Well, it is simple for me, while pp's own avatars that own ingame assets i will NOT be visiting their planet
ND has land areas, and puts taxes on them. These are ingame assets and thus i will no longer visit.
Its simply a case of trust.....how anyone can trust a pp that already takes 50% of all decay. Creates his own LA's that he then puts an extra tax on, how you can trust that is beyond me. (positing of LA? what's in it? There is a VERY good reason why MA/SDS are not allowed personally avatars that own assets ingame, and yes this includes LA's, an obvious conflict of interest, and if people are still trying to argue against this, please carry on, if you don't get it now you never will)
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was the developer for Next Island, but is no longer, which changes the situation up a bit. Meaning, while he was the developer of Next Island, he certainly had inside information relative to content, features, items, creature spawn, etc., as well as control of a very large land area that is considered to be CND-2 where he collects taxes and personally designed and built out, with the ability to manipulate aspects of the development ... that to me is definitely a conflict of interest ... along with playing his regular EU avatar.
We were just made aware that ND/NDS is no longer the developer for Next Island, so going forward, I doubt that he will have inside information related to content, features, items, etc., and only that which pertains to his land area management, which is the way it should be ... same for those who own LA's on other planets.
My question now is (and I'm asking because I'm unaware of such) ... does ND own land areas on ROCKtropia where he is collecting taxes in addition to being the PP and gaining revenue that way? If so, I'm not in favor of that ... this does not (and never has that I know of) occurred on Calypso, nor should it on
any planet.
We still don't know what the deal is with DAMgr, but there's enough information available to inspire valid questions from the community. While I don't have any issues with people purchasing land areas, I do take issue with what happened with the ES500's and the silence that followed when we were told that a press release by DAMgr would be forthcoming to explain everything, and then didn't happen.
As far as Deathifier is concerned ... he is an investor, not part of the development team, and he has never given this community any reason whatsoever in all his years in this universe to mistrust him, and I doubt that it will start now. He may be friends with the developers of Arkadia, but there's a respect and a professionalism there that we've all been witness to over the years, and I would think nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever. I doubt that he would jeopardize his reputation with some shady dealings that would cause this community to raise even an eyebrow.
I have no issue with Deathifier being an investor, nor additionally purchasing the 8 Coins land area on Arkadia (he mentioned this himself) where he will be collecting taxes I'm sure ... it's a mining area in the mountains where it appears that materials might have to be flown out given the rough mountainous terrain, and I think mob density (read the March issue of EntropiaTimes for more details).
As I have seen over the years, this community overall doesn't have an issue with Deathifier, except a few who seem to want to include him into the same category as ND ... will never happen, I'm so sure of it.
jk
Reading too many of the conspiracy theory threads, having a drink, putting 2 and 2 together and getting 57, this must be the reason Calypso's new owners and SDS have gone so dead quiet, trying to think of a way to tell us Calypso will now be 'reskinned' as Planet MJ! THIS is what they paid 6 million for, ready made planet for a very lucrative contract 
