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To both Colonial Navy and the Pirates that ravage Utopia seas.
Utopia Sky Grid is changing; the management that controls our grid have determined that effective January 1, 2026 they will block Hypergrid travels. This will affect both inbound and outbound travelers.So if you have a region in Utopia Sky Grid, best ask for an OAR before January 2026.
What will that do to our sea battle? Are you by chance considering joining the sea battles? We will be continuing our battles while evaluating how this change effects our battles before deciding if we must change grids since that takes a lot of work after the move before we can start up battles again.
In the interim, if you are a Hypergrid traveler then it will be necessary for you to create an avatar on Utopia Skye grid to be able to join the battles we have.
Clothing, ships and lessons will be available for regular players in Utopia Battle Group for free.
Lt. Daye Chrills
Adm. Modee Parlez
Loose Cannon Ship Yard
Utopia Sky Grid is changing; the management that controls our grid have determined that effective January 1, 2026 they will block Hypergrid travels. This will affect both inbound and outbound travelers.So if you have a region in Utopia Sky Grid, best ask for an OAR before January 2026.
What will that do to our sea battle? Are you by chance considering joining the sea battles? We will be continuing our battles while evaluating how this change effects our battles before deciding if we must change grids since that takes a lot of work after the move before we can start up battles again.
In the interim, if you are a Hypergrid traveler then it will be necessary for you to create an avatar on Utopia Skye grid to be able to join the battles we have.
Clothing, ships and lessons will be available for regular players in Utopia Battle Group for free.
Lt. Daye Chrills
Adm. Modee Parlez
Loose Cannon Ship Yard
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Are you passionate about high-seas adventures, pirate lore, smuggling runs, and epic naval battles with classic tall ships? On the Kitely Grid, we host thrilling sea battles every Friday at 12:30 PM, featuring the famous SPD ships—from swift gunboats to majestic tall ships.
Our world spans 32 custom-built sims, with 16 sims dedicated entirely to naval combat. With minimal scripts outside the ships themselves, the battles run smoothly with excellent performance and very low lag. Whether you want to sail for the Navy, hunt down smugglers, or roam the seas as a pirate, there’s always adventure waiting.
We’re also happy to welcome shipbuilders! In addition to the beautiful creations from Angelic Helling, we’d love to see more builders bring their ships to our waters. With luck, one day we’ll even see the famed Modee Parlez vessels join us when she is making them exportable to other grids.
Curious?
Visit: grid.kitely.com:8002:Catronian Archipelago
Get a first impression in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgJgHEgvT8
All new captains are warmly invited to join the battles, set sail, and even organize their own events.
If you want to jump straight to our newest combat area—built especially for large-scale sailing battles—head to:
grid.kitely.com:8002:Catronian Archipelago Battle Sea
All captains welcome—hoist your colors and set course for adventure! ⚓️🏴☠️🌊
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Our world spans 32 custom-built sims, with 16 sims dedicated entirely to naval combat. With minimal scripts outside the ships themselves, the battles run smoothly with excellent performance and very low lag. Whether you want to sail for the Navy, hunt down smugglers, or roam the seas as a pirate, there’s always adventure waiting.
We’re also happy to welcome shipbuilders! In addition to the beautiful creations from Angelic Helling, we’d love to see more builders bring their ships to our waters. With luck, one day we’ll even see the famed Modee Parlez vessels join us when she is making them exportable to other grids.
Curious?
Visit: grid.kitely.com:8002:Catronian Archipelago
Get a first impression in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgJgHEgvT8
All new captains are warmly invited to join the battles, set sail, and even organize their own events.
If you want to jump straight to our newest combat area—built especially for large-scale sailing battles—head to:
grid.kitely.com:8002:Catronian Archipelago Battle Sea
All captains welcome—hoist your colors and set course for adventure! ⚓️🏴☠️🌊
Sounds like you are going to have less diverse battles in your future. I would jump ship to a better climate where you are not restricted.
I doubt people will make an account on your grid because there would be no point as you will be stuck there with limited options, apart from the Admins that will still have hyper grid access so they can travel around and pilfer all the shops to fill out their closed grid and potentially try selling the items to its residents.
Your ship is sinking, abandon ship!
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I doubt people will make an account on your grid because there would be no point as you will be stuck there with limited options, apart from the Admins that will still have hyper grid access so they can travel around and pilfer all the shops to fill out their closed grid and potentially try selling the items to its residents.
