Account levels
Four levels, and any of them can be your first. Free is a whole account rather than a trial · you can stay on it for good. The paid ones add room, cheaper uploads, a weekly stipend, and at the top a region of your own. Pick one now if you already know, or start free and move whenever you like. Every level has the market, the events and the Hypergrid in full · the levels differ in room, in what uploading costs and in what arrives in your wallet.
Free
No card neededStandard
Platinum
Apex
The 512 m² lot is yours to take · the rest of the figure is a ceiling. Every avatar gets one lent lot on the mainland, whatever level they are on, and it costs nothing. The number on the card says how much mainland you may hold before the weekly charge starts · that room is still bought, at 1 SK$ the m² from the grid or whatever a resident is asking.
The starting money is paid once, when the account is made. It follows the level you begin on, and moving up later does not pay it again · the weekly stipend is the part that follows your level for as long as you are on it.
Starting on a paid level costs you nothing in flexibility. It runs by the month, you can drop to Free at the end of any month, and your land and your things are untouched either way. So if you already know you want in properly, there is nothing to wait for · and if you would rather look around first, Free is a real account, not a lobby.
A region of your own costs 14,95 € every four weeks on any level. Apex is 19,95 € with one included, so the level itself works out at 5,00 € rather than 9,95 €. Platinum plus a region would be 24,90 € · moving up is the cheaper way to have a place, by 4,95 € every four weeks.
Somebody who builds and sells here and does not want a place to look after · free uploads, 200 groups, no region. That is the whole difference between it and Apex, and it is deliberate rather than an oversight.
These are the prices we hold. They sit well below what the big commercial grids charge, and there is no introductory rate that quietly doubles later · what is printed here is what it costs.
The supporter seat.
It costs a great deal and it buys you nothing. No extra land, no cheaper uploads, no advantage anywhere that matters, because a grid where money wins is a grid nobody wants to build on.
What it buys is proximity. Your name in the record of how this place was made, a voice in decisions that are still open, and the new things before anyone else sees them. You are not purchasing a feature; you are keeping the lights on.