4 X 4 = 16 + OpenSpace = (Oh Crap)

I have been around SL now close to a year, enjoying all the nice things SL offers.

Since my initial start in SL I like others became interested in land ownership. As a newbie, I started with a small 512 plot like most do, but soon discovered PRIM limitation thing. The next obvious step was to upgrade to a larger space by then discovered how to create objects and eventually leading into sales and resell , all taking up more and more prims, which means more and more land requirements.
After 4 months into my SL and dealing with landlords ever changing rules and personalities, I decided to buy a full SIM through Linden Labs. At that time, my only option was to stand up a private region. This decision was right in the middle of the massive land expansion going on in SL or so i was told.– SO I PAID THE PRICE literally, $1,675. Lindens reasons for the price increase – to slow the unexpected growth but after several months go by I see the price drops back to $1,000, but i never seen my 675 refunded. Later in the following months Linden Labs makes the announcement of the “Open Space” SIMs to be available but only to FULL SIM owners for the intended minimal use concept. Now on to the story.

Here is my issue with the Open Space change;
History shows, Linden Labs continually offers services based on ill fated logic of not thinking it through, then later change the rules or policy claiming it is for the good of humanity.
It is the same old “we did not see that coming” , “wow, residents found a new way of doing things”, or “we did not realize it would be popular”.

With 50,000+ SL clients on-line 24 hours a day since 2003ish you would think Linden Labs would have began a study to track resident habits and to gear services for future offerings that made sense for the long term and not by trial by fire method we are all so use to. Hey let’s try this and see what happens.
This is not simply a bad implementation not thought out but, is based on the previous bad implementations from the foundation up. We have an economic situation in play here just as much as the Open Space issues. My true belief is the outcome was intended from the onset – how else can you explain such a poorly thought out idea? Can you say Mainland all over again.
How many of you see the silly surveys that ask – Is your SL getting better or worse. What is the point ?
My question would be; What though process was used to come up with the belief that a FULL SIM owner would NOT buy Open Space then rent it out to anyone with $Linden to make a few extra coins. Just knowing my own habits I could see this problem coming – SL Resident can get a private SIM, with the false belief he would just let it sit there paying rent and do nothing more with it other than look at the virtual ocean for 100.00 per month. - Where are your brains Lindens. Stats show most people are PRIM hungry and with every few prims come the scripts and LAG that go with it. For the most part neighbors don’t care how they impact others on a sim – Linden Labs has done little to correct this issue and did even less in preparing to offer Open Space.
Your Open Space offerings were not though out as usual, leaving Residents to pay for your short sightedness, once again.
I am tired of excuses from Linden Labs – What we really need is well thought out sound decisions, not some TECHIE telling management that you can run four smaller sims on one Processor and 16 on a Quad core and all the residents would live happily together – since they are virtually separated. All Linden Labs cared about was to up there revenue and gave no thought to how it would eventually impact the end user. Linden Labs has no way to throttle SIM performance independently. There are so many examples of “non cooperation or Policy Use Abuses” when it comes to resources in SL I cannot for the life of me conceive how Linden Labs would think sharing 4 Open Sims with four different independent land owners would not somehow turn out bad in the end. Especially with no way in place to “Police” up the problems of OS owners abusing the Policies, or in this case the lack of enforceable policies altogether.
HALF the time even on FULL 15,000 prim sims i can barely walk for the lag - geeze. Now split it four ways in open space, running on "shared" resources and ALL WILL BE BETTER.

Linden Labs Policy is basically ADJUST the Price to curb the growth.
Everyone knows Linden Labs controls everything in SL except our minds. Read the terms of agreement carefully -

My Final thought - If you jack the price - Upgrade the servers then shut up about how it is used - This is your problem not ours.
3750 prims - what I do with them is my business-
If Linden Lags is offering a service then do it - Otherwise what is your purpose?

LL is really cute with the unexpected stuff. How often do we see it? I mean, like the big CSI push where they estimated a million new users, then cried that they were unprepared for such unexpected growth when not even close to that clogged their internets toobs.

Or the fact that they were supposedly blindsided by the fact that there was gambling and banking problems with the government. It's a tired, totally facetious excuse that they should have given up on before now.

Anyway, they can't say that this time, because it was predicted well in advance by all the estate owners who were mad about the price drop anyway. They knew how the openspaces were being used. they knew they'd sell a ton, and they knew they'd have these problems. They knew, too, when they baited people in, that they'd be doing this in my opinion. Get their setup fee and yank the rug out from under them. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Here is some information taken from the SL JIRA...



How much more money will they make when the OS sims are given up?

After all, LL will still own those servers.

If you haven't vote against this price hike then I urge you to do so at:

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1776