OpenSim land space tally is now at a brand new all-time-high of 131,244 commonplace areas, the fourth month in a row it has hit that focus on. In the meantime, a number of grids are internet hosting Halloween occasions this month and preparing for different fall holidays.
OpenSim energetic customers tally is, nonetheless, down this month by 2,675 regardless of being an energetic season, which could be attributed to downtime on plenty of grids.
Main grids that we didn’t get stats for this month embody Exolife which had 932 actives final month, One Life had 381 actives final month however is presently offline, and Sin Grid, which had 251 actives final month, however offline once we had been gathering the stats. As well as, Soul Grid , which had over 1,100 actives this summer season, is not reporting that statistic.
Different grids that reported vital drops in energetic customers had been AviWorlds, Jungle Friends Grid, and Piggy Bank Grid World — the latter noticed a drop of greater than 800 actives in comparison with September.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,634 OpenSim grids, 414 of which had been energetic this month and 283 of which revealed their statistics. The remaining should not have accessible public stats pages. In case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that approach, your grid will probably be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each serps and customers.
OSgrid, Wolf Territories Grid, and Kitely are the three largest grids by land space this month, as they’ve been for some time now. The listing of the highest 40 largest grids by land space is on the backside of this report.
OSgrid additionally tops the listing of fastest-growing grids after including 976 new areas this month.
OSgrid presents limitless free areas to all residents — so long as folks run them on their residence computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No marvel they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.
Our stats don’t embody most of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically non-public grids.
DreamGrid has to this point recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in keeping with Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The whole listing of grids for which OutWorldz experiences stats is available here. Anybody can simply add their grid to this listing from the identical web page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, anybody can simply create digital worlds via a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic on their residence pc. They’ll additionally use it to simply and shortly handle their grids, together with including new areas, banning customers, deleting areas, auto restarting, monitoring utilization stats, and shutting down whole grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy. Be taught right here how to create and host a new Dreamgrid on your home computer utilizing the software program.
OutWorldz also offers free OARs — full area recordsdata — which you’ll load to your grid simply and with little effort.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits folks with no technical abilities to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities can run OpenSim worlds on their very own servers without spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
Prime 25 grids by energetic customers
With regards to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new associates search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,121 energetic customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 3,810 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,233 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,079 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,632 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,373 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,080 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 980 energetic customers
- AviTron: 961 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 903 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 856 energetic customers
- Kitely: 743 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 723 energetic customers
- Craft World: 658 energetic customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 634 energetic customers
- OpenSim Fest: 569 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 561 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 558 energetic customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 550 energetic customers
- Astralia: 488 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 455 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 454 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 446 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 438 energetic customers
- Vivo Sim: 421 energetic customers
The energetic listing is predicated on energetic, distinctive 30-day person login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers is likely to be simply as common, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially probably the most energetic.
OpenSim Fest grid registered the very best variety of energetic customers with 348 because of the simply concluded annual OpenSim Fest conference, adopted by the Wolf Territories grid with 218, Goldor Grid — a brand new grid — has 163, The E Grid has 159, and Craft World — which hosted the annual Hypergrid International Expo — registered 150 new energetic customers.
The energetic person stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is helpful if in case you have a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the preferred grids or embody the preferred grids in an in-world listing. This listing can be an excellent place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply in search of locations to go to.
OSgrid registered probably the most variety of customers inside the previous month with 325, adopted by AvatarLife with 164, Eureka World with 87, Kitely with 80, and Alternate Metaverse with 77.
Right here’s some info on how and why you should set up a stats page for your grid. Not all grids want a stats web page — particularly grids that aren’t open to the general public like faculty grids, non-public firm grids, small household grids, and so forth. From prior surveys, this darkish metaverse of OpenSim grids is considerably greater than the one we find out about, as a result of these grids don’t want to advertise themselves, and we by no means hear about them.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are presently 20,466 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,309 product variations, 35,140 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 601 OpenSim grids to this point. The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material out there in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.
As seen from the above chart, practically all the expansion in Kitely Market has been in content material that may be exported to different grids — that’s the inexperienced space within the chart. The purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost approach for OpenSim customers to purchase authentic, authorized content material not solely presents creators gross sales alternatives that they wouldn’t have in any other case however reduces the necessity for pirated content material, much like the way in which that Netflix and different streaming companies have decreased the quantity of unlawful video streaming.
