LL Damage combat continent

[Meia Cosmos]

I hail from a part of secondlife that gets its jollies by shooting at eachother. I joined in late 2006 and honestly, it's the only thing that's kept me coming back to Secondlife. 

Back in yesteryear, pre-2007, most Secondlife Militaries, militias, mercenary and general shoot-em-up type groups were based off of the mainland. Early to mid 2007, most/all of said groups moved to private island simulators. As you can imagine, this has stifled some things in the last five, going on six years now. 

Fast forward to the present, your only options for multi-simulator combat in Secondlife are the combat sandboxes, which are riddled with griefers,autokillers, and other types of sillyness, and the second interation of the so-called Combat Continent. First one failed due to politics. If the second one will survive the same politics, only time will tell. 

Which leads to the question. Would linden labs ever subsidize or otherwise support any sizable landmass for combat to take place on with LL Damage? Not really sure what their policies on community assistance is. 

[Griffin Ceawlin]

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Meia Cosmos wrote:

Would linden labs ever subsidize or otherwise support any sizable landmass for combat to take place on with LL Damage?

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No, and they shouldn't IMO.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

LL is a for profit business.  If they gave combatants free sims to use it would add to their overhead and the costs would be passed on to the entire customer base.  I don't do combat and have no interest in subsidizing it by having to pay higher fees.

There are may people that engage in activities in SL that would love free sims for their activity too.  I dare say more people club in SL than people who do combat. Since clubs are money pits not money makers, should clubs therefore receive free land? Why should people who engage in combat be given any special treatment?

[jwenting]

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Meia Cosmos wrote:

Fast forward to the present, your only options for multi-simulator combat in Secondlife are the combat sandboxes, which are riddled with griefers,autokillers, and other types of sillyness, and the second interation of the so-called Combat Continent. First one failed due to politics. If the second one will survive the same politics, only time will tell. 

Which leads to the question. Would linden labs ever subsidize or otherwise support any sizable landmass for combat to take place on with LL Damage? Not really sure what their policies on community assistance is. 

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which is exactly why there are no more combat sims except highly regulated roleplay communities. It invariably leads to drama, griefing, ganking, etc. etc. just like in any pvp combat related MMO out there.

[Meia Cosmos]

Appreciate the answers folks.