BilliJo Aldrin

Bingo, mainland is massively discounted over estates. The per prim price is far lower, sometimes 30% or more. Anyone wanting the lowest price possible with no other considerations, I say go rent some mainland, but anyone wanting full rights and the security their own private group will bring, they need to buy from an estate owner.

I want my own group on my own land. You also seem to fail to understand that any other renter in the same land group as me could come to my rental and change all my setting. Yet another reason why buying on an estate and having your own private group is far better that having land rights through a renters group. Thank you Mr Neva for once again showing why buying on an estate is the way to go.

Do you want to own land without being premium? Go to a private estate run by a long term reputable estate owner. Do you want to rent land from someone who could default on his tier just as easily as an estate owner? Go see Prokofy Neva.

There you go, right there is why you think renting on mainland is so much better than buying on an estate. You have a vested interest in convincing people that renting from a "stable" mainland owner such as yourself who will never default on their tier is far better than buying from one of those fly by night estates owner who might disappear at a moments notice. In fact you go so far as to claim that having limited rights with you is far superior to having full rights on an estate. I'm a disinterested party offering an honest assessment of the differences between renting mainland and buying on an estate, you are promoting your business. I would love to hear the Chungs opinion of your assessment, who have 13 years experience in selling estate land to thousands of satisfied customers.

You seem to have it backwards, buying mainland is where u have to pay several thousand Lindens to the current owner, and then pay monthly tier to LL. On an estate you buy the land for a nominal amount, usually 1 L or, as is more likely, first weeks rent. I agree with you people renting land, (their name will not be on the "about land" as owner) should not expect instant gratification. Every mainland parcel I've looked at has said quite clearly in the rental note card that you must wait for the land owner to give you access to the land group before you can do anything with the land, and that your rental will commence as soon as u are added to the group. Of course I'm sure there are lots of ignorant renters that probably don't even understand the difference between mainland and private estates and what they can expect in either situation. Bottom line, I'd rather rent ( buy) from an estate owner than rent (rent) from Joe Blow mainland owner who can just as easily default on his tier as an estate owner can. At the end of the day, the only way to protect yourself from land owners that may default on the tier and cause you to lose your property, is to become premium, and become a land owner yourself by buying mainland. Then all you have to worry about is Linden Labs itself shutting down.

I'm currently renting a property on a sailing estate, there are restricitions on what i can do, but the minute i bought the parcel, I was able to return everything on the parcel., because i "bought" it, I'm not renting it. Buy: your name is on the about land as owner. Rent: sim owners name is on the about land as owner. Either way I'm paying rent every week to the owner, but owning gives you far greater flexibility, and far more powers

You aren't "given" owner status, you receive it automatically when you "buy" the land. Its no different that buying mainland. You will find your land taken away on main land just the same if you fail to pay LL your monthly tier or pay your premium membership fee.

When u BUY land, ie have your name show up as owner in about land you can instantly return everything on the parcel. Mainland renters are just that, renters, they have whatever limited rights the real owner chooses to give them when the owner chooses to log in and give you rights. I've seen mainland parcels for sale that have an active rent box and someone living there. If I bought the land i could instantly eject the renter, returning everything, including the for sale and rent boxes. I would never ever even consider renting mainland, despite the lower per prim price. I want MY name as owner in about land, and all the rights that go with it.

Some beefcake walked in on me and my friends in bed, insulted both of them, then tried to jump on the bed when one of them left. I didn't have ban rights and couldn't wear my orbiter, so we went up the hill to my place where I added him to the ban list. Problem solved.

We should start a group.

You look wonderful. So many times I'll see someone and say, "wow you look great, is that a mesh head?". They always say "no, its a system head". The first time I walk up to someone and say that and they say "thanks it is mesh", I'll consider getting one.

So i tell you how to skin match a system head with a mesh body and you just blow it off? You aren't interested in any constructive dialog, this is just your rant of the month.

You buy a skin that is a system skin with an applier for your mesh body. Presto perfect match

Wow I learn something new every day. You and Qie are right and I am wrong. My apologies to both of you for doubting you

Thats not how it works at all, you can't take the prims from empty areas and give it to other areas, "bonus prims" is a sim setting, you can't turn it on and off for individual parcels

i'm afraid you are totally wrong there. Prims are based directly on the square meter size of the parcel, its a function of land size. Any percentage size land gets that percentage of the total prims, they can't be "reassigned". The only exception is if you own two parcels on one sim, you can use all the prims on one of the parcels. If you can provide a link that describes what you claim, I'll be happy to read it, apologize and retract my statement.

They can't just give you extra prims from public lands. Prims are directly tied to the size of the land. If you have a 4096 sq m on a 2X bonus sim, those are your prims until they decide to revert the whole sim to normal prim limits.

I already got an "unoffical" warning for being mean, I hope my previous reply won't get me an official notice, because I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just responding in the same style as the OP posted

Actually, I'll laugh at you if you do use a mesh head My plan is to be the last avatar in SL with a system head, because until I can manipulate the head sliders to make a mesh head an exact copy of my system head, I'm totally not interested.

I doubt looking like a celebrity is against the TOS, However. I'm sure using their name and pretending to be them is.

I could never understand the attraction of family RP. One of my SL sisters once introduced me to her "grandchild" and said "you are her great aunt". Ummm no i'm not, your RP isn't my RP.

Yes that is true, me and some friends were living on an estate one time that was shut down, eventually it was put back online and everyone had their stuff returned to them.

Thats why you only ever pay a week at a time. You have no recourse. Your stuff is all there, look for broken cubes in your lost and found. Its combined items under one name . Go to a sandbox, rezz the cube then pick up all your stuff

I went premium at about 2 months. I was living in a friends tee pee and had a vertical take off aircraft parked out in front. She said something about it not being in theme. So, i went premium, got a LL house and parked the aircraft on the roof. Against the rules i know, but no one complained.