Interesting Observations About Primland

Something interesting I have noted as of late is [possibly] with the advent of "land extortion", the value of small 16 - 90m plots of land have skyrocketed. Check out the For Sale Tab - you'll be hard pressed to find many 16m plots selling for under L$500.

Is this higher price for prim land permanent? Will this premium for small chuncks of land cause land re-sellers to begin selling small chunks of land as opposed to [at least] 512m at a time? In a sense, are we all being "extorted"?

Just some thoughts of mine.

~Jaq

16m2 plots are not prim land....I have seen very few 16m2 plots even used for legitimate purposes such as Cadroe murphy's mapping project. The majority of 16m2 plots for sale are basically extortion plots. I have 2 next to me and one is going for 1600 lindens.

Small Chance of the L$1,600 one being sold. If ya know what I mean

Solutions to 16m extortion Plots....

16 meters is basically 4 meters by 4 meters yes? Build 4 walls around it as a penacle of your land build. Extend this build up 200 meters to the limit of the land tools to eject people. Now effectively you have "Surrounded the culprit"

Prim usage...80 prims

4 prims per level @ 10 meters high

20 levels high.

Each level would be 10 meters high and 4.2 meters wide using 4 prims per meter.
(Yes a single prim could effectively do the same thing yet the center would be over the offending partys land and thus would allow the structure to be deleted.)

Additionally...make the inner texture transparent so that the offending plot could see out but you wouldnt have to see in..

Benifits to Society would be.

A. They could be used as flight level traffic lights annotating the height of the sim repel functions on the land.

B. They could bring in Income serving as Towering Bill Boards.

C. Additionally it could be a Mini Tower Mall. Build Platforms at each level and sell Space for Vendors to place their wears. (Actually if you hollowed each 10 x 10 cube and turned it on its side the platforms would be made and cut the cube in half to form an L. )

This would effectively kill the extortionist cause it would do the following.

A. its a big finger pointing out hey a dumbass is trying to extort the land value

B. 4 meters square is very little room to do much of anything in.

C. Who is going to fly down a 200 meter tunnel just to see the price of the land.


Noted: this is only effective if the land is for sale. If it's not forsale and the owner has no build on it. I would not suggest the aforementioned method as they may just be using it as prim land. If they are they may be willing to swap for one on the edge of your land versus one in the middle of it.

Sincerely, Shadow Weaver

You could do that with 25 prims... hollowed cubes, linked to in sets of 4 to anchor prims center over your land.

Don't forget to phantom it either, so you don't restrict their access to the plot.

How big of a chance is there that the red white an blue beacon at 500m has running scripts inside? I see it up there.....

Just seen a 16m plot near me for 2000

100% It's a land scanner.

My exact thought...abuse report did nothing, but sim seems ok....so....no biggie

Its the 'herpes' of SL, no matter how many people try, they'll always come back. This one particular individual was a rather persistent 'case'.

The longer things like this stay around, the more implicit permission is given by the 'management' to have them there. Hey, time to make my own I guess!!