yes, I agree - the two things that really jumped out at me are the "almost instant delivery" of islands. So, It sounds like they are finally, after all these years, automating what should have been automated all along. Hopefully, other services like transfers and renames, repositioning on the grid and so on will also be automated.
The other thing that jumped at me causes me to bite my nails a bit: tier fees. It was promised tier fees will remain consistent through "Q2" and 'reevaluated' in "Q3".
That can mean one of three things: They go up, down or remain the same. Hopefully they won't be going UP to make up loss in the original orders. Then it's possible they will go down as they see the more islands/tiers paid brings in more money per server.
Hard to say what will happen. My own sim pays for itself - just barely. I don't run it for a business, I do it for fun. Since my tier rates are so low - if Linden raises the monthly cost of estates, I'll have to raise my own tier rates. On the other hand, I've really been thinking about adding another island to my estate. This development makes it that much more tempting.
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Posted: Apr 8th 2008 5:15PM (Unverified) said
The other thing that jumped at me causes me to bite my nails a bit: tier fees. It was promised tier fees will remain consistent through "Q2" and 'reevaluated' in "Q3".
That can mean one of three things: They go up, down or remain the same. Hopefully they won't be going UP to make up loss in the original orders. Then it's possible they will go down as they see the more islands/tiers paid brings in more money per server.
Hard to say what will happen. My own sim pays for itself - just barely. I don't run it for a business, I do it for fun. Since my tier rates are so low - if Linden raises the monthly cost of estates, I'll have to raise my own tier rates. On the other hand, I've really been thinking about adding another island to my estate. This development makes it that much more tempting.