Greetings everyone. This is a long request, explaining why and how of my suggestion the best my grammar will allow me. I apologize beforehand if my boldness and direct approach sounds offensive. This is not my intent at all, but I have to express myself the way I know how to – or simply remain silent. I would like to stress that I love Second Life. It is a major part of my life. I'm not a Premium user, nor I live in first world countries, but I have spent more money here than many of my Premium Friends. I never complained about down times, crashes and bugs except this one: Inventory Loss. Well, after hearing from LL itself that they won't refund my 10K worth inventory items (I work HARD for my money, Lindens! And it's NOT on something as fun as making games.); AND, after searching for a good thread about this specific subject and not finding ANY, I decided to open one – on major priority, because my money is major to me. I suggest that our inventory items get hosted in our own computers. Someone asked the dumbest question in the world: what if our HD fails? Well, any and every HD fails, including Linden Labs ones. Hard Drives are objects, and objects have a life span. 10 minutes or 10 days, some day all break. This is why smarter people have some sort of BACK-UP: burn one CD, put the inventory on ten CDs, use two HDs, and 15 floppy disks. If you don't trust your own stuff, there are plenty of sites that hosts stuff for you (in other people's HDs that can fail some day also). Regardless, at least ONE of our back-up copies will be there when the others fail, and you'll always be safe. Add to that the fact that, since we purchased something, it is only fair if we have them. Remember, a purchase is done when money is exchanged for goods or services; and the money we use to pay for Lindens IS real life money; often we buy user-made items with real dollars too. And if this is not enough, it's worth to remind people that if we loose something on our own inventory, it is OUR responsibility and NOT Linden Labs. It isn't nearly as expensive to buy a DVD-R to back-up our item copies, as it is to repurchase all the items lost. It'll be a sort of a relief to LL, too, to have people complaining about inventory loss, because it is not their responsibility, anymore. More advantages? It'd be easy to sort out items and use just what is necessary for that day. For example; I have twice or three times the same items and I have no idea how to track similar items, with different names. At my computer and with a little improvement of a certain inventory viewer software, I could view and delete items from my inventory that are similar, repeats many times under different names, etc. Also, I just need to keep one copy of every copiable item on my inventory. I don't need 30 items of the same every time I rez it, AND I can delete the other 29 knowing that if I have a "failure to rez", I have a copy safe at home and won't need to pay 1K to acquire a new one. Not to count that I just need to upload to my inventory the sets I'll be using that day. For example: I have business meeting, then a ride on the beach with my partner: I just need one horse, one suit, one beach set of clothing. No need to carry with me the whole wardrobe and warehouse. If the beach ride is at my place and the palm tree is broke, I just upload a new one out of my safe back-up CD/HD/Floppy/etc. Not to say it'd be expensive to do, or to support other people's greed (there will always exist someone who keeps their brain in their pockets), LL could limit the uploads done per day. For example, you can just upload 1000 items/day. Or pay 10 Lindens for uploading, say, 20 items. AND, another alternative (that was suggested), would be to keep the inventory on the web, with the same conveniences of sorting, uploading just what we need, back-ups, etc. (although this would kill the whole purpose of hold the responsibility of inventory loss in our own hands.) We NEED this responsibility if we are to value our money. Second Life isn't played only by American people with higher paychecks. It's played worldwide, including poorer people, too, that struggle for their monies. As I said before, I am not a premium user (mainly because Second Life doesn't accept my residence country's bank accounts, because I tried). And if such a system was implanted, I would even go as far as to ask my fiancé (who is American) to purchase me a premium account. Again, sorry if I am too bold. Comes with the blood, I suppose; but sometimes, when tact doesn't lead us anywhere, only bold honesty will do. My best wishes, Adriaen Lane.