As traditional this time of 12 months, exercise on OpenSim grids is up as individuals spend extra time inside on the pc, and grids ramp up for vacation occasions.
In comparison with final month, the variety of lively customers is up by over 1,700. The entire land space is down, nevertheless, by the equal of 5,395 customary areas.
Land space would have elevated this month apart from the truth that OSgrid, the most important grid in OpenSim, misplaced 6,684 areas.
That’s as a consequence of a daily cleanup carried out this month, grid proprietor Dan Banner instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
OSgrid is a free-to-connect grid, the place individuals can download the OSgrid region installer software on their house computer systems and run areas themselves, at no cost. These areas are solely up, nevertheless, when these computer systems are lively and related. OSgrid reserves map areas for area homeowners however, in the event that they haven’t been up for some time, clears away these map reservations in order that different individuals can use them. Area numbers usually go up once more when individuals reconnect their areas and reclaim their spots — or discover new ones.
There have been additionally some outages that affected the stats this month. TheKaz Grid, for instance, is at the moment offline — and had 2,110 areas final month. Energetic consumer counts have been additionally depressed by outages. Grids that have been down this month embody the Floyd grid, which had 133 actives final month, Piggy Bank Grid which had 634 actives, Vivo Sim which had 421 actives, and Goldor Grid which had 163 lively customers final month.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,642 grids, of which 337 are lively and 273 printed their statistics this month. The remaining do not need accessible public stats pages. The metaverse now spans an space of 125,877 whole customary area equivalents, 95 p.c of which is hypergriddable. There are practically half 1,000,000 whole customers out of which 44,184 are lively. 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 can be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
In abstract, the Wolf Territories Grid is the brand new greatest grid by whole area rely of 26,768, ZetaWorlds is the quickest rising grid after including 1,546 new areas in a month, OSgrid is the preferred by whole lively customers or 5,265, Endless grid earned probably the most lively customers in a month or 448, and Eureka World registered the best variety of customers or 565 in a month.
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.
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DreamGrid has up to now recorded greater than 3,000 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched because it was launched, in response to Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The entire record of grids for which OutWorldz experiences stats is available here. Anybody can simply add their grid to this record from the identical web page.
With the free-to-use DreamGrid software program, anybody can simply create digital worlds by means of a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic on their house laptop. They will additionally use it to simply and rapidly handle their grids, together with including new areas, banning customers, deleting areas, auto restarting, monitoring utilization stats, and shutting down complete grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy. Study 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 information — which you’ll be able to 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 individuals with no technical expertise to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their very own servers at no cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing 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 accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we can be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
Prime 25 grids by lively customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new mates 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 on the lookout for the most important viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,265 lively customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 4,050 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,312 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,250 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,842 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,276 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,150 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,090 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,035 lively customers
- Trianon World: 928 lively customers
- AviTron: 898 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 875 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 838 lively customers
- Littlefield: 794 lively customers
- Craft World: 730 lively customers
- Kitely: 720 lively customers
- German World Grid: 668 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 639 lively customers
- Astralia: 630 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 548 lively customers
- Endless : 487 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 467 lively customers
- DreamNation: 461 lively customers
- ProxyNet: 447 lively customers
- Discovery Grid: 441 lively customers
The lively record relies on lively, distinctive 30-day consumer login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers may be simply as in style, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially probably the most lively.
The lively consumer stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is beneficial 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 record can also be an excellent place to start out if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply on the lookout for locations to go to.
Eureka World registered probably the most customers previously month with 565, adopted by OSgrid with 291, AvatarLife with 227, Kitely with 112, and Darkheart’s Playground with 79 new registered customers.
Right here’s some data 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 college grids, non-public firm grids, small household grids, and so forth. From prior surveys, this darkish metaverse of OpenSim grids is considerably larger 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 at the moment 20,500 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,366 product variations, 35,192 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 600 OpenSim grids thus far. The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material accessible 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 respectable, authorized content material not solely gives creators gross sales alternatives that they wouldn’t have in any other case however reduces the necessity for pirated content material, much like the best way that Netflix and different streaming providers have diminished the quantity of unlawful video streaming.
As well as, proscribing 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 gives extra safety for content material creators is when the content material entails high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers are usually not in a position to teleport to different grids — the most important such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 30,031 gadgets each on the market and free.
AvatarLife grid‘s virtual world marketplace is principally for avid gamers and at the moment lists about 26 gadgets that embody talent gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. It already does in-world deliveries for gadgets much like Kitely and TAG however is accessible to residents solely.
OpenSim grid information
Thanksgiving Day at Littlefield Grid
Littlefield Grid will host a full-day celebration Thanksgiving Day beginning at 3 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, November 23, on the Stonehaven Island and Speakeasy areas. Varied actions are deliberate for the day together with WLFG radio music classes each hour on the hour, to recreate the well-known WKRP turkey drop at Littlefield Mall, with Les Nesman and Dr. Johnny Fever. WLFG radio can be enjoying Alice’s Restaurant all day each hour on the hour.
A Thanksgiving dinner can be served all day beginning at 6 a.m. Pacific Time at Stonehaven Island and a Thanksgiving Dance Social gathering will happen from 8 p.m. Pacific Time on the Speakeasy Dance Membership.
The hypergrid addresses are lfgrid.com:8002:Stonehaven and lfgrid.com:8002:Speakeasy.
Christmas Island area opens at Littlefield in readiness for Christmas and winter occasions
Littlefield’s annual Christmas Island will open on Saturday, November 25 in readiness for Christmas-themed occasions, decorations, and gadgets, grid spokesman Walter Balzic instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. The Christmas Mall, which is situated on the island, may have free decorations, freebies, Christmas presents, Christmas-themed decorations and different associated gadgets that may be picked by all.
