I'm in favor of this draft for several reasons.
!. We've shown a lot of property for sale in Colonia nova for months now that effectively was not for sale. When land is listed at 10 times* the price that was paid for it when land sales were healthy in a time when land sales are less so, the motive for "listing" has to be questioned. In this case, my personal belief is that the pricing was used to make CDS look like a fire sale due to the bad feelings certain sellers had. I don't need to go into details; but frankly, our city has been held hostage for several months. As PIO, i receive many of the inquiries about land for sale, and i can assure you there have been many people interested in the land, just not interested at that price.
(* as the immediate prior owner of the land, i know what the sales price was when purchased)
2. CDS is not mainland. Nor is it just another covenanted estate. By far our best asset is our community, and you can't see that from a direct sale system. In many cases, if someone wants land in the sims and what they are looking for is not for sale, there are people in the sims who are more aware of the status of neighbors and may be able to make recommendations. Necessary? of course not. But it is community that matters.
3. When I am approached by potential new citizens, i try to treat them the way i like to be treated when moving to a new community in rl.. .show them the estate as a whole, then show them property in each sim. I ask them to read the covenants. Then if there are issues, no one can say .. i didn't know. And it is easier for your goverment officials to go to the new resident who steps outside the lines, and remind them of the covenant.. which in all cases of my experience, have resulted in immediate and friendly compliance. Contrast this with the direct buyer who on occasion tells us, when advised that tier is due on the parcel, "oh, it's another money scheme!" or worse, simply decide not to pay. In which case they effectively "live" free in the sims until the reclamation act is fulfilled. In any other sim, one day late on tier means your prims are returned, the land reclaimed and available for resell. If we want to have a foreclosure system that ties the rest of us to paying tier for those in default, which is truly what our system does, then we are entitled to some assurance that the defaulting parties have at least been advised that they have a financial obligation. I'd rather spend our money on things that can benefit the CDS than on making up the tier for people who just choose not to pay thier bills.
4. As far as motives for removing the yellow land map is concerned, i'm not following you. I don't believe that people with land in the roman sims are interested in remaking them into alpine sims. Since it's been noted that the land for sale in Colonia Nova was all (with the exception only of Pat's land, who simply moved from CN to LA) "NuCare" land, then perhaps the motive you need to understand does not rest with the people that are resident and active in CDS. If you need to see the historical breakdown of relationships with members of NuCare who sold,or listed at exhorbitant prices, you need only read RA transcripts for the prior term. Given that the main proponents of the second roman sim have also disappeared, people who assured the RA that there were many who wanted to move into a high density residential sim, i think CDS should be commended for how much we HAVE sold. And i would commend the New Guild for finding a layout of Locus Amoenus that lends itself to flexible combination of parcels, so people who don't want to be that "densely" populated can buy land that lets them have the space and prims they want. Of the 42 parcels ( 27 512 m lots, and 15 1024m lots) there remain SIX 512 m lots and FOUR 1024 m. That means over 75% of the sim has sold.
But we think we can do more, and better. And i'd rather spend a few more days up front with someone so that they feel good about where they are moving into, and maybe bring THEIR friends along, than have angry citizens who thought they were getting a deal spreading venom across the grid when they realize there are obligations that go with the land.
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