Estate Manager

Description

An Estate Manager is a land manager for a privately owned island, much like a landlord. Estate managers have control over settings for the entire island (sim) which they manage, and settings that they change occur on a global level, therefore affecting all parcels of land on that particular island.

Appointment

Estate Managers are employed by owners of private islands (estate owners) to assist in the day-to-day operations of managing thier island(s).

Responsibilites

While individual responsibilites differ from island to island, many estate managers share a basic set of common responsibilites, as listed below...

Covenant Enforcement

Most privately owned islands have established covenants which describe to the residents that occupy the parcels within which types of activites are acceptable, and which are not. It is often the responsibility of the estate manager to monitor the island(s) for violations of this covenant and not only notify the owner of the parcel which is in violation, but also provide consequences if the violation is not remedied in a acceptable amount of time from said notification. In some cases, the estate manager is also responsible for assisting the parcel owner in resolving the violation in any way they can.

Land Sales

Many estate managers are responsible for selling available parcels of land on islands which they manage. This is generally only required when a privately owned island is first placed on the market, as once the parcels have been purchased by individual users, it commonly becomes their responsibility to sell the parcel when they desire to move away from it.

Dispute Resolution

As privately owned islands are commonly divided into seperate parcels of land for purchase by many different residents, those occupying neighboring parcels of land can have complaints to lodge against one another, or even worse, get into disputes with each other. The estate manager is often bestowed the responsibility of mediating such disputes so that an acceptable resolution for all parties is reached.

Performace Monitoring

Since many parcel owners use an abundance of scripts and/or physical objects on their land, issues which affect the overall performance of the island can arise. An island which performs poorly not only becomes unattractive to potential buyers, but to its current residents as well. As a result, it is often the responsibility of an estate manager to detect what is causing these performance issues and rectify the situation immediately.

Combatting Griefers

Griefers are a common occurrence in Second Life, and they can wreak havoc on an island should they choose to do so. An essential responsibility of an estate manager is to identify, and remove, griefers that may be attacking the island(s) they manage, whether it is a particular parcel of land, or the island as a whole.

Abilities

As abilites for estate managers are assigned by the estate owner, they vary from position to position. Many of these abilities are described below, but may not be available to all estate managers. Each of these abilities apply to the estate as a whole, and every parcel on the estate is affected when enabling/disabling these options...

• Kick User
• Ban User
• Send Message
• Public Access
• Allow Voice Chat
• Deny Access On Payment Status
• Block Terraform
• Block Fly
• Allow Damage
• Restrict Pushing
• Allow Land Resell
• Allow Parcel Join/Divide
• Agent Limit
• Teleport Home
• Disable Scripts
• Disable Collisions
• Disable Physics
• Return Scripted Objects
• Get Top Colliders
• Get Top Scripts
• Restart Region
• Terrain Edit Limits
• Water Height
• Covenant

Descriptions for all above items to come, page is still under construction...

Contributors

Jimmi Stapleton - Topic Creator