OSGrid has been a place to start for all those interested in opensim for a while. By that, more and more people knew about osgrid, but newbies did not find interesting content, people and places. Now with the UFS the first major roleplay group made a step from Second Life into osgrid, bringing great content.
So, all this opensim stuff is around
there for a while. We have seen some commercial
oriented Gridprovider emerging and more and more people are
interested.
But what about acceptance
?
OSGrid as the open developer grid may be
a good indicator. While some functionality
(i
.e. physic scripting) may still block some people
getting into the new metaverse, special interest groups did already
discover the possibility to have a huge mass of land and prim at
low cost. This is a major st ep to get content and
attract more people.
Recently I saw the announcement on http://www.osgrid.org/elgg/pg/event_ca
lendar/view/114141
. The "Trekkies" did enter the
OSGrid. With four regions and more to come, they
did already build a interesting place to visit.
And this is everything, but not just a
empty collection of regions. While the Starfleet
home is still located
in Second Life - they did build a really
pretty and trek-style place. Sometimes, there
are even other people to meet.
J T
his "Excalibur colony" is something like
an outpost from the SL base. I found Fred McCellan (Operations
Officer for the USS Silverwolf) was so friendly to show me
around.
Some
examples what you can find:
A place for trekkies to
fell well
Interesting buildings done
at a well skilled level, worth to visit anyway
Typical trekkie stuff,
like teleport in startrek-style teleporter (displays
etc)
A welcome center, where
you can drop your application to become an officer at the
fleet
A star gate with
destinations in hypergrid and OSGrid
a command center up in the
air (approx.. 1700m)
Sector 4 training center
(approx. 2700m) with 2 starship training bridges
The control centre
(impressive)
The academy with
classrooms
Event hall
Personal offices (for the
highflyer..)
And more…
The crew has been working on the place
for a long time, i.e. the training center for 6 month. All the
Scripted objects and the possibility to run a full featured role
with them for sure have taken a lot of this time, as well as all
the high detailed and precise placed textures.
Newbies are welcome - for some positions
you need to graduate from the academy, which is free. (donation
based) After application you will receive a
welcome package with instructions and will be
contacted. People are grouped in different
fleets, according to their time zone, 5 fleets worldwide. Lessons
are trainer-leed and usualy have even have a test at the
end.
Should be fun to visit - and maybe even
join the fleet.
Inworld contacts in OSGrid:
Fred McCellan
Shawn Messioptra
Marie Lawson
OSGrid:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Starfleet%20Sector%20005/31/125/23
More
Information at http://www.ufstarfleet.org
.