er...Prok seems like there is an idea in there above, but not sure I can isolate it. (is chaihana a turkmenistan exotic place--is a cool word, and not the same as kinahara) We don't like land speculation business, because a lot of people will lose out and winners don't really add that much to the future of SL--because they will be long gone when all the pieces drop to the ground. I would say that not all land barons are speculators--in fact some of them work quite hard to keep their renters happy and provide some service, which looks like a lot of thankless work as well. I think LL has a lot of plays to make--providing paying land buying customers with a service level agreement would be a good start. What agreement do land owners really have from LL? Agreement to pay? I think they will have to split the Platform from the Mainland/Bay City etc business--is where I was headed on that. Platform is the core hosting and service provision to land owners and users. Other stuff is what residents do, so should LL really be competing with residents? If so, shouldn't they have to play fair? Is it right that LL uses their SL splash screen to promote Bay City? Wouldn't other land sellers like to have access to millions of log-ons?