If you've ever gone real estate shopping in real life you know that sellers 'stage' houses by doing things like picking up clutter, putting an apple pie in the oven, and setting up the furniture so the place looks like it should be in a magazine. If the "About Land" reads "objects not included" then all you are getting is the land. Terrain chart for land that can be terraformed a bit You also see the four default textures for the region and with a short search you should be able to find these same textures in your Library in case you want to do match an object with the terrain (Like make a camouflaged roof for an underground room.) Most of the options are blacked out because I'm not an estate owner or manager, but you can see that water height on this parcel is 20 meters. Using Firestorm, I went to World, Region / Region Details/ Terrain. These were my terrain options on a parcel in Chartreuse. Each region was originally created with four textures, but the heights at which one terrain changes to another vary so that the whole place doesn't look like a layer cake. You may be able to alter things a bit with some minimal terraforming, (see above) but you are limited by terrain. If you are an estate owner you can choose your terrain textures, but most of us are stuck with what we have. Trust me, don't choose terrain you can't live with, because you probably can't change it. Talk about "Sansar" has left a lot of people uneasy about the future of Second Life.ĭon't think: "Well, the terrain is a little dull, I'll just plant a little grass".Many merchants who used to have stores inworld have moved to "Marketplace Only" to save expense and effort.The advent of sculpted prims and mesh means you need less land because you don't need as many prims to build.(I did rent a parcel in Inworldz for a while - but it just wasn't the same as Second Life).
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When Second Life started there were few competitors, but now, according to Hypergrid Business, there were 277 OpenSim grids alone, and a few of them offer free land or other benefits in order to get customers. There just aren't as many residents as there used to be in the boom years when Linden Labs was making new continents like crazy - some former residents have moved on to the next big thing.Here are some of my ideas on why that may be:
This means that if you just want a parcel to place a skybox, you can probably find property for less than 1L per meter. Supply and demand determines the market and unfortunately, there is currently a drop in the demand for the less desirable virtual real estate. There are also some discounts for land held by groups.ĭon't forget that you don't actually 'buy' land from anyone but Linden Lab, what is sometimes listed as a "buying" charge for a rental is actually more of a security deposit.ĭon't think "Property values are sure to go up." The rates for large "islands" or sims separated from the Mainland are different, and I'm not going into that there. (This is why you will find little parcel slivers all over Second Life made when someone realized "I'm not using all my prim allowance, so why don't I hack off the back 40 and reduce my tier?") Also note that you are charged for the most land you own at any time during the tier period, so don't think you can buy that humongous piece of property and re-sell it before tier time and not have to pay tier on it.
Note that there is no sliding scale - you buy one square meter over your level and you are in the next tier level. With the increased prim allowance, you can put a decent house on that size parcel. Be sure that the circled checked marks your actual tier level. You can also add "what if's" to the tier chart to get an idea of what your new tier would be in case you might press the "Buy" button by mistake, but be sure to change everything back when you are through, so that the Lindens don't charge you more. If you click "buy land" you will get a message telling you what your new tier level will be. Note that the first 1024 square meters is "bonus tier" that Premium members will not be charged for.
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