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 could be attributed to downtime on various 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 after we have been gathering 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 vital drops in lively customers have 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 have been lively this month and 280 of which printed their statistics. The remaining 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 method, your grid might be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo 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 residence computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No surprise they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.
Our stats don’t embrace most of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are usually personal grids.
DreamGrid has to date recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, based on Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The entire listing of grids for which OutWorldz stories 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 means of a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic on their residence 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 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 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 free of charge 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.
An inventory 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 might 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.
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. 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 clients. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest 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 consumer login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers is likely to be simply as well-liked, 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 because of the 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 consumer stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is helpful in case you have a hypergrid teleport and wish to put up gates to the preferred grids or embrace the preferred 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 on the lookout for 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 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, 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 up to now. The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material accessible 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, 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 crimson space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed stage for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost method for OpenSim customers to purchase legit, 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 way in which 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 provides 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 will not be in a position to teleport to different grids — the largest 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 assist hypergrid customers. The location 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 below $3.
“For the time being {the marketplace} for in-world supply continues to be pending, with a number of potential builders excited by doing this challenge,” grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte advised Hypergrid Enterprise.
The admins are additionally inviting anybody to listing their gadgets on {the marketplace}.
Neverworld additionally provides free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or herald digital gadgets on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in measurement and may assist as much as 5,000 prims.
The grid web site is now a jopensim-enabled web site. Neverworld additionally provides a free area server to anybody who desires to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, it is advisable obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
AvatarLife grid launches a market for gaming and different gadgets
AvatarLife grid has opened a new virtual world marketplace which at the moment lists about 26 gadgets in 24 classes that embrace talent gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. There are also Halloween and fall-themed gadgets listed. The market is, nonetheless, solely accessible to the grid’s residents since it’s a closed grid.
Objects are priced and traded within the grid foreign money AV$. The market additionally does in-world deliveries for all purchases much like the Kitely Market, stated grid spokesperson Bob Younger. Guests may discover freebies, sport demos, and scripts, however there at the moment 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 shouldn’t be listed at this very second, however hopefully we can have them quickly,” Younger advised Hypergrid Enterprise.
“Aargle Zymurgy, the creator of the well-known talent sport Zyngo has listed this sport and doubtless future video games in our market,” he added. “Zyngo is extensively thought-about to be the sport that performed a serious position within the talent video games growth in Second Life.”
The sport at the moment can’t be discovered on every other market. One other sport due for itemizing on {the marketplace} is Deep Sting’s fishing sport, Crypto Fish. He might 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
Stay 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 possibly can 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 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 sport that includes participant avatars taking down zombies which are threatening to over-run the area. Players select the weapon of their alternative on the area.
Guests may play different adventures virtually each Saturday morning together with browsing, dune buggies, crusing, horse driving, goal taking pictures, huge sport searching, and extra.
The hypergrid deal with is discoverygrid.internet:8002:Spirit Rock Ranch.
Conectados’ first-ever occasion might 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 possibly can 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 reside 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 sport
AvatarLife has launched a single-player sport mode on its Wild Poker sport which launched with the multi-player mode in July 2023. With the single-player mode Wild Poker sport, one or three individuals can play towards the pc. The sport relies on the Texas Maintain’em poker sport and gamers can win prizes in each single and multi-player modes.
AvatarLife to host Halloween Hunt and Celebration
AvatarLife grid is internet hosting a Halloween Hunt much 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 includes hidden gems together with 30 high quality mesh decor and Halloween-themed furnishings to be discovered. Gather all of them to have a whole Halloween set and win prizes. Totally different clues might be given.
There additionally might 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’ll characteristic DJ Kris and DJ Kelly and prize cash might 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 might be given out each couple of minutes by a random moneygiver. There may even be a greatest outfit competitors.”
The hypergrid deal with is avatarlife.com:8002:Gaming Paradise.
New grids
The next grids have 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 understand 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 have 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 adjustments 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 beneath is a small subset of current OpenSim grids. We are actually monitoring a complete of two,635 totally different publicly-accessible grids, 329 of which have been lively this month and 280 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, every time accessible, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests every time potential.
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 possibly can 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 are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
