OpenSim land space tally is now at a brand new all-time-high of 131,244 customary areas, the fourth month in a row it has hit that concentrate on. 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, nevertheless, down this month by 2,675 regardless of being an lively season, which could be attributed to downtime on quite a few 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 present offline, and Sin Grid, which had 251 actives final month, however offline after we had been gathering the stats. As well as, Soul Grid , which had over 1,100 actives this summer time, is now not reporting that statistic.
Different grids that reported vital drops in lively customers had been AviWorlds, Jungle Mates Grid, and Piggy Financial institution 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,634 OpenSim grids, 414 of which had been lively this month and 283 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 means, your grid will likely 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’ve a simple area installer right here. No marvel they’re the biggest grid in OpenSim.
Our stats don’t embrace lots of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically personal grids.
DreamGrid has up to now recorded a complete of three,435 distinctive DreamGrids which have launched since DreamGrid began, in response to Micro Know-how Providers CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Know-how Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The full listing of grids for which OutWorldz stories stats is on the market 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 via a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic on their residence laptop. They will 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 complete grids or unoccupied areas to save lots of computing energy. Be taught right here methods to create and host a brand new Dreamgrid on your own home laptop utilizing the software program.
OutWorldz additionally provides 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 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 free of charge utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the really helpful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material on your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe right here or fill out the shape under.
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Prime 25 grids by lively customers
In terms of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new buddies search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the largest 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
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 Mates Grid: 550 lively customers
Astralia: 488 lively customers
Eureka World: 455 lively customers
Light Fireplace Grid: 454 lively customers
ZetaWorlds: 446 lively customers
Herederos Grid: 438 lively customers
Vivo Sim: 421 lively customers
The lively listing is predicated on lively, distinctive 30-day consumer login numbers that grids report on their stats pages. These grids that don’t report their numbers could be simply as common, however we wouldn’t know. The most well-liked 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 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 consumer stats are used to generate the favored hypergrid locations listing, which is beneficial if 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 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 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 it’s 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 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 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 present 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 biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal 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 stage for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost means for OpenSim customers to purchase professional, 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, just like the way in which that Netflix and different streaming companies have decreased the quantity of unlawful video streaming.
As well as, proscribing 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 entails high-end scripts or proprietary animations.
Talking of closed grids — the place customers usually are not in a position to teleport to different grids — the largest such grid, Tag, additionally has its on-line market. {The marketplace} lists 29,950 gadgets each on the market and free.
Neverworld Grid Market is an alternative choice for OpenSim grids and does help hypergrid customers. The location at present lists round 100 gadgets on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and very low-cost gadgets since most are priced at underneath $3.
“In the mean time {the marketplace} for in-world supply continues to be pending, with a number of doable builders desirous about doing this mission,” grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
The admins are additionally inviting anybody to listing their gadgets on {the marketplace}.
Neverworld additionally provides free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or usher in digital gadgets on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in measurement and may help as much as 5,000 prims.
The grid web site is now a jopensim-enabled web site. Neverworld additionally provides a free area server to anybody who needs to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, you’ll want to obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
AvatarLife grid launches a market for gaming and different gadgets
AvatarLife grid has opened a brand new digital world market which at present lists about 26 gadgets in 24 classes that embrace ability gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. There are also Halloween and fall-themed gadgets listed. The market is, nevertheless, solely accessible to the grid’s residents since it’s a closed grid.
Gadgets are priced and traded within the grid foreign money AV$. The market additionally does in-world deliveries for all purchases just like the Kitely Market, stated grid spokesperson Bob Younger. Guests may also discover freebies, sport demos, and scripts, however there at present are not 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 could have them quickly,” Younger instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
“Aargle Zymurgy, the creator of the well-known ability sport Zyngo has listed this sport and doubtless future video games in our market,” he added. “Zyngo is broadly thought of to be the sport that performed a serious function within the ability video games growth in Second Life.”
The sport at present cannot be discovered on every other market. One other sport due for itemizing on {the marketplace} is Wili Clip Deep Sting fishing sport. He will likely be itemizing a number of new fishing rods for residents to fish with completely different reward methods on every completely different rod, AvatarLife CEO Shushant Chandrasekar instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
OpenSim grid information
Reside 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 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 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 deal with 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 sport that entails participant avatars taking down zombies which can be threatening to over-run the area. Avid gamers select the weapon of their selection on the area.
Guests may also play different adventures virtually each Saturday morning together with browsing, dune buggies, crusing, horse using, goal capturing, massive sport looking, 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 possibly can decide 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 dwell 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 in opposition to the pc. The sport is predicated 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 Social gathering
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 top of the month. It’s happening on 30 completely different areas.
It entails hidden gems together with 30 high quality mesh decor and Halloween-themed furnishings to be discovered. Accumulate all of them to have an entire Halloween set and win prizes. Completely different clues will likely be given.
There additionally will likely be a four-hour Halloween Bash for Money social gathering 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 characteristic DJ Kris and DJ Kelly and prize cash will likely be given to attendants on the identical day.
“Now we 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 may also be a greatest 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: Murderer Guard, BigOne, CandorsRPWorld, Cristin and Mattt’s Stuff, Dragonz Kin Territories, Infinite, Expanse, Falling Love, Goldor Grid, Lagniappe Grid, Omicron Desires, South Grid, and SunEden Resort.
If you recognize 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 Art work, Seconds, Serenity, SFgrid, Small City X, Takland, Tropical Isle, Digital Potential, Virtualife, vLearn Lab, VR Playground, and WaterSplash.
Typically, 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.
Prime 40 grids by land space
The listing under is a small subset of present OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,634 completely different publicly-accessible grids, 414 of which had been lively this month and 283 of which printed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, every time obtainable, by way of customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests every time doable.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. An inventory 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 possibly can see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting 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
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 can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at david@hypergridbusiness.com.
