Good morning and have a great weekend everyone!
I want to sincerely thank everyone for the fantastic turnout at our first party at CCC yesterday. It was absolutely amazing, and I'll definitely be throwing more parties in the future. A huge thank you also goes to the Dope Club team for their amazing support.
♥♥♥ Thank you all so much, you're simply the best! Hugs ♥♥♥

Hey friends!
We’re happy to share that our Christmas Market is now officially open!
The place is filled with wonderful gifts, a warm festive atmosphere, and lots of joy, peace, and love for everyone.
Come visit, explore, enjoy, and celebrate this magical season with us. ❤️
You’re all warmly invited!
hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Tierra%20De%20Volcanes/5...

Amazonien trauert um Atrista Vig / Amazonia mourns Atrista Vig

Wenn die Sonne des Lebens untergeht,
leuchten die Sterne der Erinnerung
Die Amazonen und Carima gedenken,
der Hoheit und Arbitra
Mitgründerin Amazoniens

When the sun of life sets,
the stars of memory shine.
The Amazons and Carima remember,
the majesty and Arbitra,
co-founder of Amazonia.

Leider ist unsere Hoheit und Mitgründerin Atrista verstorben.
Sadly, our Highness and co-founder Atrista has passed away.


Wer Erinnerungen teilen möchte oder sich verabschieden möchte kann dies hier:
Those who wish to share memories or say goodbye can do so here:

Slinfo : https://www.slinfo.de/threads/atrista-vig.47340/
Carima Forum: http://forum.carima-welt.de/viewforum.php?f=94
oder gerne auch ingame in Amazonien an der Gedenkstelle hop://carima-welt.de:8002/Amazonien-Tempel/220/204/62
oder Donnerstags 20:30 (MEZ) am Feuerkreis der Amazonen

Ruhe in Frieden Atrista // Rest in peace Atrista

They’re cute, they’re weird, they’re slightly ominous — the perfect pets for the end of the world.

Come take a walk, meet the new species, pick your favorite, and pretend you’ll be a responsible guardian.
Adoption optional. Awe guaranteed.

I have always said that I am willing to share—just ask me first! Recently, a resident I did not know, who apparently created an account in AVIWORLDS in 2021, used CopyBot in Dallas to copy my landing and left it all under his name (Tetho Flavius). This makes me question how easy it is to use CopyBot here, and I would appreciate guidance on how to prevent this. For now, Tetho, you are banned for 14 days until you explain why you did not simply ask. Can someone tell me what these are? He had these around my landing spot.

The Bla Bla Bla Magazine Is Out Now!

The latest edition of Bla Bla Bla Magazine has just been released — and it’s packed with stories, events, and highlights from across OpenSim!

Check it out on the AMV website:
https://alternatemetaverse.com/main/index.php?ccat=bla

This issue covers the end of Autumn and the Winter season, wrapping up an amazing year of creativity, community, and celebration across the grids.

Don’t miss it — this is the final magazine for 2025!

Still about the OpenSIM ONLINE Weather System V4 already available for FREE and FULLPERM at WEATHER SECTOR at FLORA SIM - I`ve built a compact Weather Display for my tenants in my SIM NORGE. They all liked it so much so I decided to offer it here as well.
V4 vendor updated with it.,
Enjoy :)

Okay, after being asked several times about REBORN clothes, I finally decided to try one!

Here's my first attempt and the result!

You can find it right outside the store office.

I'm not sure yet whether I'll make more Reborn clothes. We'll see ;-)

For this post, I’m breaking my long-standing code to speak only in Morse code. Is anyone aware of the OWS forums? Is anyone reading them? Is anyone making legitimate use of them? I have an idea about how to clean up the front page Box using the General Forum. That will be a follow-up post. But first, here is what you will find in OSW Forums.

General – Being used primarily by one user for posts about general stuff it seems.

Help – Posts from people who are actually looking for help. Yippy!

* OpenSim – Being used for event announcements that will never been seen, and by people who won’t pay and support the site by making event announcements on the front page. Things went bad in the forum in the last year. Before then, there were legit posts. The only legit, non-event promoting, post in the last year was about "Age Verification strategies for OpenSimulator and the HG." As an aside, have you met people with profiles that say they are Age Verified. How, exactly?

