Grid NewsPosted May 5, 2020
Although the grid has been up , but accessible to only a limited amount of staff, we are still very much here. Staff of Island Oasis and Mystic Darkstone would like to extend our well wishes to all those affected by this pandemic. Stay safe, be well and warm wishes to everyone.
Grid NewsPosted February 19, 2018
The grid is temporarily down. Previous maintenance went as planned. However, a few unexpected hurdles arose shortly there after. The owner had planned a name change for the grid, which was originally planned for late Fall or early Winter 2018 with a formal announcement and switch over to be made at that time. Due to some unfortunate circumstances the change may come sooner than planned. This has all resulted in numerous changes needed to be made to get the grid back to functional status again. The new name had been secured as of October 2017 and work on the new websites (under the new domain name) had begun at that time. Testing with a variety of platforms had begun last year with the intention to leave Island Oasis basically as it currently was with changes in-world being made one step at a time to attempt to minimize adjustments to the resident life there. This goal was an attempt to move forward with the planned and necessary changes which would culminate in the merge and migration of the existing grid to the new and improved and renamed IO. When the grid reopens again any returning residents who were previously with the grid and had free parcels will have a new and improved FREE land on which they will NOT have to click to renew their parcels. But the parcels will be checked every 3 months to verify that tenants are still claiming and using their FREE land. Parcels not in use will be reclaimed to allow someone else to claim it for FREE. When the grid reopens again all residents who currently owned regions will be gifted 3 months FREE tier for their inconvenience. Last word from the owner is his sincere apologies regarding the disruption of service and in-world resident life. As of today the owner has been unavailable for comment. Staff will post updates again as we learn of and further news. |
Grid Maintenance Jan 28th - Feb 4th
Posted January 28, 2018
Staff will be working on various facets of the grid for the next week. Residents should still be able to log into the grid despite the viewer splash page may not load the usual imagery.
. Access to http://islandoasis.biz/ website will have interruption issues during this time.
We will post updates as we make progress. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we are working hard to improve the grid.
Staff will be working on various facets of the grid for the next week. Residents should still be able to log into the grid despite the viewer splash page may not load the usual imagery.
. Access to http://islandoasis.biz/ website will have interruption issues during this time.
We will post updates as we make progress. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we are working hard to improve the grid.
FREE Parcels may see change in policy
Posted January 28, 2018
Due to repeated and blatant violation of the rules (by hypergrid visitors) staff is forced to reconsider its policy of allowing HG visitors to access and claim FREE parcels. The actual residents of the grid have been great about following the rules and the prim allotments. Unfortunately we are seeing HG visitors claiming more than one parcel with multiple avatars, when only 1 FREE parcel is allowed. We are also seeing prim counts of over 1,200 on parcels that only allow 280. We have so far seen 4 attempts to use the FREE residential parcel as a store location just in the past 90 days.
Typically staff will return items if prim counts are over and send a message to let the tenant know of the prim overage & returned prims, then invite and encourage them to begin rezzing their items again and keep the prim count at 280 or under. In the past 30 days we have seen 3 HG tenants who, upon having their items returned, actually rezzed MORE prims than the original violation.
This is unfortunate to have a few visitors ruin it for the future many, but as staff we have a responsibility to our actual account holders to provide a stable and fair environment to them FIRST. If we do decide to disable HG access to the FREE lands this will not affect the actual resident account holders of the grid.
This change in policy will also allow any HG visitor to create an actual account with our grid in order to claim the benefit of a FREE parcel. HG access will not be turned off for other venue or activity locations for hypergrid visitors to come and enjoy the grid or visit their friends, it would only affect the FREE parcel area.
Staff will be making a final decision regarding the FREE lands and hypergrid access to them by March 1st. Again, we want to stress our responsibility to first our actual account holders and reassure them that this will not affect their ability to claim and maintain a FREE home on our grid.
Due to repeated and blatant violation of the rules (by hypergrid visitors) staff is forced to reconsider its policy of allowing HG visitors to access and claim FREE parcels. The actual residents of the grid have been great about following the rules and the prim allotments. Unfortunately we are seeing HG visitors claiming more than one parcel with multiple avatars, when only 1 FREE parcel is allowed. We are also seeing prim counts of over 1,200 on parcels that only allow 280. We have so far seen 4 attempts to use the FREE residential parcel as a store location just in the past 90 days.
Typically staff will return items if prim counts are over and send a message to let the tenant know of the prim overage & returned prims, then invite and encourage them to begin rezzing their items again and keep the prim count at 280 or under. In the past 30 days we have seen 3 HG tenants who, upon having their items returned, actually rezzed MORE prims than the original violation.
This is unfortunate to have a few visitors ruin it for the future many, but as staff we have a responsibility to our actual account holders to provide a stable and fair environment to them FIRST. If we do decide to disable HG access to the FREE lands this will not affect the actual resident account holders of the grid.
This change in policy will also allow any HG visitor to create an actual account with our grid in order to claim the benefit of a FREE parcel. HG access will not be turned off for other venue or activity locations for hypergrid visitors to come and enjoy the grid or visit their friends, it would only affect the FREE parcel area.
Staff will be making a final decision regarding the FREE lands and hypergrid access to them by March 1st. Again, we want to stress our responsibility to first our actual account holders and reassure them that this will not affect their ability to claim and maintain a FREE home on our grid.
Grid Server Maintenance
Update December 4, 2017
Maintenance is nearing completion and we are now allowing log ins without manually terminating any user sessions. We only have 1 server remaining that we are upgrading. The regions on that server will not be accessible until after it is upgraded and launched.
Affected regions:
* Mystic Darkstone Design
* Mystic Escape - No HG Access/Private region
*Mystic Isle I
*Mystic Isle II
*Serenity - No HG Access/Private region
*Serenity Isle II
Update December 4, 2017
As Staff continues maintenance we encourage you NOT to attempt to log into the grid, either with a local account or a hypergrid account. Most likely you will be manually logged out by staff as maintenance continues.
We will ANNOUNCE when you are ok to log in. Thank you.
Posted December 2, 2017
Staff will be conducting routine server maintenance December 3rd, Sunday beginning at approximately 4pm PST (viewer time). The grid is expected to be offline for approximately 48 hours.
The maintenance will not begin until after the 2 scheduled events for the day in order to minimize any interruptions in pre-planned events.
11am-12 noon
Meet and Greet Social Event
Region: Meet and Greet
1pm-3pm
Support Staff Informational Meeting for those wanting to learn more and pick an application for Greeter, Mentor, Host, Grid Photographer, Social Media, Special Projects TEAM
Region: University2
We will post an update once the maintenance has been completed.
Maintenance is nearing completion and we are now allowing log ins without manually terminating any user sessions. We only have 1 server remaining that we are upgrading. The regions on that server will not be accessible until after it is upgraded and launched.
Affected regions:
* Mystic Darkstone Design
* Mystic Escape - No HG Access/Private region
*Mystic Isle I
*Mystic Isle II
*Serenity - No HG Access/Private region
*Serenity Isle II
Update December 4, 2017
As Staff continues maintenance we encourage you NOT to attempt to log into the grid, either with a local account or a hypergrid account. Most likely you will be manually logged out by staff as maintenance continues.
