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Yes.

Anshe is definately going to make an interesting subject for a "Movie of the Week" one day. Virtual call-girl to Financial Magnate. I think they should try to get Lucy Lui.

This is exactly why linking to EU is so dangerous.. because it's an economy that can contain these huge investments and yet is designed in a way that makes it easily manipulable.

I've been thinking a long time about that.

In some ways you *want* a controlled economy, in the sense that if competition springs up, the controlled economy can react (hey, a discount to stay!) whereas the wisdom of the consumer mob alone can often produce a tragedy of the commons.

However, there's only so much leverage a company can have. Take our local provider - say the economy grows to be 1 bln USD annually on our grid. How much raw cash would it take to reign in a market like that, knowing that competition is nipping on your heels to take your marketshare should you alter the exchange rates arbitrarily?

Ultimately, the consumer will be in the driver's seat in a much grander way than any one company could ever hope to control, even on their own platform.

Yes, but that's exactly my point. I mean, I remember the news stories about the player there who bought the space station for US$100,000. But they were already saying in those same news stories that the player was pretty much guaranteed to make a profit, and I'm sure that when it made the news, Mindark popped open their editor and moved a slider and suddenly the space station became prime hunting and mining land.

Again, what happens with that sort of thing if the economies merge? Some people spend US$200,000 buying sims in SL in the hope of making a profit on them, which is by no means guaranteed. Are they being suckered compared to the lucky person who is around on EU when they have a land sale of a major area, buys it, then Mindark arrange things so that they profit - and they use that profit to finance their SL land business, so that others without that advantage have to compete with them?

This is an interesting thought. One of the topics brought up a couple years ago about the whole of Second Life growing to a Metaverse is moving from the L$ to the USD$

How likely is the Linden$ going to survie open sourcing in the economy created by say - 1 million concurrent user logons throughout the patchwork of grids?

As long as we cannot export products to other virtual worlds, I see little use in a financial coupling. Besides that: We already have a financial link. It is called the US Dollar.

One should be able to, at a minimum, for starters, exchange text chat and still images between different virtual worlds.

Why? Just curious, as I can't think how it would benefit me in any way... why do you think it might benefit you?

Broccoli

the "Metaverse" idea thingie would advance a lot faster if it was a cooperative idea rather than a competitive one.

The metaverse is a concept in a fictional book. Second Life is a game. Never shall they meet.

Broccoli

A bold statement. I guess it depends on how you define your terms.

If people are already recruiting for RL jobs in SL, what do you think they'll be doing on here in 10 years?

That, and slacking off from work when their boss isn't looking

The metaverse is a concept in a fictional book. Second Life is a game. Never shall they meet.

Broccoli