Should LL reduce tier to keep the failing economy in SL alive?

I stand corrected.....i really thought it was 35%. Still bad though!

It's Linden Logic. When LL tells you all you have to do is play a word game to circumvent their own policy, you know how full of shit they are in general.

I would bet a significant percentage of Estate sims are in the hands of Land Barons.....which in turn makes up a significant part of LL's overall income. You can't reverse the growth of those Estates unless LL does a U-turn on land policy (following your suggestion) which also means increasing mainland supply.
Residents choose to live on Estates for a number of differing reasons and not necessarily the price driven one!



.

I think LL should reduce the Tier structure right across the board (by around 15%)...if they can't, then maybe for a limited time ..say 1 year....and call it "Tier relief" until the upturn of it's economies (RL or SL). I've always thought that Tiers should be lowered, even before the RL recession kicked in.....it was more to do with SL's demographics though.

Someone on the SL Blogs crunched the numbers, which wasn't far off from other guesstimates i've read before. Its easy to see how LL are quite profitable...and for that reason i think 15% relief is very do-able even if it's for a limited time only. There are (wild) suggestions like 25%, 35% and even 50%.....those would be impossible imo and would put LL in a Loss situation.





.

If they offer a tier cut for a limited time, then on the last days before it goes back up, a huge amount of land will be dropped back on the market at panic-sale prices and/or abandoned. Maybe the barons will be able to pick up some of it, but probably not all.

Would depend on how the economic environment is at that point in time in and out of SL. I think LL would get a lot of brownie (plus) points from it's community though!. i.e re-building the trust levels

Hmm.. it's a thought, but I'm still not sure that having what basically amounts to a clearance sale on tier would help long term. And well, it might actually have a greater negative impact on their player to LL trust levels, because people are going to be ticked that it wasn't a long term thing.

However, I could see a new pricing guide for tier that would break the tier levels up into smaller steps might actually make LL more money and encourage smaller business owners like myself or just residents who want bigger sprawls to buy more land.

This would also wouldn't affect the land barons as badly, because a good portion of the people who rent do so because they don't WANT mainland. They want a covenant to lend structure to their surroundings, rather than the wild west of the mainland.

A new tier pricing structure would allow us to be more land from each other as well as save money for spending in world.. provided that LL doesn't botch it up, that is. Plus, IMHO, it's probably easier to implement.

(LL doesn't want to hurt the Land Barons. They're the bread and butter for LL!)

Sorta like Meade was trying to say, I don't see LL doing this for the smaller tiers. They make too much on the double-or-nothing-more bet. There's some point where it goes from fun-money to real-money though - that's the point where they might add more steps. I'd bet it's around 16km2.

Land on Estate sims gets charged that way already i.e small increments depending on size or prims....your proposal would bring Mainland into line with the majority of the grid.

Well i'd prefer a "new tier pricing system" not only for Mainland but also a lower Estate sim tier charge......but that's hoping for too much.....hence maybe some sort of "tier relief" for at least a year.

I would buy more land if tier was reduced. I'm sure a lot of other residents feel the same way.

If LL owns 1/3rd of the mainland now, i would surely hope they have a highly paid accountant that would recommend some sort of logical plan to get that back in circulation and fast. I am beyond hope they would actually reduce mature and PG mainland, that would be entirely too logical.

As far as adult businesses cheating in SL, I for one am doing abuse reports when i see it going on, i would highly recommend it to all that have them near your own businesses or land. I know they do not have enough employees to check all of them out, but to me, if you can't play by the rules, it says only one thing, you can't be age verified or some such problem to get into the adult continent in the first place, or you are hoping to still lure the underage player into your adult business, both of which are unacceptable.

I wouldn't get too worried about LL owning 30-ish percent of the Mainland. I don't know what the "natural" percentage would be if no land were abandoned, but it's gotta be pretty high. They own outright a whole bunch of Mainland sims where they planted infohubs, sandboxes, help islands, event sims, land product demo regions, Linden offices, etc., plus all the protected water sims (e.g., Blake Sea) and every road, railway, and waterway in and around the Mainland.

[Edit: forgot to mention that in addition to the Blake Sea, the Zindra continent likely inflated that "natural" Linden ownership ratio. It has a *lot* of water, and quite a lot of double-primmed land--and every bit of double-prim land has to be offset by at least the same amount of Linden-owned stuff in one form or another (often water).]