We will ANNOUNCE when you are ok to log in. Thank you.
Posted December 2, 2017
Staff will be conducting routine server maintenance December 3rd, Sunday beginning at approximately 4pm PST (viewer time). The grid is expected to be offline for approximately 48 hours.
The maintenance will not begin until after the 2 scheduled events for the day in order to minimize any interruptions in pre-planned events.
11am-12 noon
Meet and Greet Social Event
Region: Meet and Greet
1pm-3pm
Support Staff Informational Meeting for those wanting to learn more and pick an application for Greeter, Mentor, Host, Grid Photographer, Social Media, Special Projects TEAM
Region: University2
We will post an update once the maintenance has been completed.
Building Contests to be recurring event
Posted November 29, 2017
The grid will now be sponsoring a 24 hour building contest each month beginning in December. Contests will begin on a selected Saturday at 5pm and end the following day on Sunday at 5pm. Although the theme of each building contest will vary from month to month the rules of the contests will remain the same with the exception of individual contestants vs groups allow to participate.
A very basic broad theme genre will be announced prior to the event. The specific theme will only be announced in world after the start time of the event to try to prevent builds being created prior to the start of the event. A sign will be rezzed to announce the full theme description for those who will still be participating, but may not be there at 5pm.
Register in world for this contest at the region: Building Contests. To register for the building contest use the group joiner, which will be located at the landing point. Anyone in group at the time of the contest is qualified to participate. Building is only enabled in the region Building Contests when the actual contest is underway. After the contest ends group members will be removed from group to clear the group for the next months participants to again re-register.
December 9th 5pm-Decmeber 10th 5pm will be our first recurring building contest and is, in general, a Winter theme. The specific Winter theme will be announced at the start of the contest. This December contest will be for individual participants only, no groups.
RULES:
*Individual contestants allowed. Groups not allowed unless it is a group contest as announced.
*Contestants will have 24 hours to complete their build. Contests will be Saturday 5pm through Sunday 5PM in world time as announced.
*Each contestant MUST register PRIOR to the start of the contest.
*Each contestant must have original materials (prims, sculpts, mesh, textures, sounds, and or scripts) or have licensing to use the materials here on this grid.
*No pre-made or pre-fabricated builds are allowed. You must build/create your contest build during the actual contest.
*Official Grid Staff members are NOT allowed to compete.
*Grid Support Staff members ARE allowed to compete.
Builds will be judged by Official Grid Staff members to prevent friends of a contestant voting them to the top despite a build not being the best.
Builds will be scored base on the following criteria with a score of 1-5 for each. The top scoring contestant will be declared the winner. (In the event of a tie the prize money will be split.)
1=lowest thru 5=highest
* Completion of build
* Fits the theme
* Prim, sculpt or mesh alignment
* Complete texturing
* Texture alignment
* Originality
The grid will now be sponsoring a 24 hour building contest each month beginning in December. Contests will begin on a selected Saturday at 5pm and end the following day on Sunday at 5pm. Although the theme of each building contest will vary from month to month the rules of the contests will remain the same with the exception of individual contestants vs groups allow to participate.
A very basic broad theme genre will be announced prior to the event. The specific theme will only be announced in world after the start time of the event to try to prevent builds being created prior to the start of the event. A sign will be rezzed to announce the full theme description for those who will still be participating, but may not be there at 5pm.
Register in world for this contest at the region: Building Contests. To register for the building contest use the group joiner, which will be located at the landing point. Anyone in group at the time of the contest is qualified to participate. Building is only enabled in the region Building Contests when the actual contest is underway. After the contest ends group members will be removed from group to clear the group for the next months participants to again re-register.
December 9th 5pm-Decmeber 10th 5pm will be our first recurring building contest and is, in general, a Winter theme. The specific Winter theme will be announced at the start of the contest. This December contest will be for individual participants only, no groups.
RULES:
*Individual contestants allowed. Groups not allowed unless it is a group contest as announced.
*Contestants will have 24 hours to complete their build. Contests will be Saturday 5pm through Sunday 5PM in world time as announced.
*Each contestant MUST register PRIOR to the start of the contest.
*Each contestant must have original materials (prims, sculpts, mesh, textures, sounds, and or scripts) or have licensing to use the materials here on this grid.
*No pre-made or pre-fabricated builds are allowed. You must build/create your contest build during the actual contest.
*Official Grid Staff members are NOT allowed to compete.
*Grid Support Staff members ARE allowed to compete.
Builds will be judged by Official Grid Staff members to prevent friends of a contestant voting them to the top despite a build not being the best.
Builds will be scored base on the following criteria with a score of 1-5 for each. The top scoring contestant will be declared the winner. (In the event of a tie the prize money will be split.)
1=lowest thru 5=highest
* Completion of build
* Fits the theme
* Prim, sculpt or mesh alignment
* Complete texturing
* Texture alignment
* Originality
Grid Maintenance
Update posted October 15, 2017
Maintenance has been completed. Logging into the previous 4 regions are now enabled, but they will be under construction this week.
Posted October 15, 2017
Staff will be conducting Maintenance this evening beginning at approximately 5pm (PST- grid time). Maintenance will not affect most regions. Community Free Lands will be unaffected. The following 4 regions will be affected:: Island Oasis, Ocean Park, Blue Water Nude Beach and the Social Club.
Since Island Oasis region is the starting location when a person creates an account and logs in for the first time we do ask that residents refrain from encouraging friends to create new accounts and having them attempt to log in during this maintenance period.
We hope to have those regions offline for only 2-3 hours and will post again once the area is back up. Thank you for your patience.
Grid Staff
Maintenance has been completed. Logging into the previous 4 regions are now enabled, but they will be under construction this week.
Posted October 15, 2017
Staff will be conducting Maintenance this evening beginning at approximately 5pm (PST- grid time). Maintenance will not affect most regions. Community Free Lands will be unaffected. The following 4 regions will be affected:: Island Oasis, Ocean Park, Blue Water Nude Beach and the Social Club.
Since Island Oasis region is the starting location when a person creates an account and logs in for the first time we do ask that residents refrain from encouraging friends to create new accounts and having them attempt to log in during this maintenance period.
We hope to have those regions offline for only 2-3 hours and will post again once the area is back up. Thank you for your patience.
Grid Staff
Restructuring the Grid: Phase I Part I
Posted Sept 27, 2017
Since the sale of the grid, staff has been focused on improving the end user experience. Phase I of Restructuring will be to update, upgrade or improve the regions that are currently on the grid already. To that end Part 1 of Phase 1 will focus on: the Free Lands, the Sandboxes and the Welcome area which will all have changes that should make things more user friendly.
The Free Lands, which were previously all sand, now have a total of 5 choices of terrain texture, so no one has to feel limited by sand. Staff was seeing many residents attempting to lay down prims on their parcel with a grass or other texture to get away from the look of sand. While sand is still an option staff has now presented residents with the four additional choices: flowered grass, vined grass, grass or a stony/rocky grass.
Newcomers to the grid who may not have an inworld $ balance yet, have historically looked for free items to decorate their free parcels with. Previously The FREE Mall was the main area provided by the grid to collect FREE items. Newcomers didn't know where the FREE Mall was, how to get back there if they had previously seen it and found it daunting to have to teleport back and forth to stock their new FREE home parcel.
