ZetaWorlds turns 11! March 20th!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2024-02-12 12:32 AM
Over a decade. Time sure flies when you are putting your passion into something. On the 20th of March we celebrate 11 years of ZetaWorlds!
As usual Welcome will host a number of DJs and a live act to make the evening unique!
The night kicks off at 10am grid time with a small get together
Pricing changes in March
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2024-02-04 05:00 AM
It annoys me to no end that everyone under the sun is chasing revenue in times of higher inflation, because it is entirely counterproductive to the problem. More than content to keep pricing as is for the last few years, but steep increases in cost of supplies are forcing my hand in this regard. Two of our suppliers have announced changes to the tune of 30% or more, which leaves no buffer to keep pricing as is. I still don't like the idea of passing on all of that to you, because that doesn't help anyone. Instead starting March 1st this year the pricing for most packages will change by about 5-10% at most. After that date the processing fees for every transaction will also change from 4% to 5% in order to al
Fun Day Feb 5th
Posted By: Event ManagementPosted On: 2024-01-20 08:32 AM
ZetaWorlds is proud to announce our next World Day celebration
will be on the 5th of February at THE VAULT on the Events
region.
Starting at 10am grid time and with 5 different DJ's over 6 hours
to celebrate the, this is no joke, National Fart(Fun) Day,
otherwise known as international Nutella Day.
The line up is sensational and all DJ's will be playing mixes of
humor and fun, some irreverence, lots of innuendo and banter
:-)
10am grid time we'll hear DJane HAZEL ITO
11am MATHILDA takes over pounding your eardrums
12 noon we'll see NIKI with her take on the day
1pm and SANG will flex your humor muscles
2pm has NORA concluding the day with more shenanigans
I know you
✽✾✿❀❁ Flower Power ❁❀✿✾✽
Posted By: Event ManagementPosted On: 2024-01-12 06:05 AM
The lineup starts at 10am grid time with Nora Cola opening up with a great mix of genres
Followed at 11am by Hazel Ito with a J/Kpop/German music flower mix
At noon Ruud with a flowery top hits mix and a pair of pants, you have to come see this!
1pm sees Sang with a flowery edition of his Fish & Chips Crazy mix, yummy
Finally around 2pm Mattie with an electro flowery mix
We may have another DJ after that, if not Mattie will play us out.
It is an exciting chance for the OS community to come together so please
2024 A year in review
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2024-01-03 05:26 AM
2023 has come to a close and what a year it has been. A lot of things have happened. From new event spaces opening to new staff coming onboard to manage them. We have done a lot of work in the background to plan for the future and specifically this year 2024. A number of big changes are planned, but more on that when it is time. Just before Christmas we saw the 3000th resident sign up and the grid itself has grown over 200 square kilometers this year. We would like to thank everyone for making this another successful year. Let's be excited what 2024 brings!
World Techno Day, Dec 9th
Posted By: Event ManagementPosted On: 2023-11-03 09:45 AM
Another spectecular event for everyone on the metaverse, on the World Techno Day December 9th, we will shake your fillings loose at the VAULT.
A kick-ass line up to massage your ear drums starting at 10am grid time starting with a first at the VAULT, DJane Tanya mixing up one of her famous trance mixes.
Thank you so much!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2023-09-21 04:20 PM
We collectively raised $206 for charity with $108 going to
UNICEF as 36 visitors attended out charity event! We decided to
triple our donation for such a great turnout. Attendees at the
event pitched in another $98 towards charities. Thanks to Posy
Potts, Mathilda Stark, Niki Stark and Edison Rex!
If you can, please continue to support a charity of your choice or
donate to one of these. Thank you all so much for this great event
and the donations!
World Peace Day 21. September
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2023-09-10 09:26 PM
Later that day at 10am grid time we will kick off a little event for everyone with your favorite DJs.
10am - Hazel Ito QUIRKY ECLECTIC
noon - Mattie Stark LIVE!
and at 2pm yours truly will just play music until you keel over.
