Home Sweet Home
So….we purchased an OpenLife Region on Saturday. We’re the owners of Celeste which is the second square in from the top left, pretty exciting no? well not really, lol. So far the OL Grid has been down more than it’s been functional but I guess it’s to be expected, even SL breaks down on the weekends 
OpenLife Grid is a new grid that’s based on the SL opensource code. It’s been around for about 5 months but residents have recently been given the opportunity to purchase mainland regions as part of the “Foundation Resident Event” it’s $90 USD to purchase a sim (this includes your first month’s tier and the $15 one time set up fee), tier thereafter is $75 USD as of now there is no inworld currency, if you pay a resident nothing happens, lol, transferring items is dodgy so right now wouldn’t be a good idea for purchase if you’re wanting to build a store and start raking in the millions. We purchased the sim basically as a get away from SL, we’re just going to build on it, develop it and decide what to do it with it after, lol, it’s kinda nice to not have to worry about merchant responsiblities, we can just build for fun. The way Sim ownership works is that basically you own the sim to build on, if you want to be able to parcel transfer you have to pay your tier two months in advance and then you become a “Region Holder” and you must pay $5 per parcel you want to transfer. this isn’t a process that I agree fully with as it doesn’t exist in SecondLife but what can you do. One thing i do agree with is the fact that the smallest possible sim size you can transfer is 4096 sq m (1/16th of a region) keeps those ad farm so-and-so’s out of view, or hopefully it will :S One of the main reasons that we chose OL over CG (Central Grid) was well……CG doesn’t have anything, lol. My first time in CG i ran into an avatar that is assumably used by many of the CG staff so i had no idea who i was actually talking to, but it was like getting the once over from a used car salesman, lots of emphasis on buying a sim, and buying a sim now, getting in early on this new grid, but i’m looking around and it’s like “ther’es nothing here” I have yet to see a sim that’s been developed by a CG resident or even one that’s in progress, but there’s lots of empty sims for sale, everyone wants to the revival of Anshe Chung, lol. At least with OL there seems to be a community of foundation residents who are creativity driven, I met a resident today who was building a temple o.0 and the work was pretty extensive, he enjoyed being in OL and working on his sim so much that he was downgrading from a paid SL account to basic. I’m not sure if that’s where I want to head just yet, as everything with these OpenSims is still so very new, but as it stands at the moment i’m happy to have our sim to play around in
