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Tolya Ugajin

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  1. Your premise is based on the idea that people have only commercial interests in buying private estates.  Some, maybe even most, may, but not all.  Some of us find $300/mo an acceptable price for a hobby, and at most use renting land as a way to use up prims we were not using anyway or to help out friends.

    Lots of people hopped into the sim-owning business thinking it was an easy ROI.  Guess what?  They were wrong.  They also got into the act late, which meant they got into it when the market was already past the "easy money" phase, as they got into an already over-saturated marketplace.

    Also, this idea that Linden homes are driving landlords out of business is laughable.  At best, these are "starter homes" for newbs or "sharecropper" plots for those who would never rent your private estate land anyway.  Also, seems to me this ONLY comes with premium membership and that means, gasp, they would have already had the same exact prim allowance FREE - just have to find a tiny little mainland parcel and then, voila, no rent for their little spot.

    I'd love tiers to go down, but that's just my purely selfish wish for lower cost and an ability to afford an extra sim.  LL as a business has made the calculation that the current structure is best for them.  If you want them to change it, you need to show them an alternative that is better for LL, not for you personally.

     

  2. /me adopts his best <edited for name of evil person lest it be deemed harassing> voice:

    "You vill have NO FUN!  This is a SERIOUS place for all of ze people!  NO FUN!  Anyone having fun vill be rounded up und SHOT!

    Vy can you not STICK TO THE TOPICS!  Ze Lindens have provided you with this Forum to talk about SECOND LIFE, and Second Life ONLY!  There is NO FUN in ze Second life!  Anyone having fun here VILL BE SHOT!

    Or, I suppose, stuck in a closet with Pep for an hour with ze option of taking ze cyanide pill.

    Now, all of you, GET BACK TO VORK!  For the glory of the LINDENLAND!"

    Tolya (apologizes if his faux-German accent comes through poorly)


  3. Marcus Hancroft wrote:

     

    Nathaniel Scorpio wrote:

    Throw me in the threaded view camp. So far, the options appear to be reading older to newer or newer to older, but all in flat view. Threaded view gives you the actual flow of conversation and makes it easier to follow a string. I'd also argue that flat view leads to more argumentative threads, because people don't have the option of avoiding an argument all together like they can in threaded view. 

    I would prefer a threaded view as well for exactly the same reasons Nathaniel states above.  Also, even though I checked "Jump To First Unread Post" in Linear Layout Settings, it always takes me to the very first post in the topic.  Page 1, post 1.  Ugh.

     

     

    Ah, but you see by not having a threaded view it makes it harder for a real conversation to develop, thus keeping us on the very narrow path LL wants us on.  I suspect inhibiting true dialog is precisely the point.

  4. tl:dr

    But only because I see from her first response that the OP has an inflated sense of self-importance and felt the need to prattle on in a redundant fashion to the very first poster who, despite the fact that the OP felt the need to be a smart ass twice in response, actually DID give the OP exactly what she requested.  Anything such a person would write is clearly tl and not worth reading.

    Feel free to use the Firefox feature to ignore me in future threads.  If you need help finding it, it has been posted on dozens of occasions in this Forum and can easily be found by using the "Search" feature in the upper right hand corner of your screen.

  5. In Preferences on your menu, the section on communications, have IM's sent to email.  Need to include your email address of course.  Then, on each group you want emails from, make sure you have "receive notices" checked on the main tab for the group.

    All set.

  6. I have an entire library of notecard givers that anyone can use.  Basically, just one prim with a script I bought somewhere (a menu driven notecard giver, cost like 500L, no transfer)   Can even set the security so only people I choose are able to access.  Holds essentially infinite notecards.  Landmarks?  Stick them on a notecard and problem solved.  Can even group the landmarks onto different notecards for nice organization, although I do believe it will give an LM instead of a notecard.

  7. Well, they do not consider it fraud when a merchant has a sign that says "5,000L for 200 Michelangelo Paintings" and when you click and pay 5,000L all you get is the sign, so I doubt they will consider this fraud, either.

  8. There are several viewers - two from LL, Emerald, and a couple others.  I've only used the 1.23 and it seemed very user friendly to me.  2.1 is supposed to be even more so,

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