Idea for limiting prim hogging.

Suddenly I have the urge to fill my basement with about a thousand plywood cubes... because I can!

Resource scarcity has always been an issue in SL and always will be. Back then it was prims, now it's land. The more things change...

I have to say looking back on this that LL's solution of introducing land tiers and tying prim alottment to land ownership was pretty brilliant and did a good job of pulling the rug out from under this issue.

If ever there was an item that belongs in an SL historical museum, those bookshelves are it!

WOW how weird is this... I just rezzed the book shelves at my cabin home in Wilmot and was showing Artemis and were just laughing about that

Briana Dawson

haha, nice! I'm glad to hear they still exist Don't ever get rid of them.

I believe their official historical title is "The bookshelves heard 'round the world", though in common usage they are just known as "jesus, you used that many prims for a freaking bookcase?"

Man do we have our hot button issues or what? It is amusing when you look back on it.

Er... how many prims is it? theres only about 300+ prims left for the museum, not sure if it could support one of those bookshelves.

Oddly enough Lisse, I also ran across that post and found it funny. There are actualy *several* cases where the issue of USD <-> L$ conversion is braught up, and Lindens saying it will never happen and to not worry.

Technicly though LL itself isn't doing it, so they are holding to their word. The only thing LL does allow direct exchange with is for Land.

I do think it is a smart thing to not try and stop 3rd party trading of it, such as GOM, because as other games have shown, there often isn't very much you *can* do to stop it.

rofl!

Wow, this thread continues into the present-day.

This was before my time and I like the cute photo of all the cubes resting under the house , but I must say, if I were to transport a human being from the last century and show them Second Life, a debacle of this magnitude would have him or her more puzzled than a Rubik's cube of Rubik's cubes.

All the concern over a collection of geometric shapes... LOL... is this a good time to mention Flatland, a romance of many dimensions?

It was just a huge misunderstanding.

It wasn't a prim bank, it was a cube hatchery. And a good thing too, for without sufficient cube populations we'd have none left now and would have to rez two wedges and pretend they were a cube. And you thought cubes were just magically brought by some stork when it was time to be rezzed...

*sighs* for the loss of innocence

WHO THE HELL WOKE UP THIS THREAD

Stop to sell prims in a box!

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I had thought this thread was new. I finally found the date of the first post and it says November 25, 2003. So I will just say I am glad the Tax System is no more. Under 1.2 and beyond, I have been able to build my castle, and supply it with nice furnature and things.

I am very happy that the Lindens removed the Tax System upon the launch of version 1.2

Taxing things wouldn't allow me to build large structures, so I'd say, again, NO.

If we revert back to the tax system the creativeness would disappear. There would be no incentive to continue paying for development and continually have to work for it. That was a completely insane idea. The idea behind a no tax system was the fact that we could fully explore our creativeness in SL. Without worrying about the cost of it. Of course, we now have to pay for $US/mo for this, but its worth the exchange. For that's not what I'm here in SL to do to make money. If we were to return to the tax system, I would HAVE to resort going back to searching for ways to make money, thats simply not me.

I just discovered I am responding to an old post. I apologize.

(Date on First post is listed as November 25 2003)

I will just say I remember the days of the Tax system under version 1.1.x.

You buy furnature for 125. Get home and rez it, then pay I think it was an additional 75% for that piece of furnature. but thats not all. After you pay your 75% you continue paying that 75% ever week plus you paid taxes on anything else you had rezed (like other furnature) and plus you had to pay a land Tax (Until they launched version 1.2)

I remember that there were not as many buildings around. I remember the day they brought out 1.2 I bought a lot of land and built a very nice Mannor House, which later I converted to a Victorian Style Castle. Then I bought land in Periwinkle, where I live in a good sized castle today

Taxes were not percentual. You paid $1 per prim, if they were small and near the ground. Bonuses existed for height and volume, so you could end up paying $30-$50 a week per prim if you wanted to make a lighthouse with 10 meter cylinders.
There was also a Light tax. Light prims cost a shitload of money. Minimum of $5 a week i think.

We paid:

$10 - per prim rezzed
* And Tax on light objects

I don't how the tax per week worked out on top of the rez tax.

So the book shelves cost 1,960L to rez.
We rezzed 6 or so.

Briana Dawson

Awesome

Man, I don't think ANYTHING in SL has ever made me as angry as those darn bookshelves! <grin> Heck, just rereading these posts gave me enough pissed off energy that I was able to do an extra ten minutes on the treadmill!

Sure, you paid $10 per prim to rez them, but then you had to pay a minimum of $1 per prim on a weekly basis, more if they were large, or placed high above the ground, and even more if they were made of light.
And then there were also land taxes... jebus.

I remember my weekly tax bill was right around $10,000L per week.

WE STILL PAY TAXES

we pay them in monthly US$ now instead of weekly lindens. AND, we pay for them whether they're rezzed or not. we actually pay the monthly tax for a prim reserve.

i realize that we call these land tier fees; but it's the same system. the only differences are that we pay for unrezzed prims and linden lab makes real money on the deal.

I dont pay taxes
Go Go Lifers!