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There was quiet a hub bub recently when Linden Labs posted that in January they were increasing the price of the open space sims due to many people over loading them and pushing the intended use far past their limits.

I just read the post on the Second Life Official blog entitled “A Letter to Second Life Residents”.

I am very impressed with their decision on the open space pricing. Those who followed the rules are not going to be punished because of the few idiots. Here is the new ammendment in case you missed the post.

“Here is how we are amending the price change:

1. We are going to retain the Openspaces product at its original price point and its original intended use (forest, water, etc.). We will have technical limitations to help regulate their use, initially avatar and prim limit restrictions, eventually event, classified and script limits. Those of you who chose to use the Openspaces as intended may stay at the US$75 rate, but will need to contact the concierge team to do so.

2. If you want more than an Openspace, we will offer you the choice of moving to a new product called Homesteads that is intended for light use such as low density rentals. For existing Openspace owners we will phase in the price increase for this new product over the next 6 months. Homesteads will also have technical limits for avatars and prims, and eventually script limits as well.

* January 5, 2009 – non-compliant Openspaces will transition to Homesteads and the maintenance fees will go from $75 to $95 per month. We will offer an educational discount to qualified educators on the new Homestead product. The discount amount will be the same as Private Regions, roughly 30%.

* July 2009 — the maintenance fees for Homesteads will go from $95 to $125 per month”

If you haven’t read the full post yet, go to the link up at the top, and read it over.

A lot of you have wondered if I had moved or not since my rant post about finding the perfect land and stuff. I have. Here is a snap of my new house. It’s a two story house, with an entery foyer, open kitchen, dining, sitting and living room, with a study and a guest room off to the side. Upstairs is mine and Andy’s room and a room each for our kids. Its big enough to have house parties and I just might do it sometime soon. I was shocked when after I built it, it only had 56 prims!!

My New House