Hurricane Relief idea from DAOC

A little Katrina relief in world idea for the Lindens to consider...

Mythic, the company behind DAOC is doing this, and I immediately thought that something along these lines might apply in SL tho certainly not across the board in this game. >>>

We will be taking all servers down tomorrow, Friday, September 2 at 8:00 AM. We expect them to return by 12:00 PM EDT (probably sooner, of course). Why?

We’ve all got friends and family down south, and there’s a big player community down there as well. Like many of you, we’re struggling to find some small way that we can help besides the basic and obvious “donate to the Red Cross” stuff. We went through the game systems, looking for stuff that people could lose if they are unable to log in for awhile, and paying rent on the in-game houses is fortunately the only thing. We can’t suspend in-game house rent by billing address, so we’re just suspending house rent across the board for the whole game. We have to take the servers down to do it, though.

Right now we’re planning to reinstate in-game rent when we put up the Darkness Rising patch, currently scheduled for early October. We’ll see how things are when the time comes and let you know if that plan changes. Thanks in advance for your patience.

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I'm not sure how easy it would be to identify people in affected areas and freeze their in game holdings. I can just imagine the feeling of spending months scraping your First Life together and finally getting to log into Second Life to find you have to start from scratch with your Second Life holdings as well. How many accounts will be affected by the hurricane?

I don't post enough on these boards to warrant any responses from the regulars apparently but here's a bump anyway.

I can't really see anything in SL that would require "suspending". DAOC isn't, apparently, suspending billing.. Mythical is just suspending in-game housing rent (for in-game $). So the storm affected don't lose their possessions, in game. A nice move actually, and I'm sure appreciated by not only those that really benefit from it (the storm affected), but also by the community at large (both for greedy and/or compassionate reasons).

SL has no rent. U$D Billing though, like (apparently) DAOC will continue.