Mathilda Stark^✦ @MathildaStark

Another word on ZetaWorlds due to a recent discussion on OSW.

I decided to move Stark to ZetaWorlds some time ago for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, I wanted a professional grid hosted by IT professionals who know what they're doing, because I don't want to mess around with all the technical stuff. I just want to build and have fun. So I'm willing to pay for a sim if I get a stable and reliable service in return.
Secondly, if I have to pay for the service, I want to know who is behind the grid. I would never transfer money to an anonymous person. I have no problem with transferring my real data so that the company, which is registered in the commercial register, can issue flawless invoices.
Thirdly, I live in Germany. As a German, I feel better if I can use a German service like ZetaWorlds, which has to adhere to the legal requirements of my country.

In the discussions about grids and how this is handled with hypergrid access, I think they are comparing apples with oranges. A commercial, professionally operated grid has higher challenges to overcome and is obliged to guarantee a flawless service to its paying customers. In contrast, the operator of a private grid, often hosted on his own PC, can do whatever he wants. If it breaks down at some point, that's just the way it is. The tenants are simply out of luck. With a commercial grid, I can demand the service by law. These are two completely different things that are often forgotten.

Welcome to Stark North District!

The Stark North District is more than just an extension to Stark Islands. It's a full new region with the main sim North District plus 2 nice residential sims Archipelago and Causeway and an impressive nature sim called Straits. The main sim North District holds a bunch of shops. There are also some possibilities for nice roleplays.

The North District region is connected directly to Stark Islands, means you can even walk from the Stark Islands main sim to North District by crossing the whole region. Well, if you dont have the time or you are too lazy, you can go by boat or teleporter.

But why I am writing this all? Better you make your own experience and come over to Stark North District.
https://opensimworld.com/hop/89605

Grand Opening SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12.
https://opensimworld.com/events/95669


If you are interessted to have your own store there please contact Niki Stark, the region owner.

ANNOUNCEMENT - ANKÜNDIGUNG


[GERMAN VERSION]


Liebe Freunde and Starkies,

was wir heute ankündigen werden, fällt uns nicht leicht. Niki und ich, Mathilda, haben beschlossen, den Betrieb von Stark Islands nach dem 30. Juni 2021 einzustellen.
Wir haben uns viele Gedanken darüber gemacht, unter welchen Voraussetzungen wir Stark hätten weiterlaufen lassen könnten. Aber letztendlich hätte es zu viele Änderungen geben müssen und Stark wäre nicht mehr das gleiche gewesen. Außerdem haben wir uns außerhalb von OpenSim eine neue Aufgabe gestellt. Einerseits bedauern wir, Stark zu schließen, nach all der harten Arbeit, die wir in dieses Paradies investiert haben. Aber wir sind auch sehr stolz darauf, dass wir es bis nach ganz weit oben auf der Liste der beliebtesten Regionen von OSW geschafft zu haben. Das wäre ohne euch, unsere wunderbare Gemeinschaft, nicht möglich gewesen.
Deshalb möchten Niki und ich uns an dieser Stelle bedanken. Danke an alle Starkies für eure Unterstützung und Treue. Danke an unsere DJ’s! Jeder einzelne von Euch hat mit seinen mittlerweile legendären Sets zum Erfolg von Stark beigetragen. Danke an das Zeta Worlds Team, ohne dessen Unterstützung der stabile Betrieb einer solch leistungshungrigen Region wie Stark nicht möglich gewesen wäre. Danke auch an alle Besucher, die jederzeit herzlich willkommen waren und viele nette Kommentare und Likes hinterlassen haben. Wir wünschen euch allen von ganzem Herzen alles, alles Gute!
Für OpenSim wünsche ich mir, dass die Leute, die Grids, viel stärker zusammenarbeiten und nicht gegeneinander. Ihr seid ein Grid! Das Hypergrid! Nur gemeinsam hat OpenSim eine Chance.
Wir werden euch im Auge behalten und vielleicht, irgendwann, sehen wir uns wieder.

In diesem Sinne, lebt wohl!
Niki & Mathilda Stark

Comment to the review of MarkZyn at Stark:
Beeing unfriendly to our visitors is not the nature of either me or Niki. You can ask whoever you want, so I guess you never got in contact with us. Child avatars aren't allowed at Stark, but we can't be there the whole time to see who is on. So if you have a problem with something or someone it would be nice if you would have get in contact with me BEFORE you write such an unfair and defamatory review. But I guess that was all you wanted. Your account is brand new and empty, seems to be created just for that reason.

