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First Time Sim Owner With Question
Jimbo Mimulus
Registered User
Join date: 30 May 2008
Posts: 75
10-09-2008 04:20
Hi all,

quick question about a sim.

My friend has just bought her first sim and neither of us know the answer to this.

we want to split a part of the land and have a different management group owning it. The group is owned by the sim owner.

we know how to sub-divide land, thats not the problem.

If we she sells the land to herself, and then assigns the new management group, will she then have to pay a land tier on land that she is already paying for ?

thanks in advance

Jimbo
Alicia Sautereau
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Join date: 20 Feb 2007
Posts: 3,125
10-09-2008 04:45
estate land is exempt(think that was the word) from land tier, so even if you hold 1000000000000sqm estate land, in your land holding it will show as 0
Dekka Raymaker
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Join date: 4 Feb 2007
Posts: 3,898
10-09-2008 04:52
private sim no!
Jimbo Mimulus
Registered User
Join date: 30 May 2008
Posts: 75
10-09-2008 05:15
Thank you both :)
Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
10-09-2008 06:04
It used to be that if you checked the 'owner makes contribution with deed' checkybox, that even on a private region it would start incurring mainland style tier charges. Erroneously of course.

I'm not sure if this is still true (I'm not about to test it!) but I haven' t heard reports of double-tier-billing like that in ages. Used to be common enough though. Always know what the checky-boxes mean in 'about land'...

...also, if you have tier donated to a group for land purposes, even if you aren't using the group on actual land you have... tier donated to a group. Which costs.
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Kitty Barnett
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Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 5,586
10-09-2008 08:30
From: Desmond Shang
I'm not sure if this is still true (I'm not about to test it!) but I haven' t heard reports of double-tier-billing like that in ages. Used to be common enough though. Always know what the checky-boxes mean in 'about land'...
*bump* :)

It wasn't a good idea to have a group own both mainland and estate land either, and as Desmond said: it's possible it all plays nice together now, but avoid checking "Owner makes contribution" or having a group that owns both types at the same time.

Even if it works fine right now, any one update could break it and you'll save yourself a lot of frustration having to explain anything to a support Linden :p.
Yumi Murakami
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Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
10-09-2008 09:49
From: Desmond Shang
It used to be that if you checked the 'owner makes contribution with deed' checkybox, that even on a private region it would start incurring mainland style tier charges. Erroneously of course.


It's not actually erroneous, it's for exactly the reason you state later in your message - the tier contribution is added to the group, and then because it's tier contributed to a group, it costs. The fact that the tier isn't needed or isn't used is irrelevant.

Another plug for https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2227 ;)
Ciaran Laval
Mostly Harmless
Join date: 11 Mar 2007
Posts: 7,951
10-09-2008 10:10
From: Yumi Murakami
It's not actually erroneous, it's for exactly the reason you state later in your message - the tier contribution is added to the group, and then because it's tier contributed to a group, it costs. The fact that the tier isn't needed or isn't used is irrelevant.



Another reason why that the estate buying window should be different to mainland.