I don't think anyone disagrees with. The problem is you can't get a homestead unless you have a full sim already and so you need to rent from someone and this puts you dependent on someone else which is frustrating for people. So to log in one day and see all your hard work returned to your lost and found isn't a pleasant experience and seems SL if they are serious about the user experience would have some better ways to handle this.
I don't know if you rent from someone else if you can do a restore of your region to the new location. But seems like there are ways to make this better if not just let people rent homesteads which to me I believe would be a huge market. Anyway this whole subject is off topic for this mailing list and probably should be on the SL forums. M. _____ From: opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com [mailto:opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com] On Behalf Of Joel Foner Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:49 AM To: Aleric Inglewood Cc: opensource-dev Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] This is how Linden Lab treats it's customers... After being a paying customer for more than a year, renting a homestead, and thus paying Linden Lab ~ USD$ 1000 or so ... they just take the sim offline, with no opening to even discuss the matter. Why? Because of something I did? No. The reason is that Linden Lab isn't interested in the "little people". Unless you have a FULL sim of USD$ 300 per month, you don't count. There is a simple answer for this. You are the customer of your landlord in this case, not Linden Lab. Yes, you have a Second Life account, but you are not renting your land from Linden Lab. You are renting your land from another avatar in Second Life. Linden Lab is not a party to your decision to rent... so why are they accountable if some other avatar bails out and decides to "level their city block"? If the landlord decided to stop renting, boot everyone off and re-terraform the region for some completely different use, would you think Linden Lab would have any responsibility for stopping that or somehow compensating you? It's the landlord's land, and they can do anything with it they choose to, including shut it down, leave, take it over from the renters, or shut it down and let no one else in at all. Joel
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