Islands Home region Lot H07 is the starting location to claim a FREE residential parcel. In order to provide the end user with a better experience staff has reclaimed the adjacent region (which is visible from the Island Home starting parcel) and has begun stocking it with items previously available at the FREE Mall and has begun adding other items to the main building there as well as rezzed homes and some landscaping. Sure, you can teleport there but you can also now see it and just fly across the water to begin looking through and getting free items. Hopefully this will save the residents time.
The Sandboxes are also being upgraded with the end user in mind. There were 3 sandboxes provided by the grid: Building Supply, Sandbox and Urbania (aka City Sandbox). The region Building Supply had a variety of useful FREE items found on nearly every grid. Both Sandbox and Urbania had basically nothing but open space.
Sandbox and Urbania have been upgraded with four 40x40 footprint building grids to help builders and creators layout the foundation of a build and 2 additional building platforms will be available on each of those sandboxes for those who have large builds or may want more privacy. Sandbox region will also soon host the free building supplies and two Building 101 Tutorial Skyboxes. Sandbox will have a 3 hour auto return and Urbania will have a 2 hour auto return.
Building Supply region is being reclaimed and re-purposed as the future site of regular monthly building contests. We will announce when the building contests will begin as we get closer to the start of the actual contests.
The Welcome area is currently a 3x3 VAR. In addition to the Welcome area, locations also in this VAR were Ocean Park, Blue Water Nude Beach and The Social Club, plus 5 water regions. The owner and current staff have decided it is best to separate that VAR into individual regions in hopes for the best end user experience. While the separation of the VAR is not yet compete it is underway. You may experience intermittent connectivity issues or teleporting issues until this has been completed and the regions added back as stand alone regions.
Complaints regarding this VAR vary from the world map reflecting areas are offline and not being able to teleport to those 'offline' areas like the Social Club via the world map, to landing in the water, the "teleport to" feature in radar dumping residents in the water, and residents feeling their privacy had been violated by being 2 regions away from other users in the same VAR and their chat typed into local being read by all other residents in all locations in that same VAR. Sure, while 2 people can engage in a private one on one private chat, there is not an applicable feature that allows conference calling nor conference chat, thus if more than 2 people are typing in local chat and having no way of knowing other residents multiple regions away (in the same VAR) could read their chat there was no sense of privacy due to no chat distance limit imposed on that VAR. (yes there is group chat, but again ALL in the group who are online can see that chat through the group chat feature, which again leads to no sense of privacy.)
Another important feature the change in this VAR will see is being able to focus on welcoming the new resident in. The new Welcome Center will not be a hangout for a new residents to get spammed with unwelcome invitations, friend requests or solicitations to join other grids, go shopping etc, but rather an actual Welcome Center for Staff to let you know of our features and help you get started with a Welcome Folder with Landmarks and informational note cards. The grid will continue to offer AbBoards for residents to advertise their locations, events, venues, stores or products at the Welcome Center.
Staff wishes to thank the residents who have been patient and understanding while we work diligently to bring you these changes.
Phase I Part II will address additional regions and we will update you on that as we near the completion.
Since the sale of the grid, staff has been focused on improving the end user experience. Phase I of Restructuring will be to update, upgrade or improve the regions that are currently on the grid already. To that end Part 1 of Phase 1 will focus on: the Free Lands, the Sandboxes and the Welcome area which will all have changes that should make things more user friendly.
The Free Lands, which were previously all sand, now have a total of 5 choices of terrain texture, so no one has to feel limited by sand. Staff was seeing many residents attempting to lay down prims on their parcel with a grass or other texture to get away from the look of sand. While sand is still an option staff has now presented residents with the four additional choices: flowered grass, vined grass, grass or a stony/rocky grass.
Newcomers to the grid who may not have an inworld $ balance yet, have historically looked for free items to decorate their free parcels with. Previously The FREE Mall was the main area provided by the grid to collect FREE items. Newcomers didn't know where the FREE Mall was, how to get back there if they had previously seen it and found it daunting to have to teleport back and forth to stock their new FREE home parcel.
Islands Home region Lot H07 is the starting location to claim a FREE residential parcel. In order to provide the end user with a better experience staff has reclaimed the adjacent region (which is visible from the Island Home starting parcel) and has begun stocking it with items previously available at the FREE Mall and has begun adding other items to the main building there as well as rezzed homes and some landscaping. Sure, you can teleport there but you can also now see it and just fly across the water to begin looking through and getting free items. Hopefully this will save the residents time.
The Sandboxes are also being upgraded with the end user in mind. There were 3 sandboxes provided by the grid: Building Supply, Sandbox and Urbania (aka City Sandbox). The region Building Supply had a variety of useful FREE items found on nearly every grid. Both Sandbox and Urbania had basically nothing but open space.
Sandbox and Urbania have been upgraded with four 40x40 footprint building grids to help builders and creators layout the foundation of a build and 2 additional building platforms will be available on each of those sandboxes for those who have large builds or may want more privacy. Sandbox region will also soon host the free building supplies and two Building 101 Tutorial Skyboxes. Sandbox will have a 3 hour auto return and Urbania will have a 2 hour auto return.
Building Supply region is being reclaimed and re-purposed as the future site of regular monthly building contests. We will announce when the building contests will begin as we get closer to the start of the actual contests.
The Welcome area is currently a 3x3 VAR. In addition to the Welcome area, locations also in this VAR were Ocean Park, Blue Water Nude Beach and The Social Club, plus 5 water regions. The owner and current staff have decided it is best to separate that VAR into individual regions in hopes for the best end user experience. While the separation of the VAR is not yet compete it is underway. You may experience intermittent connectivity issues or teleporting issues until this has been completed and the regions added back as stand alone regions.
Complaints regarding this VAR vary from the world map reflecting areas are offline and not being able to teleport to those 'offline' areas like the Social Club via the world map, to landing in the water, the "teleport to" feature in radar dumping residents in the water, and residents feeling their privacy had been violated by being 2 regions away from other users in the same VAR and their chat typed into local being read by all other residents in all locations in that same VAR. Sure, while 2 people can engage in a private one on one private chat, there is not an applicable feature that allows conference calling nor conference chat, thus if more than 2 people are typing in local chat and having no way of knowing other residents multiple regions away (in the same VAR) could read their chat there was no sense of privacy due to no chat distance limit imposed on that VAR. (yes there is group chat, but again ALL in the group who are online can see that chat through the group chat feature, which again leads to no sense of privacy.)
Another important feature the change in this VAR will see is being able to focus on welcoming the new resident in. The new Welcome Center will not be a hangout for a new residents to get spammed with unwelcome invitations, friend requests or solicitations to join other grids, go shopping etc, but rather an actual Welcome Center for Staff to let you know of our features and help you get started with a Welcome Folder with Landmarks and informational note cards. The grid will continue to offer AbBoards for residents to advertise their locations, events, venues, stores or products at the Welcome Center.
Staff wishes to thank the residents who have been patient and understanding while we work diligently to bring you these changes.
Phase I Part II will address additional regions and we will update you on that as we near the completion.
