Itchy Gamba
Registered User
Join date: 16 Dec 2006
Posts: 48
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03-18-2007 02:19
Hi there,
recently i have noticed a few places you have to pay to get entry to such as dune which costs $25L a day to enter. anyone ever been to any of these places? which of them are the most popular? Please list all the places you know of which cost to enter and of those that you have been to a short description and whether or not it was worth it would be nice.
Thanks for any input you have
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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03-18-2007 06:52
LL provides a way for a parcel owner to charge for access to their land. It's called a land pass. The idea was that it would provide a way for those who provide high-quality content to cover their expenses. Pay for access, like a cover charge at a club or the admission price for a movie theatre. Unfortunately, at anything less than a private island level, it's worthless, so you rarely see it used as it was intended.
Anyone can sit in camera range and can mouse their camera into your restricted area, unhindered. They can see your pretty build, buy from the vendors, watch what everyone else does, and do almost everything except actually walk through the area in person and sit on your pose balls.
Some clubs may be using this method to charge an admission fee at the door, as a means of generating legitimate revenue. Some adult areas may use it to keep out casual access by kids with no L$ to spend. But as I stated, since it doesn't do much to really prevent people from enjoying 90% of what you create, so there are fairly few land owners who bother to try to use this feature. If anyone has figured out an effective way to use it, I'd like to know more about how they did it and what they use it for.
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Winter Ventura
Eclectic Randomness
Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,579
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03-18-2007 07:43
I seem to recall that you can NOT pay/buy from a vendor on "buy pass" land to which you have no right to enter. Also, there are some issues with "cheating to view/hear media streams on buy-pass land to which you have no access.
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