Guests may also discover Santa’s Fort, Santa flying Sleighride, Christmas Sleighride, ice skating with free ice skates, and plenty of different points of interest.
The area may also host a Christmas Eve dance at 9 p.m. on Sunday, December 24 and a Christmas Day dance from 8 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, December 25.
The hypergrid tackle is lfgrid.com:Christmas Island.
Neverworld gives free prims on new leases to have fun eighth birthday
Neverworld simply celebrated its eighth birthday on a brand new area often known as NWBB8 which continues to be up. The grid is subsequently providing prims increments on new digital area leases. All new areas ordered by December 31 can be awarded free extra prims.
“Every quarter a rented area will full it is going to be awarded 5,000 extra prims — as much as 15,000 prims extra per area for the lifetime of the area on any new sims ordered by December 31,” ” grid proprietor Govega Sachertore instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
The NWBB8 area can be on-line for just a few extra weeks so everybody can get an opportunity to go to, he added. “We have now freebies all around the area which can be unique to the grid. The area has a variety of very detailed area showcases, a few of them have been shrunk in measurement to make a miniature rendering of the particular full-sized area. There are landmarks at every showcase parcel.”
Stay on Mars at Neverworld grid
Neverworld grid has recreated the Martian near-future movie Total Recall from the 1990’s at the Virtual Recall region. Grid residents and guests can now expertise what it feels wish to stay underneath glass within the area. They will save the planet on the Pyramid Mines, stay on the Mars Hilton Resort, or roam round amassing numerous freebies on the area which embody avatars based mostly on film characters.
The attractive Mars Hilton Resort has residences accessible for hire and dwellers can embellish the rooms the best way they need, and even add extra partitions and furnishings. They will simply sit and watch purple mud because it swirls over the dome or stroll over to the close by shops which have themed presents, clothes, avatars, and furnishings. There is also a penthouse solar deck for basking within the sizzling tub.
The hypergrid tackle is hg.neverworldgrid.com:8002:Digital Recall.
World Techno Day on December 9
ZetaWorlds will host a virtual World Techno Day Techno Party at 10 a.m. Pacific Commonplace Time on December 9 at The Vault — which is the primary occasion venue on the Occasion area — that includes DJ Tanya enjoying her well-known trance mixes, DJ Mattie with Techno Stay sequence of music for 2 hours within the afternoon, and DJ Nora enjoying a Supermix.
The hypergrid tackle is hg.zetaworlds.com:80:Occasions.
Techno Day is a day primarily devoted to celebrating the evolution of the Techno music style, an digital dance music that originated in Detroit, Michigan, within the late Nineteen Eighties. The Techno music is a style created utilizing digital devices, resembling synthesizers, sequencers, or drum machines. It options basic acid home to hardstyle and drum and bass. Individuals mirror on the evolution of digital music over the previous few a long time throughout Techno Day, which is well known by means of Techno Events, exploring new Techno devices, and listening to Techno music.
A number of the most well-known tracks on this style embody Cosmic Vehicles by Juan Atkins, Magnese by Surgeon, The Tunnel by Richie Hawtin, Electrical Salsa by Sven Vath, Ghetto Kraviz by Nina Kraviz, Subzero by Ben Klock, E Dancer by Kevin Saunderson, Autobahn by Kraftwerk, and The Bells by Jeff Mills.
SilverFox Designs Mall moved to Kishaki grid
SilverFox Designs Mall is now situated on the Kishaki grid. It options stock and textures resembling garments for women and men, as an example for the Gianni avatar, in addition to footwear, fits, HUDs, ties, belts, and hoodies for Athena. The staff can also be as a consequence of launch a WinterDream on which guests will discover an animated Prepare, Skilift, Mountain Cafe, Wintermarket, Ski and Sled, amongst different issues.
The hypergrid tackle is kishaki.de:8002:SilverFox Designs Mall.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Bradley City, Europa Metaverse, Jaytopia, Kishaki, Kizzys Grid, and Six Sides.
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 30 grids have been suspended this month: Admeja, Bubblesz, Champions Gate, CLC grid, Dead Frog, Destinationz, Dreamland Metaverse, EthanWorld, Exo-Life, Focus 360, Great Canadian Grid, GridPlay Grid, Joe’s Place, Linkwater, Lost World, Martin Dimitrov Music, Old Europa Metaverse, One Life Grid, Online Plunder, SiN Grid, Terranei World, Thug, Troiwia, Vanessa , Vivo Sim, vLearn Lab, and Vrugs Kingdom.
Generally, a grid adjustments its loginURI or web site tackle — if that’s the case, e-mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.
Prime 40 grids by land space
The record beneath is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,642 totally different publicly-accessible grids, 337 of which have been lively this month and 273 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this record are, every time accessible, by way of customary area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time attainable.
Many college, 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 possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.
- Wolf Territories Grid: 26,768 areas
- OSgrid: 24,062 areas
- Kitely: 18,304 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 11,760 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,300 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,296 areas
- Groovy Verse: 4,405 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,557 areas
- German World Grid: 2,185 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 950 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 873 areas
- AviWorlds: 823 areas
- ArtDestiny: 729 areas
- Tomi’s World: 676 areas
- Kinky Haven: 653 areas
- Friends Grid: 645 areas
- Cristin and Mattt’s Stuff: 581 areas
- Littlefield: 495 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Craft World: 380 areas
- DreamNation: 377 areas
- AvatarLife: 374 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 294 areas
- Neverworld: 277 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 212 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 192 areas
- Counter Earth: 191 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 160 areas
- Outworldz: 158 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- GerGrid: 140 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- AviTron: 134 areas
- Kater and Friends: 133 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
Have you learnt of some other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