As well as, limiting content material to closed grids does little to cease piracy. Most stolen content material is ripped from Second Life, the unique closed grid. The one time that being on a closed grid presents further safety for content material creators is when the content material includes high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers usually are not capable of teleport to different grids — the most important such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 objects each on the market and free.
Neverworld Grid Marketplace is an alternative choice for OpenSim grids and does help hypergrid consumers. The location presently lists round 100 objects on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and intensely low cost objects since most are priced at underneath $3.
“In the meanwhile {the marketplace} for in-world supply remains to be pending, with a couple of attainable builders enthusiastic about doing this venture,” grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
The admins are additionally inviting anybody to listing their objects on {the marketplace}.
Neverworld additionally presents free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or herald digital objects on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in measurement and might help as much as 5,000 prims.
The grid web site is now a jopensim-enabled web site. Neverworld additionally presents a free area server to anybody who desires to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, it is advisable obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
AvatarLife grid launches a market for gaming and different objects
AvatarLife grid has opened a new virtual world marketplace which presently lists about 26 objects in 24 classes that embody talent gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. There are also Halloween and fall-themed objects listed. The market is, nonetheless, solely accessible to the grid’s residents since it’s a closed grid.
Objects are priced and traded within the grid foreign money AV$. The market additionally does in-world deliveries for all purchases much like the Kitely Market, stated grid spokesperson Bob Younger. Guests may discover freebies, recreation demos, and scripts, however there presently are not any OARs, model title content material creations, or unique content material listed on the market, he added.
“As we’re in very early levels, such content material isn’t listed at this very second, however hopefully we may have them quickly,” Younger informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
“Aargle Zymurgy, the creator of the well-known talent recreation Zyngo has listed this recreation and doubtless future video games in our market,” he added. “Zyngo is broadly thought of to be the sport that performed a significant function within the talent video games enlargement in Second Life.”
The sport presently can’t be discovered on some other market. One other recreation due for itemizing on {the marketplace} is Wili Clip Deep Sting fishing recreation. He will probably be itemizing a number of new fishing rods for residents to fish with completely different reward programs on every completely different rod, AvatarLife CEO Shushant Chandrasekar informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
OpenSim grid information
Reside Halloween storytelling with StoryLink Radio
StoryLink Radio is providing Halloween-themed tales all month and can host a stay story-telling session that includes tales about ghosts from 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, October 19. Read about the rest of the Halloween-themed stories at StoryLink Radio here. You may comply with all of the storytelling occasions on StoryLink Radio’s YouTube channel or in-world on Kitely and SecondLife.
The hypergrid handle is grid.kitely.com:8002:Inventive Collaborators.
Breakfast motion pictures on the Funsize Dinkies in Alternate Metaverse grid
The Funsize Dinkies area on Alternate Metaverse grid is internet hosting film mornings each week throughout this Halloween season. The Rocky Horror Image Present will play on the Film Park at 7:30 a.m. Pacific time on October 15, Beetlejuice on October 22, and The Addams Household on October 29.
The hypergrid handle is alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Funsize Dinkies.
Everybody can be welcome for the open Autumnfest Fishing occasion on the identical area from 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on October 24.
Zombie Apocalypse at Spirit Rock Ranch in Discovery Grid
The Spirit Rock Ranch area on Discovery Grid will, from 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time on October 28, host an journey recreation that includes participant avatars taking down zombies which are threatening to over-run the area. Players select the weapon of their alternative on the area.
Guests may play different adventures nearly each Saturday morning together with browsing, dune buggies, crusing, horse driving, goal taking pictures, massive recreation looking, and extra.
The hypergrid handle is discoverygrid.internet:8002:Spirit Rock Ranch.
Conectados’ first-ever occasion will probably be a Halloween occasion
Conectados, a comparatively new grid, will host a Halloween DJ occasion at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time on October 27 on the Your Dream area. You may decide a Halloween costume for the occasion on the grid’s shops.
The hypergrid handle is conectados.opensim.enjoyable:8802.
