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Quiplash · 02-10-2008, 09:12 AM

The site is not even beta; it's alpha, and early alpha at that. Sims will either be privately owned, or community regions of various kinds (e.g. for the German speakers). The community regions will be lsomewhat ike SL sandboxes.

The purpose of all this is to encurage people to build. Already there's quite a lot of building going on in OpenlifeGrid, mainly because Sakai has told people that anyone who builds on a sim gets first opportunity to buy it.

So, you should be aware that nearly all of the 120 sims to be released have already been spoken for by one or more of the first 7,600 peole who joined OLG before the relaunch of the Website. There were still a handful of empty sims available for people to claim, the last time I checked, and of course some builders will decide not to keep the sim they built on. But I doubt it's more than ten right now, and probably zero by the time you read this.

There will be another round of approx. 110 sims going on sale after this first round of 120 is sold, and the Foundation Resident pricing will be avialable for this round as well, which goes as follows (details confirmed by Sakai):

Start-up cost: Zero (yes, that's right. Zilch. Nada.)
Monthly Free: US$75
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Yearly total: US$900

Compare to Second Life:
Initial sale cost: US$1500-$4000 depending on the sim
Monthly Fee: US$195-295 depending if it's mainland or not
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Yearly total: US$3,840-US$7,540 plus cost of Premium account

So now you can see why some people are keenly interested in buying a sim on OpenlifeGrid during the first and second rounds.

02-10-2008, 09:12 AM	#61 (permalink)
Quiplash aka Dances With Skulls Going, going... Goth! Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: in a box under the freeway Posts: 1,090 My Mood:	The site is not even beta; it's alpha, and early alpha at that. Sims will either be privately owned, or community regions of various kinds (e.g. for the German speakers). The community regions will be lsomewhat ike SL sandboxes. The purpose of all this is to encurage people to build. Already there's quite a lot of building going on in OpenlifeGrid, mainly because Sakai has told people that anyone who builds on a sim gets first opportunity to buy it. So, you should be aware that nearly all of the 120 sims to be released have already been spoken for by one or more of the first 7,600 peole who joined OLG before the relaunch of the Website. There were still a handful of empty sims available for people to claim, the last time I checked, and of course some builders will decide not to keep the sim they built on. But I doubt it's more than ten right now, and probably zero by the time you read this. There will be another round of approx. 110 sims going on sale after this first round of 120 is sold, and the Foundation Resident pricing will be avialable for this round as well, which goes as follows (details confirmed by Sakai): Start-up cost: Zero (yes, that's right. Zilch. Nada.) Monthly Free: US$75 -------------------- Yearly total: US$900 Compare to Second Life: Initial sale cost: US$1500-$4000 depending on the sim Monthly Fee: US$195-295 depending if it's mainland or not --------------------------- Yearly total: US$3,840-US$7,540 plus cost of Premium account So now you can see why some people are keenly interested in buying a sim on OpenlifeGrid during the first and second rounds.