Initial Reaction to the Linden Price Hikes for Void Sims.

An expended comment left in Zoe Connolly's blog

I am a little concerned with the effect this will have on Flying, what with, Aeronautica, FlyinTails, as well as others having purchased Voidsims recently for the expressed purpose of flying. These, will most likely be returned to the Lindens before the proice hikes in January go into effect.

If you talk to Cubey, LL has not be exactly accomodatng to the flying interests, almost as soon as there were "free accounts", as of June 6th 2006. Since hen Ban Lines, and full parcels, have made cross country fling and airship exploration impossible. This now makes large open spaces for flying to be uneconomical.

I own Mainland propery, mostly commercial and admittedly ugly as sin, but it's a lot for selling cars and planes, nothing more (well yeah, and a prim bank for my unfortunately primheavy method of making textures in SL). The mainland is unsuitable for flying. and experience has taught us that flying in a single regular sim is akin to dogfighting in a fish tank. I am of the opinion that this wil impact aircraft sales and participation. This may be worse than the gambling ban for the economy, because for the aviation community, this hits us where we live.

--K