ZetaWorlds turns 11

Over a decade. Time sure flies when you are putting your passion into something. On the 20th of March we celebrate 11 years of ZetaWorlds!
As usual Welcome will host a number of DJs and a live act to make the evening unique!

The night kicks off at 10am grid time with a small get together after which the music will roll in. If you have a burning question or just want to chat come along.

Teleport directly to hg.zetaworlds.com/Welcome

Lineup:

10 am: get-together
11 am: Nora Cola
12 pm: Hazel Ito
1 pm: Ruud vandeSande
2 pm: Mathilda Stark aka Mattie
3 pm: Ernest Moncrieff (LIVE ACT)
4 pm: Edison Rex

Come along and celebrate with us and raise your glasses for the next 11 years to come!

The first time ever in open sim, a magazine dedicated to Hentai in all its glory. This magazine will have you all racing to the store to get many copies. Hehehehehehehe!
It is rude and it is fun so please dont take offence. It is A rated but not malicious or ill meaning.

You can get old or new style vendors containing the whole range of Stark! magazines from the welcome area at Stark Islands.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

21st September is WORLD PEACE DAY!

Whilst it may seem slightly frivolous, ZetaWorlds is having an event/party, We can't end the wars, the assault on Ukraine by Putin's Russia, the conflict in Gaza made worse by Israel's tamper tantrum, the military junta terrorizing Myanmar, but we can raise awareness and we can make a difference!

Anyone that buys a region that day, any package really, all proceeds will be given to Angel of Life aid for Ukraine! Let's raise some money!
The charity is linked here: https://angel-of-life.weblium.site
(additional information: https://www.volunteeringukraine.com/en/volunteer-opportuni... [added by Mathilda Stark])

The day starts of with a Q&A session again with Edison and Vincent answering burning issues, questions, and talking us through planned upgrades etc. Please direct your questions and anything you might want to discuss here: https://zetaworlds.com/forms/questionnaire

So the timetable for the day:
8am: Q&A Session
10am: Quirkessential DJane HAZEL ITO plays one of her unique mixes
11am: Sees the return of live singer ROGUE GALAXY to center stage
12 noon: High noon, for our live DJ MATTIE
1pm: It's the normally naked DJ RUUD, but this time at least partly clothed, don't miss this!
2pm: Our lovely ELLEMIR takes over the decks before handing over at
3pm: to the next live DJ NORA COLA

So please come and join us, donate to great charities one way on another, and make it a night to show support for the wronged and a world living in peace and harmony!

If that somehow offends you: Attacking fellow humans is abhorrent whether it be punching your neighbor or invading a whole country for no reason.

(Original source: https://zetaworlds.com/blog/view/world-peace-day-24)

After hearing of the sad news that Gertie Bumbtious left us on June 5th, we, Niki Stark (ex-wife of Gertie) and I decided to make a tribute edition of Stark! with some nice photos of Gertie. We will miss Gertie very much with her happy, positive manner and her legendary music sets!

You can get copies of the magazine and the vendors at the Stark landing point as always.

Rest in peace, Gertie!
Niki & Mattie

https://opensimworld.com/post/88948

Hey everyone, we are at last on the final details of the sims, but on Saturday 21st May 2022 Stark is back, we back!!!!!

There is a Grand Opening Party starting at 11am SLT through to whenever, and sometime prior to 11am Stark will be opened to the masses!!! ;-) There will be another announcement on Saturday when the veils are finally lifted.

As always Stark will roll out the rainbow, Love, Pride and Respect to all and Mattie will be playing the tunes, a great mix of favourites to get Stark back up and grooving!!!

Join us if you can and let's have a great time!

The new Stark! magazine is out now!

Nice Minik from Stark Islands ZetaWorlds did another great edition as photographer with the beautiful Vanessa Mondar, her model and muse.

You can get your copy of the magazine and vendors at the Stark landing point.

It's scientifically proven that laughter strengthens the immune response!

Hey hey hey it is (or will be) the 5th of May and ZW pushed the boat out for WORLD LAUGHTER DAY!!!!!! Another fabulous evening of entertainment.

LINEUP

10am - DJ TANYA
11am - HAZEL ITO
Noon - NORA COLA
1pm - MATTIE
2pm - ROGUE GALAXY
3pm - EDISON and VINCENT

Do your body some good and enjoy some jokes and great music. It will be another night to remember so go Zeta go Zeta go Zeta rarara!

This is the repost of the Stark! magazine with the submissive Mina Sato and the famous Ernest Moncrieff, well knows as singer and curator of The Art Factory (OSGrid), with a kids-friendly-cover. ;-)

Get your copy of the magazine and vendors from the Stark landing point.

