What is an Private Region?
A Private Region, or island, is a 256m x 256m piece of standalone virtual land. Regions run on a single CPU and have the ability to support 15,000 primitives. Private Regions have their own controls. These controls allow you to set ground textures, give you more terraforming leeway, allow and restrict access to the region, manage environmental controls such as time of day and agent count (the numbers of Residents allowed on the region), and provide many other levels of control not available to mainland parcel owners. Private Regions are managed through the control umbrella of an estate. Estates can have one or more regions in them and are not necessarily contiguous, although they can be. Estates cannot have more than one owner, although they can have alternate payers. • More information on Private Regions can be found in the Private Region (Island) FAQ. • More information on estates can be found in the Estate FAQ.
