Increase Mainland Holdings for Premium/Premium Plus
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Maddie Margulis
Please consider increasing the included land allowance for Premium tiers to better align with Linden Homes. For example, Premium could go from 1024 m² to 1365 m² and Premium Plus from 2048 m² to 2730 m². This preserves LI per square metre and region performance while giving similar usable capacity (sans house).
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Maddie Margulis
There seems to be some confusion here. I'm suggesting a LARGER PLOT OF LAND to equal the amount of prim allowance, not try to change the properties of all the mainland regions to have more prim allowance per square metre as the Linden Homes regions do. I'm not seeing how this would affect PAID membership levels, the only change required would be to change the tier sizes from 512 Sq. Meters to 682, 1024 to 1365, and 2048 to 2730. The change wouldn't be a neat 1/128th or 1/64th or 1/32nd of a region, but why does it need to be?
Rosie Helendale
Maddie Margulis my original feedback was to increase the land impact per m2 to be the same as Belliserria and for some reason Oatmeal Linden merged the two feedback suggestions, all the recent comments have been in support of my feedback suggestion which I have been campaignin g for
Maddie Margulis
Rosie Helendale The land impact per square metre can't be changed. New regions were made with the 30K LI. Linden homes are on different kind of region than mainland. Land Impact is tied to how the simulator allocates server resources
Rosie Helendale
Maddie Margulis it hss been changed in the past. In Oatmeal's reply to you they even say they may increase the supported land impact in the future but have no plans to at the moment
Alan Lock
I recall being quite excited when the announcement was made about the increase of available land usage a few years ago, until I realized that it was only for those who had linden homes. I made the decision to buy linden land back when the available Linden homes were unappealing, and situated in open land with a bunch of other houses... not much of a community setting. So we have to purchase our land AND purchase the house to go on the land, all of which have land impact... It's not right.
Girl Crush
As someone who gave up their linden home from my premium membership, to find mainland that was useful for me, this couldnt be a better boon.
Llnden home regions are really great for having a home base and a little place to decorate, but often they are more laggy than some event sims. I don't know why this happens, but I can't exist on Linden Home regions and do much at all for very long.
I opted to find mainland and use my land tier towards this plot, I have since purchased surrounding parcels to expand my own and in such has increased my monthly tier for land ownership. You guys get a lot of money from me every month, and every year.
I am a creator, and I use my mainland as a work place, its quiet, my neighbors don't rez out laggy scripted items and I dont intend on moving - but the extra LI that EVERYONE could use on mainland would significantly increase the value of these parcels, and people might actually start doing creative things with them.
TLDR: Linden Home regions too laggy, people like mainland but dont have enough LI. People want land, but dont fit the mold of Linden Home Regions (IE: aesthetics, lag, room to grow?)
Gorgeous Aurelia
Increasing mainland li is the least that Linden Lab can do for land owners, considering that they won't do anything else like update the covenant just a little so that the skies aren't cluttered with garbage.
Cari Cuthbertsson
I would dearly love to own my own wee spot of SL where I get to choose exactly what I can do - region rules obviously apply - but I currently have a much highter prim allowance on my Linden Home than I would on my own land. This seems very unfair and I would also call upon Linden team to make this equitable.
I would also welcome larger plots being available for Premium Plus members for boat homes, stilt homes, log cabins and fantasy with the option to use a smaller home in the same space as some other regions have.
Ise McPherson
I agree with the request to align Mainland prim allowance to that of Linden Homes. I do home LL will not only consider this but take action and do it.
Rosie Helendale
Ise McPherson Yes — and considering Mainland residents already have to buy their land and often pay additional tier if they want to own more than their subscription allowance, it feels unfair that choosing Mainland effectively comes with a second penalty: lower land impact per m² compared to Linden Homes.
Premium and Premium Plus members pay the same subscription fees regardless of whether they choose Bellisseria or Mainland, yet Mainland owners frequently end up paying more overall just to achieve the same building capacity and creative freedom. For many of us, Mainland is about flexibility, ownership, and individuality — so being given less LI for the same subscribed land allowance makes that choice feel disproportionately disadvantaged.