The current issue of Stark Magazine is another wonderful piece of work by our talented photographer Nice Minik. Strong photos in black and white are based on the theme of the cinema genre "Film Noir".

Pick up your copy of this ornate edition directly from the Stark landing point, or take the entire vendors with you.

OUT NOW! The new Stark! magazine with the famous Nice Minik as photographer and model! I can promise, you'll see new sides of OSGrid's most popular photographer. Definately worth a closer look!

Get your copy of the magazine and vendors at the Stark landing point.

Finally! After a very long break, a new Stark! magazine has been published.

This issue was again photographed by Nice Minik. This time Nice deals with the thought of what it would be like to be able to see the fantasies of others. A very exciting topic, in my opinion.

You can get this and all other issues published so far from our vending machines in front of the Stark! shop, directly behind and below our Studio 54.

Come and pick up a copy, even of the complete vending machines!

Why there are people they give their avatars names like "Nazi German" and "Adolf Hitler"?
Why they visit a sim like Stark and say they hate gays and threaden people to find them in real and kill them?
Why are people so full of hate?
Why can't they stay away from Stark and let live people their (virtual) life in the way they want?
Lots of questions that I don't have an answer to!

But one thing is absolutely clear for me:

WE DON'T WANT GUYS LIKE YOU HERE AT STARK!

So please stay away and spread your hate somewhere else. Or better: Don't spread it anywhere!

And stop crying in the Stark OSW review section because we banned you several times. We would do it anytime again!

Stark Islands is proud to present our new location:

ANGEL WINGS BDSM

Come experience this elegant sinful club, furnished to see to all of your desires, with many many places to live your couple, threesome or foursome erotic dreams.
18+ only.
https://opensimworld.com/post/94202

Premiere Opening Sunday, November 6, at 11 am grid time with Mattie as your DJ.

https://opensimworld.com/events/93457

It is already open to the public as of today.

The new Stark! magazine with Miranda Djannovic from Virtual Dream Grid and Niki Stark is out now! Be careful! It is HOT!

Get your copy of the magazine and/or vendor from the new Stark landing point.

Mattie will bring you safely into the New Year, which hopefully will be a more peaceful one than this year. So, if you're not busy with real life, Mattie would be happy to meet you at the party location, specially made temporarily for this event to have a good time with friends!

To everyone else who can't be there, we wish you a Happy New Year in advance and see you next year!

Your Stark Islands family

We are proud to open our version of the famous Studio 54 on Stark Islands, right on the landing point. Special thanks to Ernest Moncrieff for letting us use his creation on which this club is based.

So come along and let's have some fun to groovy Nu-Disco beats.

hg.zetaworlds.com:Stark

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We collectively raised $206 for charity with $108 going to UNICEF as 36 visitors attended out charity event! We decided to triple our donation for such a great turnout. Attendees at the event pitched in another $98 towards charities. Thanks to Posy Potts, Mathilda Stark, Niki Stark and Edison Rex!

If you can, please continue to support a charity of your choice or donate to one of these. Thank you all so much for this great event and the donations!

https://donate.unicef.org/donate/now
https://giving.unhcr.org/en/ukraine/
https://donatenow.wfp.org/ukraine-appeal/~my-donation
https://www.ohchr.org/en/donation
https://www.amnesty.org/en/donate/

Here is the original post: https://zetaworlds.com/blog/view/charity-event-2023

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To celebrate World Peace Day we are holding a charity event on the 21st of September. You can visit the events region during that day and find some links to charities if you wish to donate and for every visitor during that day we will donate $1 to UNICEF.

Later that day at 10am grid time we will kick off a little event for everyone with your favorite DJs.

10am - Hazel Ito QUIRKY ECLECTIC
noon - Mattie Stark LIVE!
and at 2pm Vincent Sylvester will just play music until you keel over....

TAXI: hg.zetaworlds.com:80:Events

We at Stark Islands were proud to be part of this amazing event! We had a lot of fun.

Many thanks to the DJs Niki, Mattie, Vanilla, Vincent and Edison for the wonderful music. Also big thanks to Vincent who created The Vault including all the tech stuff like light show and interruption free streaming system.

We are already looking forward to next official event!

Friday this week is ZetaWorlds is celebrating the INTERNATIONAL FLOWER DAY with a line up of 5 DJs.

