If I'm only one on a mainland and all other land is Not for Sale can SL kick me off parcel?

[Thomasine Guisse]

I have a 2048 parcel on a mainland for years(took it over from a friend)and as of today, I seem to be the only one left. Also all abandoned land around me has been Not For Sale for quite a while. Do I have to worry about LL "dissolving" this mainland and I'll have to buy land somewhere else? Any land I've checked is very expensive and bots seem to have cornered the best pieces of land. Also I wanted to extend my land another 1024 on adjacent land if my mainland will remain. I don't think SL wants to sell bits of land--everything around me is a full region and I can't afford that, especially if the new form of SL is to launch later this year.

[Abigail Longmeadow]

1. Ebbe Altberg has said that Second Life will remain for 'years'. My feeling is that Sansar is going to be so different from Second Life that it is designed for a different audience.

2. Linden Lab has not said anything about removing mainland in Second Life. You will hear different people speculating different things. My feeling is that since 'Region Idling' was successfully implemented, Linden Lab has little motivation to destroy empty mainland. Empty, unused sims sort of run in "economy mode" on the server.

3. If you want to buy abandoned mainland that is marked "Not for sale", put a support ticket in describing the exact location you want to buy. You can ask to have a large abandoned area cut into smaller parcels if you want. There is no guarantee, but usually Linden Lab will either sell the land to you individually, or put the land up for auction. See:  https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Abandoned-land/ta-p/846143
https://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Buying-land/ta-p/700043
http://usd.auctions.secondlife.com/

http://usd.auctions.secondlife.com/lin/auction/auction/list/

4. The price of land in Second Life varies greatly, depending on location and on who currently owns it. You can sell your land for whatever price you think someone else will pay. Price varies from about 0.5 Linden / m2 up to anything. See the mainland Linden dollar auction page.

5. If you buy land in the same sim, it will share land impacts (prim allowances) with your existing parcel. Meaing you can use up all the combined land impacts on your existing parcel if you leave the new one you buy in the same sim empty. Allowed land impacts (prim counts) go according to total square meters you own in a sim.