Land Use

It's always nice to see Second Life through new eyes. One of my long time friends is relatively new to our virtual world and so the questions make me think about how much there is to learn. One of the things that is essential to learn as a builder in Second Life is management of resources. What do I mean?

There are several resources you have to pay attention to, the first of which is size. But this is closely tied to prims. The amount of virtual land you have gives you your limit on the amount of prims you can host. It's like paying for storage on a server. If you pay for a full sim, you can use all the resources of that sim as you see fit. If you pay for less you can have less 'content'. Premium members get the ability to not pay extra monthly for their first 512 square meters on the mainland and it's possible to live simply and well that way. However most people quickly expand to more. The limits on how many prims per parcel amount is here. Become familiar with it.

The third resource, which isn't nearly as easy to keep track of or manage is script resources.... and that's a whole nother post.