Yesterday we met at the HGAC

and had a great visit to the "Winter" sim on francogrid. During the talk at the beginning of the meeting Pathfinder gave me the chance to announce the existence of this little place!
Now we already have some followers and some new accounts on the hyperbase!

As i already mentioned, please bear with me when i have to activate the new accounts, i usually look into them on my early afternoon / evening here in GMT+1 timezone, so unless we talk about it before you create an account it will usually take a day before i notice it.

Talking about accounts... please be aware that this hyperbase is just running on a little VPS server (small virtual machine) and i dont have long experience with that provider (hostrail.com) so i cant guarantee any uptimes or even provide much protection against data loss.

In my opinion it would be the best setup for most of us if we had our own little home base and just use the hbase42 as a meeting point and a common place to start our travels from.

That doesnt mean i dont want you to create any local accounts on hbase42, just beware, this is by no means a production quality grid, so "there be dragons" ;-)

I had a quick chat with Pathfinder and we talked about the differernt hypergrid versions. During that talk i named them "realms" so there is the hypergrid 1.0 realm, the hg1.5(i6) and the hg1.5(i7) realm. Those arent connected by any normal ways. But... there are some tiny "wormholes" to bring stuff from one realm to the others.

First way, usually a one way street: you set up a hg1.0 sim, create your avatar, go and collect all the nice things you want... and then... upgrade it to a newer version!
After that you either continue using that one, or give your goods to another "you" in that newer realm... rinse and repeat.

Another way is to export items using e.g. the export functionality of viewers like the imprudence viewer or tools like second inventory, then import them back into a sim in the newer realm.

In my opinion the best way is to use opensims built in "save iar" functionality. It gives you a way to store individual folders of your inventory (or even the whole thing if you want to) locally onto your harddrive.
Well... unfortunately this only works if you have access to the console of a sim you are in. One more reason to set up your very own base at home (hint, hint..)

Another good thing to do is to export your shape (using imprudence)

Hmm... seems the more i think about it, the more i could write, but that also means more for you to read... so i better stop here and wait for any reactions... (any need to describe the details of those procedures?, any volunteers to write then down? ;-)

cu on the hypergrid,
Neo