A Bridge with RL?

An alternative idea to stop the L$ collapsing which won't alienate all the pro-stipend nuts-what about integrating SL fully with the web and even (God forbid) bricks-and-mortar enterprise.
If we rule out cutting stipends the one thing that would stop the Linden plummeting is a serious external injection of capital.
SL provides a ready-made 3D user interface. It is more accessible in that sense than the web itself-a techno-geek paradise no one notices is a techno-geek paradise because it has become so mainstream. In SL you do stuff like regular people do-walk around things, pick up things, put them down again. It's the wave of the future.
Right now the web-SL interface is really ugly-no one wants to access web content through SL, it is too much of a headache trying to switch between the two unless you have an ultra-powerful computer. Linden Labs could dramatically improve things by providing turnkey software for corporate or other websites where you don't need to go through all the sign-up rituals and have a "branded" SL experience in line with the goals of the business using it.

I think other SL-type products have tried this "3D webpage" but failed due to hookey business models-it would almost certainly work given SL has an established user base.

Of course, this involves letting the business world really get their fangs into SL, but I feel there has is going to have be some sort of compromise somewhere if the stipends are to remain. Thoughts any one?

see big business or business in general that isnt user run wont do to well in SL most residents wont accept most of this. The stipend isnt really an underlying cause of the decrease in L value. Its running like any other real world economy would. L is going to fluxate and when people sell fast out of panic to pay tier as fast as possible or turn a profit fast it tends to hurt everyone in SL. These same people are probably the one's then stating that the stipends are the problem to get rid of them so they can turn the huge amounts of L they have into a larger profit. It somehow makes sense in that context because they are selling for so much under just to turn a profit? In context thats the only thing i've seen change in SL since i joined. Is people greed growing. Doing away with the developer incentive may help with that (we can only hope). The fact of the matter is alot of people spend their stipends ur not seeing a ton of 500L blocks going up for sale. We are rather seeing large chunks of Vast amounts of L getting sold at a lower value and consistantly undercutting people even those with less are doing it and that is causing it. Even if volume decreases this will continue if it doesnt it will end up going the other way. There is no real stable fix to the economy at all.

The stipend isn't the cause of the devaluation.. to make it an either-or compromise is inaccurate.

The way to get the L$ to increase in value is to create reasons for people to buy L$.

To really drive it up needs more than people buying L$ to spend in world on entertainment, people need to buy L$ to solve RL problems which can be more easily solved in SL than RL. The activities will (hopefully) be able to pay good L$ rates for doing work within SL which is more interesting than camping or pole-dancing/escorting.


I'm not saying that this is an easy problem to solve, but that's where the money will come from which stabilises the L$. Growth in premium accounts and associated stipend will drive down the L$ until there is a compensating export trade from SL.


IMHO


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