OpenSim land space tally is now at a brand new all-time-high of 131,244 normal areas, the fourth month in a row it has hit that focus on. 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, nonetheless, down this month by 2,675 regardless of being an energetic season, which might be attributed to downtime on a variety 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 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,634 OpenSim grids, 413 of which had been energetic this month and 284 of which revealed their statistics. The remainder do not need accessible public stats pages. When you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-mail us at david@hypergridbusiness.com or maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that manner, your grid will probably be talked about on this report each month, for extra 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 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 folks run them on their dwelling computer systems. They have an easy region installer here. No marvel 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, in response to Micro Technology Services CEO Fred Beckhusen. Micro Expertise Providers owns each DreamGrid and OutWorldz.
The entire listing of grids for which OutWorldz reviews 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 way of a graphical interface and one-click set up characteristic on their dwelling pc. 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 total 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 recordsdata — which you’ll 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 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 without spending a dime 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.
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 publication is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably 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 under.
Prime 25 grids by energetic customers
In the case 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 clients. Occasion organizers searching for the most important viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 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
- 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
- Vivo Sim: 421 energetic customers
The energetic listing is predicated on energetic, 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 energetic.
OpenSim Fest grid registered the very best variety of energetic 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 energetic customers.
The energetic consumer stats are used to generate the popular hypergrid destinations list, which is helpful if in case 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 listing can also be place to start out 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 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 info 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 larger 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 to this point. The Kitely Market is the biggest 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, 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 purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous seven years.
Providing a handy and low-cost manner for OpenSim customers to purchase legit, 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 way in which that Netflix and different streaming providers have diminished 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 should not capable of teleport to different grids — the most important 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 at the moment lists round 100 objects on the market to each residents and hypergridders. It’s a place for sourcing free and intensely low cost objects since most are priced at underneath $3.
“For the time being {the marketplace} for in-world supply continues to be pending, with a couple of potential builders concerned about doing this mission,” grid proprietor Govega Sachertorte instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
The admins are additionally inviting anybody to listing their objects on {the marketplace}.
Neverworld additionally gives free digital land to residents who can then arrange store and craft or usher in digital objects on the market or give away on the market. The free parcels measure from 3,000 to 16,000 meters in measurement and might help as much as 5,000 prims.
The grid web site is now a jopensim-enabled web site. Neverworld additionally gives a free area server to anybody who needs to self-host a area or grid on Neverworld. To take action, you must obtain and set up the server software program in your machine, make sure the router ports are open as required, and run the .bin file as per directions on this hyperlink then arrange a area.
AvatarLife grid launches a market for gaming and different objects
AvatarLife grid has opened a new virtual world marketplace which at the moment lists about 26 objects in 24 classes that embrace ability gaming, furnishings, clothes, decor, textures, breedables, animations, artwork, and full avatars. There are also Halloween and fall-themed objects listed. The market is, nonetheless, solely accessible to the grid’s residents since it’s a closed grid.
Objects are priced and traded within the grid forex AV$. The market additionally does in-world deliveries for all purchases just like the Kitely Market, stated grid spokesperson Bob Younger. Guests also can discover freebies, sport demos, and scripts, however there at the moment are not 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 will not 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 sport Zyngo has listed this sport and possibly future video games in our market,” he added. “Zyngo is broadly thought-about to be the sport that performed a significant function within the ability video games growth in Second Life.”
The sport at the moment 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 probably be itemizing a number of new fishing rods for residents to fish with totally different reward techniques on every totally different rod, AvatarLife CEO Shushant Chandrasekar instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
OpenSim grid information
Stay 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 possibly can comply with all of the storytelling occasions on StoryLink Radio’s YouTube channel or in-world on Kitely and SecondLife.
The hypergrid handle is grid.kitely.com:8002:Inventive 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 handle 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 can be threatening to over-run the area. Avid gamers select the weapon of their alternative on the area.
Guests also can play different adventures nearly each Saturday morning together with browsing, dune buggies, crusing, horse using, goal taking pictures, huge sport looking, and extra.
The hypergrid handle is discoverygrid.web:8002:Spirit Rock Ranch.
Conectados’ first-ever occasion will probably 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 handle 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 stay occasions at 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. each Saturday morning.
The hypergrid handle 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 folks 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 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. Accumulate all of them to have a whole Halloween set and win prizes. Totally different clues will probably be given.
There additionally will probably 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 would characteristic DJ Kris and DJ Kelly and prize cash will probably be given to attendants on the identical day.
“We’ve got a beginning prize fund of 125,000 AV$ which is about $500,” Younger instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Cash will probably be given out each couple of minutes by a random moneygiver. There can even be a greatest outfit competitors.”
The hypergrid handle 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, and SunEden Resort.
If you already know 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, Dynamic Worldz 2, 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 handle — 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 current OpenSim grids. We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,634 totally different publicly-accessible grids, 413 of which had been energetic this month, and 284 of which revealed their statistics.
All area counts on this listing are, every time out there, by way of normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests every 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 in case you are making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics 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
- 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
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.
