Message #266175

[RBull]

It turns out that Intrepid's Chantey Shanty property was showing up as "pending approval"* for me, even though he hadn't done any recent work on it -- which is probably why it didn't turn up on general searches based on reputation that I'd done earlier, before we were on each other's friends lists.

I think LU automatically omits "pending approval" properties from general searches on the assumption that you can't visit them anyway, so why clutter up the search result?  If that's true, it might explain why I've had so much trouble finding other people's properties in the past, even though I knew the precise names of the properties.

Another guess -- I wonder if the foundation of the glitch is the fact that the game sometimes thinks all of a player's properties are "pending approval," so long as even one property is being approved.  So, if you're making changes to a property on Nimbus Isle, then the game characterizes your GF and FV properties as "pending approval" as well, ensuring that they don't come up on a general search, and appear blocked if they do come up on a friend's social list search result.

Whatever the reason, it's just one more property bug in a game that seems to be rife with them.  At least the bug that was frustrating me a few months ago -- models disappearing as soon as you set them down -- seems to have been fixed.

* Oddly, you can't say "pending approval" or "approval pending" or "pend approve" or any similar combination in LU chat -- not sure why.