Any actual conversation would be modulated not just by anxiety over a dwindling supply of 10p pieces but also by the impatient and curious line of eavesdroppers at each end. If I got through to my girlfriend (who was in fact probably more a "girlfriend") then I would be the person calling a similar set up at her end. The moment of being at the front of the queue was a time of peril, because the phone might ring and everything would stop while we went off to look for whoever the caller was trying to contact or at least pretend to. To make a call you would wait in with your pile of coins until all the others in front had finished their calls to whoever. Our school had one 2 payphones shared between about 250 pupils. I was at a boys boarding school in the 1980s and, at one stage, had met a girl from the equivalent local girls school. May as well make it official, make sure the licensees are paid for it, and take advantage of the (legislated) network. Banks in Australia were pulling out of rural Australia, and the post office was becoming the defacto bank.
I understand similar thinking was involved in the scheme at Australia Post, the success of which inadvertently cost former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate her job, after the former PM decided to make up for a bad week of news coverage by attacking the closest woman he could find. The idea that phone services are so low-cost to provide and so expensive and time-consuming to remove (I mean, they could always lobby to have the rules changed) that they might as well leave them up and make them free to use would be appealing to that sort of executive - a sound business decision that nevertheless is a genuine public service. Often executives will take jobs at ostensibly for-profit enterprises that are nevertheless providers of critical services, like Telstra and Australia Post, because it's an opportunity to contribute to the country. I think this was definitely a factor, as is the revenue Telstra gets from the advertising on the street furniture, but I think the breathless quotes from managing directors over public service isn't entirely a lie, either. Now I need to find the furniture to go with it.The cynical side of me keeps whispering that, given the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 mandates that the phone boxes remain in service, Telstra has made them free because it costs more to collect the coins than the value from them represents. So given that 500 m is my rentals rule to keep skyboxes out of the view, it means two jumps or something, but it's for a specialty build anyway. Perhaps these obvious "sit" ones are limited. Teleporters work up to 4096 - but with different engines. You have to elect "target" and "just know" that means "the skybox". I couldn't figure out how to teleport (if that's what it was supposed to do rather than rez) bc the instructions were confusing. I should note that I couldn't get it to rez at her store for some reason, it says it's not available.
I bought this sight unseen, despite all the guff here, because I knew it would be cool coming from Scarlet. There's room for a bed and chair, but I think you solve the problem of it being small by accepting it and simply adding another TP to go into another chamber, or series of chambers, as I will do at Shaman's Hut (I'm going to make a "Sorrow" level). It's more than a hallway - it's sort of a waiting room or outer chamber in a way, as I think of it. You think "anyone could have done that" - but they didn't. Who holodeck makers have this, but this is different and more decorative. The phone booth idea was genius - sure, the Dr. I like many of Scarlet's buildings, which I realize are sometimes more like sculptures to decorate from outside than to live in (like many SL homes). I was searching under "dark skybox" and found this, and had to have it.
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