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Land Owning: The Basics
LilleMouse Tabla
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Join date: 27 May 2004
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07-11-2004 11:44
I do not own land yet, but am considering land for the landless program (if I bump up from basic to a premium member account). At this point, I'm just trying to grasp the basics of land owning. (meters, number of prims allowed on the land, tiers, etc, etc.) Is there a way to gauge meters to number of prim? For instance, what does 3168m2 mean...and how many prims can you put on that piece of land? If I have a pre-fab house that I purchased in a kit, what are the chances of it fitting in a smaller piece of land? (because a friend of mine is in the landless program and her house doesn't fit!) And would I be better off building something of my own to accomodate this space? If someone could just explain the very basics to land owning and the best direction to go for NEW land buyers or direct me to a notecard or forum thread that explains all this, I would be most appreciative.

LilleMouse Tabla
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Re: Land Owning: The Basics
07-11-2004 13:09
From: someone
Originally posted by LilleMouse Tabla
Is there a way to gauge meters to number of prim?

Yes .22888 prims per meter rounded down to the nearest prim.

For instance, what does 3168m2 mean...and how many prims can you put on that piece of land?

If you fly around with the menu item
view -> property lines
on you can see how big various pieces of land look like. If you right click on each piece it will tell you their size in meters. If you click on the objects tab of the about land box it will tell you the number of objects (prims) the land supports. 3168 meters supports 725 prims.

If I have a pre-fab house that I purchased in a kit, what are the chances of it fitting in a smaller piece of land?

Whether it will physically fit you will have to judge. As for it's prim count you can go to Cordova and rez it, right click on it , choose
edit -> object -> more
and it will gived you the number of objects in it.



[edited to fix a couple typos]