Private Island Land Deeding Question

I've been watching Kazanture's earlier question with great interest, re: the inability for estate managers to deed/reclaim land:

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I have a potential scalability problem coming.

Right now, there are on the order of 100 individually deeded groups, across the Caledon private island sims. The only person that can re-deed is me.

Just in the off-chance, shoot-for-the-stars possibility that I make it to 50 sims or so with Caledon, this will start to become a bit of a problem. ZOMG, 1000 individually deeded property areas!

At my current rate of growth, demand willing, I'll be at that size in perhaps three years. Will miracles happen? I don't know! But I'm willing to try.

So.....

Ideally, the 'easy' solution is to allow trusted estate managers to deed/redeed, but it seems that won't happen.

This will shift the burden to me, to somehow include even now about 100 tenants, plus all their friends and lovers into some kind of new group structure.

I would pose the following question: is this new group structure going to work out in a scenario such as Caledon's?

Please consider, it is a *great* hurdle explaining groups at all, to new players.

Thanks!

Hi Des,

Jack and I talked about this recently. I'm certainly not a fan of complicated, obfuscated solutions either--if you can do something more easily and directly, that would be closer to the ideal.

I don't know yet whether the new Groups system would work for this particular scenario you describe. As you know, Groups are meant to facilitate social bonding and shared interests (with the commonality here being "Caledon" as a future continent), but the interesting point Jack mentioned to me is: being able to assign Actions (powers) to anyone you choose, whether you're in a group or not. Sort of like how Grant Modify Rights entitles another Resident to do things with your objects, but extended to include deeding.

The issue will surely grow increasingly relevant as more people find themselves in, or thinking about, a similar situation to yours. So I feel if it's going to be a big problem and help reduce headaches by solving it, we (Linden Lab) should discuss further, with community, about how to implement this best.

I'm going to show this to Jack too, he'd be interested.