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== Land ownership== {{Main|Real estate (Second Life)}} Premium membership allows the Resident to own land, with the first 512m² (of Main Land owned by a holder of a Premium account) free of the usual monthly Land Use Fee (referred to by residents as Tier, because it is charged in tiers). There is no upper limit on tier; at the highest level, the user pays US$295 for their first 65536m².<ref> {{cite web| url=http://secondlife.com/whatis/landpricing.php| title=Land Pricing & Use Fees| publisher=[[Linden Lab]]| accessdate = 2007-07-31}}</ref> Any land must first be purchased from either Linden Lab or a private seller. There are four types of land regions; Mainland, Private Region, Homestead and Openspace. A region comprises an area of 65536m² (16.1943 acres) in area, being 256 meters on each side. Mainland regions form one continuous land mass, while Private regions are islands. Openspace regions may be either Mainland or Private, but have lower [[Sculpted prim|prim]] limits and traffic use levels than Mainland regions. The owners of a Private region enjoy access to some additional controls that are not available to mainland owners; for example, they have a greater ability to alter the shape of the land. Residents must own a region (either Mainland or Private) to qualify for purchasing an Openspace region. Linden Lab usually sells only complete 65536m² (16.1943 acres) regions at auction (although smaller parcels are auctioned on occasion, typically land parcels abandoned by users who have left). Once a Resident buys land they may resell it freely and use it for any purpose that it is not prohibited by the Second Life Terms of Service. Residents may also choose to purchase, or rent, land from another Resident (a Resident landlord) rather than from Linden Lab. On a Private region, the built in land selling controls allow the landlord to sell land in the region to another Resident while still retaining some control. Residents purchasing, or renting, land from any other party than Linden Lab are not required to hold a Premium membership nor to necessarily pay a Tier fee, although typically the landlord will require some form of upfront and/or monthly fee to compensate them for their liability to pay the Land Use Fee charged by Linden Lab. However Linden Lab acknowledges only the landlord as the owner of the land, and will not intervene in disputes between Residents. This means, for example, that a landlord can withdraw a Resident's land from availability, without refunding their money, and Linden Lab will not arbitrate in the dispute. ===Land types=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+Second Life Land Use<ref> {{cite web| url=http://secondlife.com/whatis/landpricing.php| title=Land Pricing & Use Fees| publisher=[[Linden Lab]]| accessdate = 2008-11-28}}</ref> |- ! Additional Land !! Parcel Size (m<sup>2</sup>) !! Square Equal Line Length (m) !!Max Prims |- | {{frac|1|128}} Mainland Region || 512 || 22×22 (16×32) || 117 |- | {{frac|1|64}} Mainland Region|| 1024 || 32×32 || 234 |- | {{frac|1|32}} Mainland Region || 2048 || 44×44 (32x64) || 468 |- | {{frac|1|16}} Mainland Region || 4096 || 64×64 || 937 |- | {{frac|1|8}} Mainland Region || 8192 || 90×90 (64×128) || 1875 |- | {{frac|1|4}} Mainland Region || 16,384 || 128×128|| 3750 |- | OpenSpace || 65,536 || 256×256 || 750 |- | {{frac|1|2}} Mainland Region || 32,768 || 181×181 || 7500 |- | Homestead || 65,536 || 256×256 || 3750 |- | 1 Mainland Region || 65,536 || 256×256 || 15,000 |- | +{{frac|1|2}} Mainland Region (when already at US$195 level) || 32,768 || 181×181 || 7500 |- | Private Island on pre-2007 server technology (second hand purchase only) || 65,536 || 256×256 || 15,000 |- | Private Island on current server technology || 65,536 || 256×256 || 15,000 |} For Mainland fees, the fee determines only the area of land available; the number of prims available is determined by the land itself. Some mainland regions offer more prims in the same land area. For non-mainland fees, the fee sets both the land area and the prim count. === Separate grids === In Second Life, there are two age-differentiated grids (one is for teens 13-17, one is for adults 18 or over). When a teen turns 18, he/she is transferred from the Teen Grid to the Main Grid. Linden Lab has received controversy for the lack of integration between teens and adults. Some parents protest that they cannot be on the grid together with their teenage children, and companies cannot market to both teens and adults in SL even if their products have universal appeal. Teen grid residents have spoken out in favor of merging the two grids with certain limitations to protect minors from adult content and predators on the main grid. This grid merge is widely supported by teen grid residents, although some also oppose it. It should be noted that the majority of those on the Teen Grid who oppose merger would want a separate "Teen Only" area, much like the recently-created "Adult" mainland in Second Life. Linden Lab employees (known as "Lindens") have also been in favor of merging the grids, most notably Blue Linden, former teen grid manager. The teen grid and the adult grid actually are technically parts of one grid called [[Agni]]. (Some of the Second Life grids are named after [[Hindu gods]].) However, teen residents cannot access the adult regions, and adult residents cannot access the teen regions. On 19 January 2009 Linden Lab, Philip Linden related (in an interview with Metanomics) an intent to merge the two grids into one. This immediately attracted uproar on SL's private forums, largely from residents who feared they would be required to use the unpopular age verification system, and would be permanently under threat of a false sex-related allegation or lawsuit by a teenager or his/her parents. The grids are made of regions each 256 meters square. Regions without servers appear as deep sea and cannot be entered and cannot be flown over, but regions with servers can be seen across regions without servers. These regions' coordinate numbers locating them within the grid can be from 0 to (2<sup>20</sup>-1), giving in theory a total grid size of about 281.475 million kilometers square; but all or most regions with servers are in the extreme northwest corner of this vast theoretical area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=334826 |title=Second Life Blogs: Channel: Second Life Forums |publisher=Forums.secondlife.com |date=2009-02-25 |accessdate=2010-02-19}}</ref> Regions' coordinate numbers tend to be less than about 1200 east, and less than about 1500 south, giving a world size of about 300 x 375 kilometers = about 184 x 230 miles. Underage users, who are under 18 in real life, are not allowed onto the main grid, and being an underage user there is an offense that can be abuse reported. However, Linden Lab places burden of proof on alleged underage users, and does not check to verify anything themselves. As a result, false underage user reports are filed by some residents as a form of griefing or for revenge. As at 15 June 2010 Second Life (see [http://gridsurvey.com/index.php Second Life Grid Survey - Region Database]) there were 58244 Second Life regions (not teen), of which 31812 were active (i.e. had an active server running them); the other 26432 were dead or stored.
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