#virtualcities — Public Fediverse posts

Some cities have inspired multiple sims in OpenSim each and keep inspiring new sims. This mostly goes for New Orleans, Paris, London and Venice. Havana has become kind of popular since some appropriate dummy houses have popped up.

I've seen two sims inspired by Rome. One of them represents modern-day Rome, including a sadly unused event location built into the Colosseum, and it was appropriately built by an Italian. The other one is inspired by ancient Rome.

There have also been two takes on Liverpool. One is 19th-century Liverpool as being reconstructed in-scale by @Ball of Confusion. This actually has to be one of the most ambitious city sims so far, also because all buildings are custom recrations of historical Liverpool buildings rather than generic ones picked up on the Hypergrid. The other one was built on my home grid, Dorenas World, by a good acquaintance of mine. However, it's part of a Beatles-themed sim, and it's basically only the Cavern Club with some generic surroundings. On the other hand, the Cavern Club is a fully functional, albeit fairly small and kind of hard-to-find, event location that saw our most recent New Year's party.

This Beatles sim also contains a bit of London, mainly the Abbey Road studios, that famous zebra crossing, some generic surroundings, partly with shops in them, a Beatles museum in a generic store building and the scene of the 1969 rooftop concert.

It also has one of the two representations of Hamburg's famous Reeperbahn, but only a small one with a bit of the Große Freiheit. A much bigger one on a varsim, also including the Spielbudenplatz with an event stage, but lacking the Beatles-Platz with the five silhouette statues, is on another grid which seems to change its name every once in a while. The same grid usually also offers a fairly accurate OpenSim representation of the St. Pauli Fischmarkt, and it even used to have a Hamburger Dom sim with a stand-in for the eponymous, enormous fairground on it.

New York City has been attempted a few times, too, but the highly detailed, heavily scripted, densely packed 4x4 var in @Hyacinth 🏳️‍⚧️ ☮️'s Groovyverse with its many custom buildings and textures is hard to top. It offers things ranging from a working Subway line with various stations to a freebie store inside Macy's which has been changed to only legal content to the Empire State Building with an art déco event location inside, complete with an extensive backstage area.

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