More private island options?

Fairly simple, basically we'd get several options for purchasing private islands so that you can have a more affordable one as well as the $295 a month option.

These would likely just run on the same hardware, so the same set-up fee, however they would have lower limits on essentially bandwidth use. So say the $295 machine gets a 100mbit connection, the 'budget-sim' would get 50mbit and support half the number of avatars, and cost less as a result.

This may depend on how LL's machines are hosted, but if you don't NEED a high-bandwidth sim, then it would be much better if you didn't have to pay for it. It also allows people to buy a sim, build it and then upgrade later as their traffic increases.

Though I don't really want to suggest it, one other alternative is to have shared sims much like the void sims, basically two whole sims on a single processor/core with half the prim and avatar limits.

Still bummed about the price-rise I guess, but I think that we really need more options to make islands still feasible for smaller businesses who can then go for the full whammy once they've expanded/gained popularity.

Unfortunately the only people SL seems to want to own large parcels of land are corporations and private virtual land owners, and pretty much back out of day to day user land administration completely. Hence why they keep upping the price even though the quality of service doesnt merit it....

Ideally theyd like someone like A.C running all noncommercial land and charge whatever shed like since shed have pretty much what amounts to a land monopoly.

Just like it seems that the only people America wants to own large tracks of land is:
1) the rich
2) companies
3) the governement
3b) any goverment subsidized organizations

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