Tak Alexandre

If you get $300 Lindens a week that's L$15600 a year. In US $ assuming 250:1 excgange rate that means you get back US $62.4 meaning it costs you $72 - $62.4. Now this is all approximate obviously but roughly speaking your membership costs $0.185 per week.

I wonder why there can't be some off loading from the grid to local computers now the internet has progressed as have computers since the early days of SL. Look at the grid version of the latest SimCity which also allows for a locally run version. Most of the cost is buying or renting space on LInden's servers. If some of the workload can be off -loaded then the prices could surely be less. I want to build in peace and quiet and don't need to be connected to the main grid for that.