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Second Life Cost And Risk May 22, 2008

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randimg How much should you spend if you wanna build a beautiful villa in Second Life? The answer is “Free”. If you own lands, basicly it costs nothing on building and decorating as long as you are willing to spend your time on it(if you wanna uplord pics of texture, it costs 10L$ each time), of course you can use buying furniture or texture to save your time. The furniture in Second Life generally is sold about 100L$ to 2000L$(1US$ exchanges about 267L$) and it’s not expensive. Besides you can collect some freebies, but it needs luck and costs your time. In addition, you should consider its quality.. randimg
Actually the most important thing you should care is not beautiful decoration and furniture. There is a limit in Second Life, On the one hand broad band and computer operation abilities are restricted, on the other hand maybe Linden would like making money :P. Each 512 m2 land provides 117 prims(it’s the basic unit of object, a complicated shape object is made up of plenty prims) object capacity. In other words, if your object is too complicated that above 117 prims, you should buy more lands so that you can contain these objects. Let’s take Second House of Sweden for example, 9129 prims were used for the embassy itself without including surroundings. That means laying an embassy needs at least 39936 m2 lands(the amount of prims is not entirely related with size, on the contrary it’s related with shapes), it might cost at least 1.2 or 1.5 thousand USD to buy the land.
And then is land fees, each 32768 m2 land will be charged 125US$ per month by Linden. Over 32768m2 will be counted as 65536 m2 and charged 195 US$ by Linden :(.
Finally let’s talk about building cost, neglect design expense(the embassy directly took American Washington Sweden Embassy as blueprint). All staff are about thirty, if we just look at main structure, the staff may be eleven and it took more than two months. People said Second House of Sweden consumed 63 thousand dollars or so..