Skillfull monkeys!
That’s the correct term, definately.
There’s not a chance it could be something else …
Like this picture tells us …
Starting to guess now who’m i’m talking about?
Skillfull Monkeys
That’s what i can say at the moment …. I’m wordless … Even skillfull monkeys could be overrating …
… Yeah … Well …
Ok, what’s going on REALLY?
Remember Gambling ban? 1250USD new minimum price for a sim?
Well they queitly went back to 1,000USD minimum bid … See for yourself
Gambling ban spurred a downward trend on real estate markets, not surprisingly at all. Also many WSE stocks CRASHED, and Ginko is in trouble.
At the sametime LL started to release new sims again on the auctions… And they are continuing, now it’s normal to see each day some 30 auctions.
Real estate is on downward spiral, a really fast, a really hard one. Just before gambling ban we had prices close to 10L$/sqm on market bottom. Guess what we had today? 7.2L$/sqm market bottom! Again an almost 1L$/sqm drop in price all of sudden. And it’s going WORSE.
They are constnatly down now, very often really.
They could do something valuable, increase land value, instead they are making it worse all the time.
End-user market “absorbs” aroudn 400,000sqm a day, according to one source. That’s 6.1sims a day. It was believed LL wants an 5.5sims/day steady flow, that’s incorrect apparently. IT’s more like 12-13 now!
Market cannot absorb anymore, buying power has disappeared. Hell even having a huge portion (like 30%-40%) of the first 300 parcels of market bottom, perhaps even more, doesn’t result in much sales anymore! Not enough at the very least, and with all these downtime probs … DAMNIT!
In LL’s best interest SHOULD BE to keep land prices around somewhere, but they are crashing.
Really Hard. Is LL killing it’s own market? I say they are.
I know someone who is about to sue Linden Lab about their lacking management capabilities and the fact that they are enough bank like to require regulation. He is a lawyer. He knows the laws, so it’s not just badmouth and trying to scare. Don’t know for 100% certainity that it’s going to happen, neither how soon it comes to public. All i know that he was really pissed off at LL at the time-being, and it would have material for class action, but he doesn’t handle such cases. So, i left him handle that, before asking more.
Of course, he is right. Especially on the lacking management capabilities. Hence, they are Skillfull Monkeys. Most of them are, some not. Those some who are not Skillfull Monkeys, are actually great people.
Don’t ever underestimate the stupidness at LL.
Saturated market is not a good thing at all. Many are loosing tons of cash, and Second Life is getting a bad reputation out there!. I understand that they need to turn in profit too, but with any costs?
Instead, they could do something to increase desireability.
There is tons of ways to do exactly that. Are they doing anything? Nope. Not even the old basics, like paving the friggin’ roads!
What they could do?
For instance, remove from land sale search all below 128sqm parcels. This would lower the amount of spam, thus increase desireability.
Make zoning, or enhance governing otherways.
Make more public area/protected area, one good thing would be narrow walkways thru the sims. Not really costly, and would add tons to desireability.
And this would be cool: Turn mainland sims (when owned in full, or perhaps at maximum some Linden protected area) on PRIVATE ESTATES, with almost all the same controls. Leaving public access and suchs always enabled. Why this would be cool? Because individuals and companies would take the effort to make them desireable and they still wuold be in the mainland region! Meaning we could really start to see some damn awesome places 
Of course, this idea requires that the buying screne would be noticeably different on mainland and estate regions, plus some other very apparent clues, and these would naturally not show up on the mainland sales searches 
LL could have the island tier fee with these also
Sim level RESIDENT EJECTION BASED ON VOTING. Again a cool one. Have an annoying resident on the same sim? Ask for an vote to eject him. On ejection, his objects would be returned, he could not build there, only sell the parcel, and after no land ownership, perhaps a 90day ban to that sim. Voting requirements: Say 10 different residents on the same island, and no one having more than 30% of the sim. On group cases, the voting would goto group owner(s) and vote would be split if multiple owners. Of course there is problems tho: If most of the sim is rentals? Is there chance of abuse? On cases like these the evicted one could arbitrate to LL. Perhaps LL could also charge a minimal, say 250L$ fee for arbitration. This would also lessen amount of spam fields. Votes weighted on SQM amount.
LOWER LOWER LOWER LOWER LOWER TIERS! and i mean … LOWER TIERS
YES, LOWER TIERS THANK YOU!
195USD for 65,536sqm is quite a lot nowadays. Land DOES NOT HOLD VALUE.
over 10% tax even for the biggest land owner is RIP OFF, SENSELESS RIPOFF! FU***NG RIPOFF!
Am i making myself CLEAR?
To get the money, LL could take alternate route.
Start governing the regions, make residential, commercial, mixed, public services etc.
And charge for the governing services!
ie. someone bought a sim from auctions, and want the linden roads paved? If more than say 1024sqm of linden road, ask something small like 1.5L$/sqm for paving. A regular sim has something like 5000sqm road area, making about 28USD for 10-15mins of work Not that bad for a sim owner.
and DO make also straight roads and smaller walkways!
Small parcel sales tax, would be a good idea too. I do own mainostualu network, but i wouldn’t mind much for having to pay sales tax when i sell one of those parcels. Ie. make the largest size for that tax 256sqm, and tiered tax:
256sqm - 1%
128sqm - 2%
64sqm - 7%
32sqm - 15%
16sqm - 40%
Would really make sense too, and places would be way better looking this way
Sales tax = Sensible. Ownership tax = Not that much.
This would eliminate spam fields to some degree, but also generate some income for lower tier fees!
There is other options too, but now i’m getting pulled to other tasks too.
And yes i am quite mad to see the market saturation. Makes it way more competitive, but there is still problems.
Oh yeah, islands are ridiculously high priced, but i understand why they do have that high price … To get some more desireability on Mainland. But why islands still are more desireable? Anyone?
Really it’s stupidly simple … I’ll leave you to think about it.