Zindra - To Move or Not to Move ? That is the Question

As we - we being the adults who deal with adult stuff in Second Life - anxiously await the announcement that Zindra is open for the big 2 week preview the questions loom closer ...

Do we move all of it to Zindra? - I'm going on the theory that we can move all of it .. our homes ..businesses .. game park .. the whole thing -- because i've been resigned if not entirely happy about the whole thing since we intentionally purchased our land in a "mature" region instead of a PG one .. but I'd move to seriously pissed off if they said .. well you can move half ..your other half doesn't qualify .. one advantage of owning a buncha land in the same sim is a buncha prims in a pool after all -

Do we move just the adult part of our business to Zindra? - while we pay for a whole sim ..we don't own a whole sim .. just MOST of it ... so in theory we "could" move probably 2 of the 3 fantasy suites and the statues and not pay anymore tier ...but again ..there's the whole prim pool thing we have going on which is rather handy .. and it would be JUST my luck that as soon as we took some land in Zindra .. then poof ..the land we've been waiting to open up in Coulours would magically appear for one linden or something and then where would we be? ..

Do we just ditch the adult content part and stay where we are?

Do we take them up on their offer to give us a reduced price for an island and pay an extra $100 bucks a month?

I've been checking out various Linden's office hours .. and the Land Expo presentations and researching the whole island thing. I think the Linden employees are trying very hard, it's just that it's hard to explain that mature and PG didn't work out like they planned .. mature got a little more press than is good for business ... well other than the sex trade business .. and that's hard for ordinary corporate boards to accept .. when they see these millions of potential people NOT coming into SL because "It's just one of those internet sex sites." We know it's alot more than that but the press and public like "the story", not details that might contain truth. Anyway Blondin gets the patience of the year award for his office hour session this week - and not just because he answered one of my questions :)

The Land Expo was somewhat useful to learn about islands .. even though I think I scared [or possibly just irritated?] MJ Linden .. hey HE ASKED why we were there :) ... i just told the truth .. i generally ALWAYS tell the truth ... i was there to explore options about whether or not to move to Zindra or take them up on their reduced island fee offer or not .. in his defense the employees have taken alot of crap from alot of people about the adult content issue .. so I get where he was coming from

i didn't even point out that i took OFF my "I am adult content" tag before porting over to the site .. {speaking of the site .. /rant on y'all should DO something about having the same pose for all the balls on the benches there - that irritated me more than the whole A/C thing does - because it's SUCH a .. i don't know how to explain it ... but it's not a good for my avi kinda pose *L* /rant}

Anyway, MJ and Mia and Kate all gave some useful info or at least where to find useful info about island ownership so i'm glad I went

We've wanted an island since forever - or at least about a month or two since joining SL - i have visions and possibly even delusion of grandeur regarding my ability to rent out land - curtailed only by my cynical and realistic approach .. that if you can lose money in SL .. then i'll find a way to embrace it and make it my own ... who else owns a game park that costs them about an extra $100 real dollars a month ...

Mhmm ...maybe we ditch the game park and get the island ... only then I want more than one island because .. i have this plan .... damn ..where's that rich benefactor when you need em?

What I do know is this .. we'll make the best of it .. whichever option we end up doing .. i just wish I knew which option that will be

Wish you well,

Tawney,
Wolf's