As you know, the LL price policy has deep consequences about the expansion policy of CDS. As we have seen, the Monastery project is not anymore sustainable. In our GMP, we have also several voids. Until now, we have manage our expansion project by project. If we will grow more, we will have to manage it with a real strategy. As we are a community, we can compensate an expansive sim (a homestead sim) with a normal sim (model AM). We already do this, but in a sim. Every sim has public land: it is clear that this public is payed by all parcels owners of the sim. As CN resident, I pay for the theater or the praetorium. Let's imagine the same mecanism through all CDS. To do this, we need to have a good basis to fix fees. Until now, the prices were based on land. See for example the proposal for LA (http://forums.slcds.info/viewtopic.php? ... =15#p11397).
Now LL give three kinds of sim: normal, homestead (3750 prims, 125 US$ a month in July), opensim (750 prims, 75 US$, for landscape). It is clear that the surface is not anymore a good basis to fix the price. The prim become the best basis. In homestead sims, the price of a prim is higher (because we can have more room around). But if we try to sell parcels on homesteads, they are not really attractive (regarding parcels of a sim like AM). As we are a community with several sims, we can easely set an average price of prim. This will make the calculation of fees easy and transparent:
number of prims in my parcel x average prim price = monthly fee
I have calculated the today average prim price of the CDS:
Total of private owned prims for all CDS sims: 43688 (on 60000)
Maximum of fees paid by citizen (if all plots are sold): 1525.98 US$ (LL fee = 918 US$ -> 66%)
1525.98 / 43688 = 0.034 US$ for one prim
Example for calculation for existing parcels:
NFS: 118 prims -> 4.012 US$ (today: 3.96 US$)
CN: 118 prims -> 4.012 US$ (today: 4.66 US$)
AM: 234 prims -> 7.956 US$ (today: 8.6US$)
LA: 234 prims -> 7.956 US$ (today: 7.31 US$)
The current prices will change, but not dramatically.
When we add a void sim, we have to recalculate the prim price (I think that a normal sim with around of 70% of privately owned prims will not affect the price). Let's see the result:
By adding an homestead sim with 73% of privately owned prims (=CDS average), CDS will have 46426 privately owned prims and will get 189 US$ of fees for the new sim (66%). This will make the prim price to 0.037 US$
NFS: 118 prims -> 4.366 US$ (today: 3.96 US$)
CN: 118 prims -> 4.366 US$ (today: 4.66 US$)
AM: 234 prims -> 8.658 US$ (today: 8.6US$)
LA: 234 prims -> 8.658 US$ (today: 7.31 US$)
It is clear that each new normal sim will compensate this homestead. In the GMP, we have only three voids. With this model, they are easy to realize.
It is possible also to set two different prims prices: a low density prim price for sims like AM and a high density (or urban) prim price for sims like NFS. We could also imagine a prim price for commercial area or a prims price for NGO. With this model, we can also easely calculate the price of our public infrastructures: 554 US$ (16312 prims). These public infrastructures are the added value that CDS offers to its residents.
This model should also be translated in a law: the RA will have to decide for each new sim:
- % of privately owned prims for all CDS
- % added to the LL fees
- average prim price for CDS (or the different prim prices)
Such a model could give us some flexibility and dynamism in our strategy of expansion. It can also give more transparency. We could even calculate a projection for the whole GMP.
These numbers are only a basis for the discussion. I think that the Guild and the Treasurer must make all these calculations.
Sources for numbers:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key= ... NDOg&gid=0
http://masterplan.slcds.info/