Hmmm. It's early for me, but is 2,5000 a number, or are you using the scripting engine as your calculator?

Hooray for SL. Send more noobs so we can make more money from them!

Thanks for the correction, Burke :)
I misplaced the comma. It's like I work for NASA!

Well. You're not landing a probe, so we should be safe.

Good legwork, Tony! I wonder if any of the discrepancies are caused simply by 30 days passing. It's true that the world really is growing at a tremendous velocity. All you have to do is go and look at the BulkAuction sims of huge 40 blocks which Anshe and a few others bought, which are nearly all sold out -- as in people, many new, buying land.

The figure of $175,000 or $150,000 (or last year it was $40,000) cited so often for Anshe is hard to check. I wonder if it reflects gross income, before tier is paid for. Anshe owns more than 100 private islands and has some 500 customers just in the Dreamlands continent where there were are deeded parcels. That doesn't even begin to include all her mainland holdings and then there's the BulkAuction. She wins a good chunk of the auctions. Recently she and her staff swarmed through the world and bought up all the prime real estate, including the retail priced parcels of other barons, and reset the prices to double or more their previous amount. Those began selling, and that must have garnered her quite a bit. It was a bold move to even further monopolize the market.

The "female by use" concept -- is that referring to the RL males who appear as SL females. SL is often described as the place where "the men are men...and so are a lot of the women."

I'm not sure what to make of these numbers. I suspect they're pretty fuzzy, since there seem to be a couple of notable differences that are difficult to explain by a 30-day time lapse.

I really don't know what LL was on about with that "by use" phrase. Do they keep track of avatar gender? I suppose they could if they wanted to, and cross-reference that with the gender of the players. That'd be an interesting stat!