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New Sims

Tyche Shepherd — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:46:05 +0000

For the past 7 months I’ve been surveying and documenting the regions in the Secondlife Main Grid and reporting weekly new changes on SLUniverse , Here is a link to the my thread. This Blog has become quiet since then, so I’m going to investigate populating it with these weekly reports (including back reports). I intend posting both here and at SLUniverse but will be looking at making my SL Region database available through this site.

I’ve transferred copies of all SLUniverse posts about new regions to this blog. from the earliest on 23rd March 2008.

Signs of softening of private estate market

Tyche Shepherd — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:00:37 +0000

A mid week update as there are subtle changes to the number of estates sims going off line this week – To date there have been 262 new sims delivered (+ 33 renames) since Sunday – this is broadly in line with the previous 7 or 8 weeks, but what has changed is the number of Estates sims going off line – 153 for the first 3 days of this week (this also excludes renames and the 31 ACS Heroes sims which went offline) – This is a significant jump on previous weeks ( 63,69 & 63 going off line for the whole of the last 3 weeks) .

Net Growth is still positive but there seem to be signs of softening of the private sim market . This doesn’t seem to be a single large estate holding folding – the names are varied and I can see no major pattern. The turning off is spread over the past 3 days fairly evenly

25000 Regions online

Tyche Shepherd — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:00:42 +0000

In the past 24 hours there was a net increase of 77 regions on the Main Grid. This brings the total number of regions to exactly 25,000.

This breaks down as a record 20,027 Private estates and 4973 Mainland Regions.

New Continent grows

Tyche Shepherd — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:50:31 +0000

Another 54 regions were added today to the new continent – as with yesterdays, most have been reserved for auction

Lemontal Runtrop McKeand Kuckoo Aberond Dombersnark Ireben Worlt Rixendale Vibus Ten Uopera Elten Tessentor Kaolin Eastop Saggar Glaze Mayleiss Watland Schmand Wedge Greenware Rhead Treefoot Jiradic Kriansic Defenestrom Besiope Yorbuss Millipede Ooberscom Fibexus Hixxy Nileswarm Ackland Xubenhub Oppinjay Jennilee Steerboot Vardimorg Pilantin Szenden Giorna Kel Mimboza Qwandry Scimitar Deerdark Engobe Grayson Fettle Jwander Nefrando

New Mainland continent appears overnight

Tyche Shepherd — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:38:14 +0000

A new Mainland Continent appeared over night, 72 regions have been named and are now visible – Most of the sims have been marked as candidates for auction.

It can be found just North of the Corsica Continent, directly the east of the Academic Sim zone
(Thanks to Modesta Heying for drawing my attention to this here my surveying picked up the new sims but I wouldn’t have spotted the new area I wrote my weekly summary)

Position relative to Corsica and Gaeta (I’m surprised LL doesn’t join both continents with a couple of empty sims)

Close up map detail

The continent currently seems to be a mixture of green grass and sandy beaches with a few rolling hills with no granite

Region names are as follows:
Garrand Elizarraras Lapete Stanier Ysquierdo Frymier Exland Krugier Maginn Lastness Magimoto Jagiello Shimpson Gilpatric Irizarri Filnu Paulters Chautzer Kautzman Hauffe Brussel Sadleirian Lautenbach Navadvipa Mishra Rouse Turpentine Rauban Jaskowski Hentamaki Horton Peatmoss Pisharati Kamalakara Gonville Ramanujan Parameshvara Cohen Dimpf Fauthos Dautrich Bjerken Chartreux Ussuri Rust Spot Levkoy Glacken Blankenberg Ragdoll Chantilly Manx Blackfoot Scrafito Chamotte Milandreya Cranute Mintken Spode Blunge Clappison Cardew Snowshoe Mitten Resol Nebelung Marate Russian Blue Cheetoh Burmilla Pantherette Cymric Iribarren

With yesterdays final naming of the remaining generic Gaeta sims finished this brings the total size of Main Grid Mainland to 4899 regions. There are also 18269 Estate regions.

*By Mainland I mean LL owned – this includes Orientation islands and special areas such as the SL5B and Burning Man regions

Anshe cutback rumours scorched

Tyche Shepherd — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:14:26 +0000

I think recent rumours that Anshe was cutting down on estates lands can be put to rest – 56 of the 96 new sims which just went online (within the past 24 hours) are Dreamland ACS opensims – all named with a spanish theme

(these rumours were reported on The SLUniverses Forums)
The regions are :
La Arena La Arenita La Bamba La Bandita La Baronista La Bodeguilla La Bonita La Caleta La Camella La Canaria La Costilla La Cruz La Cubana La Cucaracha La Cuesta La Culata La Cumbrita La Dominacion La Douce La Empressa La Esperanza La Fuentita La Goleta La Gracia La Guancha La Jardinera La Laguna La Longuera La Majadilla La Mancha La Mareta La Matanza La Matilla La Mediania La Mota La Negra La Oliva La Orotava La Palmita La Paloma La Plata La Primera La Promotion La Rambla La Revolution La Romera La Rosa La Seduccion La Taidia La Tentation La Ventura La Vera La Verga La Vica La Victoria La Vida

NLA – “i is in ur edukation dept, stealing ur school milkz”

Tyche Shepherd — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:20 +0000

A matched pair from the National LolCatz Archives for 28th Nov 1990

NLA – Busy little beaver

Tyche Shepherd — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:45:21 +0000

Well Tyche has been a busy little beaver today commemorating Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee’s birthday as well as the swaring in of VP Gerald Ford . Followed off with tribute to Mariner 4 (1 day early …)
“i can has experiance”

“cat Fu PWND!!!”

“insert witty caption here?”

“i can has fried peanut butter and bananas?”

“i is in ur planetz, stealing ur solar system?”

Commerce comes to Milehouse

Tyche Shepherd — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:06:51 +0000

Finally after a few weeks Commerical development has started in Milehouse. The Dancing Beach Club has been opened and has a small mall attached , 3 out of the 12 or so spots in the Mall have been filled with vendors

The club itself is currently empty except for 3 campers

Milehouse Change of ownership

Tyche Shepherd — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:18:24 +0000

All original unsold land has changed ownership from Kirby McMahon to Dusty Outlander. The land is all back on sale at the same inland price of L$22000 per 2048sqm (14 plots in total) so it sounds more like an administrative move rather than a totally new ownership. – The change occurred at about 00:20 , today November 8th.