Escrow option- any interest ?

[JemimaRosenthal]

When the Linden Homes are built out, old versions closed/moved whatever--I have an idea for a revenue source for the Lab and a kind of escrow option for us.

Again, this is for AFTER the Linden homes are built out so this isn't a case of the haves get more.  .

Here's my idea - you've got a LH nice location but you'd like to get one on the coast/in the hills/different style . You pay say 100L and you get to try 5 locations in 24 hours---withOUT having to give up your current home. You don't want any of the 5-- your original home is there- you've just spent 100L. 

If you get a dream location you click ACCEPT and you have 24 hours to clear and abandon the original parcel. After 24 hours the server will empty it for you.

The Linden Homes are so great many of us like/love ours but the grass is always greener.......   This escrow option would generate revenue at no risk to the current homeowner with itchy feet  like today.

Any interest? Getting partnered is 10L so hopefully the programming costs would bring the cost closer to 100L versus 40 ish USD  for a new last name.

 

[Alwin Alcott]

26 minutes ago, JemimaRosenthal said:

-withOUT having to give up your current home. You don't want any of the 5-- your original home is there- you've just spent 100L.

no thanks ..  so the 'haves" get a extra perk to get better. Not very equal and fair for the ones that still wait. Not only now as long Belli isn't complete, but there always will be LESS waterside or other super locaction parcels.
If you want to play the game, play it on the same level.
It would perhaps kind of work that it automaticly abandones your first home when you claim the other one. And pay the extra tier for a month. ( adding every claim during a month lets say till max  to the 8192 level, as 8 changes ) ..finally a additional good income sourse for LL.
If abandoning first, the tier stays in the included premium.
something like that.

Edited August 11, 2020 by Alwin Alcott

[Marianne Little]

I think it would benefit those who can only afford one Premium. Think about it, if I have 3 premiums and decide I am a bit tired of one home and want to try hunting, I still have the 2 other homes to enjoy and live in while 1 avatar does the hunting.

What can the single Premium user do? He know what he have, but must abandon it and hope he get something better. And may be homeless for weeks, or settle for something he likes less than the first one.

This gives single Premium users the opportunity to try and hunt for another home, with the safety that he can fall back on the first one.

But I am sure you disagree with me @Alwin Alcott...

 

[Alwin Alcott]

30 minutes ago, Marianne Little said:

But I am sure you disagree with me @Alwin Alcott...

 

i am a single premium Belli user .. single in state but also in parcelholding:) and yes..i disagree, because for LL there are no alt accounts. Would it be fair to give the one paying customer different things than the other?.. there are no levels in premium yet. Perhaps alts should get a 50%r rebate on their annual?

Edited August 11, 2020 by Alwin Alcott

[Marianne Little]

16 minutes ago, Alwin Alcott said:

i am a single premium Belli user .. single in state but also in parcelholding:) and yes..i disagree, because for LL there are no alt accounts. Would it be fair to give the one paying customer different things than the other?.. there are no levels in premium yet. Perhaps alts should get a 50%r rebate on their annual?

Or those with a single Premium get help to swap homes.... For me, it could be limited to them. I have it good as I have it. Many dislike those with alts and get personal and nasty. For them, if they can't pay for 2 or more premium accounts, nobody should be allowed to do it. Or if some have more than one Premium, they should not use it to get more than one home. They almost wrecked the thread about "When did you last see..." and thank God, they got their own thread now.

I don't say you mean it. I can't remember you being uncivil about just the use of Premium alts.

[Alwin Alcott]

24 minutes ago, Marianne Little said:

Or those with a single Premium get help to swap homes....

this is for me the issue .. there are no single premiums, áll are single premiums.
How you go split them? same payment info?.. not right, quite some people share that..
Same IP?.. not right..problems in other than home situations, like appartments sharing connections.

For me it would be a acceptable solution ( but hów?) to help the nón home havers to a home, not the ones who have one already. Like the multiple account holders, changers are changers. Being able to keep the old will make the market for new seekers even harder.

Edited August 11, 2020 by Alwin Alcott

[JemimaRosenthal]

Alwin----           Sorry this wasn't clear to you.  What words would do it?

"When the Linden Homes are built out, old versions closed/moved whatever--I have an idea for a revenue source for the Lab and a kind of escrow option for us.

Again, this is for AFTER the Linden homes are built out so this isn't a case of the haves get more. "

You decided to interpret it as the EXACT opposite.

Everyone has one new Linden Home , at least before this program would start.  (Meaning there is steady inventory -like the old versions have been).  "Escrow " gives a way to get a new option without losing the old.

I think Escrow would help retain single acct premiums, they could pay 100L(or whatever) and see what's available , fall in love all over again with no downside.

 

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by JemimaRosenthal
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[Morena Tully]

Bad idea. For the people willing to abandon their home to try for a better one, they'd have a horrible chance to get anything nice. It would basically force people to pay a fee if they wanted to try for another. That's what's called Pay to Win in the gaming industry, and is a big black mark on companies who do it.

[Chic Aeon]

From The Lab's point of view I can't see that 100 lindens would nearly pay for the hassle and personale cost  of the proposed project. Remember HOW MUCH it costs to change your name :D.     It benefits them more monetarily to have all the folks with the alts playing the Game of Homes. 

Edited August 11, 2020 by Chic Aeon
personale not personal LOL

[Alwin Alcott]

33 minutes ago, JemimaRosenthal said:

Again, this is for AFTER the Linden homes are built out so this isn't a case of the haves get more. "

You decided to interpret it as the EXACT opposite.

you keep forgetting there are new players all the time, if the havers can play a game for 100 L$ a pull, the new ones néver have a chance to get a lucky number and find a nice location, those will all be in hands of the havers.  And they can keep what they have all the time.. just the *****ty ones will constanly be in the pool.
Also with the old homes it was rare to get one in a nice location, near a cliff, water or better view. This plan will cause the same or make it even harder to find a nice location.
With the current system everybody has a chance, and your plan will take that away.

[Marisa Starbrook]

@JemimaRosenthal, your idea may appeal to gacha players. It’s a popular pastime. When Bellisseria rarely showed up on the land page last year, I landed a few old homes in wonderful locations. It only took 10 years to get those spots. 

[LittleMe Jewell]

4 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:

From The Lab's point of view I can't see that 100 lindens would nearly pay for the hassle and personal cost  of the proposed project. Remember HOW MUCH it costs to change your name :D.     It benefits them more monetarily to have all the folks with the alts playing the Game of Homes. 

This ^^.   

I'm looking at it from the perspective of programming it. One of the Moles or Lindens gave us a short synopsis of everything that has to happen when you start through the Get a Home process.  To add this quirk into the process seems to me that it will cost LL more to create the process than what they would potentially get back in return - especially at a fee of only 100L (i.e. less that US $0.50).