Traded land

The land I was using had all the land around it purchased by one person who was trying to create a cohesive sim. I was the last hold out and not because I was being stubborn, I just haven't logged on for a long time because I've been focused on XNA. I agreed to trade the land for something comparable. It turned out this was pretty simple for her to find and I traded my land.

New location:

Stingray (226, 104, 44)

Second Life Land Grab - Bay City #2

I've been thinking more about the Bay City Land grab. It seems like the Lindens struck a nerve and people are really excited about this new land. To me, the difference is in the roads and always having an open side to your land. Up until now it seemed like you could get trapped very easily by a couple of bad neighbors unless you wanted to spend a lot on a big space and waste a lot of it.

Then I was wondering why the Lindens didn't think about this earlier? They've said their initial designs came directly from Snow Crash and as I remember, roads were an integral part of the VR system in the book, so why no roads until now? Seems odd to me, but at least they finally figured it out. Now all they need to do is replicate this land style a few hundred more times and get the prices out of the stratosphere!

For those starting new sims, know that open space is important to a community and greatly affects land prices.

Here is a screen shot of a map that shows how much of this brand new land is up for sale. All the prices are over $200,000L (about $100US) for 1024. Here is a link/slurl for Bay City Imaginario (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bay%20City%20-%20Imaginario/28/70/45) so you can check out those prices for yourself.

Second Life Land Grab - Bay City

I finally decided to get a little piece of my own land in Second Life. I was searching around trying to find a good plot for some simple builds and a group I'm helping. I was watching auctions and searching around and noticed the new community of Bay City being auctioned off. People were paying more for 1024 meter ($190,000L = $700US) plots than they were paying for a whole island. I'm not sure that these people are completely sane, but the land they were buying was nice. It had a lot of open space and roads between plots so land was not sandwiched in between four different neighbors.

Try visiting that area now, it is mostly baren with most of those 1024M plots up for resale for around $280,000L=$1000US. Crazy.

I passed on Bay City then noticed that the Lindens are starting to build roads through some of the older sims. I found a spot that had the acquired land for roads next to it, but no road built yet. I bought a small 512M plot next to that. I paid about $11L/Sq meter. Land value is basically around $7L/Sq Meter unless it has some geography. Since it was going to be next to a road I figured it was worth a little more and it fit my needs. I don't like all the subdividing that is going on along the roads. People selling tiny plots next to the roads for pure advertising. I found one that does not have a lot of that going on.