What would you do if you had an Island/SIM?

The title says it all.

If you were handed an Island and 'all' you had to pay was the $195 per month, what would you do with it?

Leon

If it was costing me $195 per month, I'd sell it..

If I had an island no fees..

I'd have a mini town.. I'd have a shopping area, and a newbie help area, and a fun stuff area.. And I'd have my own governers mansion

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I would build SL's biggest tree?

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Yeah, I thought that would a typical response. Maybe I should have said all free



I like the newbie help area idea (being pretty new myself)

What would you think include fun stuff?

Leon

I'd find a way to charge someone else.

Your humble cheapskate,

David.

Wow, a whole Sim!? That would take some doing, but would be interesting to see though.

L

I'd buy me a used car lot
And wouldn't sell any of 'em
Just drive a different car every day
Depending on how I feel

Now, that in a way is part of the game ... how would you go about it? The easiest way is to simply sell it as Zapoteth suggested.

L

That sounds truly decadent ... do you own loads of cars already? Or were you planning on buying them?

L

When I get an island going to finally buld my house, I might have to buy a second island for the garden but I guess I'll have to make do with a smaller house for now - though 64000 sq meters of floor space is a bit constraining I'll bite the bullet and inltially make a 1536 m garden - so when do I get the deed?

That would be a massive house ... do you have a floorplan already or are you just planning on building till all the ground is covered?

What kinda house do you have in mind? Styles, materials, period etc.

L

I imagine my sim would be dynamic. The terrain would constantly evolve and the items on that terrain would be forever changing. So basically, it'd be a different sim everytime you entered. Err, a bit like the Cordova sandbox, but with far less cubism.


Please note:

This idea has been copyrighted by my imaginary lawyers. Also, anybody seen making a sim like my imaginary sim will force me to call them horrible names for several days. I will also imagine beating them to death with an imaginary fish.

So just imagine.

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<reboots head>

Er... Go to Techra... Turn draw up to 300. Have fun.

<wanders off as his OS loads back up>

Nopey, was just a shout out to my man Tom Waits. Sometimes my posts are just to amuse myself; that's probably not the best sign of mental health.

A huge empty sim???? *gasp* *wheeze* panic attack!!!



Ahhh now it feels like home.

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Ok, seriously mountain in the center with a permanent dwelling on top. Valley all around with a corner for a group sandbox and a corner with a stage for events. The remainder of the sim (should be almost half) would be a place for artisans to display their works. I'd keep as much out as possible and then start rotating their displays when it got full.

I have no business acumen, so I doubt I'd make any money with this sim, but it'd be fun for me to enjoy and give people who build for the joy of it a chance to be recognized. However if I thought I could cover for my tier with it, I might try to squeeze in a market of some kind, although it'd have to be low lag and unobtrusive. As much as I'd like to be philanthropic, realistically the $195 every month is a lot for me to swallow.

Assuming I had $195 - or it was free, and I had the skills to do so.......

I'd divide it into four... I'd have one commercial area, one residential area, a theme park with games, and a forest/lake area. The forest/lake and theme park would be all mine, and I'd have building rules in the commercial and residential areas, so there'd be no building over a certain height, and no hideous purple casinos.

It would have a road network and railway around it too.

Failing that, a huge space station kinda thing with a 'Laserquest' game in it.

Lewis

No need to get lawyers involved just yet

L

Okay, that is on the list to see

L

Okay ... takes a step back ... very slowly

L

This looks like a very typical setup ... i.e. the various zones? Also a pretty good scattergun approach to maybe getting some income ... covering all the bases don't you think?

Would you make it a no fly sim then? Otherwise, why bother with the roads/railways ... or that because you like them?

L

Sounds very interesting Broken ... What do you mean with the term artisans? Would you theme the displays or would you have it as a free for all?

I can't see how you could do this without some sort of market (if you wanted to cover the 195).

L

Hmmm... mountainous area in the center with an old abandoned cathedral on top, surrounded by mysterious spooky forest... that'd be a starting place, anyway. Probably ruins scattered here and there, and whatever else I felt like building on any given day.

I'd rig the entire sim to reconfigure from a club, to an office park, to an evil lair, ot a giant space ship, to.... whatever.... at the flick of aswitch.

Knowing me, it would be a really big switch.

A.... GOD SWITCH, if you will.

Hehe.. I'd try to find some non-gambling games, and see if I could hire someone to make some fairground games..

Nice theme idea ... I like it ... shall I get the lawyers now?

L