Data can be pretty boring and beautiful
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2023-08-23 06:16 AM
Could be throwing all sorts of buzzwords around, but in reality half the fun in statistics is gathering the data and watching it paint a picture. Analyzing the results and making predictions or changes is the part that makes it boring, that's just work. Over the last year we have been gathering information on how ZetaWorlds is used and what that says about the community and the grid as a whole. Adjusting how things are calculated and building more concise data points to give us information on how the platform is used and utilized. Sounds scary and invasive, but it's really just counting of what's already there. Outside of the grid stats data present on the World Map a
ZetaWorlds Event Spaces
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2023-08-11 01:22 AM
Events Opening The Vault [Concluded]
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2023-06-22 01:01 AM
Part of the Events region will be opening on the 16th of July. The Vault is going to host official events and will be available for anyone to host their own as well.
The opening will feature several DJs which will be a blast. Hours of good music and a unique lightshow await, so mark it on your calendar, 16th o
New Maptile rendering
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2023-03-02 08:16 AM
Binary Rollout
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2023-02-06 07:41 PM
Retirement of BulletSim
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-11-10 05:07 AM
Mission Statement
Posted By: ZetaWorlds ManagementPosted On: 2022-10-29 02:21 PM
Price adjustment
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-09-22 05:58 AM
Starting then there will be changes to the Full Sim, Mini Sim and Oceanside Archipelago packa
[COMPLETED] Return to mainline
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-08-17 08:26 AM
In a previous post we talked about rolling back the runtime underneath OpenSim in order to avoid a problem that was causing some regions to crash. While this rollback has stopped the issue we have been unable to otherwise reproduce the problem and conclude a potential fix for the cause. Neither a review of all concerning code nor the setup of testing environments yielded any further information, so we plan to return to the mainline version of the runtime and upgrade to its latest version in the knowledge that whatever the cause may be it does not lie solely with the runtime or OpenSim and must be something not normally checked for in any of the testing suites. As there is
[COMPLETED] NA Cluster Switch
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-07-31 09:02 AM
[COMPLETED] Planned Maintenance 08-07-22
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-07-05 01:42 AM
You can now not hear, enabling MuteList
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-06-06 06:26 AM
Binary Rollout 12-05-22
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-05-11 12:57 PM
Preconf binaries will come along with them based on the same codebase.
Quite a few critical changes and improvements this time round, which should improve a few areas. Of course there are also things we still track as active issues so if you find anything strange feel free to report it to us.
Pricing Adjustment
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-05-03 05:35 AM
Since we don't want to increase the burden on those already counting their coins all existing region orders will remain untouched, but going forward some packages will have adjusted pricing to compensate for the increase in costs of providing them. Hopefully this turns into a temporary measure and we can return to our normal pricing soon.
For the larger dedicated packages we contin
CRITICAL - Disable "Everyone can Build" on your land!
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2022-04-29 04:03 AM
Regions and parcels MUST disable "Build: Everyone" on the parcel Options tab. You can set to group build, or set up an access list, but you must not allow unrestricted building on your land.
We have had recent instances of griefers dropping scripts onto land that's allowing build to anybody, this causes extra work to clean up. On the Free Estates this is now a requirement and I am updating both the rules and the covenants.
Even those running their own regions as selfhosts it makes sense to disallow everyone to build on them as regions found to be detrimental to grid after having been griefed will be removed and potentially
Sticky Honey Physics
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-04-19 09:10 AM
The changes made should allow more control over the avatar and fix some weird behaviors exhibited prior. For example, jumping now syncs with animation so you don't immediately jump up, but crouch first. This pre-jump
Suspension of the Free Estates Project - NOW RESUMED
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2022-04-12 01:45 PM
Due to what appears to be abuse of the free estates, I am
suspending new requests whilst I audit the entire web of
ownership.
This is disappointing to me, I expected better of people. I
will now audit all of the free estates parcel owners for similar
MAC/IP, group nonsense, joined parcels, and overuse of prims.
This sort of behaviour is unacceptable and makes the regions
perform well outside of the standard we expect. Not to mention that
if you read the covenants, you agreed to abide by them.
