It started with Maria Korolov, during one of her OSCC presentations, when she was talking about grid statistics.
Anyone who knows me knows that I spend most of the OpenSim Community Conference gossiping and flirting with whoever will put up with me, especially during the more arty or bookish parts. But I sat still and attended during Maria's bit (and also that brilliant Graham Mills lecture, with the ship. That was awesome.)
Graham Mills' Liverpool history project is on Kitely |
Anyway, Maria was talking grid stats and there was a slide showing traffic on the hg and so on, and somehow Metropolis got mentioned, and a voice from the audience, in what I can only describe as a contemptuous font, said something along the lines of 'Oh you can't hg to Metropolis.'
'Yes you can,' says I, 'but it takes a while.'
*Metropolis* region, Metropolis. You can't say they're not consistent. |
I don't think anyone believed me, and I began to wonder if, in these recent weeks of wandering, I might have confused one place with another.
But no.
It is true that things have changed big time on Metro. For one thing, the URI of the grid is different now. It used to be hypergrid.org:8002, which was massively confusing especially for HGNoobs, who would comb gridlists looking for Metropolis.org:8002.
Now the grid is reached at login.metro.land. Not even a number. How mad is that.
However, on the Firestorm Release 6.4.21.64531 that I got last month, the Grid Manager still insists on the old address, so if you have a metro avie that you haven't used for a while, this might be your problem.
That resolved, I jumped inworld. I have very fond memories of Metropolis. When OSGrid went offline for six months in the summer of 2014, the Safari was given a home on Metro, courtesy of Timothy Rogers of Zetamex and the good offices of Nara Malone.
Outlands on Metropolis |
Sim Outlands was our base for a good six months before we moved over to Francogrid, and those were some of the most fun Safari times we ever had. Clouds included.
Coming back into Metro after more than three years offline, I expected some of MetroThirza's content to be gone. But it was all gone. Every folder empty, including the opensim library, so no shape even, just a sad little red cloud. Francogrid Thirza IM'd me, but the messages wouldn't go through, we both showed up offline to each other, until at last, after about ten minutes, I managed to get a LM from Metro to Francogrid, and in return, was sent a shape, which I immediately put on.
FrancoThirza followed up with some baked pants and a mesh shirt that says 'Singularity Viewer Loading' (I had forgotten that Singularity Viewer existed!) and some Taarna Welles boots.
To complete the look, lizard eyes and some rather weird hair but better than nothing, and a bald base, since Metro Thirza cannot even make a body part. FrancoThirza, in her warm hoodie, seemed unimpressed, and left. What a ... oh nevermind.First rule of wilderness hypergridding is and always has been, don't waste your time zooming out on your map hoping to see the 'where you are', virtual maps don't work that way. If you don't know the names of any online regions on the grid, type 'Sand' into your map. and hit 'Find' because pretty much every grid has a region called sandbox something or other.
At some considerable distance from Startregion, there was a whole continent on the map. When I got there, three contiguous sims popped into view. Not a party, but at least signs of life. I turned up my draw distance, and WHOA ! on the neighboring region, some meshy marble monuments shimmering on the horizon, property of Pixel Prim.
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