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If you could pay LL to upgrade your mainland sim from class 4 to 5, would you?
Paulo Dielli
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Join date: 19 Jan 2007
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01-03-2008 08:58
Maybe someone can answer another question too:

Recently I was offered a half sim on a class 4 server for a tier of 150 USD per month. It was a private island. The sim owner told me that it's a great deal, because 150 is half of the 295 USD she pays each month to LL. Now I wonder if this is true. Isn't tier for a class 4 sim only 195, or is that only for mainland?
Meade Paravane
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01-03-2008 09:03
Tier doesn't care about server class - it's all about how much land you own.

Full sim tier for island's is US$295/month and mainland is US$195/month. This is the same regardless of the class of server the sim is on.
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Nimue Jewell
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01-03-2008 09:05
From: Meade Paravane
Tier doesn't care about server class - it's all about how much land you own.

Full sim tier for island's is US$295/month and mainland is US$195/month. This is the same regardless of the class of server the sim is on.


I thought some (or all) Class 4 Islands were grandfathered into an older US$195/month tier?
Amaranthim Talon
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01-03-2008 09:07
OK - my land is called Slyme and the other is MistoPresto... any clues on class?

Thanks
Meade Paravane
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01-03-2008 09:27
From: Nimue Jewell
I thought some (or all) Class 4 Islands were grandfathered into an older US$195/month tier?

While it may have worked out that way, that's not quite right - class 5 servers started rolling out about the same time that LL increased private island tier from US$195 to US$295. Some people that timed things right might have gotten class 5 islands at the old tier..

From: Amaranthim Talon
OK - my land is called Slyme and the other is MistoPresto... any clues on class?

The SLURL map seems borked right now.. I can't tell but will check in-world tonight, if I remember and nobody beats me to it. If these are not mainland sims, ask the estate owner - nobody else will really be able to tell...
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Distilled1 Rush
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01-03-2008 09:34
November on the main land was a class 3 why cause there were only 2 sims on the server now there are 4 makes it a class 4 does it not? class 5 hold 4 as well or more?

All I know is I wouldn't pay to upgrade to a 5 on main land I would just buy a new full mainland sim and know its a class 5 ;)
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Nimue Jewell
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01-03-2008 09:43
From: Meade Paravane
While it may have worked out that way, that's not quite right - class 5 servers started rolling out about the same time that LL increased private island tier from US$195 to US$295. Some people that timed things right might have gotten class 5 islands at the old tier..


Ahhhh....that explains it. Thanks for taking the time to clear that up for me. :)
Qie Niangao
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01-03-2008 10:38
From: Amaranthim Talon
OK - my land is called Slyme and the other is MistoPresto... any clues on class?
Both are class 5s. Slyme is on Corsica, has a hostname of sim4703--and the clincher: it's executing scripts at over 80,000 ips (which isn't a good thing, but the fact that it *can* is good). Misto Presto is on Nautilus, has a hostname of sim4878, and was executing scripts at about 70,000 ips when I visited.
Amaranthim Talon
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01-03-2008 11:12
Thanks muchly, appreciate it :)

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So, okay, I'll take pie :)
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Darien Caldwell
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01-03-2008 11:59
From: Janice Betsen
I agree.
Home is on a class 3 sim. I have two neighbors on the sim and that's it. A beautiful, lag free island. My work place is on a class 5 mainland sim so I can be close to my friends. Any day is a roll of the dice whether you can stay online or not.

Yes, a class 5 is big boost in performance and any class 4 sim will show improvement when moved to a class 5. But a clean sim is more important to performance than adding another GHz to CPU speed.


There are no more Class 3 sims in Second Life. LL announced some time ago on the blog that they had all been phased out. You have to be on a Class 4 at the very least.
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