As per the terms of service, I will reclaim regions from
accounts who have fraudulently obtained them. Those
accounts will no longer be eligible for free estates.
Content on ZetaWorlds
Posted By: ZetaWorlds ManagementPosted On: 2022-03-27 08:16 AM
Our conduct guidelines state that any public facing content should be kept free of things that are otherwise overly sexual, coerce or otherwise aimed to offend. This includes, but isn't limited to, profile picture and text, Picks published in the profile and the visible content in search. As such you should try to keep things you post via your profile or the parcel information on your
Sanctions - We stand with Ukraine!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-02-24 10:02 AM
[Completed] Grid Maintenance
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-02-04 07:27 AM
The work has been completed. We upgraded quite a number of things so if you find anything out of the ordinary feel free to let us know!
A new OpenSim release!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2022-01-03 05:29 AM
As usual the minimal preconf version will be set, but this time to 120, the current release, as there are a few changes that need to be in sync with the other regions on the grid. So please make sure to upgrade them as soon as possible.
The underlying changes made just before the release might cause some trip ups, if you are having issues feel free to seek help in the inworld help group for selfhosters.
[Updated] Satyr Farm Animals
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-12-29 12:23 AM
As assets are somewhat static each new Notecard constitutes a new asset effectively making the previous one orphaned. We can only classify this as spam and poor coding on the part of the creat
Network Issues Affecting Performance
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2021-11-25 09:44 AM
[Completed] Binary Rollout 1075
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-11-14 03:52 AM
Preconf has already received a new version with said fixes included. Minimum binary version will be set to 112 so make sure to upgrade.
Price Reduction Oceanside Estate
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-10-29 02:08 PM
For new and existing customers the Oceanside Estate package has received a price reduction to 20,99€ per month.
This has come about to bring the pricing structure more in line with the other packages and should make the ZetaWorlds Ocean even more accessible.
[Completed] Binary Rollout 930
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-09-29 01:06 PM
The bugfixes are quite severe so the upgrade will happen for all regions.
Along with this a new preconf has already gone out and versions prior to 101 will be made unavailable for connections, please make sure to update.
Billing System Transition
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-09-24 07:29 PM
As a result some billing related tasks may behave erratic or do not work properly.
If you encounter issues with the billing system please send us a direct email: contact@zetamex.com so we can fix the issue and get you sorted out.
Along with this change we opted to simplify billing slightly in the face of having to deal with complications from our billing provider, you can read more here.
We apologize for a
New Scripting Information page
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-09-17 03:34 AM
Oceanside Archipelago
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-08-24 10:31 PM
The Oceanside Archipelago is a cluster of regions comprised of 9 regions 1024x1024 meters in size that can be connected to the ZetaWorlds Ocean. With a combined 405.000 Primitives available across all regions there is plenty of capacity to build, with the option to increase the Primitive allowance for the center region. In difference to other packages the estate handling and settings are shared across all the
Membership Changes
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-08-02 02:44 PM
Binary Rollout 860
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-07-20 01:06 AM
Preconf binary will be available at some point this week if no major faults are found.
June 19th, Let's Party! - Grid Update this week!
Posted By: AdministrationPosted On: 2021-06-13 06:22 PM
Please join us if you can, for a couple of hours of music and fun on Saturday June 19 at our Welcome region stage. We are celebrating over 16,000 friendships! We do have a great community of people here. We are also celebrating over 10,000 regions (standard). There are some truly beautiful regions here in ZetaWorlds and very talented residents. We encourage you all to explore both private regions as well as our huge ocean.
Festivities begin at 12 noon grid time with Khiron Ametza. Khiron is always fun and an incredibly talented vocalist. Zoree Jupiter is up next at 1pm grid time. Zoree sings like an angel, she is not to be missed! At 2pm we have the amazing Missy MonK! Missy
Those are some large numbers
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-05-31 06:42 AM
As is somewhat tradition now we are planning to celebrate these milestones in some form, what they may be is not decided yet, but hopefully it will be fun for everyone. An announcement will follow once we have the details ready.
