If you were Linden Labs...

^^ That. (^_^)y

*snort*

If I was Linden Labs I would replace the forum software with Slashcode, so this kind of thing would just automatically show up in threads, and people wouldn't lose context like this.

- require quarterly non-bulsyhtt statements from VP+ people on what they're up to
-- mandatory "how to not sound like total bulshytt every time you speak" classes if needed

- island tier = US$250
- mainland tier = US$175
-- double the number of tier steps
- homestead = US$100, drop requirement to already own an island
- new product = ubersim: 4 connected regions on one physical CPU
-- price = exactly 4x island price

- new PG continent
- new Adult continent
- incentives to move to new continents

- sim support for "can't resell land for N days" to help fight land speculators

- rework gteam
-- grow to 5x current size
-- more transparency (even if only blogging more)
-- require 1/4 of their time to be spent hanging out at welcome areas, sandboxes, etc
-- more work discouraging gaming search/traffic/etc

- bring back "N votes on an issue gets you a comment from LL"

- new LL studios:
-- enabling residents to police/monitor their land
-- what scripters really want
-- groups v2
-- making the viewer less scary to newbies
-- making search actually work
-- not pissing off customers so often

Only that does nothing to stop a newbie neighbour rezzing a pink bungalow 15m above the ground and then giving up on SL a few days later, completely forgetting they're Premium with an annual subscription and their payment automatically updates the next year, and the next year..................

There's a giant domino and a hoarding with a black and white photo of a bearded man on a small plot next to my place. Just random rezzings, it seems - but they've been there, unattended like a forgotten grave, for over 2 years!

I don't think 512m should be the minimum parcel size. Maybe 256, since a 256m square is enough for a small shop, and that limit would allow a Premium member to have 2 usable sites while remaining tier-free.

I've been to your store, I really doubt you do it just for the money.

If I was Linden Labs, I'd have a Linden responsible for making sure that cool stuff doesn't get abandoned and lost just because the creator can't afford to keep up tier on their sim.

HEDGEHOG FOR SUPREME RULER!

Until you know exactly what the heck you are talking about. To tell us of change, then have no good solid information as to what it is, the rules it will use, the how, what, when...etc. Shut the heck up, til you make up your mind, as Lindens dont listen to their customers anyway.

Well, it couldn't be 15m above the ground, or that would not qualify as "MUST be on the ground."

If I was Linden Labs, I would start development on private interior spaces, whether using portals and SVC-205 or something more sophisticated. Once that was implemented, I would eliminate ban lines.

SVC-205 would be my "week two" assignment.

I'd probably cash out and go enjoy my retirement somewhere in Crete.

The corruption and favoritism would be crazy. This would be an automatic animosity machine.

LL should take those sims offline and connect them to the beta grid...IF something like that was to be done.

-I would tie back the SL bans to forum bans and do some spring cleaning.

/me pencils Lindal in for a duchy.

* Switch sims onto JIT hosting instead of constantly hosting unused empty space. Use the money saved to reduce tier fees.

* Focus client-side development on allowing client plug-ins and patches to be traded as in-world objects, thus dramatically increasing their development rate.

* Develop, publicise and enforce a clear policy on the extent to which specified limits and/or technical limits may be "pushed" by users.

* Develop a parallel system to SL for business and educators to use, based on the same engine, but marketed as a seperate product with different features. It should be embeddable, not require registration (or registration only through the user's own portal), be charged on usage/traffic rather than land space, integrate PowerPoint better, etc.

That would be fine. Maybe cycle half a dozen "blast from the past" sims through in Beta every month, and let people vote for them by sponsoring them into the main grid at regular rates... and you'd be allowed to stuff your vote with as many US$ as you wanted. If we're going to have corruption, we might as well get some good out of it.

You were never on the Landmine list.

Properly enforce the TOS and DMCA.. as well go back to user pay.. You could do it in a 2 tier system.. free accounts stay in PG mainland.. Pay to play everywhere else..

Bri had some good suggestions. In addition, I would:
1. Raise the banline ceiling to the build limit.
2. Do away with the educational discount.
3. Implement an adult providers discount.
4. Create a PG land for all those who want predictable.
5. Start "Naked Friday" on the grid.
6. Return a general talk area to the forums.
7. Build a continent for Goreans and Furries. Give each one side with a no man's land in the middle. Sit back and watch the lulz as they happen.
8. Put the RD crew to work developing a holodeck.
9. "Pie Mondays"
10. Shred the "Tao" and remove all prohibitions on speech in the TOS.

As a sometime aviatrix, I'd not much like your #1.

LOL @ #3. They certainly deserve a break afte the last 2 months, but a discount? Nahhh...sex alway sells.

I dunno about Naked Friday either. I've got enough stuff in my closet that I really need all the days of the week just to keep them aired out with an occasional wearing.

I LOVE #7...especially if they make the No Man's Land a dark, brooding Gothic sort of place where rabid furs stalk sinewy, loincloth-clad barbarians through the murky gloom...

I thought we HAD a holodeck...those magic carpet transporter thingies. Or did you mean a RL Holodeck, some sort of advanced I/O system for experiencing SL?

On the whole, I approve. Meade for Supreme Ruler, Chris for...er...ah, I have it! Minister-Without-Portfolio!

If I was Linden Labs, Chris Norse would be appointed the Ambassador to AOL.

Since someone asked...

I'd take a page from Sam Walton, scale pricing to something sane and leverage the grid's greatest advantage: it's large userbase.

With size as a strategy, it would be hard to stop a clear market leader.


I'd keep the overall soft but prevalent Sin City image of the grid. Las Vegas tried to ditch theirs, but quickly found that even *families* didn't want another bland family destination and reclaimed their naughty identity. No matter how bland in reality Las Vegas actually is these days.


I'd attract the next 100 million users by supporting their entertainment hours after work, rather than trying to wedge myself into their office. Education and business will follow once the educators and businesspeople are already *here* after hours, pretending to be elves or goreans or whatever. Besides, for those who didn't get the memo, there's more money in elves and goreans.


I'd monetise teleporting with inworld advertising and create "luxury" no brainer add~on services like last name changes, expanded profiles &c.


I'd throw most of the R&D budget at next generation graphics and slam shut the open sourced viewer.

Not even Linden Labs can withdraw code they've released under GPL.

Awesome post ... I guess we know why you are Guvnah!