Mature land for sale

Nice little piece of mature land in Chichild. Approx. 1456 m2 going for 13.5K. IM me in world for more details

I think a better place for this post is here

I assume that anyone who posts an ad about their land in the discussion forum here instead of the classified, when they are old enough in the game, and can read instructions, is open for a discussion about their sale and their land.

9.2 in an already 30 or more day old sim is always an interesting proposition. Why? That's a lot. Is mature going for more now? This is the received wisdom as waterfront especially is rumoured to be "scarce". And yet I also see mature going for 6.5 and of course liquidating for 5 or under in some areas where people want to bail. Mature waterfront is selling for that much. I never price it for that much because I think that just slows down a sale needlessly, but lots of barons price even to 9.5 if they can get it, and since a price is an agreement between a willing seller and a willing buyer, well, let them get it!

Cichlid is an awfully nice little sim. It has open Linden sea, it is backed by Linden road, it has a a gorgeous waterfront, and amazingly fast FPS. It's next to Pimushe which is a beauty. A month or more after its birth, it has like 3000-4000 FPS daily, and has Linden road with a fair amount of traffic around it. I used to own in Ccichlid but I very reluctantly sold out of there.

Why? Because of a series of events that happened there. First, a player put an obnoxious idiotic griefer tower on a 512 on the waterfront, a recouped first land from a not actual newbie but alt. That tower was one of the most hideous I've seen in SL, with textures featuring not only corrugated aluminum siding but a gaping open mouth with teeth. Perhaps it was no accident, comrade, that one effect of that griefer tower was to make the piece of land right next to it available on the auction for much less. The a land baron got it, and then resold it.

I gritted my teeth for a long time and tried to rent property out there but it was impossible not only in the aftermath of the tower builder but another owner who put out a lot of sales buildings with particles spewing out of them everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I loved those buildings and bought up a bunch of them, but when I showed tenants this area, they'd scurry away saying "there is too much going on here". Particles are always in the eye of the beholder. My particles are pretty. Your particles spew and are ugly.

Currently, a large part of the waterfront including the griefer tower area if I'm not mistaken it is owned by people who put a ridiculously exhorbitant pricetag on it, the kind that kids do when they think that putting extreme price tags on a land is somehow a way to prevent selling it by accident for $0. Of course, there's another way to do that, which is to just not click off the box, and to put 999999999 in the box if you must in case there is a danger it would be clicked by accident, but not to actually click the box and leave a silly price like that.

But there's also the idea I've heard by all the fake extortionists who pretend they aren't extorting is that they "really don't mean to sell it" and they "have the tier for it" but "maybe someone will come along and buy it." Of course, this psychology is flawed, because no big land baron will come and buy a stupid piece like that, they only buy for very reduced prices in-world because they buy cheaper in bulk on the auction. So when a gouge price is set out like that, it attacks first and foremost one's neighbours, existing neighbours who want prims or waterfront access, and reluctantly feel they must shell out that bribe, and secondly, one's future neighbours who one should try to be kinder to. This failure to understand who you are speaking to when you put a price on your land is one of the most malicious things I run across in SL. Everybody secretly thinks there is someone out there who is dumb enough to buy their land at an exhorbitant price, and the fact is, they may be right.

But...there's worse to come. These people write "MY CLUB" or "FUTURE SITE OF MY CLUB" or whatever on their land. Now that is THEIR GOD-GIVEN RIGHT. Yeah, we don't dispute it. Yeah, whatever. Come into a gorgeous waterfront sim far from the telehub with prime residential property and put up a club, whatever, sure hon. But it's such a loss. It makes other people *run for cover*. The land value plummets. Some move in farther away from MY CLUB but the rest grit their teeth and try to sell or turn their draw-distance down to a drug-induced euphoric 96 haze.

The wiser players figure MY CLUB, so far from the telehub, so silly, on such a small amount of land, so disorganized if it couldn't open in 30 days, well, it won't work and can't succeed so let's not worry about it.

But...I suspect another thing could be in the works which is that the owners figured out that the easiest, quickest, most effective technique for clearing a sim fast and taking it over yourself is to write CLUB on your land. I've seen this technique work like a charm in other sims, where people write CLUB not only to discourage other clubs from competing with what they think will be a club, but in order to take over land from those who see the word CLUB and run like hell from that sim.

I think it's a brilliant plan. I don't know if any of it was deliberate -- most likely it is the silly, neglectful stuff that goes on daily in SL with people oblivious to how they look or how their neighbours perceive them.

Nevertheless, I'd buy in Cichlid if I could load my game. Because Cichlid is pretty, and it has amazing FPS for its type. And the clubs may not be visible from certain angles, and I suspect may not come to pass.