[#SVC-2199] Create "middle-weight" type Sims with half the prims of a full sim

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Create "middle-weight" type Sims with half the prims of a full sim

Created: 18/Apr/08 07:01 PM Updated: 18/Oct/09 12:31 PM

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~~MISC-1786~~ Creation of MiddleSim, sims with half resources, half prices than full sims

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MISC-1776 OpenSpace Sim Prices SHOULD NOT Be Going Up! VOTE To Stop This ridiculous increase!

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MISC-1776 OpenSpace Sim Prices SHOULD NOT Be Going Up! VOTE To Stop This ridiculous increase!

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Now that the openspace, or "void" sims have gotten their full compliment of prims, I'd like to see a 'medium' size sim, with 7500 prims in it, so there would be two of these per CPU on the server. This would allow more prims than an openspace, but half the price of a full sim. This would also enable people who start out owning a void to upgrade their sim in increments to medium, then a full sim as their needs grow.

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zinbaco kattun added a comment - 01/May/08 07:07 AM

great idea - except currently to upgrade from an openspace to a full you need to return 4 openspaces - there is apparently no way to upgrade other than return. So to upgrade a middle-weight to a full I daresay you would need to buy 2 return 2 to be replaced by a full

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Mercia Mcmahon added a comment - 01/May/08 04:03 PM

Voted for it, but personally I would rather have two openspaces to get twice the land for the same prims, but I am sure some might prefer to have this as an option.

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intlibber BnT added a comment - 04/Nov/08 10:31 AM

Since the LL announcement about raising tiers on Openspace sims, this issue becomes a lot more important. This middleweight sim class would be useful for those who are operating commercial establishments in openspaces and finding their capabilities a bit limited, especially to do with script and avatar capacity.

The middleweight sim should obviously be half the price of a full sim, ergo $150 USD a month, maybe slightly more to reflect the fact that concierge support costs the same no matter what size sim you have. $160 a month wouldnt be out of the question.

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rade bailey added a comment - 04/Nov/08 10:37 AM

I think this new type of sim needs to avoid the 'OpenSpace' tag entirely. Lets get down to brass tacks here, the confusion over just what and what is not 'allowed' in an OS sim is what caused all the ruckus in the first place. Call it, oh, a Demi-Sim. Make it clear from the getgo that this demi-sim is NOT OS, and is in fact a normal sim with half the prim count, assumably at a reduced price as compared to a full-bore sim. In this fashion everyone is happy, the residents get to enjoy the benefits of owning a sim at a reduced price, and LL dosent get any grief about overloaded sims.

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hart larsson added a comment - 21/Aug/09 05:22 AM

Even this SVC is old, i think is a good solution also in this bad business economy period (sl/rl).

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Vasha Martinek added a comment - 18/Oct/09 12:31 PM

Totally in support of this; we have a homestead sim that we'd very much like to upgrade to a 'middle-weight'. It will one day move to a full sim, but that could happen more quickly if there was a 'middle' option along the way.

I am comfortable with it having limitations - twice the limits of a HS sees reasonable, or half the limits of a full.

As far as capacity to upgrade (re: zinbaco's comments) - this should be resolved in the process. A simple 'upgrade' process should be sufficient.