Ok Jack - weekend is about over..come on out!

Jack,

Hope you had yourself a good weekend - got all rested up and ready for another busy week!

And if you're half the man they say you are then I'm sure you'll be right at it first thing Monday morning - calling together your team and getting right down to figuring out how you are going to fix the hole you've dug yourselves into.

Now I've read through the posts here and some are just well..not feasible - but alot of them give you some great ideas - direction-advice - and hey it was free, unlink anything we've ever got from the Linden Lab organization...so..

Suggest you do more than just read through these in about 15 minutes while you wait for someone to bring you your coffee - actually digest it - make a plan and get with it BUT I'd suggest not sitting back yet another day doing nothing and hoping it will all just go away and NO clicking your heels together three times won't work either - even if you can find yourself a pair of sparkly red heels - could be tough though as most of the stores are going broke in SL but hey..gives you just one more thing to add to that TO DO list.

Jack isn't likely the decisionmaker on this policy.

Perhaps it's not so much about Jack coming out and relaying the latest, but what people do as a whole with time and dollars.

My tentative guess is that the people who hold onto openspaces now, will generally get kinda bored with their regions, then there will be a mysterious 'economic crisis' a few months after the holidays. Holiday debt. Better weather.

Conversion back to mainland after life on private estates, especially openspaces, is... poor. Most people hold a bit of both, but it's sort of like going back to drive a Toyota Corolla after you've been used to something far better. Suddenly most people just don't care about driving any more. But unlike driving, one generally doesn't need the grid as a fixed expense. Watch lateral movement into other games, hobbies. This is what I see many not understanding - it's not how cool the grid is *today* - it's how sustainably cool it is to have land.

Imagine spring of 2008 before the openspace announcement that propped up the land economy.

Draw the economic chart of 2008 with the openspace boom removed, starting in March. In fact, add a negative factor instead as people let them go once the interest fades. Unless there is some *really* eye-popping revolution in the pipeline I don't know about, that's 2009 for you. Class six servers might provide a dead-cat-bounce if we are lucky, but I don't see sustained growth from that. This is ignoring factors like the incredible strength of the dollar against other currencies, &c - already a huge sticking point.

Could be wrong, but maybe I'm not - that's for everyone else and the future to decide. This is based on the same sort of outlook and opinion I've built my estate on for the last three years.

I do share your disappointment, though, deeply, and lament the effect on your lovely estate.

You are likely right re: Jack being decision maker ..guess I'm grasping at straws trying to bring him or someone out of the woodwork to speak - the silence at this point is deafening..

I agree with most all you've said..*sad sigh*..and..I know you have more on the line than we do..and I hope we can look back on this one day and smile as it was just another growing pain of SL and not the death of it.

Thank you for your kind words and be well