@ Vint, copy of comments posted on SL blog re new data set and pretty charts:
lot of pretty graphs!
Land mass is really an odd thing to track in a virtual world. There is no land! Servers or capacity would be more useful. In terms of available capacity, I think that it is likley that total prims on the grid have actually DECREASED as a result of so many sim/void conversions. A full sim = 16.5k and 4 voids = 12,000. So while the grid is bigger it is also smaller!
More importantly the grid is probably more empty--lower ratio of active users to grid capacity. We typically load a full sim to 50 max avatars, but actually also load the voids to same level and it sorta works. Why? Because somehow the voids are load balanced and busier ones must be getting more of the CPU. (which also means a void void is subsidizing a busy void).
So, I guess take-away is more land mass = more avatar capacity, but with voids, less potential content. Makes my head spin a little.
But, seems like a little new data in this latest data set. or maybe i missed it before %). User to user transactions. Which shows the picture that we are feeling. Massive drop from last year! And really this is where the action is for business operators. I guess a lot has to do with gambling ban. If you take the user/user transactions and divide by the total hours you can see a pretty consistent range of about L220 to L240 of user/user transactions per hour. So not a lot of change there--which I guess is sorta stability/good news.
Now next question is how much of this user/user transactions are below L10--which is effectively a freebie and how much is above L10,000 which is gonna mostly be land payments. This would help us understand what the non-land economy is doing.
Nonethelss, LL should come clean and share data on void conversions vs new sim sales--as it is important to see new participant growth versus more service fees from existing residents (void conversion has a $100USD charge associated with it).
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@ Vint, copy of comments
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 14:05 — RightAsRain Rimbaud@ Vint, copy of comments posted on SL blog re new data set and pretty charts:
lot of pretty graphs!
Land mass is really an odd thing to track in a virtual world. There is no land! Servers or capacity would be more useful. In terms of available capacity, I think that it is likley that total prims on the grid have actually DECREASED as a result of so many sim/void conversions. A full sim = 16.5k and 4 voids = 12,000. So while the grid is bigger it is also smaller!
More importantly the grid is probably more empty--lower ratio of active users to grid capacity. We typically load a full sim to 50 max avatars, but actually also load the voids to same level and it sorta works. Why? Because somehow the voids are load balanced and busier ones must be getting more of the CPU. (which also means a void void is subsidizing a busy void).
So, I guess take-away is more land mass = more avatar capacity, but with voids, less potential content. Makes my head spin a little.
But, seems like a little new data in this latest data set. or maybe i missed it before %). User to user transactions. Which shows the picture that we are feeling. Massive drop from last year! And really this is where the action is for business operators. I guess a lot has to do with gambling ban. If you take the user/user transactions and divide by the total hours you can see a pretty consistent range of about L220 to L240 of user/user transactions per hour. So not a lot of change there--which I guess is sorta stability/good news.
Now next question is how much of this user/user transactions are below L10--which is effectively a freebie and how much is above L10,000 which is gonna mostly be land payments. This would help us understand what the non-land economy is doing.
Nonethelss, LL should come clean and share data on void conversions vs new sim sales--as it is important to see new participant growth versus more service fees from existing residents (void conversion has a $100USD charge associated with it).
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"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics." - Variously attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Marshall, Mark Twain and many other dead people.