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blaze Spinnaker
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Join date: 12 Aug 2004
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07-17-2005 14:15
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Our goal isn't to raise prices, it's to simplify the system, and we'd want to do so in a way that's as non-disruptive as possible. Particularly important to us is to allow the emerging communities on the mainland to be as unaffected as possible. Does that mean the island communities are not as important as the communities on the mainland? _____________________
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Games Prototype
Force Recon Sniper
Join date: 4 Aug 2004
Posts: 159
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07-18-2005 05:21
/invalid_link.html Does that mean the island communities are not as important as the communities on the mainland? Seeing as the mainland is where most of the community is, I don't think the islands are important at all. I mean, you own them, not LL, so what do they care? Just another of my 2 cents _____________________
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Khamon Fate
fategardens.net
Join date: 21 Nov 2003
Posts: 4,177
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07-18-2005 06:26
Seeing as the mainland is where most of the community is, I don't think the islands are important at all. I mean, you own them, not LL, so what do they care? Just another of my 2 cents They don't quite own them. If they hosted them on their own servers using licensed server software they would own them. Then they could choose between building private grids or paying LL a monthly fee to be connected (appear on) to the The Grid as they do now. Of course if they operated a private grid, they'd have to operate their own asset system so that would likely require another server and possibly an additional licensing fee. User accounts would have to be cleared somehow or not. That'd be a huge decision for LL to make, much less straightforward than the wisdom of distributing the software to begin with. I'm rambling a bit too far off topic eh. Yes Blaze, The Mainland is far more important than the estates. Estates are supported begrudgingly by LL because they tear at the single fabric of One Grid One World One Community. As long as LL remain infected with the dream that a diverse population of several thousand people trying to use virtual environment software to realize their own goals with nichey groups of friends, The Mainland will be all that, and the estates will be one burden for them to endure. _____________________
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