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There are several things that cost server power. The number of prims and textures in the region and
the number of concurrent avatars are heavy counting. Also the moment that an avatar enters a region
and the moment prims are rezzed, put burden on the server.
Swondo regions are meant for light use. With light use we mean building stuctures like houses with
everything in, gardening, terraforming, creating and testing non-physical scripts and be around
with up to six people concurrent as an average. If you like to use the region as a group with more
than 5 members in, then please tell us up-front the plans. Camping (leaving your avatar inworld on the land for a
longer time without really be at the stick) is not allowed on Freeland and
land not owned by the avatar. Artificial avatars (bots) are not allowed.
Parcels come with a certain number of prims and limited usage of mesh and heavy textures. The mesh load and
texture adding have to stay within reason of its price class. It is impossible to set a number on this but the use of
a lot of mesh objects will definitely take you to the edge or over the intention of the server burden.
You can always ask a Swondo manager if you are in doubt.
Swondo regions and parcels are meant for living and building. Not to have 'gatherings' with groups of
people(avatars). This because avatars take a lot of server power and memory. It is therfor not allowed to
build a club or other gathering place, or organize or have gatherings on a regular base. If
you like to organize a party at home with more then 15 concurrent people, please notify Swondo up-front so
we can appoint more server power to your region temporarily and help you to have a great party.
The usage of auto-prim-rezzing scripts and other heavy duty scripts are not allowed because they
consume to much server power. Scripts that let prims move continuously or make other changes
continuously are usually heavy duty. An exception are scripts that make prims rotate. Rotation
scripts can be used with no problems. If you are in doubt about a certain script, please contact
Swondo to test it first.
It is not allowed to sub-lease or sub-rent the region or parts of the region to others. It is not allowed to let others pay for the usage of the land or parts of the land in any way. This is mainly
again to prevent more concurrent visitors and to prevent making others asume they have certain rights on the land. />
The use of Physics and physical objects is not allowed. OpenSim is not ready for physics and
unfortunately physics make the region crash too often. If in the future OpenSim physics grow up,
we will change this rule of course
It is not allowed to run scripts intended to scan or intrude the server or in any other way do
things that have nothing to do with the land itself. It is also not allowed to run server
scripts of any kind or scripts that make contact with other scripts or servers. Because almost always
these scripts have malicious intentions, Swondo will stop the region directly at notice and suspent
the contract in await of a reaction by the leaser. Malicious activities always lead to termination
without refund and sometimes to legal charges.
Swondo regions cannot be used for real financial transactions of any kind. For example A shop which involves the selling for
real money or having a meeting in which deals are made about RL transactions are not allowed in
Swondo's regions in OSgrid.
Swondo regions cannot be used for controversy or illegal things like extreme political outings,
child pornography etc. etc. Gambling is not allowed as it is forbidden in some countries,
attracts groups of people and involves financial transactions.
In general Swondo regions are meant to use like people in general use their real Life homes. This
including people who work from home in small practices like architects, music writers, cloths
designers, programmers. etc etc.
It is not allowed to copy and handout or sell the Swondo landscapes, Swondo Buildings and other
Swondo creations. When you receive an OAR of your region, the landscape is included and you are
allowed to use your OAR elsewhere. But you are not allowed to sell or give away the obtained
landscape otherwise than as a part of a completely created region containing lots of buildings
by yourself on it. In other words, the landscape cannot have a value on itself when your sell
your oar.
It is allowed to sell your complete build region as long as the new owner agrees to the Swondo
covenant and understand the monthly lease costs to be paid. This has to be mentioned in the
selling advertisement.
It is not allowed to advertise anything on your land by big signs or worldmap sky advertisements.
Keep signs indoors. It is allowed to place a salesign on your land when you like to sell your
region but keep it within reason.
It is possible to ask initial free floating regions to be parked next to a friends region only if that
other region is also hosted by Swondo. In all other cases Swondo will move the region if a not Swondo
hosted region is put in connection (8 places around) with your region. Connected regions can use up a lot of
server power from the neighbouring region and third party regions are harder to measure.
It is not allowed to set your land so everybody can rezz objects unless you are present at that
time yourself. If you want others to be able to rezz and create, make them manager or add them to
the landgroup. Ask Swondo staff for help.
The leaser has to be able to communicate in English, Dutch or German very well. This to prevent misunderstandings with Swondo regarding the usage of regions.
The covenant is currently only presented in English. It is the (potential) leaser its own responsibility to understand the covenant.
Swondo is allowed to put more rules in the covenant when needed to protect Swondo or leasers
interests. Swondo will notify leasers every time the covenant changes.
Breaking the covenant rules constitutes a breach of contract. This might lead to the termination of the contract.
We never declare a termination of contract lightly. In most cases we will issue a warning or a polite
reminder first or we might reclaim the land temporarily to remedy the source of the violation
(usually that is the case with ban lines, agressive security scripts, destructive terraforming and
buildings in violation of the Covenant). Some violations will result in termination of contract withot
warning, though. This is the case with violent attacks (and ... No, we will not discuss who attacked
whom first!) and anything that is clearly against the law in The Netherlands. Don't worry, Most Dutch
laws are less intrusive when compared to other countries. Gambling and child pornography is more strict
than in other countries we think. Termination of contract because of a violation of the Covenant becomes
effective immediately. There are no refunds in this case.
The fineprint (legal) part of the covenant:
Swondo, Swondo World and Swondo Estate are trademarks of Drietraps Entertainment. Drietraps Entertainment is
registered at the Dutch chamber of commerce with number: 60153105, Netherlands.
Should you decide to become a Swondo resident by making your first monthly payment for a parcel Swondo Estate
owns, you are entering a contract between you and Swondo. This contract is defined by the covenant on this
page and this fine print.
DISCLAIMER:
Leasing or renting virtual land in OSgrid, Metroplis or
Swondo World will not make you the owner or
tenant of "real" land in physical
reality, of course.
What you will
receive from us, when you enter a contract with
Swondo Estate is the right to use a certain part
of the Virtual World of OSgrid , Metroplis or Swondo World
with some additional access rights (the right to
name this piece of land, the right to change this
land within certain limits, the right to create
permanent objects there, etc.), which are not
available to someone who is not the owner of this
parcel of virtual land. From a technical point of
view this is more alike to leasing or renting a
webserver in a data center than owning physical
land.
Please read the Swondo Covenant on this page at least once. This can prevent
misunderstandings.
The covenant is a mutual agreement between Swondo and the
leaser of a region, regions or part of a region. The covenant is meant
to keep the use of the Swondo servers within the
intentions of Swondo Estate. A part of the
covenant is the fineprint. In the fineprint Swondo makes
sure all legal parts are covered. There are no hidden
tricks in the text, just legal covering.
Every leaser agrees to the covenant at the moment the
land is handed over to him or her.
The person who pays for the land is the real user ('land
owner') of the land for Swondo. The person who pays the
lease always determines which avatar(s) 'own' the land
inworld and what should happen to the land within the
rules set by Swondo.
Attention:
Unfortunately disputes between 'friends' building on land
owned by one, lead to ugly situations often. Swondo cannot be part of a dispute.
For this reason it is also not possible to share the lease payments among multiple persons.
The one who pays the monthly fee has all say on the region. So also incase of a dispute.
The amount of time (or prims) put in into the region by a different avatar can also not be taken in account by Swondo.
Please be careful putting a lot of time in building on land you do not lease(pay for) yourself.