Franks Place 2, photo by Sharcrista Quan
Here's the top twenty most popular regions in Second Life last month, according to data compiled by Louis Platini of Metaverse Business, using a bot-driven avatar counting system. After the name of each sim is the average number of unique avatars in the sim at any given moment:
- Italia 4 Milano - 58
- Cidade do Medo - 56
- Sexy Islands - 56
- Franks Place 2 - 48
- A Lesbian Paradise - 44
- Hy Brazil - 44
- Midnight Reflections - 43
- escort oasis - 43
- Sweethearts - 42
- Lu Dongbin - 41 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- Ilha Brasil - 40
- Brasil Sul - 39
- IYC Addictions - 39 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- Arab Avatar - 38 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- Italia 2 Torino - 38 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- Bondage Ranch - 38 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- Brasil - 38 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- Quantico - 38 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- Caladan Island - 38 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
- AMTS - 38 (NEW TO TOP 20 FROM JULY)
As with the last couple month's listings, there's a strong presence of Italian and Portuguese-language themed sims. I just visited the top site, Italia 4 Milano, and teleported into a nicely detailed Italian city square, where there was a dance floor, a free L$ machine, and a dozen Residents cheerfully chatting in Italian. Another recurring favorite is depicted above: Frank's Place 2 [SLurl], a fancy dress jazz club. (Official website here, Wikia listing here.) And no, far as I can tell, "Quantico" is not a sim for people who want to roleplay as US Marines, but a mall/casual hangout area.
Notes on potential bots: If you believe any of these regions are heavily bot-populated, state your concerns (civilly!) in Comments, and I'll contact the region owner, for confirmation. ("NA" indicates data compiling issues for those particular sims.)
5 Brazilian sims among the top 20 ? (Cidade do Medo is probably Brazilian since it is a portuguese name). Is Second Life turning into Brazilian Life ?
Posted by: Renmiri | Friday, September 10, 2010 at 07:02 AM
What? No Emerald Point?
Posted by: SecondLie | Friday, September 10, 2010 at 08:08 AM
How many of these sims are flagged as Adult?
Posted by: Victor Komparu | Friday, September 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Brilliant.. a furry sex club made it to the top 20 XD
Posted by: Kudzumai Kinomis | Friday, September 10, 2010 at 03:26 PM
Why so many educators are going to grids with only PG and Mature zoning...a short history:
College Dean: So you are teaching in this "Second World" thing again?
Faculty Member: I am. It's "Second Life," too.
Dean: Yeah, I read a little about it. We have a replica of our campus there?
Faculty: It's more of a series of projects on a virtual island...
Dean: Island? Well, can students walk to the rest of this place?
Faculty: They can actually fly or go from place to place by a teleport...kinda like Star Trek.
Dean: Really? One of our I.T. guys e-mailed me a link to some information on what's popular in The Second Life. I saw this list of places that you can "teleport" to visit. So what the hell is a "Bondage Ranch?"
Faculty: /facepalm
Faculty: Um, that sort of content is adult zoned and has a lot of bots.
Dean: Lot of what? So what about Sexy Islands and Lesbian Paradise? I.T. says we are paying something called "tier" to this Linden Labs company.
Faculty: We have four faculty using the campus island for class-related work.
Dean: Good, but to continue this experiment we'll need assessment data you've collected that shows it improves retention and performance on our communications-skills rubrics as compared to similar courses. And then we'll call a meeting of the Academic Computing Committee...
Faculty: I'll let my colleagues know. See you.
Dean: (when door closes, picking up the phone) "Can you get me the Director of Academic Computing?....." (under his breath) "Bondage Ranch???"
Posted by: Ignatius Onomatopoeia | Friday, September 10, 2010 at 03:40 PM
An average of over 50 AVs?
I don't know how much the total varies but that's the sort of figure that lags a sim to hell and back. The big events at SL7B had regions limited to 33 AVs.
(I'm not going near Frank's Place until I get my new computer...)
Posted by: Dave Bell | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 03:28 AM
I tried visiting Frank's Place a while back and couldn't move for the lag. SL's basic scaling problems highlighted there.
Posted by: Winter Seale | Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM