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1. Commercial Bellisseria

   You're new here, right? I've been dropping in and out of this forum section for over 19 years. I don't remember it ever being a serious place for general discussion. BTW, it's a matter of time before we get another reminder to stay on topic.

2. New Chapter for Mainland

   The Lindens have enough of an incentive with group land giving 10% bonus on tier. I think the Lindens themselves should take these inland abandoned sims with NOTHING on them and put ponds, roads, landscaping, maybe little parks, and spruce them up. Then they have more value. And change any G rated sim to M -- the world does not need so much "G".

3. Commercial Bellisseria

   Bit like SL then.

4. Commercial Bellisseria

   The SL Reddit doesn't promote free discourse so much as they curate ideas they agree with and so fourth.

5. New Chapter for Mainland

   Since you're in the land sales business, for some reason you want to ruin the business of those in the rentals business ("sub-letting"). It's hard to understand why rentals are "anti-consumer" when they enable the Lindens' customers to join SL yet not have to pay for a premium account or buy land and pay tier, so that their costs are LESS for participation in the life and economy of SL. That's why the Lindens in fact have always encouraged it, despite some very loud lobbyists from some residents (and Lindens as well) against this business for some reason. Renting is simple, and in fact Bellisseria is simplest of all, and that's the Lindens' best product. I'm not a land baron and not in the land selling business, but I can see what they put land for sale -- often to make it show up on the map, as there is no other way to make it show up on the map (that could be changed but would make for an even more cluttery map. People are happy to buy expensive sailing land, it always goes for a lot on auctions, land barons stay in business simply because people value that land and do buy it or at least rent it. The Lindens have no incentive to change a system that is more or less of an open market, that creates highly valuable land that encourages a) barons to hold tier for long periods while they wait to sell it at a high price b) encourages residents to buy Lindens to pay the rent on these parcels. So I don't see them changing this any time soon. "Two-tier pricing" is in fact very granulated multiple tiers of pricing from very low to very high, across types of land, based on its rating, whether it is waterfront or roadside, etc. So in that sense it approximates a real land market and that's a good thing. To try to prevent all this -- the valuation of land, the renting and sale of land in the way you imagine -- is to benefit only the top land barons who can "stay in the game". All the people who manage to fund their SL by renting out some of their land; all the store owners who obtain a whole sim and then sublet to others -- all these set-ups would be ruined and those people put out of business. To what end? To satisfy a brutal notion of commerce that favours only top land dealers of the sort that can go out and grab every parcel on Gaeta under $5/meter and sit two months with it to swap it to more lucrative Zindra land? Eh? I think the system, while imperfect, should be left as it is. I think it's good that the Lindens have started putting land directly to sale. I think they should differentiate the prices more. I think eventually the notion of having to file tickets to get abandoned should be the exception not the rule. I think the auctions should be only for newly-landscaped areas or very high-priced land. I think there, the Lindens should publish the names of the bidders and the winners. As I've explained multiple times -- and sometimes to strange disbelief -- land barons there artificially keep prices high by bidding on auctions they don't intend to win. So there I think merely publicizing the names is a deterrent, but perhaps also limiting the number of parcels that can be bid on. But again, the Lindens have no incentive to change things from how they are because it makes people obtain and hold tier and buy and spend Lindens. The end.