{"id":1954,"date":"2012-03-17T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2012-03-17T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T21:26:32","slug":"tyche-shepherds-awesome-mainland-census-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Tyche Shepherd’s Awesome Mainland Census – March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyche “Statto<\/em>” Shepherd, who was recently interviewed by Hamlet Au over at New World Notes<\/a>, has unveiled her latest work in the shape and form of her March Mainland Census, which you can read in full over at SLUniverse by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The census tells us that mainland regions have stabilised since December and remain at 6,723, this is still a record figure but it’s the same figure from the December census.\u00a0 This figure excludes Linden owned regions such as help islands and Linden realms, which in themself amount to a figure of around 500.<\/p>\n

The census reveals good and bad news, the good news is that ownership of parcels is up, by 0.2%, this means that more unique\u00a0avatars own land than the previous census. The figures Tyche gives us reveal that this amounts to\u00a068,485 unique owners, with individual parcel owners at 56,660, up 163 from December’s census, whereas 12,825 groups own land, down 14 since December.<\/p>\n

However on the bad news side, abandoned land is now at record levels, of between 7.2 – 8.3% of mainland abandoned. Tyche informs us that this is an equivalent of 484 to 557 full regions, which is rather shocking when you think about it but I’m not sure what Linden Lab can do about that, moving people would cause chaos and mayhem and have people searching for their pitchforks left, right and centre! The increase in abandoned land since December is estimated by Tyche to be the equivalent of 27-30 regions.<\/p>\n

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The top three\u00a0land owning accounts by area are all Linden accounts, with the mysterious Governor Linden owning \u00a036.3% of mainland, a rise of 0.7% since December. The LDPW have also increased their holdings since December, up 1.3% to 5.6% and third is the Blake Sea Group.<\/p>\n

Now before you recoil in horror at the amount of land Governor Linden owns, that’s not all abandoned land, there are plenty of oceans and areas owned by Governor Linden that people use, the LDPW of course own the roads, so it looks as if they’ve been busy since December with their work, these are positives.<\/p>\n

The largest non-Linden land holding group owns 0.3% of mainland, which is still a whopping 1,299,936 Sqm!<\/p>\n

Mainland for sale accounts for 6.0% of mainland, down 0.1% since December.<\/p>\n

Linden Homes have not added anymore regions, there are still 1,158 regions, this is 17.2% of mainland, but they have attracted more unique customers, which is a good sign as it suggests that maybe there’s an increase in Premium Members.\u00a0Linden Home parcels number 42,642, with\u00a039,910 occupied, this\u00a0is an increase of 1,081 occupied plots, up 2.8% since December and bringing the occupation percentage to 93.6%.<\/p>\n

When it comes to Tier estimates, the figure is down slightly,\u00a0with Tyche estimating that tier is a very impressive US$1,000,871 a month, however this is a drop of 0.7% on December, or US$7,125. However if we are seeing more Premium Members that would help to make that figure less of a concern, it’s not a massive concern anyway.<\/p>\n

Overall the picture for Mainland does look quite stable, unlike Private Estates where the figures are worrying. This can suggest any number of things, perhaps the tier model on mainland is more appealing to customers, I’d certainly enjoy Mainland tier rates for my estate sims a lot more than I enjoy estate tier rates that’s for sure!<\/p>\n

I really do recomment you go and read Tyche’s full census, there are graphs, more stats than you can shake a stick at, far more than I have time to include here anyway and it’s always good to follow Tyche, as I said at the start, you can read the full census by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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