Binary Rollout 768
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-05-15 02:27 AM
New preconf bin
Increasing Grid Security Measures
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-05-07 02:47 PM
We continue to monitor the situation and are evaluati
Email Verification
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-04-14 07:56 AM
As of now when registering for an account with ZetaWorlds an email will sent with a link to verify the newly created accounts email address. Until this verification is completed the account will remain unable to join ZetaWorlds. <>
[Updated]Gloebits
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2021-04-08 01:35 PM
We have received word that and I quote: "We’re dockerizing it so we can get it back up and more easily move the service or restore it if we have problems with a provider in the future. We’ll get it back up as soon as we can."
Naturally still not a very acceptable answer to the ongoing issues, but we will continue to monitor and put pressure on to get the service restored.
The Gloebits currency service, which is handled by a third party, has experienced an outage and is down.
It is a complicated situation but as far as we know, nobody has lost any money, and the service will be restored eventually.
We apologise for the inconvenience and we'll pass on any new
New selfhost binary
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-04-07 11:35 PM
Thank you for 8 great years!
Posted By: Stefanie FerdinandPosted On: 2021-03-31 02:10 PM
Many thanks to everyone who came to ZetaWorlds' 8th birthday and celebrated with us. We also thank everyone who did not make it to the celebration. We hope that it will continue to go so well and that we will celebrate together for many years to come.
We had some gig's form some nice Performers,
Khiron Ametza
Zoree Jupiter's
Clan's Clan
We also had a gig from our Grid DJ's Edison Rex and Vincent Sylvester.
Here are a few pictures from the party for those who couldn't come or want to remember it again.
Selfhost updates
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-03-29 05:12 AM
[COMPLETED] Cluster Migration [NA][EU]
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-03-23 12:30 AM
On the North American side the new hardware is from a new provider we only recently started working with, so if you encounter issues after migration feel free to let us know.
Zetaworlds 8th Year Birthday Party
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2021-03-13 08:28 AM
Zetaworlds is 8 Years Old!
We have a birthday to celebrate! The Zetaworlds Grid is turning 8 this coming week. We last celebrated our birthday 3 years ago and we have a lot to celebrate.We passed 14000 friendships, 1400 resident accounts, 350 groups, 5600 visitors and we now have a total land area of 580 square kilometers (264 square miles!). We are host to the largest navigable ocean in Opensim (as far as we know) . We thank you, our Residents and Landowners, for your loyalty and support, and we look forward to many more >
Teleport Issues
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-03-02 03:17 AM
Essential maintenance on NA cluster 4AM grid time (Noon GMT)
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2021-02-20 03:20 AM
The work completed last weekend on the EU cluster is now extended to the NA cluster.
We will upgrade all binaries, apply updates to the host cluster and virtual machines, and restart it.
The downtime is expected to be about one hour max. EU side is not affected.
Thanks for your understanding.
Please make sure Firestorm is at the latest version
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2021-02-19 02:09 PM
Please go to https://www.firestormviewer.org/os-operating-system/ and download and install the Opensim version.
The older viewers are giving increasing problems working with the newer Opensim core codebase.
[COMPLETED] NOTICE Essential maintenance on EU cluster 4AM grid time (Noon GMT)
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2021-02-13 03:23 AM
Thanks for your understanding.
UPDATE - The maintenance was successful and the cluster and all EU regions are back up.
Grid Upgrade - New binaries deployed
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2021-02-06 04:40 AM
It is important that ALL region owners reset your OSW beacons (they will be offline) if you have them, and any other scripts that had runtime settings (you used a menu to configure them).
Thanks for your cooperation.
New preconf build for selfhosters
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2021-01-24 09:55 AM
Contributions
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-12-14 04:20 AM
Hypergrid Wall Curator
On the Welcome region we offer a wall with hypergrid destinations anyone can use to travel the metaverse. As grids come and go though the list needs ac
Self Host Group
Posted By: AdministrationPosted On: 2020-12-07 08:48 AM
Oceansides 35% off in December
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-12-06 11:26 AM
Oceanside package 35% off for the first month with promo code OCEAN2021
Happy holidays everyone!
