Courtesy Louis Platini's Metaverse Business, a Second Life/OpenSim analytics company that gathers publicly accessible in-world data for its clients, here's the top 50 most active Second Life sims, starting with 26-50, listed by their average avatar visitor count at any given period, visitor range, and previous position last month (October in this case):
Click here to use SL's map function on the web to search and directly teleport to any of these sims. Unless I missed my count, 24 of the 50 are Adult-rated, a slight drop-off from the rate in September and October.
Just about anytime I post these charts, readers say, "How come I've hardly heard of any of these? And there's a very good reason for that:
Most of these regions have remained extremely popular for years, consistently landing a top spot on these charts, suggesting they have established, dedicated communities which sustain them -- and also suggesting they are inward-facing, with little reason to advertise their activity to the broad SL userbase, let alone new users. (Excepting many of the sex entertainment sims, which have a very good reason for bringing in a new clientele.)
That said, what sims are worth a trip by new visitors? We'd love to add one or more to our SL Go itinerary.
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Only 8 of the top 25 are adult rated.
Posted by: Amanda Dallin | Wednesday, December 03, 2014 at 08:01 PM
But only 2 on the full list are general.
And where are the famous skill game regions, if any?
Posted by: zz bottom | Thursday, December 04, 2014 at 03:13 AM
Huups, 5, lol 5 regions are G rated.
Still it is obvious that labeling a sim Adult and making it the same as = Porno, terrible, LL should not allow adult content and so on, is as silly now as it was always been.
Posted by: zz bottom | Thursday, December 04, 2014 at 03:16 AM
Eh what's done is done. Ll drove the ship headlong into icebergs repeatedly, even as their customers screamed about the damage being done. Ll told their customers to shut it, that SL was not a virtual world where they had any rights at all and if they didn't like it then leave.
Over and over I warned about the exodus. I also warned that people driven out by ll stupidity would never come back for any reason. So here we see the results of ll not simply leaving customers alone to enjoy their purchases - the g rated lands that were supposed to be full of RL businesses are nowhere to be found, and only the adult sims are able to make enough cash to stay afloat. Yeah, way to clean up the grid lindens...
Posted by: Shockwave Yareach | Thursday, December 04, 2014 at 12:01 PM
We'd love to be in your SL Go itinerary.
Shannon Bramlington
Owner Sweethearts
Posted by: Shannon Bramlington | Sunday, December 28, 2014 at 05:24 PM