Secrets of the teen/tean grid revealed??

So, Me and Evil Fool have been doing alot of experimintation in the new preview. One thing we noticed that was huge is that one sim, The Bomb, requires no Land Tier. Thats great and amazing right? Now another thing I have noticed in this sim was an item owned by a linden's tester named 500$object. Now, this object had 50 prims. The next logical guess is that its refering back to the old tax structure. So.. We thought it over for a period of time and reasoned out that it was probably NOT going to be reimplemented into the main grid... So Y would they be testing taxs if of course they werent planing on implementing it? Teen Grid. We believe that the teen grid will be based on the tax structure and not on land tiers. The fact of it being on taxes would make more sence then it being on tier right? So they are probably going to charge them alot of $ to get a nice stipend to pay tax's.

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Comments? Suggestions? Information that ruins this theory?

woops posted in wrogn section....

Yah, Evil is probably one of the best SL experimenters.

Oooh fascinating... well I'm here and hanging out with you guys. I wonder...

Oh. My. God.
Now I'll just HAVE to get my ass on the teen grid.
And that's a promise.

You really think the Teen Grid is goin' happen?


Really?

well, yes... they already had a town meeting that all they did was talk about that

I dont believe LL will follow the tax route with objects. The failures they had on the main grid will continue to apply to the minor grid, that being, they are not effective, they limit good places and that was carefully tied to the 10,000 prim per sim pool - which had the problem of inspiring 'prim hogs'.

However, the way Tier is to work on the minor grid is anyone's guess, they may use old hardware to subsidise the cost of giving a discount to users of the teen grid.

From my own visitations, the teen grid is being setup as a large hidden estate with additional staff and monitoring, but being essentially the same, and only virtually seperated.

-Adam

Having it as a large hidden estate does not make sense to me. LL has had the ability to handle multiple grids since forever. Even the orientation islands are on a completely separate map these days. They dont even have a hostname, just numerical IP adresses.
If the teen grid was an estate they would have to throw additional code to separate the two sets of users in every way.
If they put it on its own grid, there's no additional coding to do.
Maybe that's what the Siva server is for - we're agni, hindu god of fire, they are Siva, aka Shiva, hindu god of destruction

Your theory is completely debunked by your use of aimspeak.

/off topic
I would have thought that the orientation islands were on a separate map as well, but last night I got a referral and got their calling card right away. When I looked for their location on the map, it was just a bit nw of the mainland in the middle of nowhere about ~6500M sse from my island. Once they made it out, their beacon moved into ahern and ~8000M away. This leads me to believe that the orientation islands are on our grid, just hidden.

/even more off topic
What gives with the orientation area in Dore? Is it used, or is it just a Linden sandbox for additional orientation islands?

about the orientation islands i think they're on our grid too. when i first started i took a look at the map pretty early on the orientation island and i could see the whole rest of the world. i don't remember if the island was hidden or not but the rest of the world was visible.

i didn't know about double clicking the map to teleport back then but i wonder if i could have teleported out that way and skipped the whole orientation.

Apparently the reason behind this relates to shared assets, and graduating players from one to the other.

-Adam

September was a long time ago.
Nowadays, when you make a new account and are put through orientation, you cant do much on it, half of the UI is disabled, and zooming out on the map as far as it will go will still only show you the island.

ah ha gotcha.

wait does that mean i'm offically an oldbie? how many more points until i get feted and inner?

Well first you have to have a forum av, for god's sake
Then you have to act all smug around noobies and whine about how much better it was back in the good old days.
Finally, you need to piss off prokofy neva - that's the main rite of passage

I'll bet you $500 on how James Miller will get into the teen "grid"
Or Ezhar Fairlight.

Whoa. Goodbye newbie city!

i got that last one in the bag. i'm one cute gif and a "n00b!" away from the feted inner core!

hmm.. another day another person on forums...

Im starting to have second thoughts about my theory... but it still is strong and stuff