There's an easy way for Linden Lab to make role-players in Second Life happier. Role-players are mostly all about the text, you see, so a couple more textual enhancements would really increase take-up in that crowd. After all, few of them are used to the /me syntax of IRC, and instead more used to the textual currency of the majority of virtual worlds.

Of course, any such changes should be optional. Put a checkbox in the communications preferences for it. Your traditional roleplayer uses three basic textual commands, providing these would make immigrants much much more at-home.

(extract authorised by Dept. Interstellar Trade and Commerce from Galactic Census 3162)

Shawk Pertwee, is a custom builder who specializes in pretty large things. Cyclopean builds and colossal avatars, primarily. Though he's been known to make some smaller stuff, it's the big things he's most well known for.

Right now, the biggest thing in his pile of assets is the sim Hamnida. While a chunk of Hamnida's been donated to NCI as NCI South, the rest is given over to the Freeport Alliance, along with a fair-sized bite of sim Kaseyo.

Shawk started Freeport originally in the hopes of building a market that would acquire a lingering population of sci-fi themed regulars, giving it that future-bazaar on-another-world feel, and hoping to draw a little profit on the side. These days, the notion's a little different, just focusing on having the operation support itself, but the living-market idea is still nascent.