The Game Reserves

So does anyone want to speculate on when and for how much those land areas will sell?
There not very big, about 1/6 the size of a normal land area, this has led me to speculate that the end price for them after bidding would logical be 1/6 the price of a normal LA, so 20-25k ped each. Of coarse we know that will never happen, some land baron will drive the price hoping to turn around and sell it for twice as much and each LA will end up more around 100k ped. And what's worse is it will be owned by someone who doesn't even care about NI.
Now I have an idea, a private auction. Invite some of the hard working loyal Islanders to bid on these land areas privately, either silent auction(done by PM) or an in game auction modelled more like a traditional auction.

I mean is NI better served having land owners that don't care about the planet and only care about tax revenue. Or is NI served better by people who will use the land areas to host events, and use the tax revenue to help new players. Not meaning to bash ND but we already have one land owner but none of the tax revenue finds it's way back to NI. Having loyal Islanders owning the land could help stimulate the economy. Although the spawns would have to be changed a bit, so many boar everywhere that no-one would go to a taxed LA to hunt them and too dense of a spawn for miners.

Just my two pec.

 

Not a bad idea Narfi but taking on a business partner is always risky and can ruin a good friendship. Also with my plans if I where able to purchase one or more of the land areas it would be hard to find a partner knowing that profit isn't really what I am aiming at. Sure I would like to earn enough so that my in game activities are supported by the land but my main goal on owning the land would be to help NI flourish. If I have a cash flow coming from within NI then I could help with player retention by buying sweat, giving away free starter gear or hosting events for players of all levels.
Maybe Mr. Posts dream is contagious, the more time I spend on NI the more it becomes my dream as well. :)

 

Hmm just had an idea related to this, land stewards, basically people apply to be manage one or more of the reserves, names are picked and deeds are handed out. The people wouldn't technically own the LA so the deed could be revoked at anytime, purpose of this would be to allow people to help stimulate the NI economy. The stewards could pick what NI mob they want on the LA or pick to have the LA empty and import their own DNA. Stewards would then use tax income(say 75-80%) to hold events or buy loot from newbies at a fair MU. Of coarse at this time tax from those reserves would be almost non existent anyway, kind of a catch 22 situation, use tax income to help keep new players around, need players to have tax income. Anyway just a thought

 

I paid 9300ped for my booth, I had made back 4k of that when I traded it for a UL thruster(at the time 20k going rate, currently 7k mu) so I think I did good off that. :)
The Citizen ship(shares) is only available to Planet partners when they reach a certain amount of registered accounts.

And if I wasn't currently saving and purchasing Calypso shares, I would gladly hand over 20k ped for a NI LA, so long as the spawns could be tweaked.

 

When I created this thread there was a small group of players doing what they could to help new players get started. Such as almost around the clock presence at Serpentine and Enchanted village when new players where spawning there only to be surrounded by a hoard of mobs and be repeatedly killed. People who went through the hassle of making sure that weapons and armour where available at fair price. So by "loyal islanders" I would include these people, people who started on this planet, basically anyone who doesn't constantly bad mouth NI every chance they get fit into this group.

 

Ya that's a great idea.