General Info:
Welcome to the Tortuga community. A lot of rental necessities are covered by your rental box (manual see below). However here is the Location of the support signs, if you need support by a human manager.
- All rentals have a dance ball. Depending on your rental, you can click your house, or you if you are in a Tiki Rental, there might be a traditional dance ball around.
- Securities should be delivered soon.
Rental Box Manual
- Click your rental box to get the menu:
- Infos about your prims: Menu Button LAND IMPACT - shows you the prims that were found when the box last checked. Menu Button UPDATE PRIM - Updates this number if you need a more recent report.
for the last time.
- Get LM and infos / rules: Menu Button NOTECARD
- Manage your tenants: Menu Button TENANTS - This menu let’s you add / remove sub-tenants. You get options to add them, to list them, to delete (clear) them all or remove just one.
- Get the landgroup for you and your subtenants: Menu Button GRP INVITE, this invites you and your subtenants with a bot to the landgroup, which is necssary to teleport freely in the sims and also to rez prims permanently and to make your homepoint.
- Get a message if you wait for a rental to become available: Menu Button NOTYFY, THIS UNIT, ALL UNITS (messages you if any rental becomes available), UNSUBSCRIBE stops the messages.
- Pay your rental: right click your rental box to pay or hit the Menu Button PAY
- Where to see how much rental time you have left: Menu Button TIME LEFT - show how much time you have left, you also see this info on your rental box as a graphic
- Reminders when to pay your rental: Menu Button WON’T RENEW - signals you are leaving at the end of your rental period.
- Renew / stop your rental: Menu Button PAY
How to Find Your Rental
- Click your rental box and click the "Notecard" button, this gives you the info notecard and the direct teleport to your rental. This LM circumvents the landing point and is always direct. A good option is of course also to put your homepoint at your rental.
Private Property Rules
- Public: Ground level in Tortuga, Water areas in all sims.
- Private: All sky boxes, water dwellings and sky platforms that are not reachable with a public teleporter. All houses and islands outside of the Tortuga sim
- No trespassing of private homes or platforms, no disturbing of their owners.
Vehicle Rules
- Tortuga is designed boats up to 15 m length, 7 m width and 3.8 m height of the main body of the ship (means masts etc. that are higher are ok, it is about blocking the panorama) and max 150 prims for group members and 33 for non-group members. These boats are allowed in the standard boat slips of Tortuga. Some few boatslips are built for wider, then wider than 7 m is allowed (house boats) but not longer than 15 m. Boats up to 25 m are allowed on private islands, as long as they are parked in a way that does not block waterways, or temporally rezzed for cruising, however. But keep in mind, we won't take complaints if you can't cross in certain places with oversized boats, the tight places are designed for the 15x7x3.8 boats (and phantom masts / antennas etc. if they are higher than 3.8 m) Especially Passoa, the Tortuga channel and the tunnel between Endless Dreams and Tavana can cause problems for bigger ships.
- Help us to keep Tortuga nice, use vehicles that are nice to look at.
- Small not too noisy helicopters, balloons and gliders are ok, but Tortuga is no aircraft sim, so don't exaggerate. Also small submarines are fine.
- Important is that you and your vehicle don't disturb others.
- No parking of boats in the Tortuga main sim, people relax here and want to enjoy the panorama. Crossing through teh channel in Tortuga is allowed.
Rental Rules
- While we really depend on our generous members who rent in our sims, who we want to thank here, we must insist on some rules to keep the spirit of the community of Tortuga up:
- As by the wish of the community Tortuga is a Nudist resort, so we expect you to be nude at all times. As privacy is in high regard in Tortuga, nobody will spy inside your house, so changing clothes in a CLOSED house, where you are not visible for people outside is tolerated.
- We carefully compose the looks and themes of our sims to have them as beautiful as possible for your boat turns. So please don't put items that are too gaudy, weird, noisy or with hovertext around your house. A Caribbean towel in vivid colors is fine, in other words use common sense, stay in the beach theme. What is not visible ot other wise detectable from outside, in your house, is at your discreetion. Means if you want a non beachy Darth Vader statue in your home, that is fine by us.
- Respect your neighbours, don't disturb them in their homes, also refrain from camming their privacy. If you have items out that disturb neighbours, like noisy and similar, we reserve the right to return them. We are not mean, keep in mind your neighbours have also a right to enjoy tortuga undisturbed.
- Don't build extradocks or other extensions to your rental that block the waterways, other people want to boat too. in doubt ask for support so we find an agreeable solution if you need more space.
- Stay in your prim limit or ask for prim upgrades. Your neighbours want also to rez things and the people boating will thank you if they don't get a "the sim is full"- message on crossing the sim border.
- No scripted pets, especially no breedables in the sims or other heavily scripted items.
- Anything that ruins the boating fun of the community is not allowed in the rentals, especially no securities.
PS: It really needs a lot to get banned here = breaking several rules and being a pest for everyone else. However, we don't pay refunds to rulebreakers.