This post is with regards to mainland only, more pointedly mainland tier and methods of how to either lower your costs or earn a few Linden dollars from your spare tier. The subject matter here will not apply if you\u2019re using estate land. I am not affiliated in any way, shape or form with the business names mentioned in this post and use them merely as examples.<\/p>\n
Always ensure when buying land that you keep an eye on the message that informs you what your tier level will be after the purchase. If you intend to buy land for a group but instead buy it for yourself, you could quite easily find yourself in LL’s next tier bracket and you really don’t want to do that, especially if your group has the tier available to buy that land already.<\/p>\n
The most reliable and trustworthy source to buy land from is Linden Lab. The same goes for tier. Ultimately (as far as I\u2019m aware) all tier roads lead to Linden Lab. However, if you\u2019re feeling brave and if you want to save yourself a bit of money, there are other sources from whom you can rent tier.<\/p>\n
There is currently talk of changes to tier pricing at Linden Lab, \u201cSimplification\u201d keeps getting mentioned. What this means, I\u2019m not sure. I\u2019m hoping it won\u2019t mean an increase at the higher end of the scale but we\u2019ll wait and see. However for now, let\u2019s look at some other options of paying for mainland tier, if you have estate land these services are not of any benefit to you.<\/p>\n
Why would you want to rent mainland tier from anyone else? Well as I said, it can prove cheaper. This is particularly the case for people with parcels under half a sim (once you get towards a full sim there\u2019s no real margin to be made profit wise, hence no cheaper tier option).<\/p>\n
Those of you who have expanded your parcels have probably at some time hit the tier barrier issue. There you are with a nice 4096M parcel; you see that 1024M parcel next to you become available. It\u2019s ideal, but this purchase will take you into the next tier level and mean your tier fee is at least US$40 a month. If you\u2019re in Europe and need to pay VAT the costs are higher, in the UK for example it would be US$47.<\/p>\n
However there are inworld services that can assist you here, for example The Supreme Flock of Land Ninjas group will rent tier to you by the square metre. This would mean that you could still pay Linden Lab US$25 as normal and then pay the extra to The Supreme Flock of Land Ninjas. Their current rates are L$0.25 per square metre a week. Now in the above example of someone holding 4096M of land, if you have group held land then you get a 10% bonus and if you\u2019re a premium account holder you have probably donated your 512M bonus to the group, this means to purchase an extra 1024M of land you probably only need to rent around 200 square metres at the most, which would be L$50 a week, L$200 every four weeks and US$25 a month plus L$200 is a lot less a month than US$40.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re dealing with The Supreme Flock of Land Ninjas you don\u2019t relinquish control of your group, you merely come to an arrangement with them whereby you invite one of their members into your group in a non-executive role (which doesn\u2019t pay or receive group liabilities) and they then donate the tier to your group.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re in the position of having upgraded your tier payments with Linden Lab and have spare tier left, then you can make that tier work for you too, The Supreme Flock of Land Ninjas will pay you something like L$0.15 per square metre for your unused tier. This won\u2019t make you rich but every penny helps hey?<\/p>\n