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.
A funny manifest for your right to use a pseudonym… RT@iliveisl
Who is behind the keyboard?... Who cares? NPC mania or “and you thought i was fake?” http://iliveisl.com/npc-mania-or-and-you-thought-i-was-fake/ I love how she talks about NPC. Maybe because I use a lot of them in Speculoos. I even like to have a puppet which follows...
“in-world time” does not exist. Update: it will, eventually
[Update] We worked on a fix, with the help of Justin to make it as suitable as it could for everybody (git cccef2e). This is a first step: allowing a real unified time. Next step: allowing a real custom time. But that is another story.
[Back to initial post…]
Draft proposal for a blacklist service – Appeal for a meeting
In the whole internet OpenSim is not exempt to hackers and griefers. As a young technology, it’s even more exposed.
We have some tools included in the server and the viewer to protect our grids against them. However, to achieve an efficient protection, it would be good to have a centralized service, like the ones existing for smap control, for example.
We feel there is a need to combine our efforts, between grid owners, as wel as server and viewer developers, to set up an efficient solution, which could be easily adopted by standalone or grid maintainer.
State of the Union in OpenSim (RT @MariaKorolov)
Speculoos is now in the ten most active grids. Wow. But that's not the main concern of Maria Korolov's article. Here is some kind of "state of the union", an interesting analysis, not only of the number of grids evolution. It also covers some thoughts about search...
Dummy griefer hits again
I stopped by the great FleepGrid today, and found giant balls from this dummy ass* Jack Marioline. It’s been years this guy seems having nothing better to do than griefing and trying to ruin others work. The guy tried also to register to our grid recently, but was dropped immediately. I guess he’s trying everywhere he can.
Freebie market updated in Agora
We updated the freebie market, with some more comprehensive sorting, NPC model chooser to preview outfits available, and an indication of the wonderful creators for external content. There is no room for new content. Enjoy! Local link Hypergrid link
Database maintenance
Speculoos servers are down for a database maintenance. See you after the restart.
OpenSim core functions
We are working on OpenSim core scripting API to add some exciting functions to in-world scripting. This is devel work, may and may not be include in devel branch, and may or may not be included in the next release. osGetInventoryLandmarkParams: read more parameters...
Why we (also) use dedicated servers
Snoopy Pfeffer gives an excellent explanation on why one should not use virtual servers or cloud to host OpenSim. We thought about it before setting up our gird, and came exactly to the same conclusion. She just gives a really good explanation on this....
Back to life
We had a DNS issue. We fixed it, but it could take some time to propagate. If you still can't connect, restarting your computer or flushing DNS cache may help. Otherwise, the DNS update should not take longer than one hour.