How many people on one section of land

I am beefing with a competing neighbor who claims that our section of land can only handle 40 people. I don't believe this number and wanted to see what other people think. If there is a restriction, I may move so as you can imagine, this is an important question.

Any help is appreciate as always. Thanks all!

Sometimes it's 40, sometimes its 50, sometimes it's 100....

What's the beef? Is he having over too many people? or are you?

The server for a normal sim (256 Meter x 256 Meter section of SL) is set to allow an absolute maximum of 40 people in the sim at any one time. That is the LL recommended setting, and is what they feel a normal server can handle.

If you own a whole sim, you can change that setting to as much as 100. But if you do, you're inviting far higher lag. Most people find that even 40 is far too many at one time, and makes SL almost unplayable for everyone in the sim, unless they all have a top of the line systems with a top of the line video card. Very few sim owners are willing to increase the limit setting to more than 40, because in practical terms, it is performance suicide.

If you are trying to run a huge club and want to have moire than 40 people at once in it, build it on the dividing line between two sims - half in each sim. Then you could, in theory, have up to 80 people at once.

However, any land owner that intentionally fills all 40 user slots in a single sim at once, and who does not own the whole sim, is guilty of hogging the sim's resources in the extreme, and depriving all other land owners in that sim of any reasonable access to their own land. Such self-centered individuals usually earn a great deal of well-deserved hatred from their neighbors, who find their own use of their own land in that sim curtailed or impossible. In my opinion, any land owner who intends to host more than 30 avatars at once on their land ought to go out and buy their own private island, where they will not use any other land owner's resources at all. Do that, and if you wnat to set your sim to accept 100 people at once, and if that lags your sim down to a standstill, it harms no one but yourself.

Yes, we have been getting busy and he doesn't want the competition for those spots. I heard that this section is set to a higher number but we don't know what?

Thanks all for your speedy feedback! This forum and community is amazing!

I heard of the whole "only 40 people" thing before- but the other day I was at club arsheba and there were over 90 avatars in it, this is a single private island- IT LAGGED LIKE CRAZY, nothing rezzed and i couldn`t move good.

I think - not sure, just think, the normal limit is now 50 people. At least there are often 50 people in a crowded sim, and if you try to get in, you can't, and if the population drops below 50, you can.

There are 50 people in Edge, at the moment. Help Island Public can hold 50 people, as can Sandbox Island and Sandbox Island extension. The Orientation Islands hold over 40 people. Badlands, an island, has 63 people in it at the moment. Island owners can set the limit higher than normal.

Aah that makes sense.

Look at the estate options (World / Region/Estate), in the general tab you'll find a setting for the agent limit which is generally 40 for all mainland sims.

Mainland sims are limited to 40 agents. Period. Some high traffic Linden sims might be different, but the vast majority are.

Private islands this is a configurable setting. If you are on the mainland there is a max 40 in the sim and that's it, over 40 and nobody can TP into the sim, which earns a great deal of hatred from neighbors if that happens too frequently. The reason mainland is limited to 40 is because of the child agents and adjacent sims that can cause demands on the sim. That's why its a configurable setting on islands and limited on the mainland.

I have seen private island sims handle up to 80 without glitching. Over that and they start to falter.

World>Region/Estate>General tab

Look for the agent limit. That's how many avatars can enter the sim. If you are on mainland, that number is usually going to be 40. If you are on a private sim, you could ask for that number to be raised by the estate owner.