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A bit more anecdota, but don't think it's just the large landowners dropping their sims.

My landlord had 4 full sims and 4 openspaces, and after the openspaces dropped in price, he added 8 more openspace sims. They were set up so that the renter got half the sim and most of the prims, and the rest of the sim was open water or forest land with the remainder of the prims. That was true of the first 4 openspaces, and that plan continued for the 8 new ones. These were clearly not heavy-use sims, as they hardly had anyone in them. I guess this would be the new "homestead" sim now.

Last week he announced that he was abandoning all 12 openspace sims as tier came due. 4 immediately, 4 more this week, and the last 4 next week. People who had houses on those sims are being offered empty lots on the full sims in exchange. He actually sold off the remaining full sims to some of the renters who want to keep the area going, and he's out of the land business entirely now.

If LL was so concerned about homes on the openspace sims -- something that's been going on at least as long as I've been in SL (a whole year!) -- they really should've said something before now. Surely there's no way they didn't know this was going on, and they could've hardcoded in the limits long before now.

(And yet, we keep going back, because there's nothing out there quite like SL. And LL knows this.)

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