New Owner Updates Cashout Policy
Posted August 28 , 2017
David Cannon, is actively taking steps to update and improve IO policies and the grid overall. The current cash out policy has been reviewed and found that improvements to the policy can be made to benefit the residents. The current Cash out policy reads:
"Any PayPal user may use this service, which means that you must have a valid PayPal account in good standing. Simply fill out the form below and click "Sell Paolinos". We process cash out requests once per week on Saturday. Your funds will be available to you immediately following processing into your PayPal account. All transactions must be equal or greater than $5 USD (before PayPal processing fees). All cashout orders that equal $100 USD or greater may be delayed for auditing purposes ...All cash out request received after 12 Noon Central Time (10 AM IO Time) on a processing day will be carried over to the next processing day". ...
The old policy does not indicate a specific time nor even an approximation as to when a resident can actually expect to receive their funds, since there is no mention of when the processing will occur as well as limits the resident to a single day for processing.
To improve this policy a second day for cashing out will be implemented and will include and completion time. The new policy update will be in effect as of September 6, 2017. The new policy regarding cashouts will read:
"Any PayPal user may use this service, which means that you must have a valid PayPal account in good standing. Simply fill out the form below and click "Sell Paolinos". We process cash out requests twice per week. Cashouts will be processed on Wednesdays and on Saturdays. Your funds will be available to you following processing into your PayPal account no later than 10pm PST (which is 10pm IO Time) . All transactions must be equal or greater than $5 USD (before PayPal processing fees). All cashout orders that equal $100 USD* or greater may be delayed for auditing purposes ...All cash out request received after 12:01am PST (12:01am IO Time) on a processing day will be carried over to the next processing day".
* The reference of $100USD will apply to a collective amount whether its one single cash out request or multiple cashout requests processed for the same resident and/or same PayPal account.
The owner commented that he hopes adding a second day to when residents can receive what they have earned and adding a specific time the cashouts will be completed by, will prove to be a much needed improvement and will serve to ease resident concerns of when will they actually receive their money.
David Cannon, is actively taking steps to update and improve IO policies and the grid overall. The current cash out policy has been reviewed and found that improvements to the policy can be made to benefit the residents. The current Cash out policy reads:
"Any PayPal user may use this service, which means that you must have a valid PayPal account in good standing. Simply fill out the form below and click "Sell Paolinos". We process cash out requests once per week on Saturday. Your funds will be available to you immediately following processing into your PayPal account. All transactions must be equal or greater than $5 USD (before PayPal processing fees). All cashout orders that equal $100 USD or greater may be delayed for auditing purposes ...All cash out request received after 12 Noon Central Time (10 AM IO Time) on a processing day will be carried over to the next processing day". ...
The old policy does not indicate a specific time nor even an approximation as to when a resident can actually expect to receive their funds, since there is no mention of when the processing will occur as well as limits the resident to a single day for processing.
To improve this policy a second day for cashing out will be implemented and will include and completion time. The new policy update will be in effect as of September 6, 2017. The new policy regarding cashouts will read:
"Any PayPal user may use this service, which means that you must have a valid PayPal account in good standing. Simply fill out the form below and click "Sell Paolinos". We process cash out requests twice per week. Cashouts will be processed on Wednesdays and on Saturdays. Your funds will be available to you following processing into your PayPal account no later than 10pm PST (which is 10pm IO Time) . All transactions must be equal or greater than $5 USD (before PayPal processing fees). All cashout orders that equal $100 USD* or greater may be delayed for auditing purposes ...All cash out request received after 12:01am PST (12:01am IO Time) on a processing day will be carried over to the next processing day".
* The reference of $100USD will apply to a collective amount whether its one single cash out request or multiple cashout requests processed for the same resident and/or same PayPal account.
The owner commented that he hopes adding a second day to when residents can receive what they have earned and adding a specific time the cashouts will be completed by, will prove to be a much needed improvement and will serve to ease resident concerns of when will they actually receive their money.
Region Owners
Posted August 17, 2017
Island Oasis REGION OWNERS:
1-IO is recommending that all region owners keep in mind that whatever region settings you had prior to the sale are the exact same as the moment the grid went offline for transfer. We STRONGLY suggest that you take the time to restart your region through the website and wait for all items and scripts to load PRIOR to teleporting there. (10-20 minutes)
2-If you currently have an Island Oasis ATM on your region please contact Sophia Paolino to replace your old ATM with the new one
3-All current region owners will receive 4 months of free adverting* on the viewer splash page for 1 advert ($40USD Value) Contact Sophia Paolino to make arrangements if you wish to take advantage of this FREE gift offer.
*Advert must not contain nudity or offensive language and can be only for item, service, or location located in Island Oasis grid
Island Oasis REGION OWNERS:
1-IO is recommending that all region owners keep in mind that whatever region settings you had prior to the sale are the exact same as the moment the grid went offline for transfer. We STRONGLY suggest that you take the time to restart your region through the website and wait for all items and scripts to load PRIOR to teleporting there. (10-20 minutes)
2-If you currently have an Island Oasis ATM on your region please contact Sophia Paolino to replace your old ATM with the new one
3-All current region owners will receive 4 months of free adverting* on the viewer splash page for 1 advert ($40USD Value) Contact Sophia Paolino to make arrangements if you wish to take advantage of this FREE gift offer.
*Advert must not contain nudity or offensive language and can be only for item, service, or location located in Island Oasis grid
IO Grid Status
Updated August 17, 2017
Log ins will be unrestricted as of 9:00am IOT/PST
See you there!
Staff asks that you refrain from using the grid ATM's and using the IO website to purchase currency while the new owner is transferring the connection of those features to their own banking information.
Cashouts will remain the same policy:
You may sell or cash out your P$ to USD. Any PayPal user may use this service, which means that you must have a valid PayPal account in good standing. We process cash out requests once per week on Saturday. Your funds will be available to you immediately following processing into your PayPal account. All transactions must be equal or greater than $5 USD, which is $1,500P (before PayPal processing fees). All cashout orders that equal $100 USD or greater may be delayed for auditing purposes.
Notice: You must provide your correct PayPal email address if you wish to receive your funds. If you do not, someone else will receive your funds. Island Oasis ssumes no responsibility for incorrect email addresses provided.
All cash out request received after 12 Noon Central Time (10 AM IO Time) on a processing day will be carried over to the next processing day.
Updated August 17, 2017
At this point we are simply awaiting for the actual action of lifting the "restricted access" to be removed for log in, so that local accounts can log in. Hypergrid visitors have been able to log in.
Staff has had the opportunity to log in to begin assessing the regions as well as the region performance and would like to reassure all those with FREE land that all is well and FREE resident parcels will remain a feature of Island Oasis.
We look forward to bringing back Island Oasis' Town Hall Meetings to once again reconnect with the residents, provide announcements and address resident queries.
Posted August 16, 2017
Island Oasis hopes to have logins for all residents enabled this evening. (August 16, 2017) As the time for resident logins approaches we will announce a projected time to keep you informed.
We thank you for your patience and look forward to seeing you in world tonight.
Log ins will be unrestricted as of 9:00am IOT/PST
See you there!
Staff asks that you refrain from using the grid ATM's and using the IO website to purchase currency while the new owner is transferring the connection of those features to their own banking information.
