It’s always a good idea not to put your regions on round-numbered locations. There’s a good chance that some other grid already has regions there, and you won’t be able to teleport directly to them if you want to — you can’t jump from one region to another if they have the same coordinates.

(Is that another SL-related viewer issue?)

But I’ve never heard of teleporting to one region and ending up at the same coordinates on another grid. I *have* heard of maps not being updated immediately after you teleport from one grid to another, so you’re still seeing the old regions on the map for a little while.

Peter — Grid popularity can be measured by the number in inbound hypergates that point to your grid. We’re starting to see some of these one-to-one links appearing (I’m putting a few on my not-yet-officially-launched Hyperica grid), and Pathfinder has some up, as well. However, there aren’t nearly enough of these gates yet for any realistic measurement of popularity. The most common gates are menu-driven gates that give access to a large collection of destinations — The Hypergates is the most common example of these. You can’t (yet) pick and choose which destinations appear in The Hypergates hypergate on your region. I’m sure that functionality is coming, however, as the number of hypergrid destinations is exploding.

Later, when the OGP project was started by Linden Lab, we were given some ranges of coordinates to place our regions. They happened to be in meters, not region units. But, we didn’t know this. So, as we entered the coordinates as-is our regions were very far apart. And some who jumped to the Linden regions on Agni saw this bug on the LL regions.

With the onset of Hypergrid, I added a gateway region between my OSgrid regions and my original OGP regions that were within jumping distance of the Agni regions. Then, it was possible to login to Agni and travel via the gateways to OSgrid, then on to Wright Plaza. Whump Linden was the first person to make the OGP/Hypergrid trip through the gateway from Agni to OSgrid.

Good point about the map. I don’t believe I have ever been in a block of regions large enough to fill the map. Most of us have just thought it was something that needed addressing on the OpenSim side.

Thanks for the info!
BlueWall

Thx for clarifying this point. And also hoping Osgrid will become more HG friendly

I personally can’t agree more about the limitations of grids in terms of a network of virtual worlds and your HG protocol got me convinced as soon as I begun using Opensim, 2 years ago. The one thing I haven’t yet found an analogy for ( maybe because it’s totally irrelevant) is the equivalent of “world popularity/influence” (or in google terminology, pagerank) in virtual-world space. Avatar influence could be achieved by measuring ocurences of a creator name’s in virtual props, but what is a “one directional hard link” between two grids ?