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Porky Gorky wrote: Nuhai Ling wrote: 12% drop in private regions last year... enough said!:smileyfrustrated: However, what he is guilty of is not doing anything to stop the increasing loss of private regions. He may not be responsible for causing the problem, but he is responsible for fixing it, and from where I am sitting he has taken no notable action to address this issue. Actually, one attempt was made by Rod's administration to stop the decline of estate sims. In a weekend in October, 2011, LL waived set-up charges for estate sims. It gained over 500 extras estate sims in those two days. However, it failed miserabley when the land barons cancelled 500 sims in one fell swoop. Rod had to do some quick dancing around giving some sort of promise or deals to the land barons for them to bring all those sims they cancelled back. The land barons did bring them back, but over a few months, the overall gain of those extra 500 estate sims to the grid was lost in further declines anyway. So now Rod is stuck between a rock and hard place - if he caters to smaller estate sim owners, the barons will retaliate. As it has stood for the last year, most of the decline is from the smaller estate sim owners cancelling their sims. If he had any guts, he would cancel the Atlas Programs and say, "Tough!" to the land barons who are the only ones who reap the benefits; and simply standardize the Atlas Program benefits for everyone. Sure there would be an initial decline by the barons, but in a few months, growth would begin to happen as the smaller estate sims owners would then have an equal opportunity in the estate land business.

Celestiall Nightfire wrote: Porky Gorky wrote: However, what he is guilty of is not doing anything to stop the increasing loss of private regions. I've thought about this a lot. What I've seen in SL is a ton of university and education sims disappear, due the non-profit discount being eliminated. Other people who frequent "art" sims and such, may also lament their loss, etc. But, what I'm wondering is if the loss of private islands is a deliberate, although indirect, action by LL. It could be LL is trying to counter the exodus from mainland, and the mainland being swamped in yellow "for sale" colors. By reducing the number of private islands, it puts the focus back onto mainland. *If* that's' the case, LL would be better off to address the issues that accompany owning mainland, and stem the tide with positive action. Since more than 80% of LL's land tier revenue comes from the estate sims, encouraging the decline of estate sims to bolster up the Mainland would be a fairly unwise thing to do. But then again, LL's wisdom in matters of basic arithmetic has been a continuing problem.

Nuhai Ling wrote: 12% drop in private regions last year... enough said!:smileyfrustrated: I agree. That says it all. And, unfortunately he doesn't know how to reverse this decline because he doesn't know when or why it started. But all the data is there for him to see.

Pendji wrote: So basically what the title says. I've lost the coordinates part of my 'Edit' window. They're just simply greyed out. I've toyed around with settings but they don't seem to come back. What causes this and how do i fix it? I would simply wait it out. SL has been acting screwier than usual the last few days. If you are patient, some day, maybe even later today, the coordinates shall return.

olivian Blaisdale wrote: Hi been renting some land but now looking for something different wonder if anyone has any suggestions 4000L a week Tropical forest type theme with ocean views possibly a corner plot over a 1200 prims and as big as possible im not a premium member and thoughts would be a great help getting lost in all the listings either drop a reply here or contact me inworld olivian blaisdale ty so much Given your budget, this is what you should be looking for: 32768 sq. metres (which is half a region), Homestead; this configuration gives you 1875 prims. Do a search for 32768 sq metres, and you will find what you want. If you land on any estate parcel "for sale", the sales reps will find you. Go with the big guys, e.g., the Chung sisters (ACS), Dreamseekers, Zoa, etc., because they will be around much longer than the little guys.

StarSong Bright wrote: I just have to say Linden Labs that *I* am disappointed, seriously so. Enough so that I am probably going to be letting some of my sims go. Let me explain: Linden Labs have this promotion going: https://secondlife.com/land/sale They make it seem that you are getting a "free sim" it says "save 1000 usd" but they LIE! I am annoyed that they are putting this out there in such a misleading fashion - you normally pay $1000 but it INCLUDES the first month. You are NOT saving $1000 on a sim, you are saving $705 - because as soon as they deliver the new sim they are gonna charge you $295 usd for the first month's tier. But even more, this devalues the sims that are out there, people hoping to sell. Forget selling when people can get it for (or think they are getting it for) FREE. The whole thing just smacks of wrongness. Am I wrong? Advertising and marketing are all about twisting the truth. Regardless, this is a very good deal. This is what LL should have been doing some time ago - waiving these alleged "set-up" charges. It is too late though. The market has fallen through anyway. Too little too late. You can pick up fantastic deals on some of those remaining grandfathered sims, as sim owners are desperately giving away the store just to hold on.