Cashouts will remain the same policy:
You may sell or cash out your P$ to USD. Any PayPal user may use this service, which means that you must have a valid PayPal account in good standing. We process cash out requests once per week on Saturday. Your funds will be available to you immediately following processing into your PayPal account. All transactions must be equal or greater than $5 USD, which is $1,500P (before PayPal processing fees). All cashout orders that equal $100 USD or greater may be delayed for auditing purposes.
Notice: You must provide your correct PayPal email address if you wish to receive your funds. If you do not, someone else will receive your funds. Island Oasis ssumes no responsibility for incorrect email addresses provided.
All cash out request received after 12 Noon Central Time (10 AM IO Time) on a processing day will be carried over to the next processing day.
Updated August 17, 2017
At this point we are simply awaiting for the actual action of lifting the "restricted access" to be removed for log in, so that local accounts can log in. Hypergrid visitors have been able to log in.
Staff has had the opportunity to log in to begin assessing the regions as well as the region performance and would like to reassure all those with FREE land that all is well and FREE resident parcels will remain a feature of Island Oasis.
We look forward to bringing back Island Oasis' Town Hall Meetings to once again reconnect with the residents, provide announcements and address resident queries.
Posted August 16, 2017
Island Oasis hopes to have logins for all residents enabled this evening. (August 16, 2017) As the time for resident logins approaches we will announce a projected time to keep you informed.
We thank you for your patience and look forward to seeing you in world tonight.
New IO Owner
Posted August 15, 2017
The new owner of Island Oasis has taken a moment to introduce himself to the residents of Island Oasis.
The new owner of Island Oasis has taken a moment to introduce himself to the residents of Island Oasis.
I would like to introduce myself, I am David Cannon, CEO and Owner of Mystic Darkstone LLC. Recently the owners of Island Oasis LLC and I came to an agreement for Mystic Darkstone LLC to purchase all assets and intellectual property of Island Oasis LLC. For the immediate future there will not be any major changes to Island Oasis outside of the constant improvements to the source code and server hardware. We have also assembled a team of both new and old personnel to make sure your experience while on the Island Oasis grid is the best that it can be. I have appointed Sophia Paolino as the COO of Island Oasis and she will be the contact person for all official news concerning Island Oasis and Mystic Darkstone LLC.
I want to thank Damean and Sugar Paolino for what they have created in Island Oasis, it is a sound foundation for us to build upon into the future.
At Mystic Darkstone LLC we believe that the attention to details and giving superior customer support are key to building a world that gives a better end user experience, to that end we will listen to our residents concerns and address them in a timely fashion.
IO Grid Status
Posted August 14, 2017
Island Oasis is currently OFFLINE and is expected to gain authentic ONLINE status within the week.
Although the viewer splash page shows a status of online that is only due to the beginning stages of being brought back online and reflects the old information the previous owners had projected as the future online status of IO. Logins to the grid are not enabled and will not be enabled until the grid is fully back up online.
Updates will continue to be posted here.
IO Releases Staff list
Posted August 12, 2017
The owner of Island Oasis has released its current staff list. The following list of grid staff are authentic representatives of Island Oasis grid.
Executive Staff
Bradley Paolino - Grid Owner, CEO, CFO, Grid Maintenance, Server Maintenance
Sophia Paolino - Grid Director, COO, Director of Marketing, PR
Additional Grid Staff
Damean Paolino - Grid Code Developer, Web Developer
Morden Paolino - Lead Grid Builder & Developer (Grid Demon & Imp)
Lystatt Paolino - Region Director, Region Land Sales, Free Land Support, Customer Service
Shaena Paolino - Project Manager, Creative Coordinator, Grid Developer, Marketing
Casey Paolino - Administrative Assistant, Grid Internal Support, Marketing
In addition to the grid staff, Sophia Paolino has stated that the change in ownership will not change in world support staff such as Greeters, Mentors and Hosts who will still have their positions as long as they like. Sophia also hopes to gain additional support staff in those positions as well.
Bradley and Sophia Paolino both commented that they look forward to working with the new Staff and wish all the best to former owner Sugar Paolino.
The owner of Island Oasis has released its current staff list. The following list of grid staff are authentic representatives of Island Oasis grid.
Executive Staff
Bradley Paolino - Grid Owner, CEO, CFO, Grid Maintenance, Server Maintenance
Sophia Paolino - Grid Director, COO, Director of Marketing, PR
Additional Grid Staff
Damean Paolino - Grid Code Developer, Web Developer
Morden Paolino - Lead Grid Builder & Developer (Grid Demon & Imp)
Lystatt Paolino - Region Director, Region Land Sales, Free Land Support, Customer Service
Shaena Paolino - Project Manager, Creative Coordinator, Grid Developer, Marketing
Casey Paolino - Administrative Assistant, Grid Internal Support, Marketing
In addition to the grid staff, Sophia Paolino has stated that the change in ownership will not change in world support staff such as Greeters, Mentors and Hosts who will still have their positions as long as they like. Sophia also hopes to gain additional support staff in those positions as well.
Bradley and Sophia Paolino both commented that they look forward to working with the new Staff and wish all the best to former owner Sugar Paolino.
IO Grid Status
Posted August 10, 2017
The projection for Island Oasis grid to be back up as of Friday August 11, 2017 has again been delayed. The new IO owner, who will be known in-world as Bradley Paolino, was in transit moving the servers when a family emergency arose. Due to the emergency the servers have not been delivered to the new location as of yet.
Once the servers are in place and the grid is once again online there will be multiple staff members who will be in place to tend to the daily responsibilities of of the grid. Staff is excited and anxious to get back to work and look forward to working with the new owner. We will keep you posted as developments occur.
The projection for Island Oasis grid to be back up as of Friday August 11, 2017 has again been delayed. The new IO owner, who will be known in-world as Bradley Paolino, was in transit moving the servers when a family emergency arose. Due to the emergency the servers have not been delivered to the new location as of yet.
Once the servers are in place and the grid is once again online there will be multiple staff members who will be in place to tend to the daily responsibilities of of the grid. Staff is excited and anxious to get back to work and look forward to working with the new owner. We will keep you posted as developments occur.
IO Under New Ownership
Updated August 8, 2017
Island Oasis grid will continue to be offline while the servers are being moved to their new location. The move was taking slightly longer than expected. The new date of expected logins being re-enabled will be Friday 8-11-17, two days beyond the previous projection. Grid staff thanks you for your continued patience during this transition in ownership.
Posted August 6, 2017
Former Owner and Co-founder of Island Oasis posted to the Island Oasis facebook group page recently to announce new ownership.
Island Oasis grid will continue to be offline while the servers are being moved to their new location. The move was taking slightly longer than expected. The new date of expected logins being re-enabled will be Friday 8-11-17, two days beyond the previous projection. Grid staff thanks you for your continued patience during this transition in ownership.
Posted August 6, 2017
Former Owner and Co-founder of Island Oasis posted to the Island Oasis facebook group page recently to announce new ownership.
