In the wake of the Openspace drama, huge areas which used Openspace sims for sailing and races were threatened to disappear from Second Life since Linden Lab announced the dramatic price change for 2009.Well, LL is trying hard to make things less painful for the boating fans all over the grid. One of the largest sailing community in Second Life, United Sailing Sims, boasting 9 different communities joined together and around 130 sims — most of them set up just for sailing and races, obviously using Openspace sims — have been designated by Linden Lab for an experiment: joining up private islands with the mainland, at a prime location just eastwards from the newest mainland continent, Nautilus.
Obviously Linden Lab looks forward to this "promotion", but for USS, threatened to drop about 95% of their landmass, this is the only option they had left. They'll survive and grow — while at the same time, landowners in Nautilus' east coast will now enjoy the racing competitions just outside their windows :)
It's quite likely that Linden Lab will do the same for other sailing communities, or other communities using openspace sims in what Linden Lab redefined as "proper use" (ie. basically not really using them much except as 'filler space' — ideal for ocean-loving or forest-loving residents). We'll see if they all get 'connected' to the mainland in some way, thus making my own predictions come true: 2009 will be the year of "back to the mainland" :)
More on Linden Lab's blog post.
Quote: "It's quite likely that Linden Lab will do the same for other sailing communities, or other communities using openspace sims in what Linden Lab redefined as "proper use""
ReplyDeleteWhy do you say this is likely? Previously, such communities were shot in the foot by capricious price hikes, and it seemed 'likely' that such communties would wither on the vine due to higher cost.
Let's just say, for the sake of the argument, that USS was not the only community contacted — it was just the largest one ;)
ReplyDeleteThis is garbage. They cut USS in half. A great deal of content has been destroyed. Who do you think you are kidding?
ReplyDeleteWhy is the new lower archipelago not connected with the upper one? That makes no sense . . .
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