), I do think that virtual communities such as Caledon are a real attraction for virtual worlds. IMHO, that was one of the serious mistakes Blue Mars made, not that they didn't make a host of others. They spread their members out over scores of islands so there were none that actually had any people in them. As many problems as SL has, communities are quite easy to set up, and there are a lot of them.How does that work in Kitely and is there any concept of "Mainland"? I'm still learning the OpenSim technology, but it seems difficult, or at least poorly documented how, to set up an expandable community where individuals can do their own builds, manage their own parcels, and together create a virtually compact community. Again, using Caledon as an example, how would that work in Kitely? AFAIK, there doesn't seem to be any way to subdivide a region into pieces that can be sold/rented with most permissions. Expanding the community as it grows seems very difficult, although Blue Mars had the notion of portals to connect otherwise disconnected islands which seemed acceptable.
I admit I'm new here, so I may be missing something (or a lot). If so, I welcome any pointers to how communities would work, or even better, examples of on-going communities.
They are (mostly) harmless and interactive 