Adam Marques
I really do not understand why with the same subscription Level i get more Prims with a Linden Home that already comes with the House and Landscaping Parts and they do not even count towards your Prim use.Mainland is a very Important Point of Secondlife and the same Amount of Prims would make it much more attractive without having to fear that all Linden Home Owners go and buy Mainland now.That is not gonna happen because you have People who enjoy being in a Linden Home and People who enjoy Mainland.So make it fair and give them both the same because they also pay the same for it.
Rosie Helendale
Adam Marques Mainland offers flexibility, resale, and open development, but lower LI puts builders at an unfair disadvantage
Saz Ninetails
Rosie Helendale for clarity, you are a land resale agent and Adam is your SL partner.
Rosie Helendale
Saz Ninetails not relevant to the topic. This is about the land impact difference between mainland and linden homes and the effect it has on users
Bunny Venus
100% agree with this. i literally chose mainland bc i wanted my own private space and i had assumed i would get more LI than a linden home… and to find out i was wrong is honestly baffling to me. you would think it would be less LI on a linden home considering you are already getting the convenience of the house being rezzed for you/not having to purchase one for yourself. odd. definitely think it should be balanced out in the future!
Rosie Helendale
Bunny Venus yes feels unfair to those who want to build and create their own space and yet pay the same premium subscription fee
Oatmeal Linden
Merged in a post:
Align Mainland Land Impact with Linden Home Allocations
Rosie Helendale
Premium accounts include a 2048 m² land allowance, which can be used for either a Linden Home or Mainland.
However, choosing Mainland results in noticeably lower land impact capacity compared to a Linden Home for the same allowance. In practice, this means two Premium users receive different effective building and decorating capacity depending on which option they choose.
While Linden Homes are clearly designed as a Premium perk, this difference may unintentionally steer users away from Mainland purely due to LI limitations rather than preference for flexibility, location, or resale potential.
From a Mainland perspective—especially for those of us actively buying and selling parcels—this can make Mainland feel less competitive than it otherwise would be.
Suggestion:
Consider bringing LI capacity closer between Mainland and Linden Homes
This would allow users to choose based on how they want to use land, rather than which option offers more LI.
Oatmeal Linden
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Hello Maddie! Thanks for the suggestion! If we are interpreting this correctly, you are requesting that land impact be equal for your mainland holdings and Linden Home parcel.
Land impact calculations are determined by the total land impact a given region supports. Full mainland regions support up to 22500 LI, while Linden Homes regions support up to 30000 LI. This is how a 1024 sqm Linden home parcel can support up to 468 LI, versus the 351 LI supported in a 1024 sqm parcel on mainland.
Parcel land on mainland regions is not limited to your account's free lease, as it is with Linden Home parcel sizes. You may find more information about using your free lease in our support pages:
We may increase the supported land impact for mainland and other regions at some point in the future, but there are no current plans for this.
Maddie Margulis
Oatmeal Linden Yes, matching the land impact by increasing the size of the free lease land, not by increasing the LI per square metre.
Rowan Amore
Maddie Margulis. Maybe if you calculated the addition land required to meet the LI increase of Belli homes, LL.might understand better. 1024 mainland is not equal LI to a Belli 1024.
Maddie Margulis
Rowan Amore I did :-) It's 1365 or 2730 total.
Rosie Helendale
Oatmeal Linden Hi Oatmeal, thanks for the clarification—I understand how the land impact is currently calculated based on region capacity.
That said, Linden Home regions didn’t always have the higher 30,000 LI—they were increased at a point in time, which shows that adjustments to region capacity are possible where there’s a benefit to residents.
Given that, is there any consideration being given to increasing Mainland region capacity as well? Even a modest increase would help bring building capacity closer in line and reduce the current gap between Mainland and Linden Homes for the same Premium land allowance.
From what I’m seeing, the difference in LI does influence user choice—some residents are opting for Linden Homes primarily due to the higher building capacity, rather than because it better suits their needs.
Mainland offers flexibility, resale, and broader use cases, so it would be great to see it remain competitive in terms of what residents can actually create on their land.
Feorie Frimon
Rosie Helendale Preach! 100% this. Well said!
Rosie Helendale
Feorie Frimon Thank you! I feel this imbalance devalues the subscription fee for those who choose mainland to create their own space
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