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LL has only been providing the numbers needed for the analysis since September 2005. So, we can’t look very far back to see if there is a trend. however, I did take a closer look at 2006 and there is a small drop in the economy in the summer of 2006. The 2007 drop is much more pronounced but then the population base is a lot bigger too.

There is a good possibility that we are seeing a summer slowdown which will start to pick up sometime in August or September. There isn’t really enough data to do a real trend analysis and a number of factors have changed significantly since last year. Most notably:

- changes in the gambling industry (no casino advertising)
- changes in the sex industry (broadly offensive and age verification)
- changes in the land industry (no more First Land; which was broken anyway)
- more changes in the land industry (LL is only selling whole SIMs, no more small plots)
- huge increase in population since last fall

If there is more Mainland than there was a year ago, and fewer premium accounts than there was a year ago, then either the residents own more land per capita, or Governor Linden owns more land. The only way to argue those points is to tell me no, I’m wrong, then repeat them as your own.

I do agree that we need separate figures for average cost of estate and Mainland parcels, and that Linden Lab prints land for the sole purpose of balancing the quarterly bottom line. But those points don’t invalidate my statement.

If you want to talk seriously about this stuff, communicate something other than “everything anybody else says is automatically wrong.” That’s the impression I get from most of your posts.

The Lindens continue to print land for one simple reason: they need money. People pay money for auction sims — sometimes double or triple what they pay for islands. So it’s ready cash. They have a cover story up that they print land based on “demand,” that is, number of premium accounts. All we need to do to see that is not true is note that…the number of premium accounts are going down, but the number of sims being printed — and owned by somebody (land flippers) — is going up.

Does that mean that more land owners on the mainland own more land? Perhaps compared to a year ago, the per-person amount is higher, but given that the number of premiums is dropping AND the number of parcels for sale is increasing, we merely have a lot of flippers.

People hate flippers; they are a necessary part of the economy, however. What we’re about to see is a lot of flippers bail out. I’ve been noting more Governor-Linden land seized again lately, and not being immediately hurried into auction but just left in ‘maintenance’ — anecdotally. Have to study it more to see if this is a trend.

I got as far as this inaccurate quote before i quit reading. If he/she has a basic fact as this wrong, I can only imagine how wrong the rest of it is. NPI’s can own estate land.” – Joe

The OP was referring to the fact that Linden Lab require premium accounts to own all of the Mainland they print. If the number of premium accounts is declining, and LL are continuing to print Mainland, then the persistent premiums must be owning more land per capita. The only other possibility is that LL are getting stuck with increasing amounts of abandoned land.