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Posted: Oct 30th 2008 9:27AM (Unverified) said

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I think it's fairly clear that people need solid prices.

Most of us don't buy services based on "give me these features and I'll pay whatever it takes." They buy them based on "I can pay $X and that will get me this subset of features, and I'll deal with it."

LL's assumptions are wrong. If the openspace regions are being overused and are causing issues, hardcode limits into them. I don't think people would be upset about that kind of move.

(And how can you go overboard on a region's limits, anyway? Was it poor programming on LL's part?)
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Posted: Oct 30th 2008 9:32AM Wispur said

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I agree, limit the number of people that can be in a void simulator to 10 and BOOM, problems all solved, across the board. They will once again return to being the empty "voids" they were supposedly intended to be. People who are using them correctly will not be punished, and people using them incorrectly will be encouraged to move to a location with limits that match their needs.
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Posted: Oct 30th 2008 10:12AM (Unverified) said

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If LL had announced that they thought the Openspace sims were being used in a way they did not want, we would have listened and worked with any suggestions they might have had to reduce the strain on Openspaces. They did not even attempt to ask us to help them with this issue. They have gone straight ahead with a charge increase, because they dont want us to use the openspace sims the way they apparently originally intended.
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Posted: Oct 30th 2008 2:02PM (Unverified) said

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Quoting Cyn: "Most of us don't buy services based on "give me these features and I'll pay whatever it takes." They buy them based on "I can pay $X and that will get me this subset of features, and I'll deal with it.""

That's what makes this a double-whammy. They are changing the specs into something else than what I signed up for (going from light use to something which apparently is appropriate for subletting to tenants, since that's what some people seem to be doing), *and* requiring me to pay heavily for this new product/feature set or lose what I have invested so far.
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