Comments on: It’s not for you.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:11:58 +0000

As someone said on another blog recently, it’s a ‘nasty business’ where someone claims their concern for newbies’ welfare is born of higher principles, when it’s really all about their own business advantage and self-aggrandizement.

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Free Hobbit Holes! « Dale Innis’s Weblog — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:53:43 +0000

[...] read Jacek Antonelli on the subject, and she is hopeful that this will turn out to be a good thing even for the people [...]

By: Jacek Antonelli

Jacek Antonelli — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:50:47 +0000

Welcome, Prokofy! Your comment was just the thing this post needed to balance out the overly calm and rational writing style I tend to fall into. Thank you muchly!

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:18:48 +0000

You are such a suck-up, Jacek, why not just go ahea and *become* a Linden?!

Every single thing you claim is false.

Non land-owners could get an island rental and more Lindens for their $10 — and the limitations would induce them to spend more elsewhere if they cross that threshold.

The notion of land ownership is destroyed by having a socialist communal apartment type of arrangement where you can’t sell the property.

The owners don’t own the land and are stuck with the house — that isn’t introducing anybody into ownership, but only to dependency, like government projects.

The areas are likely to prove magnets to griefers and scammers as the old first land did.

Users don’t move on to full-fledged mainland ownership, but move to island rentals or homesteads. I know, because I have enormous experience in running newbie villages and I know only a small percentage buy mainland after a mainland rental.

Preventing land from entering the commercial market might seem like a solution to flipping, but any encroachments on the market end up undercutting the entire concept of market.

And of course this *does* keep directly most of all with mainland rentals, which would find it hard to pay for 117 prims, and provide 117 prims for decorating on a 512 m2 without loss. It also competes with prefab makers.

By: Belochka

Belochka — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:44:23 +0000

I actually find myself agreeing with LL’s decision too. :0 I came in too late for First Land and, with so many other things you have to learn, researching how to buy land floored me. If it hadn’t been for striking up a friendship with someone who was already an Estate resident I wouldn’t have purchased land at all in my first year. It was a revelation to have a place to come back to get changed, rez items and do simple building. I know that sandboxes are there for that, but after my first experience of being griefed I gave up on public ones.

I wish that this had been an option when I’d joined.