Peter Krogstad bought land near his house and then resold it for a slight profit. He managed to take advantage of the recent downturn in the economy which affected land prices in Second Life. In fact, he is continuing to find some good deals on land. For now he is also affected by rent costs meaning he is not over all making any profit and the land sales remain a hobby.
He does enjoy exploriing land for sale in certain regions.
Peter bought a 1040 sq m lot in McIntyre with a beach front. This cost about 110$ CND.
He set up his old beach house and put in the cubes, stairs and rails and a couple of desks and the second floor board table and two chairs. This almost maxed out the prims on this lot.
He is now selling a 1024 lot and a 512 lot along the cliff in Monty. If this is successful he can once again go back down to the 15$ a month tier for rental fees paid to Linden Labs. He also abandoned two small lots in Hughes.
I continue to build my club in Monty and I have been able to buy two more adjoining land plots. I also looked around in Monty at all the for sale plots. There is a rainbow outdoor spa area in Monty and a few other small projects. Then there is my neighbour across the road with the huge castle and courtyard garden. I do not see buying that person out and see asking that avatar to manage the Medieval aspects of Monty Python culture. Oh well now my plans involve others.
I sold my land now in that sim. I bought some more land in Monty but sold more than I bought and in all I have money now to cover my monthly costs and also lowered my monthly costs.
Also by allowing someone to own more of one sim I have helped that person create a more themed area which they are doing in all their land there.
I sold a large amount of my land in Stratus. I had built up almost 4000 sq m there. I have been doing more in the mature sim Monty lately. I have been inspired by a number of in-world events I have participated in lately.
The first was a building class where the object was to build snacks. I learned a lot more about the object editing interface. So partly my forays into Monty have been building a building there. I have spent time lining up objects and trying out things like the free elevator.
The other inspiration comes from a redzone live in Second Life concert that took place a few weeks ago in the Gibson sim. So I have been thinking of building a club. I guess this is a common goal in Second Life and there are already a lot of clubs. I would need to diversify my club to do other things. I had thoughts last night of getting some expression for the club going along the lines of Monty Python in Monty sim. But that is just copying like the Gibson sim does. But I am reading about social simulation theory this evening and thinking of studies in computer based and mathematical simulations. Ah free thought! Copies of copies and empty lives devoid of meaning except by being measured by what we consume. No, not for me, but read on. One point I have been thinking is that consuming is actually a good thing because it helps us live better lives, even if some is excessive. We need the excess to make choices and mistakes. And the green movement can be used to guide those choices. So Second life an Ideal form or copy of the material world? Copying Monty Python?
The idea is brewing to buy all of the Monty sim and build up a Monty Python Inspired world there even with killer rabbits. I should get some money together and watch some more Monty Python and, of course, make a spreadsheet budget for such a sim.
Really Second Life is best done with other avatars. Building alone is not as much fun as social Second Life. The answer to consumption and the only way I can see it as a good behaviour is because of how it helps us with other people. I can see why single persons might like to have virtual avatar sex. Even the more hot topic of cheating avatar sex makes sense in some ways if unethical in my opinion. I certainly get better land deals when I do it avatar to avatar, rather than through the about land interface. Most of the land sales I did yesterday were to a neighbour. Neighbours have also given me land. Yes the book I am reading concludes that simulation as a philosophical theory is too gloomy and should concentrate more on relations with other people rather than consumerism and copies of the material world. I think I like that idea, as I paraphrased it here.
One plan that comes to mind is to cut down my land to just this new parcel and pay only the most basic membership fee with no land tier fee. That could be a money saving option. I could not buy more of the neighbouring parcels this evening because I am maxed out for land ownership size at the 25$ per month tier now.
I was logged in on the train and my wife watched me play the game. I saw a women in an evening dress in the neighbouring lot. I chatted with her and found out she owned the little wooden house on the lot but was not there much and she mostly did role playing games. I asked her if she would mind if I put a shop there beside her lot. I have two 512 sq m lots there now sort of diagonally connected to my office lot and a small 64 sq m lot there too to make a wider connection. So I had just bought the second 512 sq m lot when I talked to the neighbour to that lot. I figured these two joined flat lots would be a good location for a store as they are both close to the protected road.
Then on Monday I searched through the two Yanni's free building folders in my inventory which I have. I found a store and rezed it and then spent about half an hour placing it inside the two lots. This is significant I edited the store while flying so my skills in movement are improving. I was able to fly around the building and see that it fit inside my property lines properly. The store can also be raised on a pedestal but I sunk the pedestal. The raised aspect is what got me flying while I edited. The store is very futuristic and that was the last time I was logged in and today I can not log in.