Are Openspaces getting any better after the 60% rise?

Not really seen this mentioned anyware, so apologies if this has already been discussed in one of the many threads.

Ok, so (aurguably) many have used Openspaces for things they were never intended for any have chogged down the system.

Ok, if I accept that.

So, the price is going up by 60%

And so,what does this mean?

Does this mean that, with the 60% rise, the Openspaces will have their catagorisation changed, have some more CPU power thrown at them (perhaps 2 per CPU rather than 4) and by staying and paying the extra for your Openspace, you will see a benefit in the long term (faster scripts, less lag, more prims?)

Or (worst case) will the Openspaces stay catagorised for water and trees only (officially) and we will still be paying the same for a laggy sim as the other people with openspaces on the same CPU as you have 10 houses to rent on each and a disco and shopping mall om the other one?

They can't keep the rules and performace the same AND increase the price.

So, what are we going to get for our 60% extra?

We haven't been told, plenty of people are asking this question. At the moment no technical improvements have been announced for the extra fee.

In my opinion, what LL has done is simply eliminated a product line they were selling. That was its intention. OS competes with other product lines it wants to sell. It may not be good business practice to do what it did in the way it was done, but hey, it works. So in essence, I believe your question, although a good one, is not applicable.

with the fee increase, it means that the class 4 OS will upgrade to class 5 OS by the end of January.

LL will continue to monitor uses and educate abusers as well.

Estate owners will lose the ability to resell the OS after it is abandoned after January 1st, unless its a full transfer.

Well you can set the land for sale, you just can't change who gets the bill from Linden Lab is my understanding of that, the owner will always show as the person LL bill. I'm not sure why they allowed that to change, I didn't even know you could do that!

Most of them already are Class 5 and it will have minimal impact on the issue relative to sharing resources.

I guess I'm wondering if they will do the obvious.

(well obvious on my opinion)

Increase the price to 60% and up the performance for the people who pay the extra

Bring out TWO new types of openspace. (making 3 in total)

1: REAL openspaces with very few prims (perhaps 500) for just trees and water

2: Middle of the road ones (as they are now) for private people to create their own slice of low scrupt paradise

3: Higher end (more expensive) ones for people who wish to rent or run events.

Now, this was not hard was it?

The could have avoided all this turmoil, loss of trust and ridicule had they just announced that this is where they would be going. I am not sure if they can make this happen technically.

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Sure they could make the three options available.

Each owner gets until teir due in January or even February to decide what they want or their sim disappears *shrugs* Really, how can that be any worse then what they are offering now.

Each one with set limits as to how many prims that can be built and how many avatars can be held at one time. Really, it's not that difficult.

A void sim would hold say 500 prims and 3-5 avi's with no subdivide at any given time. Original void cost around 50US Must be attached to a main island.

A OS sim with no subdividing on it with say 10-15 avi's at any given time, great for parks and recreation and at current OS costs. Must be attached to either a main Island or a Residential Island.

A "residential sim" (lack of better words) with subdivide ability capped at 1/4 land mass would hold 5000 prims (could probably even go 6000 to make it easier to divide between four parcels--my math isn't that great..so it's just an example) and 25-30 avi's at any given time at the 125US rate. Can be free floating.

Each would have their proper server allotment based on estimated number of avi's and amount of prims which will give some sort of idea as to what kind of scripts could *possibly* load out the sim.

I really am not a techy but I am guessing by using the "standard" many people can understand and placing limits on prims as well as agents along with subdividing abilities, it would go a long way to controlling scripts?


I hate to really break it to LL, but there are *many* who will not go back to mainland. Not unless they start giving some sort of control back to the land owners like rights to see what scripts are borking out the place. Along offer what the *good* estate owners offer in terms of "rental service" that offers residential versus commercial, someone that will listen to complaints and do something about it in a timely manner (who wants to live next to bot farm or club?) along with everything else that someone living on a private estate gets to enjoy.

Did anyone think about if it is "just" a miscalculation of LL for the openspaces??

Maybe its simply a lie? nothing will get better, they just *finally* get the money they
wanted to have... ?!?