Chester and me have been pretty busy jumping around the hypergloop looking for destinations for the latest HG Safari project, the Self Guided tours, and we are pretty close to being done. We have nc blindness now, hopefully some wine will fix that.
At time of writing, the Safari region on Avacon is where you'll find all the Self Guided fun, though the gates will be duplicated over on OSGrid in the near future. You can pop over any time at grid.avacon.org:8002:Safari - the region is also home to our alternate clubhouse and a freebie store with some dodgy merchandise, not to mention that Safari is home to the studio from which Mal and James broadcast The Inworld Review on Sundays.
How and what are these self guided tours?
Some of the destinations will be familiar to you, hopefully others will be new discoveries, and of course, these are just the tip of the iceberg, in terms of what Opensim has to offer.
So no, of course, this project doesn't promise to show you everything there is in opensim - I've certainly not seen it all. There are no portals for dancing spots, landscape sims, oceans, or freebie malls. I have also left out those mashup 'something for everyone' regions with outer space and a sex beach and vampires and mermaids and a mall, all in 256x256 meters. There were just too many to count, and are easy to find on opensimworld and other websites.
I have also shied away from beautiful regions on grids where it's pay-as-you-go, since it seems unfair for anyone to have a steady stream of visitors casting them money, unless they specifically are ok with that. Some regions in Kitely have this situation, but not all, so I have been able to include Karima Hoisan's art and the IMA space region.
Grids with unreliable connections I have steered away from, often with much regret, but nobody wants to be frustrated by failing tps. There are no shops that charge money on these tours, you can figure out why for yourself.It's been a long project, with over 400 teleports and more cache clearings than I can remember. 40+ region owners on a huge range of grids were approached to ask if they are happy to be involved. I'm glad to say almost everyone has been very supportive and quick to say yes.
It's been fun making the mesh, inventing the textures, and messing up the scripts. even when the hypergloop made me go all frizzy for the first time in almost ten years.
Making new friends and discovering amazing regions that have been hiding out there in plain sight has been delightful, and there are for sure loads of places that deserve to be on new trails that will hopefully come together in future months. Hope you also enjoy.
Thanks for doing all of this research so some of us can find out about these places.
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