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  1. Sid Nagy
    Do they have fancy ban lines too?
  2. Sid Nagy
    The sex ban from Amazon would never come overnight. They have to give notice a fair time ahead of implementing the new rules. There are other cloud hosting companies all over the world that would love to take over doing business with Linden Lab on a short notice. I don't see the problem in that case.
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    A merchant doesn't need to give 24/7 support, but responding within a few days\ a week should be normal IMHO. I have that in my shop profile as well: I try to respond within 48 hours. When I go on RL vacation or take a short break, I change that text in the shop policy accordingly, but also that I still will read my e-mails. Merchants who lose interest in being one and don't want to do customer service anymore, should take down their products and really call it a day IMHO.
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    Yes it really would, but of course that will never happen. In world shops from shop keepers who lost interest will vanish quickly if tier is no longer met, but marketplace stores can keep going like forever, as long as the merchant logs in every now and then (I think it is once every two years?)
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    If one has a busy shop with many sales: - use an alt for your SL social life, if you have time left for one. - let SL send you notifications to an e-mailadress you actually check every day. - Fix problems swiftly, so you don't get even more customer messages about the same problem. - If you want to be a merchant, be one in all fields. Not only the ones that make you shine like a star amongst friends. Being a merchant isn't glamorous, but hard work for peanuts at times. - Never role play the functions of shop assistants, managers and all that stuff that over complicates things.
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    Must be Rick Ashley's car.
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    The cowboys in the private land sector are long gone. The market has completely settled. The times of making quick money is long gone since the land prices on private land are no longer existent and the land barons have to make their profit on rental fees solemnly. The long term land barons are all respectable people who want the same thing as the tenants: a thriving place so they stay afloat. You get automated notifications if rent is due. Customer is king on private land these days (as long as one sticks more or less to the covenant and doesn't grief others)/
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    The useage of SL is shifting. Building and scipting for you own purpose is out. Look at the sandboxes. Once vibrant places. Not anymore. Playing "Barbie in Belli" is totally popular these days. LL simply follows what the market demands. They don't force people to move away from mainland or private land IMHO.
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    I rent\lease on private land for almost 17 years. Never had major problems with a landlord. Sometimes with neighbors. Then I just move. Most of the land barons, especially the bigger ones, are very helpful, correct and respond quickly. Most leave you alone as much as possible and work with you if needed. I am just the opposite. I would never buy mainland, because there is no covenant, you are as good as on your own, I have to pay 21% VAT on top of the tier (that doesn't apply on rent for land from a private land baron) Mileages vary therefor it is a good thing that there is mainland, private land and Belli. Some like chocolate, some like vanilla and others prefer pistachio ice cream.
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    I think LL and with them SL falls under the laws of California, because there is the company is registrated. As far as I know LL doesn't allow people from other countries where online gambling is legal to open up gambling. And in countries where online gambling is legal, it doesn't mean that everyone can start a casino or a lottery whenever that person feels like it. Almost always it is strictly regulated with needed permits and a lot of special rules to obey to, like paying taxes, guarantied win chances, a plan to recognize addicted players and a plan what to do next, special rules about advertisement etc. etc. So all in all, my money is on: It will not happen any time soon that people from some places can gamble inside SL and others can't.
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    If a company outside the US would run the show, sex would not be so much of a problem as it is now in the USA. Not all countries have that high standard double morals
  12. Sid Nagy
    Maybe there isn't enough room for more worlds like SL but in a case when SL has to stop, I think there might be. But of course no guaranties that every attempt will be a success. It would be tricky. It would need enough of SL to lure in it's then homeless userbase by the droves and be appealing enough to attract new ones. A lot of thinking out of the box needed.
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    Sansar had the big disadvantage that SL was still alive and kicking, when it was released. And it had not the right usability in every field, that are main selling points for SL. And on top of that the makers of Sansar forgot all about the KISS method for their potential users. My posts where about the future for a new platform after SL would somehow have to close their gates (like when Amazon.....).
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    Second life is heading towards "A Barbie World In Bellisseria" for years already. Everyone can see that it is the real grow market in SL at the moment. The inworld building tools are no longer really relevant for the success of SL for many residents. Why do you think LL has burned tons of money to get us a mirror? Mirror, mirror on the wall ........ A new SL-like world would leave a lot of oldbies behind, including me for sure as well, but that would not mean a certain disastrous failure for a newly starting world. When I retired as a teacher in RL, the education system in NL didn't collapse either. Who would have thought?
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    I think there is a market. Many things could and should be done totally different IMHO, but there is a market. Of course it will have to grow again. Linden World didn't have the tons of users SL has today within a few weeks either. But just dream a few minutes about how different you personally would make a new world, what would be different? What would be the same? It is very easy to get enthusiastic about that, at least I do and no doubt far more creative minds in the industry would do so too then. They all know the amazingly successful run of SL despite all the complaining we and others do about all kind of everything that is wrong (?) with SL. If I were in the gaming industry I'd give an arm and a leg for a game that stays that long profitable and affloat. Two decades ago online gaming was still in the prehistoric stages (look at our sim crossing flaw). There are millions out there that once tried SL but did not really found what they expected and called it a day again. Snd even more who never heard of SL ever. So there is potential enough for a SL successor IMHO, but not likely as long as SL can keep their gates open to the public.
  16. Sid Nagy
    Lets face it, we all know the unique LL Implementation Practice™. But.... the JIRA system is still up and running, so...... better still bark up against that tree for now.
  17. Sid Nagy
    SL's existence in a way hampers the development of new virtual world software IMHO, indeed because of all the user generated content, but when it has to close it's gates for whatever reason, that argument is no longer valid. New developers could start from scratch in that case, do things differently, use the latest techniques, leave out the SL flaws (and create new ones, no doubt about that too). Most SL creators can jump on the next train, they have the knowledge and creativity to make stuff and their own data base of textures and models on their HD's and clouds.
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    Maybe we should discuss a bit more realistic scenarios here?
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    I have done a few attempts in the past, but following most roads is just boring. And as I wrote, I regularly end up in mainland because visiting something like a shop, museum or event. So I have seen enough of mainland to have an opinion. I've seen the totally overpriced chunks of land in nicer parts of mainland, I inspected them already, to have a good chuckle or two out of those prices. Again, there are people who love mainland, kudos for them, but I'm not one of them. There are others who don't like Belli or private land. And there are even those who don't like any of the three kinds. They leave by the droves after signing up and looking around a bit. Disqualifying other people because they have a different opinion, I don't know..... Mileages do vary a lot everywhere, RL and SL in my book.
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    Mainland is simply not everybodies thing. I only visit mainland when I teleport to a store, museum or event. I never explore. That has nothing to do with banlines or not, but most of mainland is desert, low hanging platforms, crappy buildings... all in all, much kudos who likes to live there, but it I'm not one of them. I like some covenant protection where I live. Plus living in the Netherlands in RL, I would have to fork up 21% VAT above the normal tier rates, so I'm a private land person. There is no VAT charge then. There seem to be more people like me in SL when it comes to land holding.
  23. Sid Nagy
    Last time I checked it was not privately owned, so my guess is that Belli is Linden Owned land.
  24. Sid Nagy
    If an alt holds the better location, it is also possible to downgrade the other account and keep using the alt's place, no?
  25. Sid Nagy
    Fishing. I never caught one, but it is relaxing.
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