In this post I’m going to use tables to take a look at some statistics during the Rod Humble years. Allegations that this is just an excuse for me to remind myself how to do tables in HTML will be vehemently denied. I’ll be taking data largely from Tyche “Statto” Shepherd, which can be found at SLUniverse or from Tyche’s wonderfully useful site at http://gridsurvey.com/
I’m basing the following tables on Tyche’s reports on January 16th 2011 and January 19th 2014.
Region Numbers
| Type | 16th Jan 2011 | 19th Jan 2014 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estate | 24,756 | 19,205 | -5,551 |
| Linden Owned | 6,673 | 6,986 | +313 |
| Overall | 31,429 | 26,191 | -5,238 |
This is quite a painful table. A loss of over 5,500 private estate regions during three years, which comes in somewhere close to 22.4% by my reckoning. My reckoning may be out of course but that looks about right.
The loss in private regions had started before Rod Humble came onboard and although they certainly seemed to accelerate under his reign, the losses were slowing down by the time he left. I posted on January 4th that net private region losses were slowing down. During 2012 the net loss was 2,865 (12.0% during the year), in 2013 the net loss was 1,719 (8.2% during the year). I’m not sure what anyone can do to stem the loss of private regions at this stage.
Regions By Maturity Rating
| Type | 16th Jan 2011 | 19th Jan 2014 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult – Estate | 2,043 | 4,074 | +2,031 |
| Adult – Linden | 346 | 346 | 0 |
| Adult – All | 2,389 | 4,420 | +2,031 |
| General – Estate | 3,047 | 1,931 | -1,116 |
| General – Linden | 1,492 | 1,622 | +130 |
| General – All | 4,539 | 3,553 | -986 |
| Moderate – Estate | 19,663 | 13,196 | -6,467 |
| Moderate – Linden | 4,835 | 5,018 | +183 |
| Moderate – All | 24,498 | 18,214 | -6,284 |
As we can see, during the three years Mr Humble was in charge, Second Life appeared to get more adult. Over 2,000 more Adult rated sims now furnish the grid than when he arrived in 2011. Adult rated private regions have almost doubled.
This seems to have come at the expense of moderate and general rated regions. Moderate region net losses were well over 6,000 and not far off 33%. General fared worse in terms of a percentage loss, at around 36.6%.
The usual caveats apply here, I don’t know why Adult ratings have risen so much but I do know that many an adult sim is not dedicated to full on adult activities. Some people just prefer to have the highest available rating to give them the most flexibility. This is why Moderate rated sims score so well, in the old days there were only two ratings and moderate (then known as mature) was the higher rating and therefore gave the most flexibility.
I’m sure someone somewhere may be able to delve further into the reasons for Adult becoming so popular, but it would be a painful task.
As one would expect, there’s not that much change in the numbers of Linden owned sims but there clearly were some additions.
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