OpenSim land space is at a brand new all-time-high of 131272 normal 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 energetic customers tally is, nevertheless, down this month by round 2,000 regardless of being an energetic season, which could be attributed to downtime on a lot of grids.
Main grids that we didn’t get stats for this month embrace 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 accumulating 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 important 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,635 OpenSim grids, 329 of which had been energetic this month and 280 of which revealed their statistics. The remainder don’t 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 means, your grid shall 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 checklist of the highest 40 largest grids by land space is on the backside of this report.
OSgrid additionally tops the checklist 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 dwelling computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No surprise they’re the most important grid in OpenSim.
Our stats don’t embrace lots of the grids operating on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically 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 Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The whole checklist of grids for which OutWorldz reviews stats is available here. Anybody can simply add their grid to this checklist 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 dwelling 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 avoid wasting 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 recordsdata — 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 just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical abilities to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities can run OpenSim worlds on their very own servers totally free utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas business 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.
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Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we shall be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe here or fill out the shape under.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
In terms of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new associates search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers searching for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 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
- WaterSplash: 934 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
The energetic checklist relies 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 widespread, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked grids are additionally not essentially essentially the most energetic.
OpenSim Fest grid registered the best variety of energetic customers with 348 as a result of 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 beneficial when you have a hypergrid teleport and need to put up gates to the most well-liked grids or embrace the most well-liked grids in an in-world listing. This checklist can be a superb place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply searching for locations to go to.
OSgrid registered essentially the most variety of customers throughout 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 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 greater 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 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 up to now. The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material obtainable 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 crimson space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost means for OpenSim customers to purchase reliable, 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, just like the way in which that Netflix and different streaming providers have lowered 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 entails high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers should not in a position to teleport to different grids — the largest 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 customers. The location presently 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 underneath $3.
“In the meanwhile {the marketplace} for in-world supply continues to be pending, with a number of doable builders inquisitive about doing this venture,” grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte advised Hypergrid Enterprise.
The admins are additionally inviting anybody to checklist their objects on {the marketplace}.
Neverworld additionally presents free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or usher in digital objects on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in dimension and may help as much as 5,000 prims.
The grid web site is now a jopensim-enabled web site. Neverworld additionally presents a free area server to anybody who desires to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, you have to obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
AvatarLife grid launches a market for gaming and different objects
AvatarLife grid has opened a new virtual world marketplace which presently lists about 26 objects in 24 classes that embrace talent gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. There are also Halloween and fall-themed objects listed. The market is, nevertheless, solely accessible to the grid’s residents since it’s a closed grid.
Gadgets are priced and traded within the grid forex AV$. The market additionally does in-world deliveries for all purchases just like the Kitely Market, stated grid spokesperson Bob Younger. Guests may also discover freebies, recreation demos, and scripts, however there presently aren’t any OARs, model identify content material creations, or unique content material listed on the market, he added.
“As we’re in very early levels, such content material will not be listed at this very second, however hopefully we could have them quickly,” Younger advised 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-about to be the sport that performed a serious function within the talent video games growth in Second Life.”
The sport presently 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 shall be itemizing a number of new fishing rods for residents to fish with totally different reward methods on every totally different rod, AvatarLife CEO Shushant Chandrasekar advised Hypergrid Enterprise.
OpenSim grid information
Reside Halloween storytelling with StoryLink Radio
StoryLink Radio is providing Halloween-themed tales all month and can host a reside 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 tackle is grid.kitely.com:8002:Artistic 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 tackle is alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Funsize Dinkies.
Everybody can be welcome for the open Autumnfest Fishing occasion on the similar 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 entails participant avatars taking down zombies which might be threatening to over-run the area. Players select the weapon of their alternative on the area.
Guests may also play different adventures virtually each Saturday morning together with browsing, dune buggies, crusing, horse driving, goal capturing, massive recreation searching, and extra.
The hypergrid tackle is discoverygrid.web:8002:Spirit Rock Ranch.
Conectados’ first-ever occasion shall 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 tackle 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 shows occasion from 7:00 a.m. Pacific Time on October 28 on the Parsons Creek Lodge area in OSgrid. The area additionally hosts common reside occasions at 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. each Saturday morning.
The hypergrid tackle 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 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 just 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 totally different places.
It entails hidden gems together with 30 high quality mesh decor and Halloween-themed furnishings to be discovered. Gather all of them to have an entire Halloween set and win prizes. Totally different clues shall be given.
There additionally shall 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 shall be given to attendants on the identical day.
“We’ve a beginning prize fund of 125,000 AV$ which is about $500,” Younger advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Cash shall be given out each couple of minutes by a random moneygiver. There will even be a greatest outfit competitors.”
The hypergrid tackle 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, CatGrid, and SunEden Resort.
If 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 tackle — if that’s the case, e mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.
High 40 grids by land space
The checklist under is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,635 totally different publicly-accessible grids, 329 of which had been energetic this month and 280 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this checklist are, every time obtainable, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embrace hypergrid guests every time doable.
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 in case you are making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship 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
Have you learnt 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.
