No land tax, Except your forced onto a specific area?

I may have mislead you in an earlier post. In general we will leave the prims per square meter the same no matter how much Linden-owned land is in a particular sim.

One exception is the new shopping center in Luna which will have a 5x allowance of prims per sq meter since we are only leasing out a small part of the sim. The other exceptions will be Dore and Bonifacio - since amount of land the themed communities there can own is limited - and Coney, the home of LindenWorld.

In addtion to special use regions like the Welcome Area and the Vehicle sims, Linden will continue to own land in a variety of regions in order to preserve physical features like ridges and waterways.

Misled?? This is stated all over the place - that sims with more Linden owned land will have have higher prim counts on player owned land which will make them more desireable.

Here is a quote from a previous post from Cory Linden:

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Also, for sims that are largely owned by Linden in order to keep open spaces, the parcels will actually support extra primitives in order to allow the user built prims to approach the simulator limit.

So, if a sim is 50% open space, the parcel that covers 1/10 of the sim will actually get 1/5 of the objects.


And a quote from you:

In 1.2, some sims with lots of Linden owned land will allow more prims per square meter for the non-LInden land.
Brown, Green, Boardman, and De Haro have a very high percentage of Linden land so some people might expect that the public land there would be very prim rich. We haven't decided where to set the prim limit so we claimed the land to avoid people buying land on a false assumption.

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I also saw another post that said it would pay to shop around for prime pieces of land, as the prim limit would be higher. Why are you backtracking from publicly made statements? It seems the more we find out about 1.2, the more it keeps shifting. I understand if you are still working out some of this, but what I don't understand is making statements and then completely backtracking on them with no explanation. The higher prim counts were something I was looking forward to, and I am disappointed about this, as I have been with so many other things as 1.2 has become clearer and clearer.

Er, yeah. Explain, Haney.

If you're going to be locking out 50% of the prims in, say, Slate because half the land is linden-owned... why? Why not give the players the prims to actually USE?

Lf

Does this really shock you?

I have this suspcion that when they say Second life, they really mean Second Life..... They want it to be a world, not just a game.

So paying you to play and the rest is one step closer for them I think.

JV

Less Lag?

Going back quickly to the money thing...
Let me make sure I understand this. Basicly the value of the $L is going to be pushed up, since a majority of the population will have so little. Yes, this would mean that those that had been around for a long time will have a lot more than others, but then seniority should have some benefits. In this end, it seems to me, this simply means that prices of objects you sell will be driven down so the masses can buy them.. but, on the up side your costs won't be as high. This seems to balance out in my mind, so why is everyone so up in arms?

A question on the land "rebate", you say current value in your post but I just want clarification. I have bought many plots of land at greater than the linden value of the land from the owner, do I get back what I paid for the land or what the linden value of the land is?

Thanks.

You get only the release value for land - $4 a square meter.

Edit: shold be $3 a square meter, not $4.

Here more information about this decision.

You mean release minus $L1 - right? You charge them the $L1 forthe land they continue to own - right?

Otherwise, I would be getting my land free.