Selfhosting Changes
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-11-27 11:41 PM
Nonetheless we feel the need to give our current set of rules for selfhosters a once-over as the grid expands and grows. Each region connected to ZetaWorlds requires the grid to provide certain services. These services are highly intertwined with each individual region in order to provide adequate and fast responses for common things happening on it. This subsequently means each region puts a cert
Gridservice Upgrades
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-11-26 05:34 AM
In the meantime we have been upgrading the grid services we currently run to take advantage of some fixes brought about by testing we did in conjunction with Austin Tate of Openvue. As the changes are somewhat grave, especially in regards to presence and user handling, we would like to make sure they have not negatively impa
Nightly preconf builds
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-11-18 08:30 AM
10000 Friendships, a reason to celebrate!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-10-22 05:46 AM
Viewer Compatibility
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-08-28 11:00 AM
EEP, BoM, EstateV2 --- please read!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-08-21 04:33 AM
Estate V2
In order to make it easier to see what's what in terms of estate management in recent builds of most viewers the estate management has changed slightly. Under the hood this required some changes on the side of OpenSim. Thankfully they are not too grave so they are have already been integrated. It is not yet clear if these settings will be expanded in the future, but tUpgrades for North America
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-08-07 02:41 PM
Firestorm issues
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-07-28 06:13 AM
Zetaworlds is now on Discord!
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2020-07-14 12:49 PM
Realistic Statistic
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-06-19 04:36 PM
[RESOLVED]Gloebit connection issues
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-05-09 12:23 PM
Region Databases moving this weekend (EU Only)
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2020-04-24 01:45 PM
For the bookworms
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-03-14 07:29 AM
Grid Update Complete
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2020-02-02 01:43 AM
Network Statistics
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2019-10-08 03:08 PM
[UPDATED] Problems with the Self Host package
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-10-05 02:30 PM
MAKE AN OAR BACKUP BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING
Your best option is to unpack the binary to a new folder and copy your Region.ini file in. You can copy your opensim.db file (your region contents) but you are better off saving an OAR from your original region and restoring it to the new binary. If you do not know how to make an OAR backup (in console, "save oar /path-to-file/name-of-file.oar") and you are confused about the load oar command, check with me (Edison).
The new binary fixes many issues,
[COMPLETED] Important - Planned Downtime Friday 27 and Saturday 28 September 2019
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-09-26 01:25 PM
Okay, so the bad news is that we will take the grid offline for at least 24 hours to do this. It may overrun. So expect the downtime to begin at noon GMT (that would be 4am grid time) on Friday, and we would expect the grid to come bac
One of our hosts is back up
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-08-27 12:06 PM
DisplayNames
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2019-06-13 10:26 PM
A word about bans...
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-04-14 01:50 PM
Our patience, however, can be worn very thin, and a few things will earn you a ban from Zetaworlds. Unrepentant, repeated antisocial behaviour is the most common route to a ban, and we have very little tolerance for abuse of the platform, or especially any abuse of our residents. We investigate reports of antisocial behaviour and will usually give warnings, but we will make the determination for a ban, which we consider to be an extreme end.
Spring Sale! New Regions 25% off
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-04-06 05:50 PM
or think you cannot afford a hosted region, go to our land page and check out our
land prices for new customers. Zetaworlds hosted regions have great network bandwidth,
which is the thing you need the most - and have enough memory and CPU to run your region,
and we are generous with prim allocations. Our support is friendly and prompt.
We give you the freedom and privacy you want. If you are
Seeking Hypergrid Board Testers
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-03-22 04:15 PM
Grid is Back Online
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-03-19 10:45 AM
Grid Down
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-03-18 05:46 PM
Billing Back Online
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2019-03-06 11:11 PM
World Map Purge
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-02-24 04:56 AM
Self-hosting restrictions
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2019-02-04 05:24 AM
Search Functions
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2019-01-06 11:37 AM
If you are a landowner (hosted by us) you just need to check the "include in search" checkbox on your parcel tool.
