The full land space of OpenSim’s public grids jumped by greater than 33,000 area equivalents this month, with the addition of a big new grid to our listing. Nevertheless, the entire variety of lively customers was down by practically 1,500, resulting from a number of grids not reporting stats this month. Lacking grids included Fire and Ice, The City, and Little Big City.
The massive new grid was Simation Grid, with a reported 25,408 area equivalents. OpenSim’s structure makes it simple for grid homeowners to launch with loads of house. Or it might be a stats mistake — the grid’s web site says “Customary Area Equivalents: 25408 Km2” — and whether it is truly giving the world in sq. kilometers, than it has 387,693 whole areas, which might make it bigger than all the opposite OpenSim grids put collectively. I couldn’t discover any contact data on the grid’s web site, and a number of the pages appear to be placeholders, so for those who’re the proprietor of Simation Grid and are studying this, and if I acquired your numbers improper — please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com and I’ll replace this text!
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,675 public grids, of which 318 are lively and 258 printed their statistics this month. You probably have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that manner, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 33,554 customary area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most lively, with 6,540 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embrace a lot of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are usually personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s much 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 servers totally free utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or some 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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High 25 grids by lively customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new buddies 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 clients. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,540 lively customers
- OSgrid: 5,168 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,333 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,163 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,967 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,838 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,718 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,521 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,108 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,028 lively customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 987 lively customers
- Neverworld: 962 lively customers
- Littlefield: 935 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 840 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 837 lively customers
- Moonrose: 825 lively customers
- Astralia: 771 lively customers
- Craft World: 744 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 582 lively customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 545 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 537 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 524 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 522 lively customers
- Kitely: 462 lively customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 438 lively customers
The largest change on this listing was the addition of Virtual Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a robust launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 20,965 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,073 product variations, 35,835 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 628 OpenSim grids so far.
As you may see within 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 on the graph. The purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed stage for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable 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.
Kitely has not too long ago upgraded its version of OpenSim to permit for sooner start-up instances and higher compatibility with scripts imported from Second Life.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Agartha, AmaziWorld, Casperia Prime, Gridworld, HG Safari Grid, Nosso Lar, Sciattisi Grid, Simation Grid, Steg, and Tenth Dimension.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 9 grids have been marked suspended this month: Eenhgrid, Hermopolis Chimera, Kantarobasta Grid, Kindred Spirits World, Pseudospace, Rocket World, Royal Grid, Starfleet, and Tropicana Grid.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future experiences.
Typically, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site handle — if that’s the case, electronic mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, at any time when obtainable, by way of customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests at any time when doable.
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 possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 33,554 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,276 areas
- Simation Grid: 25,408 areas
- Kitely: 18,108 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,932 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,437 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,201 areas
- Discovery Grid: 4,945 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,527 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,260 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,040 areas
- GBG World: 957 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- ArtDestiny: 900 areas
- AviWorlds: 841 areas
- Craft World: 673 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 594 areas
- Littlefield: 513 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 348 areas
- DreamNation: 308 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Insight Concepts: 240 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 218 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 188 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- Kater and Friends: 185 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 183 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- XTalent: 133 areas
- GerGrid: 132 areas
Have you learnt of some other grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
