Courtesy Louis Platini's Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here are the top 20 PG-rated Second Life sims for October 2011:
This lists the average number of visitors in each sim. If you compare this to the list of top 50 October sims overall, you'll see some overlap. Franks Place 2, a fancy dress jazz nightclub, is consistently at or near the top of the SL charts every month. VIRTUAL GAMES, I believe, is a relatively new art/game installation. (I'm not entirely sure, because ironically, it's not showing up easily in search.) The top 50 overall, as you'll see here, spans an average of 31 to 73 visitors, so most of the top PG-rated sims are significantly less popular than the top M-rated and Adult-rated sims. (Last month, only five of the top 50 were rated PG.)
This top 20 listing of PG sims, by the way, comes after requests from folks like educator Joe Essid, who has a fairly hilarious rant on his blog about trying to tell his Dean why the school should have a presence in Second Life, when a top SL sim is called "Bukkake Bliss Island". Note to Professor Essid: Suggesting that "bukkake" might be "a new type of Sushi" only creates an even more vomitous image in my mind.
Dean Wormood: Ah, Professor Lag! Good to see you again!
Lag: Thank you sir. Now after last week...
Dean: Oh, tut tut young man. That was the wrong list! I'm pleased to write a letter in support of your grant application for Second World...
Lag: Life, sir, Life.
Dean: Great. Would you like some sushi?
Posted by: Ignatius Onomatpoeia | Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 11:51 AM
Headline is pretty misleading. Should really be Top 20 Most Visited PG-Rated sims'. Most of the listed are pretty poor when it comes to a sense of community.
Posted by: Chaffro | Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Fine. The clean list. The Canterbury Tales, as presented by Nickelodean.
Looks like a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces removed.
Posted by: Arcadia Codesmith | Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 02:30 PM
Some of the PG regions listed have horrible problems with lag. It isn't clear what the average is meauring (number of unique avatars per day?) but I would not want to visit any SL region with more concurrent visitors than Help Island. Excessive traffic with an overload of scripts, animations and noob gestures doesn't seem like much of an attraction.
Posted by: Nany | Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 03:12 PM
truth hair!!!! that makes him probably one of the top earners in SL.
Posted by: Carol | Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 11:33 PM
Just like to add that Music Island at Sea Turtle Island became a PG rated sim about 6 months ago to allow educators to bring students to performances. http://tinyurl.com/3drkgv3 Listings of events are at: http://musicisland.spruz.com
Posted by: Kate Miranda | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 at 09:38 AM