[World Map]

I like to search for land to purchase but depend on knowing it's location with regards to continents and surrounding lands/waters and since the maps stopped zooming out properly I have stopped buying land and lowered my tier so lindens are certainly losing some of my money by not fixing the maps!

[A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.]

58 minutes ago, Grumpity Linden said:

With that, it's late. Thank you to all who have been willing to engage in conversation.  This thread has grown very long, and I cannot promise to continue monitoring it.  I'll do my best when possible. 

 

Still have not addressed my concern and confusion?  How can taking basic groups away and adding them to premium be a good thing?  and why is it blamed on bad programming/coding for groups.  I get that groups have issues but -1 +1 does not have any more or less effect on the issue?  Give basic back their groups!  Premium do not need more groups!!!  and it if it just to try to justify the extra 33% increase that is bullsh..t!  You want to charge more and maybe it is time to but doing the switch does not justify taking groups from basic members!

[A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.]

17 hours ago, Kat Linden said:

Hi! So, I am very afraid of pitchforks - please be gentle.

I just wanted to briefly address groups maths. It's true that the groups of Basic accounts are being lowered by 7, and the groups of Premium accounts are being raised by 10 - and if you look at that math alone, it might not seem to add up. However, most residents have at least one alt. Technically, you can have up to 5 alts, and many residents are not entirely limited by that technicality. But let's you had one Premium Membership and 4 Basic alts - the number of groups you could have on your main account would go up by 10, but the total number of groups you could be a member of would go down by 18. This is important because all members of groups contribute to lag, even inactive group members. This is especially true for group chat. There are residents who have a lot of alts that they have not used in years that are still part of groups, and they are slowing those groups down. Lowering the number of groups for Basic accounts will not be a quick fix for this issue, but reducing the number of groups Basic members can join could help keep it from building further as we go forward.

 

18 hours ago, Blueberryxx said:

With all due respect, I would like you guys to reconsider this. If the groups are causing unnecessary constraint, then perhaps they should be fixed. They should be fixed regardless of any selling points because a simple look at Jira will reveal many problems with groups that already exist. Taking away group spaces from basic members, while increasing fees, instead of working towards a permanent solution, does not sit right.

From a creator's point of view, groups play the *biggest* role in advertising our new products. It is how we get sales. How do we expect newer creators to emerge without the ability to easily recruit customers to their group? Increasing fees is one thing, actively hurting our way to sell is my biggest concern here.

I also wholeheartedly believe  that Linden Lab is more than capable of selling premium membership without taking away features from it's basic account holders. You have a very capable team there. We believe in you guys. We hold you all to a higher standard. 

I appreciate that this is a privately owned company, and you guys don't realistically owe us a thing. But I still have hope in my heart and again, respectfully, in good faith, would like you guys to reconsider this one.

@Grumpity Linden  I still do not fully understand!  Alts are insignificant to your decision to lower basic members groups and raising premium members groups!  Simple maths tells me this decision has nothing to do with the technical issues with groups!!!  So try again to explain the numbers???  group 1 has 10 group 2 has 20 so you add 5 to group 2 and take 5 away from group 1 so now group 1 has only 5 and group two has 25.... It is just a rearranging of numbers nothing technical about it.  I understand that groups are an issue so taking them away makes sense but then adding them back does not resolve or even help the problem?

Please reconsider the maths on the groups and leave them just as they are today!

 

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20 hours ago, November Velde said:

Perhaps someone here can help me understand about locking in another year at the original price? The blog stated that between June and July, a person could get one more year. My problem is that my premium is not due until December 31st. Does this mean I'm SOL for being able to do this?

no if you pay now at 72.00 your membership gets extended for an extra year to Dec 31 2020 if you wait you will pay the 9?.00 price (can't recall the exact price).

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20 hours ago, blinkxx said:

My english is kinda weak

but I have one question about annual membership. I have an annual membership since January of this year. So it will end next year. Do I need to pay extra money now? Or I can do that next year when I have to renew it?

you should pay now if you want to keep the current rate of 72.00 and it will extend your premium an extra year to Jan 2021

[is there any more of the new house left?]

as of now NO!

[OH LOOK! 👀​​​​​​​]

Patch how about doing a better job of forecasting the need for new houses?  Lindens have failed so far, as within 24 hours all the new house and houseboats were taken!

[Houseboat]

17 hours ago, SLliny said:

I know but honestly if I had known that there were no boat houses available and that they were not going to guarantee me one, I would not have paid for it was the only thing I wanted.

I too made premium to get one of the new houses or boat house.  Very disappointed they did not make available enough for there subscribers.  The old houses no one wants anymore they can just make them disappear faster and make more new available.  And announce the date for future releases too.

[New Premium Linden Homes]

As of April 18 the first group of new homes seems to be all taken up.  Guess you have to wait for the new releases.

[Does changing my country of residence affect my VAT payments?]

I created my 1st account in the USA and lived there, but moved to Australia a few years later.  My 1st account had USA but my second one I was honest and put AU.  The thing is my credit card for sl is based in the USA and in USD.  So when I went to buy Lindens, I was charged a conversion fee from GB to USD (yet I had AU listed in sl not GB???) on my credit card!!!  That was not acceptable as my credit card is US and USD so I changed my location back to US to avoid this in the future.  I was not even concerned about VAT because in either case it did not apply to me at the time.  And my IP has not been flagged!  I did contact LL about this and I do not recall the results but I do know the fix was to change my location to match my bank account and not my physical location.

[Mesh body and older clothes do not show on it.]

  ANYO

I have a mesh body now and so my older clothes which do not have the appropriate applier in them do not show when I wear them. 

Can this be fixed by me? Do you have to be a designer to add appliers to clothes? 

 

And if I can put an applier into the clothing item how do I do it?

 

I read this on another post in here, Check out a product called the Omega Applier from Love and Lust.  I have not used this myself, but I am told that it can enable the use of standard clothing layers on a mesh avatar body. 

ANY ONE KNOW ABOUT HOW THIS WORKS?