Your ship is sinking, abandon ship!
Utopia Skye is closing the Hypergrid because there are verified, exploitable security issues with the HG protocol that I can't in good conscience ignore. I have a responsibility to my residents to protect their IP. We will reintroduce the HG when it can be done securely in Trusted Grid fashion. That's a part of our NGC software project roadmap. So far core has been unwilling to address the security issues much less to discuss fixes. Since I'm responsible for much of the coding in the NGC software we run I am going to fix this in our distribution. If anyone cares about security in Core might be worth a conversation with Ubit though I suspect they will downplay it.
The assertion that we will be stealing (already stolen) content from the HG to sell to our residents is somewhat slanderous and certainly isnt consistent with our (USG position) or my personal one regarding illegal content copying. Just because most of the rest of the HG operates this way doesn's mean we do at USG.
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The assertion that we will be stealing (already stolen) content from the HG to sell to our residents is somewhat slanderous and certainly isnt consistent with our (USG position) or my personal one regarding illegal content copying. Just because most of the rest of the HG operates this way doesn's mean we do at USG.
I don't think open sim will ever be secure due to the nature of the beast. Even SL can't lock it down properly and they are a closed grid too.
I am a creator in SL and I dislike the situation knowing my stuff could be ripped and distributed here, but I would rather have open sim be an open place where we are free to hop around and enjoy all the places the community makes rather than it becoming fragmented and needing to make hundreds of accounts on different grids. After all it is not called closed simulator. I only ever create things here that I don't mind giving away with no strings attached because trying to protect your creations here or in SL is futile. If you fail to embrace the free for all mentality then the system falls apart and your mental heath will suffer. I like to randomly stumble across one of my creations in the wild seeing what others have done with it. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. I still have the original so its no skin off my nose.
Trying to lock down a grid in the hope that it will protect IP isn't going to work very well and will inevitably stifle grid growth and reduce traffic. If anyone is going to join a closed grid they are likely going to pick the biggest one so they can meet more people, go more places and buy/sell more things.
Normally when a grid closes to the HG they are trying to start an economy for buying and selling items. That only works if you are the largest economy out there (SL) and can tolerate the petty theft that will always occur. Until a time that copying items becomes impossible then nothing will change here sadly. They whole system works in a way that in order to see assets in world you have to send the asset to the viewer and hackers can just take it regardless weather your grid is open or closed.
I wish you all the best in your attempt at fixing open simulator.
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I am a creator in SL and I dislike the situation knowing my stuff could be ripped and distributed here, but I would rather have open sim be an open place where we are free to hop around and enjoy all the places the community makes rather than it becoming fragmented and needing to make hundreds of accounts on different grids. After all it is not called closed simulator. I only ever create things here that I don't mind giving away with no strings attached because trying to protect your creations here or in SL is futile. If you fail to embrace the free for all mentality then the system falls apart and your mental heath will suffer. I like to randomly stumble across one of my creations in the wild seeing what others have done with it. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. I still have the original so its no skin off my nose.
Trying to lock down a grid in the hope that it will protect IP isn't going to work very well and will inevitably stifle grid growth and reduce traffic. If anyone is going to join a closed grid they are likely going to pick the biggest one so they can meet more people, go more places and buy/sell more things.
Normally when a grid closes to the HG they are trying to start an economy for buying and selling items. That only works if you are the largest economy out there (SL) and can tolerate the petty theft that will always occur. Until a time that copying items becomes impossible then nothing will change here sadly. They whole system works in a way that in order to see assets in world you have to send the asset to the viewer and hackers can just take it regardless weather your grid is open or closed.
I wish you all the best in your attempt at fixing open simulator.
In the spirit of full disclosure the issue security issue I mentioned is not about ip protection although I do care about that as well and have some ideas that will help there. It's about being able to embed executable code (a virus...) in the payloads sent on the HG (and stored in a local grid). I wont go into details here but if anyone would like the details message me and I'll share. Maybe if enough people say something core will fix it... Maybe.
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Why would a grid even want to be closed off, I would never close my grid off to hf. Lets face it, my grid is small and needs the visitors. I like small grids.
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I don't understand why they want to cut off hypergrid for some reason?? That not going to help the grid to grow without hypergrid teleport just my opinion. And what worse is to lose friends in hypergrid as well cause all other friends or people are in other grids.I do have my own grid and i'm happy for it to open for hypergrid always no matter what.
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