START: 10 AM grid time

VENUE: In the sumptuous surrounds of ZETA EVENTS VAULT

LINEUP:
10 AM: Nora Cola opening up with a great mix of genres
11 AM: Hazel Ito with a J/Kpop/German music flower mix
12 noon: Ruud (normally the naked DJ but not today!!!!) with a flowery top hits mix
1 PM: Sang with a flowery edition of his Fish & Chips Crazy mix
2 PM: Mattie with a flowery classic D.I.S.C.O. mix

We may have another DJ after that, if not Mattie will play us out.
It is an exciting chance for the OS community to come together so please join us!!!

Another spectecular event for everyone on the metaverse, on the World Techno Day December 9th, we will shake your fillings loose at the VAULT.

A kick-ass line up to massage your ear drums starting at 10am grid time starting with a first at the VAULT, DJane Tanya mixing up one of her famous trance mixes.
Followed at noon with the legendary MATTIE mixing techno LIVE for two whole hours!
Rounding off the day with another first, DJane NORA playing a SUPERMIX until your drop.

With two firsts at the VAULT don't miss this one!

Part of the ZetaWorlds Events region will be opening on the 16th of July.

The Vault is going to host official events and will be available for any ZetaWorlds resident to host their own as well.

The opening will feature several DJs which will be a blast. Hours of good music and a unique light show await, so mark it on your calendar, 16th of July!

--- LINEUP ---

10am - Warm Up
11am - 1pm POP & DANCE LIVE MIX by Mattie
1pm - BLUES DANCE MIX by Vanilla Beans
2pm - 80s ROCK MIX by Vincent
3pm - CLASSIC ROCK by Edison Rex

EVENT LOCATION: hg.zetaworlds.com:80:Events

=== ENGLISH VERSION ===

Hello friends and fans of Stark Islands!

We are glad to tell you after 9 months of absence that we are back and will be releasing a new and optimized version of Stark Islands in the near future!

We have had some time to think through the concept and the technical foundation. The huge (server-)workload of Stark Islands was one of the biggest issues we had to fight with in the past. To offer you a better experience, we've made some important changes and are working on other important details. New Stark is the same size as before (though it may expand in time) but split in 4 different regions on different servers to reduce the workload per server.
The region will have a new footprint, based on the old main island, and the best of old Stark you will find in the new version too. We reduce prims, meshes and scripts as much as possible without changing the soul of Stark Islands. This all means a lot of work and we will need some time, though as you all know, a sim will never be finished.
When we think, the sim is in an acceptable state, we will open the gates!

We're thrilled to bring you this announcement today and hope you're as excited as we are, so stay tuned for further updates!

Wishing you a happy Easter 2022!

With love, pride and respect and all the values that make Stark great.

Mathilda and Niki


=== DEUTSCHE VERSION ===

Hallo Freunde und Fans von Stark Islands!

Wir freuen uns, euch nach 9 Monaten Abwesenheit mitteilen zu können, dass wir zurück sind und in naher Zukunft eine neue und optimierte Version von Stark Islands veröffentlichen werden!

Wir hatten Zeit, um das Konzept und die technischen Grundlagen zu überdenken. Die enorme (Server-)Arbeitsbelastung von Stark Islands war eines der größten Probleme, mit denen wir in der Vergangenheit zu kämpfen hatten. Um euch ein besseres Erlebnis zu bieten, haben wir einige wichtige Änderungen vorgenommen und arbeiten an weiteren wichtigen Details. Das neue Stark hat die gleiche Größe wie zuvor (es könnte sich mit der Zeit aber auch erweitern), ist jedoch in 4 verschiedene Regionen auf verschiedenen Servern aufgeteilt, um die Arbeitslast pro Server zu reduzieren.
Die Region wird einen neuen Grundriss haben, basierend auf der alten Hauptinsel, aber das Beste von Alt-Stark werdet ihr auch in der neuen Version finden. Wir reduzieren Prims, Meshes und Skripte so weit wie möglich, ohne die Seele von Stark Islands zu verändern. Das alles bedeutet viel Arbeit und wir werden einige Zeit brauchen und wie ihr alle wisst, wird eine Sim niemals fertig sein.
Aber wenn wir denken, dass die Sim in einem akzeptablen Zustand ist, öffnen wir die Tore!

Wir freuen uns sehr, euch heute diese Ankündigung machen zu können und hoffen, dass ihr genauso aufgeregt seid wie wir!

Also seid gespannt für weitere Updates!

Wir wünschen euch frohe Ostern 2022!

Mit Liebe, Stolz und Respekt und all den Werten, die Stark so großartig machen.

Mathilda und Niki

We are proud to present you the new Stark! magazine with the famous Nice Minik as photographer and the stunning model Bobbi Coulter. This issue is definately worth coming by at Stark to grab your copy.

You can get your copy of the magazine and vendors at the Stark landing point as usual.