* SatyrFarms – Now this is a weird one. Spammed by https://opensimworld.com/user/musajackson4 to promote himself as a Witchcraft Zoodoo Black Magic Spell Caster. People complain that Satyr doesn’t moderate OSW enough in general, but he hasn’t cleaned up spam in his own forum for almost 12 weeks. But OWS is largely a labor of love, so give the guy a break – especially if you don’t pay to support the site. But maybe Musajackson4 can cast a Troll-Be-Gone Spell? Nah.

* News – Well, this will not be news. Being used for event announcements that will never been seen, and by people who won’t pay and support the site by making event announcements on the front page. Seeing a pattern here. Deadbeats abound. However, there was a post saying "Wish the news was actually just news, not just advertising drowning out all the bits of news we have".

Technology -- posts from people who are actually looking for help with technology issues. Well done!

* Gaming – see the comment about the *OpenSim, and *News Forums. But there is some good news, I guess. Other than two posts this year, all of the posts are older than one year. Perhaps they realized that their event posts were not being seen?

Feedback – Well, there is this post with an Advertising and Events Forum Suggestion
“It would be great to have specific advertising and events form sections. It might (but we can't guarantee) prevent/reduce the instance of people posting their new product or party everywhere else”. +

There is a forum of sorts for event announcements. It’s call the Front Page. There is a forum for advertising also. It’s called paying for ads. Other than 2 recent posts with genuine feedback, the last authentic feedback was posted 2 years ago. So, being used legitimately, but not being used.

There is no way to clean up the forums. But I’m thinking the General Forum can be used, legitimately, as a way to clean up the Box. Details to come.

We raised a whopping $323 for charity this year!

Thank you all so much for coming by and making the evening a massive success!

We raised more for charity than last year. Thank you all for your generous donations. Giving peace a chance!

Special thanks to Niki, Mathilda, Fiona, Prim, Dolfke for your generosity!

(Source: https://zetaworlds.com/blog/view/world-peace-day-2025-than...)

And here we are again on Sciattisi! 🎉 Today, 20 fresh new outfits await you, selected with style (and lots of love) by the legendary Mia Breil. Hurry and take a look... they're out now! 👗✨
hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/MiaBreilSciattiShopClothes/92/...

🎁 Heads up – Gift Alert!

Hey lovely group members, I’ve put together a little present for you – just because you’re awesome (and maybe because my inventory was starting to look like a digital attic 😅).

You’ll find the gift right next to the visitor board – it’s hard to miss unless your graphics settings are set to “potato.” Just give it a click and enjoy!

Important: 👉 To receive the gift, you need to have the group activated (make sure it’s set as your active group in the viewer). 👉 The gift is exclusive to group members and includes several goodies – don’t miss out!

If the box ignores you, don’t take it personally – it’s probably just sulking because your group isn’t active. Or it’s having a pixel mood swing. You know how it is.

Enjoy the gift, and thanks for being part of this wonderfully quirky, creative, pixel-loving community! 💖

Since there are 24 US states and the UK requiring age verification it seems this is going to inevitably change the way OpenSimulator functions. Denying it, protesting, waiting for it to go away, or saying it's impossible - won't last long in my opinion. I think the EU will probably follow suit with laws.

I personally think Geofencing is boo-boo and doesn't work. Right now you'd have to block half the USA and all of the UK and then comes EU. Might as well just unplug and go home I guess.

So i'm thinking about what I need to do on my grids. Here are the strategy/rules i've been thinking about and would love feedback.


rules
1) can only age-verify local grid users, not from other grids
2) only age-verified people can access M and A land
3) non age-verified and HG visitors may access G land only
4) G land is not UGC (user generated content) but only grid owner can place objects (or designated people in specific staff group, etc)
5) non age-verified users cannot chat in the local channel
6) the G land (should be one per grid really) is more like a welcome, and possibly each region on the grid can have a "booth in the welcome area" worked out with grid owner.
7) visitors are enticed to become local users and thus become age-verified
8) local users can have sims/parcels on the grid but can only be M or R rated, no G
9) we assume all local users are age-verified, since they have to age-verify during registation (must use "commercial" 3rd party verification service according to many laws)
10) visitors (non local HG visitors) attempting to access M or A land are always redirected to the welcome "G" land


If you are inclined, Here is the updated ini, xml and a new AgentGateModule.cs i'm working on - alpha

https://jemcity.com/agentgate.txt

Today is Friday and you are invited to Rosies Ballroom first Anniversary!
Great performers will sing for you, exclusive gifts included one created by Marianna Monentes and we're gonna celebrate Khiron's singing Anniversary at the same time! On Pangea-Grid

✨ New jewelry has arrived at Luxuria! Come and discover our latest creations, designed to add elegance and sparkle to your style.

