November 2006: Base price for land L$6 a sq. meter.
LL raises prices on Islands causing a run on orders at the old price. At the same time, they run out of RL real estate to put new servers. Island orders back up. They stop releasing Mainland. Land brokers enjoy their best quarter ever.
January 2006: Base price for land peaks at L$16 a sq. meter.
After months of a Mainland land shortage, LL decides to throw people complaining about land prices a bone and drops 40 sims and announces a new continent. Land bots arrive on the scene, adding to the fear and loathing.
Black Thursday 2006: Base price for land drops to L$6 a sq. meter.
LL keeps a steady flow of new sims coming. But at a faster rate, a new generation of baby barons buy them and reset them higher. Then LL does away with First Land. Land bots buy low, but sell at a reasonable rate, affecting other barons' profits but not influencing pricing. Base price for land quickly creeps up to L$13.2 a sq. meter.
March 2006:
LL falls behind on Island orders. They turn their attention and devote server space to Islands again. Somewhere in the jungles of Brazil, another baby baron is born. And Mainland prices begin their creep towards a base of $17 a meter...
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