Increase in avatar concurrency on Homestead islands
Count Burks
Homestead islands cost around half the amount of a full region. Full regions allow for up to 110 concurrent users while Homestead islands offer a meager 20 visitors. And 5 extra ones which have to be premium.
This often causes frustration with Homestead island owners as these people pay a hefty amount for their tier per month but when they have a party or event their friends often cannot teleport to their land.
The proposal would be to increase user concurrency on a Homestead island to 40 avatars at the same time instead of the 20 or 25 and get rid of the 5 premium visitor rule.
However there would be a hard limit for scripted agents of 5 or 10 on the region to avoid abuse or exploits of region resources.
I think profit margins on Homestead islands are plenty for Linden Lab to offer people this increase in concurrency for their islands.
Second Life is a social platform but if Linden Lab makes it so hard for people to have an event or party on their Homestead this doesn't help much to build up a community.
Linden Lab always seem to be giving more group slots etc... I think the big paying customers who have a Homestead should get more concurrency so they can have a party or event.
I get complaints from people they are not pleased their friends cannot attend their parties and I don't think this should be the case in this day and age. Especially for a platform that needs to keep its users.
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Lucifera Morningstar
Doing away with the 5 premium visitor rule will be an unconditional non-starter with LL - it's part of the value of having a premium membership in the first place. However, I do agree that there should be more than 20...I think 30 to 35 at minimum, and maybe 7,500 prims to make it more usable and desirable.
Count Burks
Is the Second Life userbase growing or declining? The answer is it is declining.
What is the 5 Premium Member rule? In essence it is a charge to pay to enter a region.
When you have a declining userbase on your platform is it a good idea to charge a pay to enter fee? No.
The entire idea behind the increase in concurrency to 40 users is to make it equal to a mainland region and to just allow the owners of a Homestead to be able to do their Roleplay, to build their community to have their party and invite their friends.
Get rid of the 5 premium pay wall. A pay wall serves no purpose on a platform that needs to gain users.
I did not ask for 7500 prims either as that would be a 50% prim increase and then you get into the competing with full sims, half of full sims, and 1/4 of a region with boosted prims and that is also not the idea.
In the past there has been an increase on Homestead regions from 3750 to 5000 so now bring that 5000 to 6250. A bit more prims which will be welcome and also a higher concurrency.
I am not proposing drastic adjustments which would cause issues on the Land Market. I propose this to eliminate frustrations Homestead users experience with their regions.
This would not disturb the Land Market. Homestead owners with more prims can decorate more so they will purchase a bit more content. It would not cost much for Linden Lab and with a small increase in tier for new Homesteads they would cover that cost.
This is a measure to aid Second Life users to have a better experience with the product they pay almost 150 USD for.
Moo Boo
Then there'd be no reason to pay double for a regular region / to buy land at mainland, so LL won't do it.
Consider this option tho:
- Allow up to 20 visitors + an additional 20 premium visitors
That way there'd still be money in circulation and more of an insensitive to buy premium. it would go perfectly hand-in-hand with the already existing ability for premium+ members to pay for land inworld using L$. And because it's limited to an increase in premium users only it'd help keep a homestead as a "home" rather than open up for larger commercial possibilities.
Count Burks
Moo Boo
A full region has 20000 or 30000 prims and not 6500 prims. One land option offers 5 times the Land Impact volume compared to the 6500 prims I am proposing. You cannot really compare the two like that.
The user concurrency increase is intended to stop blocking social activities on Homestead regions as it is currently the case, but also to make the product a bit more attractive again.
Linden Lab charges around 145 (tax included) for such an island per month.
145 USD for 5000 prims and a strict limit on visitors.
It is hard to have a Roleplay event; a party; wedding; social event when your guests are getting blocked off like that on an private region for which you pay near 150 USD.
Mark Legendary
I too have complaints about the offering on Homesteads and the prims is the biggest one that most people are unhappy with, my post is here and currently tracked, but hoping that they will implement a change to Homestead regions and a small increase on avatar count would be good too! - https://feedback.secondlife.com/ldpw/p/homestead-upgrade
Count Burks
I would also recommend to add a small prim increase from 5000 prims to 6250 prims as people often struggle with their prim allowance on their Homestead. Then adjust your price from 109 to 115 for the NEW Homestead regions you offer for sale. You will make your product more attractive and it will not cost you anything.
Thank you