✨ De nouveaux bijoux sont arrivés à Luxuria ! Venez découvrir nos dernières créations, conçues pour apporter élégance et éclat à votre style.

Hi folks, specially shoppers from SpaceGird. Just FYI: there are NO active bans on the Grid. So anyone should be able to access Starchild Shoppe.
Please reach out to the admins of your grid (tried to TP there this morning, actually and couldn't reach the server).

The Administrators of the Asylum wanted to thank everyone who came and made the grand opening a resounding success! The Region is now open to the public 24/7 if you dare. Thank you again for all your support and Kind comments. ~ Steamy and Edison

Hallo,

ich suche Haare von Doux. Ursprünglich hießen Sie Jenna. Ich habe sie unter anderem Namen gefunden, aber es fehlt der Styling Hud. Hat zufällig jemand diese Haare in zwei oder drei Größen mit Farbhud und Styling Hud? Danke für eure Hilfe.

has someone ever made a nice wheat or barley field? just tried it with my own texture - but whether it looks like minecraft (but flexy) or I have to put 1000 of flexiprims in long rows by hand?
would love to find a ready one or a manageable solution without cracking my sim or my wrist. thx!

I put out a bunch of landscaping plants at the dump this morning. It was in the inventory of an older avatar/grid, and I was so happy to have found it. Maybe someone else can use some of it. Thankfully, all the original creators' names are still on them.
three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Gracie and Dexter's Community Dump

Whenever i go to a club people keep slapping me so i came up with this anti-slap device to wear. if anyone needs one hit me up.

I also moved my sims next to my love (16 helicopters came in and lifted each sim, i was biting my nails watching.. only a few dishes and wine glasses were broken) so i can just jump out of bed and run across the bridge to see her when i wake up in the morning. If you need to know the new location lemme know.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CMwJmURy358UBH1e8 Hello Guys, I fixed the rotation of the gun for the combat system...woot and have moved on to the CTF system. I have a central system, two flags and two bases along with score board's. The flag is not carried but stays in place and goes alpha until returned. The issue I am having is the flag base sends a message to central but central is not sending a message to reset flag and award point. Any idea as to how to fix this. I can provide scripts if needed. Everything is communicating on the right channels. I think my problem is here......gFlagCapturedStatus = llListReplaceList(gFlagCapturedStatus, [FALSE], capturedIndex + 1, capturedIndex + 1); Here are the logs if it helps:
[11:21] blue flag: Flag captured by saphy riler.
[11:21] red flag return: Return Point touched by: saphy riler (Key: 5de79197-6ff0-6bf1-d0ba-c155b281f140)
[11:21] red flag return: Requesting carrier info from central manager for: 5de79197-6ff0-6bf1-d0ba-c155b281f140

What am I looking for? Information about how friending works in Open Sim, and what techniques some of you use.
I am new to OS, but not to virtual life. I have noticed that if I friend someone who is a member of the same grid as me, they will remain in my friends list. If I friend someone who is a member of a different grid, it is likely they do not appear in my friends list.
So how do you get around this?
Do you have a workaround? I am assuming they must have evolved over time.
Or am I missing something simple?
Maybe people just friend those from their own grid? lol

Anyhow... all information, advice and thoughts on this subject most welcome.
And for the record... I do consult with my favourite Chatbots before asking questions in here, but whilst they were aware of the difficulties, they could not find satisfactory resolutions in the various forums etc that they searched.
Have a great day/ night.
Space Z xx

Hey Mans & Girls! 💥
Couples dancing is finally here! 💃🕺
It's time to rock out in style — you can choose between:
🔥 SalsaStyle
🤠 CountrySwing
🎉 Club Dance

How to do it?
👉 Buy your PoseBalls or get a copy of the Disco Dance Ball!
I'm waiting for you to dance together… don't miss it! 💫

📍 Take a taxi and come have fun!

hop://sciattisigrid.it:8002/SciattiShopAnimation/219/86/22
🎥 Check out the presentation video on TikTok — just look for me!
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdAQohmE/