Regions updated

All red dragon regions have been updated to the latest and greatest build. We also pushed over the old V8 builds to the hosted server, so you don't drop in oblivion unless its weekend when you TP there. So as of today all 18 regions will be online 24/7. The main travel center at Red Dragon Club was updated with the newest places to explore, the others will be updated soon. All regions are voice enabled so you can yap with your friends when exploring the huge underground shops stores and galleries. If you love the music on these regions, find a web player here. The downloads section had some broken links removed, and some new added. Also the About Us page got an update, so you can find Red Dragon in "other worlds" as well.

If for some reason you rather use teamspeak than vivox, or need a more secure and encrypted channel to talk on, you can hit our Red Dragon Teamspeak channels on :

RDNC.MadFoxx.nl
9997  password: Reddragon

Please do not disturb the players in other RD channels. The public OSG channel can be used at will, the private channels are encrypted. Passwords are found in their descriptions. Red Dragon also exists as a kinship (LOTRO)  and Tank division (WOT), hence the teamspeak channel. On the Steam communities were found here. So if  not building, we "Game on".

VAR regions

There is a lot of testing and experimenting with VAR regions (scalable, and not a "megaregion"). You can read up on the VAR wiki page on how to create one, find tips on migrating your existing regions etc. If you want to visit / check one, try popping by Event plaza, or Jurrasic park regions. VAR is a work in progress, so expect minor glitches that can impact anyone.  Like, don't be surprised if you can read chat conversations in neighbouring sims all over sudden, or if on a var, terraforming is a bit chunkier than usual. Performance wise, on the loadtest i attended VAR runs like a charm. Bugs are being squashed at each new update. Red Dragon will remain on single regions for the time being. as i don't want to load 150K+ prims on a VAR just yet.

According to hypergridbusiness who vigorously collect stats on as much grids as they can, the top 40 of opensim based grids dropped by a 5000 regions, due to some housekeeping and spring cleanup. People come people go, but overall OSgrid seems to become more active again, more events are hosted, more clubs and DJ's are active, and a steady flow of new people is setting up and building their new regions.

Dev's are figuring out ways to get around the issues with NAT loopback, as apparently in the US & UK the ISP's love to hand out "poor mans" routers that don't support it, or have it disabled in their firmwares. (in general, and i think globally ISP's don't like you to run servers on home connections).
My advice is to buy & run a decent router if you plan to host a server. And although, it really sucks not being able to run your own region without "buying stuff first", it's well worth it, and generally not "unaffordable". A list of supported routers is found here. Mind there are much more supported, than unsupported routers, and you can find them from € 15  / $ 18 and up already, depending on your further requirements. Also make sure to properly troubleshoot your connection, before running to the store. In 95% of the "problems" i've seen in the past 4 years it's misconfigurations and not NAT loopback causing problems.
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More party news

Saturday the 15th of March Red Dragon Club X presents "The House of Beats" Dance party. Grab your rave-sticks and come party. DJ Foxx Bode will run the stream, and teach you what that subwoofer below your desk was meant for again. Your host will be SnakeDance Moonwing. The party starts at around 10.00 grid time, until 13.00 max. (Thats 19.00 to 22.00 if you are in europe). Sunday morning will have a chill-out session with more mainstream music. 

Enough about the weekends for this post, you can also party Today ! The "Blue Wave" club on Pyramid region, runs events every wednesday, at 7.00 UTC. The region houses a large pyramid, with a big pool inside. And you party under water ! Your host here is Samira Samtanko. 

I'm awaiting the opening dates for Club Quantum and Club Holland, and most of the events listed here are also present on LBSA plaza's infoboard. Another simple way to find these clubs even if you forgot the name, is hopping by wright plaza and visit the Travel office. It's kept up to date with the latest and greatest. 

Notes after troubleshooting some installs in last 2 months after the break.

Clubbing

Red Dragon kicked off again at today, and had a nice opening, with DJ Foxx, Host Snakedance, and an average of 10 visitors. Like expected, the Club X region, carrying half the prims and scripts compared to the main club, performed excellent. No lag, no crashes, all went smooth, and we had a nice party. We ran a 3 hour set, and afterwards we popped to "Prim club" with all visitors, and continued to dance on tunes by DJ LadyJo.

The event  at Prim Club is currently still playing, and at 17.00 PST another party will be occurring at Sunburst region. Meaning you can party all weekend in OSG, listen to a variety of tunes, and visit live events. All travel offices have been updated with some new regions to explore, so in weekends, no need to be bored.  For more events check the boards at LBSA plaza region in OSgrid.

Possibly a short OSG loadtest for scalable regions will be announced later tonight, taking place on Event plaza. Also keep posted for next weeks events listing, as "Red Dragon On Tour" will start its travels through the grid. We will stop posting G+ invites, but publish here and in the plaza's if and when events take place.