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There have been some changes to the roles at LL. Robin's role has been redefined, in the middle of last year Daniel left, Chadrick left later in the year and there appears to be more power within Jack's role than there was previously.

As for where it's all heading, I'd hazard a guess that they would still love to ditch mainland with regards to estate management. They like selling space but they don't want to manage it. The howls of protest from residents at the idea of someone like Anshe being in charge of mainland would be loud.

So LL are going to take steps to make such a transition a little easier. Zoned mainland is almost certainly coming, hopefully only on new land but it's a project they will almost certainly embark upon. They would love governance to be resident run too, so taking a model such as Desmond has on Caledon and moulding it into something that can work on mainland is probably on the agenda. Beta testing of this will probably be in the form of estate owners being asked to deal with AR's before calling upon LL to intervene, something that has been on the agenda for a while but it now seems to be gathering pace.

Then the hope would be that people on existing mainland will see both the financial and security advantages of such mainland ventures and call for it to be grid wide.

Then they'll be in a position to encourage third party mainland management right before open sim arrives.

This is all speculation of course and I might be reading between the wrong lines, but I don't think I am.