Island Oasis will shutting down starting Monday for a few days because of new ownership. Because of health reasons I am unable to put in the time for our members to have a great experience in IO. Thank you,
Sugar Paolino
The grid is currently offline due to the servers being moved to a new location. The new location will result in 25% improvement in the grid's upload speed, which means regions and the asset server database will load faster. The date for Island Oasis to be back online and logins for residents enabled, after testing, is projected to be Wednesday 8-9-17 if not sooner.
The Island Oasis website as well as this grid news site will be will be updated over the course of the next 2 weeks to reflect the changes in staff and new owners.
There are no immediate changes planned to the grid at this time. It is important to note that other than providing a more stable platform the residents will not see any immediate changes. Land prices will continue to be grandfathered in and currency exchange rates will remain the same.
The Island Oasis website as well as this grid news site will be will be updated over the course of the next 2 weeks to reflect the changes in staff and new owners.
There are no immediate changes planned to the grid at this time. It is important to note that other than providing a more stable platform the residents will not see any immediate changes. Land prices will continue to be grandfathered in and currency exchange rates will remain the same.
Maintenance Complete
Posted March 1, 2017
Island Oasis has completed maintenance today and log ins are once again enabled. Staff would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your patience. We look forward to seeing you in IO!
Island Oasis has completed maintenance today and log ins are once again enabled. Staff would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your patience. We look forward to seeing you in IO!
Founder Sugar Paolino Addresses IO Residents
Posted Feb 28, 2017
Approximately 10pm grid founder, Sugar Paolino, took to social media to post the following address to Island Oasis residents and Island Oasis facebook group members:
Approximately 10pm grid founder, Sugar Paolino, took to social media to post the following address to Island Oasis residents and Island Oasis facebook group members:
Thank you everyone for your prayers. It has been an extremely rough start of 2017. On Jan 31st Damean's mother passed away from cancer. On Feb 24th I had a heart attack which resulted in surgery and major life changes. I am so thankful for all our members in IO for their understanding and big hearts while we are still picking up the peaces of our lives. Now that I am home from the hospital we will be working to get IO back up. I truly miss everyone and can't wait to see everyone in IO. Thank you all again.
Island Oasis maintenance resumes and we will continue keep you informed of the progress.
Island Oasis Founder Suffers Heart Attack
Posted Feb 26, 2017
This past week, grid founder, Sugar Paolino, was rushed to her local Emergency Room where it was confirmed she was having a heart attack. After the lab results and EKG had confirmed her condition she had to have emergency surgery (angioplasty procedure) where two stints were put in place.
Sugar is now at home and is resting. She is fairing well and recovering. We all wish her a speedy recovery! Please post any well wishes you have to our facebook group page so that when she is able and ready to view facebook she can see your messages.
Island Oasis had been undergoing maintenance, which has since been put on hold. We haven't forgotten about the grid, nor it's residents, and are so thankful we have such an understanding community of residents. We do anticipate to have maintenance compete within the upcoming week.
This past week, grid founder, Sugar Paolino, was rushed to her local Emergency Room where it was confirmed she was having a heart attack. After the lab results and EKG had confirmed her condition she had to have emergency surgery (angioplasty procedure) where two stints were put in place.
Sugar is now at home and is resting. She is fairing well and recovering. We all wish her a speedy recovery! Please post any well wishes you have to our facebook group page so that when she is able and ready to view facebook she can see your messages.
Island Oasis had been undergoing maintenance, which has since been put on hold. We haven't forgotten about the grid, nor it's residents, and are so thankful we have such an understanding community of residents. We do anticipate to have maintenance compete within the upcoming week.
Island Oasis Maintenance
Updated Feb 24, 2017
Due to continuing maintenance logins are disabled. We will continue to keep you informed and post once it is complete. Thank you for your continued patience.
Updated Feb 19, 2017
Due to a much needed part for repair for the main robust server for Island Oasis will be down for a few days while we await the arrival of the part which has to be special ordered. Again we apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Posted Feb 19, 2017
Island Oasis is currently undergoing maintenance. We are experiencing some hardware issues but are working on the problem. IO will be offline while we work to get this resolved ASAP. We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you posted on progress.
Due to continuing maintenance logins are disabled. We will continue to keep you informed and post once it is complete. Thank you for your continued patience.
Updated Feb 19, 2017
Due to a much needed part for repair for the main robust server for Island Oasis will be down for a few days while we await the arrival of the part which has to be special ordered. Again we apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Posted Feb 19, 2017
Island Oasis is currently undergoing maintenance. We are experiencing some hardware issues but are working on the problem. IO will be offline while we work to get this resolved ASAP. We apologize for the inconvenience and will keep you posted on progress.
Island Oasis Celebrates its 6th Year!
Posted Feb 17, 2017
Island Oasis is so very proud to be celebrating its 6th year in business as a virtual world as of March 1, 2017.
We have seen numerous changes to the grid over the past 6 years and watching it grow has been such a pleasure!
We hope you take your time to visit and celebrate with us. We welcome visitors and hope you decide to make IO your virtual home.
If you do not have an Island Oasis account JOIN FREE
HG visitors please use
islandoasisgrid.biz:8002
Island Oasis is so very proud to be celebrating its 6th year in business as a virtual world as of March 1, 2017.
We have seen numerous changes to the grid over the past 6 years and watching it grow has been such a pleasure!
We hope you take your time to visit and celebrate with us. We welcome visitors and hope you decide to make IO your virtual home.
If you do not have an Island Oasis account JOIN FREE
HG visitors please use
islandoasisgrid.biz:8002
Routine Server Maintenance
Update November 26, 2016
Server Maintenance is complete and logins are enabled. See you all in Island Oasis. Again we thank you for your patience.
Posted November 26, 2016
Island Oasis is currently undergoing server maintenance today. This will result in a brief interruption in log in procedures. Once maintenance has been completed logins will resume. Thank you for your patience while this maintenance is being performed.
Updates can be found on our facebook page and our facebook group page.
New Land Prices
Posted Sept 1, 2016
Once again Island Oasis has made improvements to better serve its residents. This time it's new land prices, region sizes and no more covenants. The 2 new basic starter prices are $24 or $35SUD/mo with $10USD/mo upgrade packages, sold separately. Same great landowner tools available.
There are two types of private regions such as SINGLE and 2 X 2 VAR regions.
PRIVATE REGION DETAILS:
Monthly Fee:$25 USD / Month
Prims:15,000
Avatars:10
Size:256M x 256M (65,536 m2)
Usage:NO COVENANT
Monthly Fee:$35 USD / Month
Prims:15,000
Avatars:10
Size:512M x 512M (262,144 m2)
Usage:NO COVENANT
Residents can purchase an unlimited number of upgrades to their private regions. An upgrade costs only $10USD/mo and adds 10,000 prims plus increases the avatar limit an additional 10 avatars. Upgrades can be made with the original purchase or at any later date.
For those who do not want build or design their own region and are looking for a move in ready sim. we also offer three prefabricated regions that you can choose from for a one time fee of $15/USD. We have three to offer; fully landscaped and complete with a home for your enjoyment. The landscaping items and the structure are yours to keep while in Island Oasis.
Island Oasis will continue to offer perks and power tools for its Land Owning residents. Perks are in the form of monthly stipends as well as after 6 consecutive months of ownership a one time Region Owner Appreciation Gift. (ROAG). Residents can choose a gift of a free prim increase or a an avatar limit increase. Power tools are in the form of an entire suite of web based self service tools that allow you to effectively and efficiently manage your region such as: Region restarts that you control and Region backups.
