I have a premuim acct , $22.50 it let me pay , and it woll not let me add lindens ( allocation limit 25/day and its been 2 days ) i wander around looking at stuff i cant get or do or create. I cant function without currency.

arriving here, becoming a premuim member , thus far is a tease, frustrating and causing me to lose the motivation i arrived with. This place functions on self motivation and the newbie experience is less than gratifying after exploration time exposes everything you cant do yet.

I have a FIOS connection (30mbit ) and 3 HD screens 2 1680 pix and one full 1920x1080 wall sized screen, a dual core 4ghz 64bit and 2 tb of disc.

This proposal (or perhaps actually charging separately for a higher group alotment) might allow LL to avoid a widespread performance hit for increasing the number of groups. Those of us that really need more groups will probably be willing to pay for them.

If that's the case, then perhaps the answer is a rather different type of "lite group" that has no land or edit privileges at all - essentially, a mailing or subscription list. The vast majority of my groups have nothing to do with group-owned land or group-permission prims – just announcements from vendors and musical performers.

However a significant number of my own groups are for object placement on group owned parcels. So while it would cut down some, it wouldn't help with all of them.

I was kind of hoping that as Lex said, that the fact it was only for Premium account members would mean that it would not be all account wide performance impact, and also that it would pay for itself. Problems like perfomance lag are only solved by waving money at the problem, thus paying for groups would be enough incentive for Linden to do it (and maybe use the income to upgrade servers etc to cope).

Since Premium account status is pretty uninviting for most, a benefit like this, I feel, would encourage a lot more people to subscribe to premium account status, and in the end it would pay it's own way. Premium certainly has to be very attractive now for Europeans to bother as we have to pay even more for it with VAT on top.

As I said before, make it attractive with something useful and needed, like more groups and then it's a benefit to us, and a benefit to linden labs too.

I raised the Priority to Major.

Shouldn't the sim only check every edit operation against the parcel's group (1) or an edited object's group (1)?

Please take this as my vote for ... YES PLEASE, MORE THAN 25 GROUPS ... at the very least for us premium membership account holders, that would be so excellent and helpful!!!

Thanks.