Grid Info
| Grid Name | Speculoos World |
| Login URI | speculoos.world:8002 |
Grid Status
| Status | Online |
| Members | 110 |
| Active members (30 days) | 5 |
| Members in world | 0 |
| Active users (30 days) | 34 |
| Total users in world | 0 |
| Regions | 22 |
| Total area | 1.44 km² |
Speculoos
“Speculoos” is the original name of a traditional Belgian cookie… But enough of historical considerations. Speculoos World is an OpenSimulator 3D virtual world. You can meet people in a 3D environment, build objects, landscapes and buildings, hang out…
Opensimulator
Speculoos World is based on OpenSimulator, an open-source 3D virtual environment server.
Enter the virtual world
To enter our virtual world, visit our login page to create your avatar and get login instructions.
Warning
I run this grid for my own pleasure to see what creatives can do if they have a place to do it. That’s why there is usually land available for free. And also why there are some rules to follow. The complete regions are available upon request (and under conditions).
This site was initially supposed to be translated into at least French, Dutch and English. However, it is a small grid, maintained by … me. So don’t blame me if most of the content is only in English. It’s not my native language (so don’t blame me for the mistakes either), but it’s the one that works best for most visitors.
Servers are down
Our Opensim servers are down. OSGrid failure, yesterday, made me think "Luckily, it's not me". Well, today, it's me. We are investigating and try to put it online as soon as possible
Referenced on Hyperica.com (thanks Maria)
Our regions Grand Place and Agora are now referenced on Hyperica.com.
And it was really funny for me to discover that the first noticed place was Agora (speculoos.world:8002:Agora), because of the NPC outfit vendors we made. I admit I love playing with NPC, and the outfit vendors are just an example, the dancing avatar in the middle of Grand Place is another one I am proud of.
Avatar as OpenID key
There is a lot of discussions about using or not OpenID or OAuth to login to opensim servers. But what about the inverse process? We worked out a in-house solution, using a web server with access to OpenSim’s MySQL database… More after the break. We still think the way to go would be to debug and enhance the core module of OpenSim, so suggestions are still welcome.
Update 0.7.3 and new server
After a few days of testing the new version, we decided to launch the update of all sims. We take the opportunity to migrate to a new more powerful server.
The update process has been prepared in such a way that it takes only a few minutes for each sim.
Experimenting de-centralized grid
OpenSim is supposed to be working with de-centralized server, that’s the goal of a grid, right? So, theorically, I should be able to run a region in a grid, while using another grid’s authentication server. And inventory and assets servers.
Opensim 0.7.3 upgrade in progress
We are currently in the process of upgrading the servers to OpenSimulator 0.7.3 release. Currently, one of our server has been migrated, and we are checking if everything is going fine before making a rolling upgrade of all regions. We are quite excited by new...
Give, give, do-give…
We have added a nice Paypal button to the site. There is no obligation, of course, but feel free to use it... The more money we raise, the more resources we will have to offer you a solid and powerful structure.
Region crash on Residences
"Residences" server crashed today. It's fixed now and we fine-tuned the monitoring to ensure a faster region restart, should it occur again. If you have idea of what could have caused the crash, contact us... Monitoring is in beta stage 😉
Why I want to delete my Second Life account
I have been using a premium account in Second Life for years. Though I must admit, I didn't make an intensive use of it last times. Last month, I got a notice for the quarterly payment, but I was at a thousand miles of my home, and a thousand miles of this matter....
OpenSim grids pass 20,000 regions… and Speculoos is in the top 40
"The top 40 public OpenSim grids passed the 20,000-region milestone this month, with a new peak of 20,680 regions, after gaining 1,155 net regions over the past four weeks" By Maria Korolov, read more on hypergridbusiness.com