OpenMic each Saturday at OSGrid
All musicians, singers, poets, and spoken phrase artists are invited to an OpenMic particular person displays occasion from 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on October 28 on the Parsons Creek Lodge area in OSgrid. The area additionally hosts common stay occasions at 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. each Saturday morning.
The hypergrid handle is hg.osgrid.org:80:Parsons Creek Lodge.
AvatarLife launches single-player Wild Poker recreation
AvatarLife has launched a single-player recreation mode on its Wild Poker recreation which launched with the multi-player mode in July 2023. With the single-player mode Wild Poker recreation, one or three folks can play towards the pc. The sport is predicated on the Texas Maintain’em poker recreation and gamers can win prizes in each single and multi-player modes.
AvatarLife to host Halloween Hunt and Occasion
AvatarLife grid is internet hosting a Halloween Hunt much like the Easter Egg hunt. The hunt began a few week in the past and can proceed till the top of the month. It’s going down on 30 completely different places.
It includes hidden gems together with 30 high quality mesh decor and Halloween-themed furnishings to be discovered. Acquire all of them to have a whole Halloween set and win prizes. Completely different clues will probably be given.
There additionally will probably be a four-hour Halloween Bash for Money occasion from 1 p.m. Pacific Time on Saturday, October 21 on the Creep Membership’s Gaming Paradise area, hosted by AOS Gaming Paradise, a third-party video games supplier. It’s going to characteristic DJ Kris and DJ Kelly and prize cash will probably be given to attendants on the identical day.
“We’ve got a beginning prize fund of 125,000 AV$ which is about $500,” Younger informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Cash will probably be given out each couple of minutes by a random moneygiver. There may also be a finest outfit competitors.”
The hypergrid handle is avatarlife.com:8002:Gaming Paradise.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Assassin Guard, BigOne, CandorsRPWorld, Cristin and Mattt’s Stuff, Dragonz Kin Territories, Endless, Expanse, Falling Love, Goldor Grid, Lagniappe Grid, Omicron Dreams, South Grid, and SunEden Resort.
If you already know of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e mail us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Closed grids
After a grid has been inactive for 2 months, we mark it as suspended. Then, after it’s been suspended for a few months, we mark it as closed.
The next 46 grids had been suspended this month: Alterlifes, Atacama Desert, AviVerse AlterEgo, Beha Second, BradleyVille, Bubblesz, Chez moi, CosmoPlanet, Costa Isla, Dead Frog, Eenhgrid, EthanWorld, Farm World A Sua Vida Virtual, Gabngio, Galaxy Warz, GridPlay Grid, Hasengang, Horse Island, Immersion Tools, Joe’s Place, Lonetree, Lovely Paradise, Matrix, MetaverseGrid, Micachee, Ocean Grid, Oczko, Online Plunder, Proxy, Rainbow World, Rezmela, Scripted Artwork, Seconds, Serenity, SFgrid, Small Town X, Takland, Tropical Isle, Virtual Ability, Virtualife, vLearn Lab, VR Playground, and WaterSplash.
Typically, a grid modifications its loginURI or web site handle — if that’s the case, e mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.
Prime 40 grids by land space
The listing beneath is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,634 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 414 of which had been energetic this month and 283 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, every time out there, by way of commonplace area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests every time attainable.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The raw data for this month’s report is here. A list of all active grids is here. And here’s a list of all the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 30,746 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 26,112 areas
- Kitely: 18,293 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 10,214 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,040 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,316 areas
- Groovy Verse: 4,459 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,641 areas
- TheKaz Grid: 2,110 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
- German World Grid: 1,238 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,056 areas
- GBG World: 951 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 873 areas
- AviWorlds: 830 areas
- Tomi’s World: 676 areas
- Kinky Haven: 653 areas
- ArtDestiny: 625 areas
- Littlefield: 502 areas
- GorGrid: 428 areas
- Craft World: 392 areas
- DreamNation: 385 areas
- Furry World: 374 areas
- AvatarLife: 355 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 294 areas
- Cristin and Mattt’s Stuff: 281 areas
- Neverworld: 274 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Soul Grid: 223 areas
- AviTron: 200 areas
- Counter Earth: 194 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 192 areas
- Adreans-World: 171 areas
- Outworldz: 158 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 156 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- GerGrid: 140 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
Are you aware of some other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