If you are a self hoster you need to make a change in your gridcommon.ini which I will happily tell you how inworld.
The next version of the self host binary will have the fixes in place.
Currently
The Zetasim Ocean Project
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2018-09-09 01:57 PM
Our ocean is now a year old. This project is a lot of fun for us
and I want to say a few things about it.
It consists of 118 4x4 water varsims, with an additional 15 regions
connected to it. That is an equivalent of 1,888 standard sized
sims.
It is about 12 square kilometers of navigable ocean. We use ubODE
physics, and we have plenty of boats available which can sail or
motor on it. We also have aircraft which can fly over it.
There is a common sailing wind available which is tied to real
life. This is another one of our projects which is related to the
ocean. Real Life in this case is near Dover, UK, although we could
pick somewhere else if we wanted to.
A typical
The ZetaSim Public Release is now available!
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2018-06-29 04:30 AM
You can download the binary here.
Improvements include the http communication stream, a number of new OSSL functions, fixes to Meshmerizer when dealing with poorly imported mesh objects, fixes to parcel settings, along with a few other changes. A full list is available upon request. <>
Grid Maintenance 22-Jun-2018 !Update!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2018-06-22 12:29 PM
!Update!: As of 4pm PDT grid time service has been mostly restored, there is still some debugging going on, b
Our Privacy Policy has been updated
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2018-05-26 02:05 PM
Updated Rules and Conduct
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2018-04-16 08:37 AM
Rules and Conduct
Terms of Service
If you wish to report any violations or have questions regarding these terms, feel free to send us a ticket or email, you can find the links to that in the footer of the website or by clicking on the Help button in the top left of the website.
Thank you for celebrating with us
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2018-03-31 06:52 PM
Happy Birthday to us!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2018-03-31 05:25 AM
We are celebrating our 5th year today!
Come join us on Welcome at 3pm grid time (10pm GMT)!
Bring your friends, mother-in-law and that weird guy from Target, everyone is welcome!
We have a lot planned to keep you entertained and well fed even.
- Starting at 3pm(10pm GMT) grid time we have Mr Mikie
- Followed by an hour with music from Henrik, tiasu and TheFatRat
- At 5pm we welcome Singergirl for a set of her favorites
- Afterwards some tunes from Midnight Danger and Wice
- Finally at 6:45pm we start the Q&A session
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Great lineup waiting to get this party started!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2018-03-29 03:59 AM
March 31st we are celebrating our 5th year!
We have a lot planned to keep you entertained and well fed even.
- Starting at 3pm(10pm GMT) grid time we have Mr Mikie
- Followed by an hour with music from Henrik, tiasu and TheFatRat
- At 5pm we welcome Singergirl for a set of her favorites
- Afterwards some tunes from Midnight Danger and Wice
- Finally at 6:45pm we start the Q&A session for you
Come join us on the 31st, everyone is welcome!
HG: hg.zetaworlds.com:80:Welcome
Zetaworlds 5th Year Birthday Party!
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2018-03-27 08:12 AM
To celebrate our 5th year, we're throwing a party!
It is on Saturday, March 31, at 3PM grid time, in the Zetaworlds Welcome region.
We have two artists performing, Mr Mikie and Singergirl.
There will also be tunes served up by the Zetaworlds radio in between sets.
We will have a Q&A session for anyone interested in how the grid operates and what running a grid is like.
Stay tuned for the full schedule later this week!
All are welcome and thank you for being a part of Zetaworlds and Opensim.
Into the great wide open!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2018-01-31 02:26 PM
ZetaWorlds is celebrating its 5th birthday this March. Leading up to that party we are going to run a promotion that has to do with our large Ocean.
Oceanside Extension!
Each sold Oceanside Estate we will match by adding another region to the Ocean expanding on the already 100 square kilometers of available water to sail your boats and fly your favorite planes on. So head over to grab your front-row seat and make the playground even bigger!
Stay tuned for more updates as we near the birthday party!
