here is a selection of my export products. Many more available at my store!

Worlds End Landscaping & Roleplay - Kitely

If you would like to see my work first-hand, why not stop by my *still under construction* role play sim.

The Township of Llanfarian

Weeping Willows

Cave Kit Mega Pack

Terrain Rocks + 4 Rock Textures

Shrub Pack - 6 Shrubs with 6 Texture Variations

Large Cliff Set

Country Road Set

Snow Drift Set

New Medieval Signboard releases

Today I released a selection of Medieval Signboards used to signify the usage of buildings. These signs are available in Second Life right now, and will be available for export on the Kitely Marketplace by the end of the week *EDIT - Now available in Kitely too!*. In total, there are 12 image signs and 5 Named Tavern signs available. Look out for the bumper pack coming soon!

I also make custom signs to order from as little as 5$ per sign. Price of course varies depending on what you want. A rough guide follows, but its better to contact me directly with details of what you are looking for. If I can sell the sign in my store then the below prices can be reduced by 50%.

1. Existing mesh, existing image with custom text - 5$
2. Existing mesh, new image with custom text - 20$
3. Existing mesh, new image, new material (wood, metal, stone, etc) with custom text - 30$
4. New mesh, new image, new material with custom text - 50+$

New medieval themed residential region starting to take shape.......

My as of yet unnamed town is coming along nicely. The high street, castle, slums and farmland are all getting pretty close to completion. Next I want a few more shops, some dock buildings and some more upper class abodes. Houses will be available from as little as 300KC a month! The entire project will have capacity for 40 people.

Some houses will of course be reserved for the general public to enjoy. I would like the region to eventually have 4 regions. I just decided to focus on the main sim first because well, I get distracted very easily :). I am the kind of builder that "sketches" something, then goes off and sketches or tweaks something else, only to come back to what he originally started hours/weeks/months later.

I am hoping to have all the architectural elements in place by the end of March. Unless someone beats me to the punch, I think this will be the first residential project in Kitely. There will be no enforced roleplay rules or dress-code, and I would like to see the "rules" developed by the residents who choose to call the sim home.

More to come soon!

Why Kitely? - A Merchants Perspective

2013 was not a good year for merchants in Second Life. There were points this year where I could have sworn that Linden Labs were actively trying to drive people away. I wont go into the meat of the matter here, but my main peeve points last year were:

1. The New TOS - All your prims are belong to us!
2. The Digital Taxman - I live in Europe, why the heck should I give my details to the IRS?
3. Marketplace Madness - Listings disappearing and reappearing, merchants not getting the funds from sales, not being able to cancel featured items, or being billed for them each hour, every hour.

I have always had a foot out in the open metaverse, but more as a traveler and casual builder, for as much the reason that there was never a platform for merchants to sell their creations for opensim anyway. But it was about the time that all this was going on in SL, that I heard Kitely were launching their Hypergrid Marketplace.

I had been in Kitely previously, but drifted away from it as my store gained in popularity in SL. I decided to come back and list a few items and its been about 6 months now and to be honest, I only log into SL these days to answer customer queries and chat to the odd old friend.

Kitely ticks so many boxes with me that its going to be hard for me to explain why without coming off as some kind of gushy fan-boy.....but I will do my best.

Firstly, if your in it for the money at this stage......you will probably be disappointed. Hypergrid delivery has not been rolled out yet and sales are from within the Kitely community mostly. Don't get me wrong. Though I have done surprisingly well, the takings are still dwarfed by my SL sales. But in my opinion, if your looking at it this way then you are missing the best part.

You love to build right? I mean, I do, so I cant imagine your in the creation business if you hate the act of creation. In SL, I could at best afford a whole region IF I was prepared to fork over my entire takings back to the lab for the privilege, and occasionally take a hit in the pocket on a bad month.

In Kitely, my takings are lower but at the incredibly low price for a starter region I can easily cover my costs for a region for the next 8-9 months with just my takings in KC. Anything paid for in USD is money in the bank, and now I have no region in SL, that's money in the bank too.

The effect of this is that I no longer feel under "commercial pressure". What I mean by this is I don't feel the same compulsion to monetize my sim in the way I am forced in SL in order to pay the bills. In fact, I am starting a residential medieval sim and relegating my commercial store to a skybox. I feel free to create what I want rather than trying to find niches and "hot" ideas.

So I started trying to convince you by saying "don't come for the money" but lets review my position.

Before Kitely

• 1 region in SL that is paid for just this month
• Some burger money each month

After Kitely

• 1 Region in Kitely that is paid for this year.
• more burger money + all that wasted tier

Of course when I closed my store in SL, my sales dropped. But so did my expenses, which left me at a substantial net gain.

So forget it, come for the money! But come for the freedom too.

Welcome to the World's End Virtual Store blog!

Hello and Welcome to the official World's End Landscaping and Roleplay blog. Here you will find all my new releases, thoughts and the occasional wall-of-text rant.

World's End is currently operating in both Second Life and Kitely. Due to the many recent changes I have scaled back operations in SL to a minimum and currently I am focusing on completing Kitelys first medieval themed residential sim. But more on that some other time.....I have been told I need to give you reasons to come back ;)

For those unfamiliar with my store, I already have a wide selection of landscaping items, modular kits and various other items already available at the Second Life Marketplace and the Kitely Hypergrid Marketplace.

Second Life Store

Kitely Store


I will be blogging regularly as my project expands and/or I release new items. Here is a small selection of whats on offer right now!