so, you log into sl to find your neghbors put up a giant dance club, what do you do?

Never say never. and nothing last for long...........

My home is on a sim with a mega mall. The owner can't even seem to attract campers

Seriously, I had some issues with mega prim encroachment, scripts lagging the sim etc...
LL inworld team made everything right again.

I'm expecting the land to be for sale one of these days, unless the owning group has unlimited resources to throw away. Land on the sim is selling at outrageous prices, and is being purchased.

I wonder why people buy premium ocean front land as it costs so much, when they intend to cover it with a build that does not benefit from the location. The mall could work just as well on cheap land.

I f you want to protect the value of your land, and not be impeded by what your neighbor is doing you only have one choice. Find yourself a estate owner you can trust, and set yourself up far away from the lawless mainland. Many Esate owners like myself will offer you multiple months of land fees paid on thier sim in exchange for your mainland plot.

For instance I'll trade your 4096 mainland plot for a 4096 on one of my sims + 3 months paid land fee's.

Most important, find a estate owner you can trust!

I agree with Tiana. It won't last. It might garner a lot of users, it might not, but chances are... it'll die off... eventually. Then you might get something worse. I know I have a club next door that was several parcels away last week. This week, it's at the edge of my property - at least the part of the club where they sell skins and sex-thingees. I now have multiple mega-prim walls bordering 2 parcels of my land. These walls "flash" because the texture is stretched too thin, it has bleed-thru (I see the nudie ads), and I notice more lag while on my property than ever. There is nothing I can do about it because it is their land. I put up some rock walls (wasting my prims) to hide the mega-prim walls as best I could, but that's about it.

This is simply something you have to deal with. It is sort of like real life... only faster. Neighborhoods change. Too bad regions don't have zoning laws. That would nice.

I had some great neighbors but they sold out very soon after LL banned banks. For sale signs popped up all over my region (on the land and rotating in the air, annoyingly) and in the adjoining regions too. Bank owned property was being sold cheap everywhere. Some of my neighbors were renters or depositors. The next thing I know... the club and sex-shop was at my back door. This is not an uncommon or unusual story. I hear it all the time.

So, buy an island with a bunch of friends. That is the only way I can see to avoid this. Just be prepared for when the Lindens bump up the tier another $100 or more a month. That too, I read (and hear), is not an uncommon story.

Buy another plot and move, then when it happens again buy another plot and move, then when it happens again buy another plot on a sim that's being split between people for residences and cultural centers and when it happens again anyway bid a not very fond farewell to the mainland, buy on a private estate, and live happily ever after.

well, if you are all living in the same sim, then you are all using the same processor so to speak.

If the club in question is running tons of scripts for lights and music, and has a bunch of avatars on it loading up the sim with commands and whatnot, then you are being affected whether you know it or not.
And if they are using mega prims to save on prims and they are not using them properly, then the sim is working harder then usual also.

In my experience, when a new club goes up nearby, I'll go and inspect it for shoddy workmanship and scripts. That tends to tell me a lot about what the sims future might hold

i then sit back and hope that it goes the way of most clubs in SL....they usually tend to last a month at the most. If they do well, then now I have to deal with sim perfoormance going down because of the increase in avatars in the sim.

so, taking the approach of "out of sight, out of mind" is not the way to go

This is why I decided not to buy land. I rent on a location with a covenant that means it's residential and very light commercial only. No ban lines, no ugly builds (by consensus rather than convenant, that one), sensible limits on how high you can build near boundaries and so on.

My 3072m2 plot would attract tier of about USD30 per month ($25+VAT), which is around L$8,400, plus I'd have to be a premium member at USD7 per month - even more if I pay my membership monthly instead of annually. That's without even taking into account the initial investment - so I'd be paying over L$10,000 per month for a patch of land on the mainland, where my neighbour might decide to stick up an ad farm, or a laggy club or anything else.

Instead, I rent in a lovely location with nice neighbours, for less than L$7,000 per month.