In addition to that you can easily upgrade or downgrade your region at your convenience and easily change the payment information for your region.
All of the above can be done via the provided web based power tools without the need to submit a trouble ticket, contact support, or even log on to the grid.
All current landowners will have a choice to have their land, prices and unlimited avatar limit grandfathered in or they may choose to get rid of their land and order a new sim with the new features. Throughout the month of September, we will (free of charge) transfer the contents of a region being changed to the new structure via OAR to the new region. Any current ROAGS will be lost if an existing region is deleted due to converting the existing region to obtain one of the new region offers under the new pricing structure.
Island Oasis will continue to also offer their existing 1/4 mainland parcels. See our LAND STORE for full details and to order yours now.
Once again Island Oasis has made improvements to better serve its residents. This time it's new land prices, region sizes and no more covenants. The 2 new basic starter prices are $24 or $35SUD/mo with $10USD/mo upgrade packages, sold separately. Same great landowner tools available.
There are two types of private regions such as SINGLE and 2 X 2 VAR regions.
PRIVATE REGION DETAILS:
Monthly Fee:$25 USD / Month
Prims:15,000
Avatars:10
Size:256M x 256M (65,536 m2)
Usage:NO COVENANT
Monthly Fee:$35 USD / Month
Prims:15,000
Avatars:10
Size:512M x 512M (262,144 m2)
Usage:NO COVENANT
Residents can purchase an unlimited number of upgrades to their private regions. An upgrade costs only $10USD/mo and adds 10,000 prims plus increases the avatar limit an additional 10 avatars. Upgrades can be made with the original purchase or at any later date.
For those who do not want build or design their own region and are looking for a move in ready sim. we also offer three prefabricated regions that you can choose from for a one time fee of $15/USD. We have three to offer; fully landscaped and complete with a home for your enjoyment. The landscaping items and the structure are yours to keep while in Island Oasis.
Island Oasis will continue to offer perks and power tools for its Land Owning residents. Perks are in the form of monthly stipends as well as after 6 consecutive months of ownership a one time Region Owner Appreciation Gift. (ROAG). Residents can choose a gift of a free prim increase or a an avatar limit increase. Power tools are in the form of an entire suite of web based self service tools that allow you to effectively and efficiently manage your region such as: Region restarts that you control and Region backups.
In addition to that you can easily upgrade or downgrade your region at your convenience and easily change the payment information for your region.
All of the above can be done via the provided web based power tools without the need to submit a trouble ticket, contact support, or even log on to the grid.
All current landowners will have a choice to have their land, prices and unlimited avatar limit grandfathered in or they may choose to get rid of their land and order a new sim with the new features. Throughout the month of September, we will (free of charge) transfer the contents of a region being changed to the new structure via OAR to the new region. Any current ROAGS will be lost if an existing region is deleted due to converting the existing region to obtain one of the new region offers under the new pricing structure.
Island Oasis will continue to also offer their existing 1/4 mainland parcels. See our LAND STORE for full details and to order yours now.
New Event Listing Feature
Posted July 15, 2016
Island Oasis has added yet another new and improved feature to their Event listings. Now residents can enjoy a new feature when listing multiple occurrences of the same event. This makes it easier than ever for residents with recurring sales events, DJs or Live performers with a set schedule or any other recurring type of event. Previously when you posted an event you have to post it for each and every day the event was to occur. Now the event listing procedure allows you to pick multiple days per month, saving you time and effort.
As always when you list an event through our website this post will show up in 3 locations: First, on the Island Oasis Event Calendar. Second under Events in your viewer search when you are logged in. Third on the Viewer Splash page on the right hand side of the screen when you first open your viewer prior to you logging in.
To list your events, go to the main Island Oasis website home page, log in and select events from the menu on the left. We hope you enjoy this new time saving feature!
Island Oasis has added yet another new and improved feature to their Event listings. Now residents can enjoy a new feature when listing multiple occurrences of the same event. This makes it easier than ever for residents with recurring sales events, DJs or Live performers with a set schedule or any other recurring type of event. Previously when you posted an event you have to post it for each and every day the event was to occur. Now the event listing procedure allows you to pick multiple days per month, saving you time and effort.
As always when you list an event through our website this post will show up in 3 locations: First, on the Island Oasis Event Calendar. Second under Events in your viewer search when you are logged in. Third on the Viewer Splash page on the right hand side of the screen when you first open your viewer prior to you logging in.
To list your events, go to the main Island Oasis website home page, log in and select events from the menu on the left. We hope you enjoy this new time saving feature!
Island Oasis LLC Brand Products
Posted June 11, 2016
If you are a fan of Island Oasis you can now order your own Island Oasis products bearing our logo.
SHOP NOW!
If you are a fan of Island Oasis you can now order your own Island Oasis products bearing our logo.
SHOP NOW!
Power Outage Causes Brief Service Interuption
Updated June 6, 2016
Power has been restored. All IO regions coming back online. We thank you for your patience during this very brief power outage.
Posted June 6, 2016
Island Oasis is experiencing temporary service interruption due to wide power outage. Keep a watch for updates.
Power has been restored. All IO regions coming back online. We thank you for your patience during this very brief power outage.
Posted June 6, 2016
Island Oasis is experiencing temporary service interruption due to wide power outage. Keep a watch for updates.
Staff of IO Thanks You!
Posted May 15, 2016
Staff of Island Oasis wishes to thank you for your awesome support, sense of community and we are most grateful for your patience. and understanding that not being able to access our website was not something wrong with the grid but instead only an issue with the web hosting company.
We have been so please to see so many of you continuing to log into the grid while the website was down. For those of you who wanted to purchase land or create a new account, we apologize for this brief delay while data was being transferred to the new web hosting company.
Staff of Island Oasis wishes to thank you for your awesome support, sense of community and we are most grateful for your patience. and understanding that not being able to access our website was not something wrong with the grid but instead only an issue with the web hosting company.
We have been so please to see so many of you continuing to log into the grid while the website was down. For those of you who wanted to purchase land or create a new account, we apologize for this brief delay while data was being transferred to the new web hosting company.
Island Oasis connectivity
Updated May 15, 2016
Progress is underway to switch to the new web hosting company. You will soon be able to access all of the IO website features and functions, including new account creation, buying land, buying in world currency and more.
Updated May 13, 2016
We are aware that our website is down. We have been fighting with our web hosting company. Because they can not seem to fix their issues we will be moving our site to a different hosting service. The web site affects the following - creating new accounts, buying land, buying or cashing out p's, marketplace, free land, power tools for land owners etc. We will try to keep you update. Island Oasis wishes to thank you for your continued patience. This issue does not, however, affect logging into world and you should still be able to log into the grid.
Updated May 5, 2016
Connectivity issues appear to be resolved. If you are having any issue accessing the Island Oasis website or logging in to the grid please let us know by posting to our facebook group page.
Updated May 5, 2016
The web host is still working on the issue and it connectivity appears to be intermittent. Keep checking for updates.
