Estate concepts

I'm a little bit confuse about the estate concept.

If I buy a Island.Is this a estate ?

Or estate is a group of islands ?

If I purchase a private Island...

I need to choose a name to the island and another to the estate ?

Maybe the name of my Island had a standard such as...

Estate: Parana
Island: Curitiba

Does it makes my island with the name of Parana Curitiba ? (or Curitiba Parana) ?

Ah, when I choose a place on the grid.I need to make reservations surrounding my islands if I've plans to grow and create a estate (if estate is really a group of islands)

An estate is a group of islands that are under common management.

For instance, you can appoint one or more estate managers. That person can, for instance, ban someone from the entire estate (from all islands in the estate).

You can pick a different name for the island and for the estate, but there's nothing stopping you from reusing the same name if you want.




This is a good example. Curitiba is a city in the Brazilian state of Parana. All cities in Parana are presumably governed by the same state laws. City/State in RL is sort of how Island/Estate works in SL.

However, the name of the island is simply "Curitiba". The estate name Parana is only visible in a few places (for instance, if you visit Curitiba island and then click on World --> Region/Estate --> Estate tab).

You can reuse the same name for both island and estate (for instance, in RL, "Sao Paulo" is both the name of a city and a state in Brazil).



All eight positions bordering an island (or an existing reservation) are automatically protected (north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest), so no one can put an island there without your permission. But if you want to be sure that you can expand, you should buy reservations in surrounding grid locations.

Thanx, man ! (ou devo dizer...valew, cara ! rsrs..Abraços !)

The mainland is also an estate in itself, in this case an estate of all the mainland sims, coincidentally called 'Mainland'.

A private island is always part of an estate, it can be one island or many, but has to have common ownership.

When you own a single private island you have an estate.
You can add more private islands to the same estate as well as have a different estate for each island.
The name of the island is what you'll see in map, search and so on, the name of the estate is just a "logical" name that can include 1 or more islands so that you can set properties to all the same estate sims together.
So: i own an island: i have an estate, the island will be in that estate
I own 2 islands: they can be on same estate, or on 2 different estates
..and so on..
When you set estate managers, or add/ban groups to an estate you can tell whether you want to add them to that estate only, or to all estates you own.

For reservations, you need to be a concierge user to be allowed to reserve spaces.
A concierge user is a resident (account) who pays at least $125 monthly fee to LL
So when you purchase your first island, if you don't own some big parcel on mainland, you can't reserve spaces. Once the island will be yours then you can reserve spaces as you'll pay $295 monthly and so you'll be a concierge user