Announcing the Second Life Land Store Boycott

So a 6 month reprieve then they have to pay out a mint or get surrounded by IBG selling reserved spaces for $1000USD/each this is a good thing how? And what about people looking to get into the market looks anti-competitive to me.

Which price do you pay, a flat $10 per month, or the price you previously paid at auction?

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It could get even more complicated if 4 estate owners wanted to reserve two spots. It will get messy!

edit: given up trying to represent it lol. it should be a 4 x 4 with sim owners in each corner

This boycott idea came out less than 4 hours after the announcement of the Land Store. I consider it a kneejerk reaction, I still dont understand the ins and outs of the land store but I wont decide if I like it or not until I know A lot more about it.

Yes it is.

Lewis

Actulaly wouldn't you do it this way:

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X = Current land
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8 reserves guarentees you 87 sims.

Also, compare it to the current situation -- there is currently no way to stop someone from just buying the sims marked as reserved now. And the fee for moving a sim already exists.

Ya, so instead of a griefer having to drop $1,250 to annoy you, they can now bid on a reserve to annoy you. Lowering the bar from $1,250 to something quite a bit lower. Well, in the case above they would have to drop a minimum of $240 to completely wall you in. That's a big chunk of change for most people and I doubt your average griefer would care to do that. Additionally if it's obvious what they're doing, and you report them to Linden I'm sure Linden would side with you and revoke those reservations due to violation of the community standards clauses of the TOS.

What I got the distinct impression of, was the possibility to reserve spaces adjacent to existing voids next to the mainlands...

You are looking at this all the wrong way. My quick count of the void sims surrounding the main continent comes up with fewer than 300. For a mere $3000 a month you could prevent it from expanding.

LOL!

link here: /3/bd/93290/1.html

another of ll's well thought out feature roll outs.

i wonder who all is in ll's usuability/marketing division and who the participants in ll's successful usuability studies are...

I've put some ! marks where I think there are some gaps in that layout. Not sure, but I think there are parts that aren't covered.

I screwed up on the first post, I've redone it.

Each reserved space should garner you 9 sims -- the one it's in, and the 8 adjacent sims -- assuming corner to corner is considered adjacent.

The original 6 sims already benefit from a 1 sim buffer around them.

hey! that looks like...



checkerboarding

Cool

The auction that begins first will prevent the second auction from starting.

Thanks, that should be fun! Care to answer my other question:

After the 3 months are up, which price do you pay, a flat $10 per month or the price you paid when it went to auction the first time?

Correct, there is a large protected area around the mainland and current estates where reservations will not be allowed.

Have a look, you'll find plenty of posts about many subjects from me in the forums.

"Griefing" is proactive - it requires you to do something that disturb's someone else's enjoyment. Simply asking a question - which I feel is relevant - is not griefing. If simply asking a question was griefing, your entire post to me would be classed as such.

Lewis

Currently we plan on charging the overall average auction price as the renewal fee.

Corner to corner are not considered adjacent. Only regions which share a shoreline are considered adjacent.

Oh well, dump my checker board.

Thus pretty much maximizing your revenue, without it looking too extreme on paper.

I have to say that is extremely weighted in Linden Lab's favour and also at real danger of causing people to (a) not know how much they are looking at the renew the reservation and (b) increasing the effect of those who will bid against others out of spite or for business reasons.

Chris,

While your here -- if someone tried to make a reservation ring around an estate -- would that be considered violating any agreements and prevented (if reported by the estate holder?

Perhaps reservations could be limited to within a certain distance (x sims) of an existing estate?

You're joking, right? Surely that has to be considered adjacent!

He's not joking, Chaos already experienced that phenomena. Luckily, the other sim cluster moved so they could have more expansion room.

Well, I'll be. They have some funny ideas at times, they really do.