Introducing T Linden. What would you do to improve Premium subscriptions?

The set up process is in itself a barrier also to commit to pay for 1 year in advance is not for everyone if this is what you mean by annually?

Estate land under a good landowner is the simplest solution for whatever my needs may be and i have a lot more choice all highly appealing factors and little commitment required.

As you say, there are so many ways that buying in to mainland requires a commitment.

You pay a substantial amount up front for the land, instead of letting your landlord take that risk ... and your landlord is paying in even bigger tier chunks than mainland owners.

And of course you have to pay tier or lose that money you paid up front. Just like your landlord does.

If you pay monthly, it costs you about 50c after stipend over tier.

If you pay in 3 month intervals, you save about 20c a month against tier.

So, worst case, you're paying an extra 50c for that first 512 square meters... which will cost you maybe $15-$20 in a decent location.

The setup process? Most of that is giving Linden Labs payment details they'll need anyway to bill you. Getting rid of premium wouldn't make that go away.
Indeed. And getting rid of premium wouldn't change that.

i think the first of all you have do is

ALLOW ONLY PREMIUM ACCOUNTS TO SET ANY CONTENT FOR SALE !

it will stop all the nice texture rippers and content stealers


more i think we do not need


Regards

Also getting rid of premium ofcourse wont change how estates are run but it will make a huge difference to the mainland market. I for one could at least consider getting a parcel on mainland which currently i dont even see as an option.

If Mainland 'ownership' will still be tied having a Premium account, then aspects of Mainland do need to be improved. The ability to get a small lot with no tier was a big incentive for me to upgrade to Premium.

If not buying up land, then maybe LL could rework some lots before putting them up for auction. I've seen whole or very large parts of regions or irregularly shaped lots up for auction. Would it work better to modify some of these lots into 1024's with some surrounding protection and auction them individually? I'd guess that if more of this type of Mainland was offered, then the model is no longer new, and possibly the auction prices wouldn't be so high.

1 Visitor Statistics (Part 1) For every piece of land I own, I want to see visitor statistics. How many avatar visits/day, how many are unique, how long do they stay, which objects did they interact with on my land, how many purchases did they make, … . Let’s call it google analytics for SL.
2 Object Statistics (Part 2) I want to be able to tag ‘tracking code’ to an object. Let’s say 30 month/premium user. I get a lovely web overview of how many different avatars own the object, how many are rezzed inworld, on how many different sims, and how many copies in total are out there.
3 IM’s don’t get capped. Also, get me a web interface on secondlife.com where I can log into, see an overview of the IM’s I have not responded to yet, and can reply to them. (Reply email to IM delivered to mailbox to often fails.)
4 Access to ‘import and export tools’ from different 3D software tools officially supported & maintained by Linden Lab. These things end up in a seperate ‘builders’ inventory.
5 The guarantee that on Virtual Death / Suicide I am allowed to donate my complete inventory - be it no-trans items or not -
to another avatar. Without that avatar having to pay succession rights, duh!
6 Account Babysitters I want to be able to allow at least 1, preferably 2 or 3 other people to log into my account, if I for any RL reason can not. They can access my inventory & make L$ payments, but can not convert my L$ to real money, nor can they add to my L$ balance with RL Balance. How would this work? I would allow them access to my account from Web Interface, putting their avatar names in as ‘babysitters’. This allows them to login using their Avatar Name + Password, after which they can choose to go into ‘babysit mode’ and use my avatar. Using ‘corporate avatars’ shared amongst a few co-workers would not be violating ToS anymore. That and somebody I trust could watch over my account & necessary payments if I ever decide to go sailing for two months.
7 More than 25 Groups! I think we mentioned this already ‘nough times?
8 Communications in (one off) my country’s official language(s) You charge us our local tax, I would assume important communications like tier raises, downtime warnings, … are brought to me in a language I flawlessly understand.
9 Automated Sales Data Access API hooks + key to automatically process sales data, and use it for whatever we see fit.
10 A Vote! For important issues - eg. openspaces - it can not be a bad thing to actually consult your ‘residents’. Polls can contain simple yes/no answers, or a bit more options. Supplied on the login screen when a premium resident logs in. Every premium account has one vote, and LL promises to actually take into account the results of those ‘referendums’.

LL has flooded the mainland with 'freeform' land, but no one currently really wants it. To gradually recycle it in proprotion to the number of premium land holders interested in it would eventually increase 'double-primmed' land with out losing its sale value.

If everyone could own 'freeform' mainland, the market price for normal 'freeform' land would stay stable with the basic accounts soaking some of it up. Provided that no new 'freeform' mainland is made available premium accounts could then begin to sell their 'freeform' land and replace it with 'double-primmed' land.

Eventually the result would be a better mainland and more revenue for LL. Everyone wins.

Buyers of this "super-premium" Mainland paid dearly for that tier savings per-prim, but consider how Nautilus City would look on a balance sheet: there's 30 sims-worth of server capacity humming away,

But if the suggestion is to make the "special" (double-primmed, etc) Mainland be available only to Premiums, and the "freeform" variety available to all... I think that's probably wrong. In sims with cooperating landowners, the flexibility of freeform land beats double-primmed stuff hands-down--except for the tier costs.

And that brings me to something I just have to wonder: How long will LL continue to subsidize Bay City and Nautilus City and future double-primmed landowners on the backs of the rest of the Mainland? That is: how long before tier corresponds to prims available, not parcel size?

I agree with your points made here. I am hoping that SL will move away from being rendered from the ground up and move onto being rendered from the Avatar's perspective.

Not that many, most of the unrented sims are openspaces.

Emerson, and others... Linden Labs isn't going to give you something of value for nothing.

Let's say you had a choice between keeping your grandfathered premium account at whatever stipend it has, or getting one with no stipend but twice the bonus tier. Which way would you go?

This post is about improving premium subscriptions. Currently the best grandfathered account there is only gives 500L and 512m of free tier. After that you are stuck the current mainland tier structure with massive steps. If you dont use it, you lose half of what you are paying for.

My suggestions for improvement include increments of 1024m per level of tier. Added to that, any unused tier would be refunded weekly as stipend. This way someone can select their tier level and at worst, end up with a pocket full of Linden if they dont use it. Does your grandfathered account give you that option?

I know for sure which way I would rather go.

i think the first of all you have do is

ALLOW ONLY PREMIUM ACCOUNTS TO SET ANY CONTENT FOR SALE !

it will stop all the nice texture rippers and content stealers

Sims *are* only rendered from the avatar's perspective.

You can rent out your extra tier or rent extra tier to soften the impact of tiering up.

This post is about improving premium subscriptions. Currently the best grandfathered account there is only gives 500L and 512m of free tier. After that you are stuck the current mainland tier structure with massive steps. If you dont use it, you lose half of what you are paying for.

Only the client renders from the avatar's persective, not the sim. The sim is rendered from the ground up for AVs within that sim.