[BUG-6344] Allow regions to be archived for a reduced fee, and later resurrected

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How would you like the feature to work?

Region owners would have the option to "archive their region". The archived region would be completely removed from the grid, and the owner would pay some nominal monthly maintenance fee for data storage. The owner would then be able to resurrect their sim at a later date, perhaps by paying a "resurrection fee". The resurrected region would contain all the same objects as the original region, and ideally its global position would be preserved as well.
(This is a duplicate of SVC-7088.)

Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?

One of the things that keeps me in Second Life is the sense of history and tradition. All too often, though, regions with historical or cultural significance to the SL community disappear forever because the cost of upkeep becomes prohibitive for the owner. With this feature we would be able to preserve these important regions, so that avatars would be able to experience them in the future. In addition, it might encourage more people to invest in a region of their own. Consider a resident who can afford a month of tier on a sim every year, but no more. They buy a region, terraform it and design it, and by then maybe a month has gone by and they don't have time to enjoy it. And then they hafta start over again next year. What's the point of that? But if they could design a sim this year and then archive it, they would be able to pull it out and enjoy it in the future. That is a much more attractive proposition.

Original Jira Fields

| Field | Value | | ------------- | ------------- | | Issue | BUG-6344 | | Summary | Allow regions to be archived for a reduced fee, and later resurrected | | Type | New Feature Request | | Priority | Unset | | Status | Accepted | | Resolution | Accepted | | Reporter | Samm Florian (samm.florian) | | Created at | 2014-06-12T16:07:42Z | | Updated at | 2014-07-09T17:59:16Z | ``` { 'Business Unit': ['Platform'], 'Date of First Response': '2014-06-12T11:11:59.539-0500', 'How would you like the feature to work?': 'Region owners would have the option to "archive their region". The archived region would be completely removed from the grid, and the owner would pay some nominal monthly maintenance fee for data storage. The owner would then be able to resurrect their sim at a later date, perhaps by paying a "resurrection fee". The resurrected region would contain all the same objects as the original region, and ideally its global position would be preserved as well. \r\n(This is a duplicate of SVC-7088.)', 'Target Viewer Version': 'viewer-development', 'Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?': "One of the things that keeps me in Second Life is the sense of history and tradition. All too often, though, regions with historical or cultural significance to the SL community disappear forever because the cost of upkeep becomes prohibitive for the owner. With this feature we would be able to preserve these important regions, so that avatars would be able to experience them in the future. In addition, it might encourage more people to invest in a region of their own. Consider a resident who can afford a month of tier on a sim every year, but no more. They buy a region, terraform it and design it, and by then maybe a month has gone by and they don't have time to enjoy it. And then they hafta start over again next year. What's the point of that? But if they could design a sim this year and then archive it, they would be able to pull it out and enjoy it in the future. That is a much more attractive proposition.", } ```

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Whirly Fizzle commented at 2014-06-12T16:12:00Z

... The resurrected region would contain all the same objects as the original region...

No copy objects would have to be omitted though.

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Samm Florian commented at 2014-06-12T18:50:44Z

Why's that? (Not that it's a dealbreaker.)

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ObviousAltIsObvious commented at 2014-06-12T19:15:29Z

The no copy issue only comes up if the same sim state was to be restored on multiple regions, or multiple times. That would be a way to get unlimited copies of no-copy items, by restoring the same state and taking the loot to inventory. This is part of why support can be reluctant to allow region rollbacks, unless things are really messed up.

If a fresh simstate was saved after each "resurrection", then that wouldn't be a big problem.

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Samm Florian commented at 2014-06-13T04:17:26Z

Mebbe we should say the sim is "hibernating" instead of "archived"?

It would probably be good to give the owner a warnin' about no-copy objects before they hibernate the land, so that they don't hafta "resurrect" it just to grab that one object they left there by accident. e.g. "There are 5 no-copy objects on this sim. Are you sure ya wanna hibernate it?" Or "Should I return those no-copy objects to their owners before hibernation? [Yes] [No] [Cancel]"

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Alexa Linden commented at 2014-07-09T17:59:14Z

Thank you for your suggestion.