New release!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2017-11-11 02:32 PM
Grid Upgrade Complete
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2017-10-05 04:17 PM
All the updates have been completed, not as planned, unfortunately, but everything is back up and running. Expect a few hiccups here and there while we tweak some things to increase performance and stability.
We hope this has not inconvenienced anyone too much if you experience any issues with the grid feel free to let a staff member know.
Region sales will be coming online soon, but we don't yet have a solid ETA and the least we want to give you a date we cannot adhere to.
Grid Maintenance (Grid Back Online)
Posted By: Timothy RogersPosted On: 2017-10-04 04:31 PM
The grid will be under going an asset server move at 6pm PDT tonight to our new EU Cluster. During this time, we recommend not uploading, creating, or working on no-copy items. We expect this to take no longer then 1 hour, however please note that due to DNS resolve times could vary from ISP to ISP.
Please note that we will also be working on migrating the actual grid to this new cluster as well tonight around 7pm PDT, which might result in you needing to restart your regions if you self host. If you have problems connecting your region, please feel free to comment below or contact us in world. If your DNS provider takes a long time to update DNS queries we suggest looking into
Starter Avatars
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2017-10-03 09:30 AM
After a rather long round of debugging we have indentified the cause of the starter avatars not functioning as they should. The applied fix should now allow any new residents to our grid to not start off as a cloud anymore.
Aditiondally to this we have deployed two clothing stores on the Welcome region so no one has to keep looking the same. We will be expanding these stores with content as time goes on. Ff you would like to contribute some content to them yourself, feel free to send us a message or contact us inworld.
New Logo
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2017-05-06 07:13 PM
Thanks to Rich Williams (Bill Blight) for a new shiny logo. As we move closer to going out of beta and opening up the grid and its systems we will be doing some changes to the website to make it more user-friendly, stay tuned for more.
Thanks to Spax Orion for our new icons and group images for our official groups.
Fresh New Hardware
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2017-05-03 04:16 PM
Hardware is a bit of a stretch in regards to our official regions, because they are now within the cloud; That magical thing slowly taking over the entire internet. The reason for the move was the trouble we have been seeing with Welcome specifically. We have been unable to pinpoint what exactly is wrong with the region, but with it being moved onto a fresh new machine we are hopeful the problems are solved. We will continue to monitor it and feel free to let us know if you experience any issues. We have also quadrupled the size of the Sandbox region giving you more space to build.
Zetaworlds Announces Opensim Release 004-Dragon
Posted By: Edison RexPosted On: 2017-04-09 11:53 AM
Zetamex Network is delighted to announce the release of the Zetaworlds Opensim 0.9 r004-Dragon version for use in Zetaworlds Simulators.
Grid users can download this version at http://wiki.zetaworlds.com/doku.php/releasenotes:dragon-r004 - if you are a Zetaworlds hosted customer, you will be upgraded soon.
The interesting things you want to know about this upgrade are:
- ubODE support has been improved. You can elect to move to ubODE or you can stay with your existing physics - this is dependent on what mesh you have and how it behaves with ubODE. If you have questions about this, feel free to contact us. There has been a lot of discussion about ubODE and mesh;
Stats Flux Explination
Posted By: Timothy HoxleyPosted On: 2016-12-18 08:21 AM
As some people may have noticed with our stats fluxing, we freely admit this. We are currently doing heavy load balance testing we want to make sure our system is able to handle the load of several thousand regions. We have posted about this on our main blog for Zetamex Network. However, we wanted to post it here as well so that it is clear. They are actual regions being placed online, and used for load testing. So the number are accurate however due to the testing which is ongoing our number will remain in flux till this is complete.
Thank you for your understanding.
Replacing SRAS
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2016-09-18 08:26 AM
The maintenance has been completed successfully and ZetaWorlds is now running on the new php-sas, a completely re-engineered asset server capable of much better load times and CDN load balancing. You can read more about this here.
Planned Downtime 17th/18th September
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2016-09-12 06:50 AM
As part of our constant pursuit of making ZetaWorlds better we will be rolling out some updates during the coming weekend 17th/18th of September. If everything goes according to plan downtime will be minimal, ca. 3 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Say hello to Jackal!
