land tier question

Hiya, can anyone tell me--what is the maximum tier you can pay? It appear that you pay $195 per month for an entire sim; suppose I already have land at the $40 level (8000 m2), and I go and buy a sim...would my monthly payment then be $235? or is there an "invisible" tier level beyond that isn't listed anywhere in the land use fees information...help!

The answer is it depends.So here are a couple of scenarios.

$40 tier for mainland land owned + Private Island
Private Island are seperate from the land tier system. You purchase the Island for $1275 US then Pay LL a fee of $195 US a month. So in this scenario (once the Island was purchased) you would indeed pay $40 + $195 = $235

$40 + Mainland Sim
On the mainland once you go over the full sim level tier is billed per additional 1/2 sim ($99 I believe,someone correct me if I am wrong)
So in this scenario you would pay $195 + $99 =$294

Also I think it depends on what type of sim you are thinking about purchasing. Normal Island sims are around $195 per month but so called "void" or lower prim sims are much less, however you can only order them in groups of four. They each have a prim allowance of 1875 however, which is much less than the more normal 15,000 on a standard sim. In addition I have been told there can be performance issues if large numbers of people are in those sims, but the upside is loads more space

When they were originally introduced I think you had to have at least one standard sim but I am not sure of the current position

Might be worth an email or telephone call to Linden if you are uncertain what to buy.

Regards

John

Void sims must be 'anchored' to at least one normal sim that you also own. You can't buy just void sims, and when you do buy void sims, they must be purchased as a block of four. How you arrange them is up to you. You could, for example, use them to create a long, straight waterway connecting your private sim with someone else's private sim, or even with the mainland costline.

The cost for a block of 4 void sims is identical to the cost of one normal sim, and has the same total prim count, split as 25% of normal for each sim. You can't share prim count between the four void sims in the block.

Void sims were primarily intended for placing navigable water around island sims or coastline areas, or for creating low-density 'buffer areas' of land beside normal sims.

For example, you could purchase one normal sim and two blocks of void sims, and have a single 256 M x 256 M island surrounded by a 256 M wide band of navigable water that you also own. Or you could place a normal sim was an estate inside a ring of land void sims, to create a nice forrested 'buffer area' between your normal sim and several adjacent ones.