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 document. 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 may be attributed to downtime on quite 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 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 season, is now not reporting that statistic.
Different grids that reported important drops in lively 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 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 would 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 likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each engines like google 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 gives limitless free areas to all residents — so long as individuals run them on their residence computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No surprise they’re the most important grid in OpenSim.
Our stats don’t embrace most of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically personal grids.
DreamGrid has thus far recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in accordance with Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Companies owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The entire 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 by a graphical interface and one-click set up function on their residence pc. They’ll 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. 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 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 just 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 another 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.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely 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 lively 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 buddies 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 searching for the most important viewers — you get the concept.
High 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
- Party Destination Grid: 856 lively customers
- Kitely: 743 lively customers
- Trianon World: 723 lively customers
- Craft World: 658 lively customers
- Piggy Bank Grid World: 634 lively customers
- OpenSim Fest: 569 lively customers
- German World Grid: 561 lively customers
- Littlefield: 558 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 550 lively customers
- Astralia: 488 lively customers
- Eureka World: 455 lively customers
- Gentle Fire 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 perhaps simply as widespread, however we wouldn’t know. The preferred grids are additionally not essentially probably the most lively.
OpenSim Fest grid registered the very best variety of lively 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 lively customers.
The lively person stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is helpful you probably have a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the most well-liked grids or embrace the most well-liked grids in an in-world listing. This listing can also be an excellent place to begin if you wish to open up new shops, maintain occasions, or are simply searching for locations to go to.
OSgrid registered probably 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 faculty grids, personal 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 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 thus far. The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material out there in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal 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 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 authentic, 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, just like the best way 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 gives extra safety for content material creators is when the content material includes high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers aren’t in a position to teleport to different grids — the most important such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line marketplace. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 gadgets each on the market and free.
Neverworld Grid Marketplace is another choice for OpenSim grids and does help hypergrid buyers. The positioning at the moment lists round 100 gadgets on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and intensely low cost gadgets since most are priced at beneath $3.
“In the intervening time {the marketplace} for in-world supply remains to be pending, with a number of potential builders concerned with doing this challenge,” grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
The admins are additionally inviting anybody to listing their gadgets on {the marketplace}.
Neverworld additionally gives free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or usher in digital gadgets on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in dimension and might help as much as 5,000 prims.
The grid web site is now a jopensim-enabled web site. Neverworld additionally gives a free area server to anybody who needs to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, it’s essential obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
AvatarLife grid launches a market for gaming and different gadgets
AvatarLife grid has opened a new virtual world marketplace which at the moment lists about 26 gadgets in 24 classes that embrace ability gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. There are also Halloween and fall-themed gadgets listed. The market is, nonetheless, solely accessible to the grid’s residents since it’s a closed grid.
Gadgets are priced and traded within the grid foreign money AV$. The market additionally does in-world deliveries for all purchases just like the Kitely Market, mentioned grid spokesperson Bob Younger. Guests can even 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 shouldn’t be listed at this very second, however hopefully we can have them quickly,” Younger instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
“Aargle Zymurgy, the creator of the well-known ability recreation Zyngo has listed this recreation and doubtless future video games in our market,” he added. “Zyngo is broadly thought-about to be the sport that performed a significant position within the ability video games enlargement in Second Life.”
The sport at the moment can’t be discovered on another market. One other recreation due for itemizing on {the marketplace} is Deep Sting’s fishing recreation, Crypto Fish. He will likely be itemizing a number of new fishing rods for residents to fish with totally different reward programs on every totally 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 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 deal with is grid.kitely.com:8002:Artistic 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 deal with 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 are threatening to over-run the area. Players select the weapon of their selection on the area.
Guests can even play different adventures nearly each Saturday morning together with browsing, dune buggies, crusing, horse using, goal taking pictures, massive recreation searching, and extra.
The hypergrid deal with is discoverygrid.web:8002:Spirit Rock Ranch.
Conectados’ first-ever occasion will likely 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 choose a Halloween costume for the occasion on the grid’s shops.
The hypergrid deal with 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 deal with 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 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 Occasion
AvatarLife grid is internet hosting a Halloween Hunt just like the Easter Egg hunt. The hunt began a couple of week in the past and can proceed till the tip of the month. It’s happening on 30 totally different places.
It includes 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 will likely be given.
There additionally will likely 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 should function DJ Kris and DJ Kelly and prize cash will likely 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 likely be given out each jiffy by a random moneygiver. There will even be a finest outfit competitors.”
The hypergrid deal with 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 you realize 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.
Generally, a grid modifications its loginURI or web site deal with — if that’s the case, e-mail us and tell us and we’ll replace our database.
High 40 grids by land space
The listing under is a small subset of present OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,635 totally 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, each time out there, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace hypergrid guests each time potential.
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 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
- 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 another grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