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2016-02-06 08:53 AM
The transfer to the new server, named Jackal, went smoothly and ZetaWorlds is back up and running.
In addition to upgrading the hardware we have started testing a new money module on the regions Gloebits 1 and Gloebits 2. As the name suggest they are running the Gloebit module, which is similar to OMC, but features a much more streamlined process and easier to use interface. Gloebit will be a hypergrid enabled currency, currently Hyperica is also testing this module.
Fresh new hardware
Posted By: Vincent SylvesterPosted On: 2016-02-02 10:09 PM
ZetaWorlds will experience some momentary downtime on the 5th of February to complete our move to newer more powerful hardware. During the upgrade logins will be disabled to move over the grid database and asset server in a stale state, preventing potential dataloss. The move is estimated to take between 1 and 5 hours, if everything goes according to plan. Currently the upgrade is scheduled for 6am grid time. We hope you can excuse this momentary downtime for the benefits of newer more powerful hardware and thus a better experience for the future.
Site Improvements
Posted By: Timothy RogersPosted On: 2016-01-12 08:22 PM
I am sure some have seen the issues with the website when logging into your Avatar Dashboard. We have made some improvements to fix these issues, and you should no longer have any more issues accessing your Avatar Dashboard. Please note; however, that we are still working on ZetaWorlds website to continue development on several features.
Thank you all for your continued support while we continue to develop a grid that is for everyone.
OMC Support and New Simulator Binaries
Posted By: Timothy RogersPosted On: 2016-01-01 08:02 AM
We are happy to announce that OMC is now in ZetaWorlds. This allows you to use money on your regions, this money is managed by VirWox, which adds a layer of security with each purchase needing to pass through a web page. What makes OMC our choice of currency is, that you must OPT-IN to it. This means if you do not wish to use it, you don't have to. If you choose to use it, just head over to Welcome and register at the giant spinning "V" by clicking on it and following the steps. OMC also brings new commerce to ZetaWorlds, as it allows purchases from people who are from other grids, even if their grid doesn't use OMC.
ZetaWorlds has released two new binaries with the OMC module pre
Mesh From Abroad Fixed
Posted By: Timothy HoxleyPosted On: 2015-12-03 06:52 PM
We used to have an old issues where residents visiting other grids would have issues taking items back home, or even seeing mesh objects in other grids. We have since resolved this issue, you can now successfully visit other grids without missing scenery and bring back larger items from other grids.
The tech behind what happened was kinda silly on our part. We had fixed the packet size that can travel through our reverse proxy to our asset server to allow mesh on our grid, however the way that the viewer gets data from other grids to show in your viewer sends it to other parts of the robust to be forwarded to you. Since we learned this, we increased the max packet size on that particular robust ser
Small Updates and Feedback
Posted By: Timothy HoxleyPosted On: 2015-12-02 12:06 PM
We have been working on some small things in the background. So here is a little bit of the rundown of what we been doing lately. But there is still much more to do, but we are also looking to get some feedback.
What has been done so far:
- Forums are not ready to go
- We have upgraded to the latest version of mono
- All user regions have been upgraded to the latest release
We are looking for some feedback, if you want to provide some feedback please check out this forum thread here: http://forum.zetaworlds.com/Official-Feedback-Thread-tp7.html
New Site Launched
Posted By: Timothy HoxleyPosted On: 2015-10-17 10:04 AM
ZetaWorlds has officially launched our new website. It still is a little rough around the edges, but we are working on cleaning that up. We thank you all for your patience and your continued support of ZetaWorlds, and dealing with us as we continue to strive and get ZetaWorlds ready for our first major push in usage ever.
If you have any feedback, we ask you let us know in the comments below so that we can make improvements and help make ZetaWorlds a grid for you and not for us. As ZetaWorlds is a grid made by the users, for the users. Without you, we wouldn't even be a grid.
Thank You Again,
Zetamex Team
Blog Archive
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