OpenSim land space is at a brand new all-time-high of 131272 commonplace areas, the fourth month in a row it has set a report. In the meantime, a number of grids are internet hosting Halloween occasions this month and preparing for different fall holidays.
OpenSim lively customers tally is, nonetheless, down this month by round 2,000 regardless of being an lively season, which will be attributed to downtime on various 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 at the moment offline, and Sin Grid, which had 251 actives final month, however offline once we had been amassing the stats. As well as, Soul Grid , which had over 1,100 actives this summer time, is not reporting that statistic.
Different grids that reported important drops in lively customers had been AviWorlds, Jungle Buddies Grid, and Piggy Financial institution Grid World — the latter noticed a drop of greater than 800 actives in comparison with September.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,635 OpenSim grids, 329 of which had been lively this month and 280 of which printed their statistics. The remainder should not have accessible public stats pages. When you’ve got 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 provides limitless free areas to all residents — so long as individuals run them on their dwelling computer systems. They’ve a straightforward area installer right here. No surprise they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.
Our stats don’t embody lots of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are usually non-public grids.
DreamGrid has thus far recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in keeping with Micro Expertise Companies CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The full listing of grids for which OutWorldz studies stats is accessible right 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 by means of a graphical interface and one-click set up function on their dwelling 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. Study right here methods to create and host a brand new Dreamgrid on your house pc utilizing the software program.
OutWorldz additionally provides free OARs — full area information — 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 individuals 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 individuals who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the really useful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material on your OpenSim world or area right here.
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Prime 25 grids by lively customers
In relation 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 clients. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,121 lively customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 3,810 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,233 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,079 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,632 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,373 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,080 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 980 lively customers
- AviTron: 961 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 934 lively customers
- Neverworld: 903 lively customers
- Social gathering Vacation spot Grid: 856 lively customers
- Kitely: 743 lively customers
- Trianon World: 723 lively customers
- Craft World: 658 lively customers
- Piggy Financial institution Grid World: 634 lively customers
- OpenSim Fest: 569 lively customers
- German World Grid: 561 lively customers
- Littlefield: 558 lively customers
- Jungle Buddies Grid: 550 lively customers
- Astralia: 488 lively customers
- Eureka World: 455 lively customers
- Mild Hearth Grid: 454 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 446 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 438 lively customers
The lively listing relies on lively, 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 standard, however we wouldn’t know. The preferred grids are additionally not essentially probably the most lively.
OpenSim Fest grid registered the best variety of lively customers with 348 as a result of simply concluded annual OpenSim Fest convention, 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 Worldwide Expo — registered 150 new lively customers.
The lively person stats are used to generate the standard hypergrid locations listing, which is beneficial you probably have a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the most well-liked grids or embody the most well-liked grids in an in-world listing. This listing can also be a very good place to start out 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 it is best to arrange a stats web page on 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 learn 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 20,466 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 so far. The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for methods to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
As seen from the above chart, almost 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 pink 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 provides 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 companies have diminished 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 provides 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 should not capable of teleport to different grids — the most important such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line market. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 objects each on the market and free.
Neverworld Grid Market is an alternative choice for OpenSim grids and does assist hypergrid buyers. The positioning at the moment lists round 100 objects on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and very low-cost objects since most are priced at beneath $3.
“In the mean time {the marketplace} for in-world supply remains to be pending, with a number of attainable builders fascinated about doing this mission,” grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
The admins are additionally inviting anybody to listing their objects on {the marketplace}.
Neverworld additionally provides free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or herald digital objects on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in dimension and may assist as much as 5,000 prims.
The grid web site is now a jopensim-enabled web site. Neverworld additionally provides a free area server to anybody who desires to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, you could obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
AvatarLife grid launches a market for gaming and different objects
AvatarLife grid has opened a new digital world market which at the moment lists about 26 objects in 24 classes that embody talent gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. There are also Halloween and fall-themed objects listed. The market is, nonetheless, solely accessible to the grid’s residents since it’s a closed grid.
Gadgets are priced and traded within the grid forex AV$. The market additionally does in-world deliveries for all purchases much like the Kitely Market, mentioned grid spokesperson Bob Younger. Guests may also discover freebies, recreation demos, and scripts, however there at the moment aren’t 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 instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
“Aargle Zymurgy, the creator of the well-known talent recreation Zyngo has listed this recreation and possibly future video games in our market,” he added. “Zyngo is extensively thought of to be the sport that performed a significant position within the talent video games enlargement in Second Life.”
The sport at the moment can’t be discovered on every other market. One other recreation due for itemizing on {the marketplace} is Deep Sting’s fishing recreation, Crypto Fish. 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 instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
OpenSim grid information
Dwell Halloween storytelling with StoryLink Radio
StoryLink Radio is providing Halloween-themed tales all month and can host a dwell story-telling session that includes tales about ghosts from 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, October 19. Learn about the remainder of the Halloween-themed tales at StoryLink Radio right here. You may observe 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 films 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 also 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 might be threatening to over-run the area. Avid gamers select the weapon of their selection on the area.
Guests may also play different adventures nearly each Saturday morning together with browsing, dune buggies, crusing, horse using, goal taking pictures, huge recreation searching, and extra.
The hypergrid handle is discoverygrid.web: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 dwell 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 individuals can play in opposition to the pc. The sport relies 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 Social gathering
AvatarLife grid is internet hosting a Halloween Hunt much like the Easter Egg hunt. The hunt began a couple of 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 an entire Halloween set and win prizes. Totally different clues will probably be given.
There additionally will probably be a four-hour Halloween Bash for Money get together 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 is going to function DJ Kris and DJ Kelly and prize cash will probably be given to attendants on the identical day.
“We now have a beginning prize fund of 125,000 AV$ which is about $500,” Younger instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Cash will probably be given out each jiffy by a random moneygiver. There may even be a greatest outfit competitors.”
The hypergrid handle is avatarlife.com:8002:Gaming Paradise.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Murderer Guard, BigOne, CandorsRPWorld, Cristin and Mattt’s Stuff, Dragonz Kin Territories, Infinite, Expanse, Falling Love, Goldor Grid, Lagniappe Grid, Omicron Goals, South Grid, CatGrid, 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, Useless Frog, Eenhgrid, EthanWorld, Farm World A Sua Vida Digital, Gabngio, Galaxy Warz, GridPlay Grid, Hasengang, Horse Island, Immersion Instruments, Joe’s Place, Lonetree, Pretty Paradise, Matrix, MetaverseGrid, Micachee, Ocean Grid, Oczko, On-line Plunder, Proxy, Rainbow World, Rezmela, Scripted Paintings, Seconds, Serenity, SFgrid, Small City X, Takland, Tropical Isle, Digital Capability, Virtualife, vLearn Lab, VR Playground, and WaterSplash.
Generally, 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 present OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,635 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 329 of which had been lively this month and 280 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, at any time when accessible, by way of commonplace area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when attainable.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. A listing of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a listing of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by reputation. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way 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
- Digital Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- third 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 Digital 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 every other grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