Posted May 5, 2016
Islans Oasis' web host is experiencing a network connectivity issue. This will effect your ability to access our web site. They also host our domain so some of you may also experience issues attempting to connect and log in to IO. We have reported the issue and are monitoring the progress. We will post updates as they become available. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Progress is underway to switch to the new web hosting company. You will soon be able to access all of the IO website features and functions, including new account creation, buying land, buying in world currency and more.
Updated May 13, 2016
We are aware that our website is down. We have been fighting with our web hosting company. Because they can not seem to fix their issues we will be moving our site to a different hosting service. The web site affects the following - creating new accounts, buying land, buying or cashing out p's, marketplace, free land, power tools for land owners etc. We will try to keep you update. Island Oasis wishes to thank you for your continued patience. This issue does not, however, affect logging into world and you should still be able to log into the grid.
Updated May 5, 2016
Connectivity issues appear to be resolved. If you are having any issue accessing the Island Oasis website or logging in to the grid please let us know by posting to our facebook group page.
Updated May 5, 2016
The web host is still working on the issue and it connectivity appears to be intermittent. Keep checking for updates.
Posted May 5, 2016
Islans Oasis' web host is experiencing a network connectivity issue. This will effect your ability to access our web site. They also host our domain so some of you may also experience issues attempting to connect and log in to IO. We have reported the issue and are monitoring the progress. We will post updates as they become available. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Town Hall Meeting monthly 1st Sun 10am IOT
Please join Island Oasis Staff for its monthly Town Hall Meeting Live on at 10am IO time (PST). Every month the staff of Island Oasis will bring you news and announcements. Following the news and announcements the floor will be opened to the general public for the residents to pose questions or bring up topics.
The Town Hall Meetings are conducted in voice. We ask you to turn your mic off during the meeting and limit typing in local chat to ONLY things relevant to topics we are covering. Once the floor is opened to the public, feel free to turn your mic on to speak.
Hope to see you there. Location map and teleport
The Town Hall Meetings are conducted in voice. We ask you to turn your mic off during the meeting and limit typing in local chat to ONLY things relevant to topics we are covering. Once the floor is opened to the public, feel free to turn your mic on to speak.
Hope to see you there. Location map and teleport
Island Oasis Grid Gains Momentum
Posted April 30, 2016
Island Oasis Grid- The feedback has been phenomenally positive since Island Oasis has enabled Hypergrid access to its grid owned regions and even more astounding regarding the news that residents who own land get to choose IF their region(s) is/are Hypergrid accessible. We love the inflow of visitors and welcome all of those who have now chosen to make Island Oasis their home grid. Several have started off with claiming a parcel among the FREE land offered by the grid and have now gone on to either rent or own land.
Staff is more than thrilled with the additional residents and visitors. We welcome you all to Island Oasis! Download the IO viewer to join us in world or visit us; Hypergrid Address: islandoasisgrid.biz:8002
Sophia Paolino states the "noticeable increase in visitors via the Hypergid who are enjoying access to Island Oasis and how pleasant everyone is."
Chief Thunderkock said "I think its great and I love the HG , got it on my land now. I like having the ability to HG from my home and the added bonus is all the friends I make out there can come directly to my sim ."
sally blaketon says "The HG is Great I Love to go visiting the other grids each day"
Valeriana Weston states "the feedback and request for merchandise has increased as have her sales. I'm loving this! Seems like I am meeting new people every time I am logged in."
Wizard Numanox states that "there have been more people coming to visit the location and venue, Legends. My business partner and I have several of our sims with Hypergrid access. It's great to see so many visitors."
Island Oasis Grid- The feedback has been phenomenally positive since Island Oasis has enabled Hypergrid access to its grid owned regions and even more astounding regarding the news that residents who own land get to choose IF their region(s) is/are Hypergrid accessible. We love the inflow of visitors and welcome all of those who have now chosen to make Island Oasis their home grid. Several have started off with claiming a parcel among the FREE land offered by the grid and have now gone on to either rent or own land.
Staff is more than thrilled with the additional residents and visitors. We welcome you all to Island Oasis! Download the IO viewer to join us in world or visit us; Hypergrid Address: islandoasisgrid.biz:8002
Sophia Paolino states the "noticeable increase in visitors via the Hypergid who are enjoying access to Island Oasis and how pleasant everyone is."
Chief Thunderkock said "I think its great and I love the HG , got it on my land now. I like having the ability to HG from my home and the added bonus is all the friends I make out there can come directly to my sim ."
sally blaketon says "The HG is Great I Love to go visiting the other grids each day"
Valeriana Weston states "the feedback and request for merchandise has increased as have her sales. I'm loving this! Seems like I am meeting new people every time I am logged in."
Wizard Numanox states that "there have been more people coming to visit the location and venue, Legends. My business partner and I have several of our sims with Hypergrid access. It's great to see so many visitors."
Grid Maintenance Saturday April 23, 2016
Updated April 23, 2016
Grid maintenance was successfully completed. We look forward to seeing you in world.
Posted April 22, 2016
Island Oasis had been experiencing some intermittent connectivity issues on Thursday, April 21st. We're aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution. We appreciate your patience. Island Oasis Staff has identified the issue and is working diligently towards a permanent solution.
Island Oasis will be conducting grid maintenance on Saturday (4/23) at 10am IOT (PST) and will be offline for approx 3 hours. This will resolve this ongoing issue. We will keep you posted and work to get this resolved as quickly as possible.
Grid maintenance was successfully completed. We look forward to seeing you in world.
Posted April 22, 2016
Island Oasis had been experiencing some intermittent connectivity issues on Thursday, April 21st. We're aware of the issue and are working towards a resolution. We appreciate your patience. Island Oasis Staff has identified the issue and is working diligently towards a permanent solution.
Island Oasis will be conducting grid maintenance on Saturday (4/23) at 10am IOT (PST) and will be offline for approx 3 hours. This will resolve this ongoing issue. We will keep you posted and work to get this resolved as quickly as possible.
5yr Anniversary Celebration
Island Oasis is quickly approaching its 5th year in business. There will be a two day celebration March 5th and 6th with hunts, live performers and DJs over the weekend. Please join us for a fun weekend.
Island Oasis is growing yearly and had been improving the tools and resources for residents every year. Co-founders Sugar and Damean Paolino cordially invite you to attend. Currently the line up includes Live performer Torben Asp Saturday 3pm IOT (PST), DJ The Watcher Sunday 5pm IOT and DJ Bella Sunday 7pm IOT. Look for updates as we schedule additional performers and events. Also see our EVENTS listings for details. |
IO Hypergrid Town Hall Meeting
Posted February 8, 2016
Island Oasis virtual grid has found a way to have the best of both worlds. The regions owned by the grid will be, by default, hypergrid enabled. Resident land owners will make their own decision regarding what kind of environment they will have for their region: Closed commercial grid environment or Hypergrid access.
Island Oasis is once again putting the power to decide in the hands of the landowner. As a landowner YOU choose if your region remains as part of a "closed commercial environment" accessible to ONLY Island Oasis residents OR allow hypergrid access to your region. Welcome to the future, where the decision is YOURS!
For content creators the important decision will be to decide if they will allow transfer of their content off the grid. In short if, as a content creator, you check the next permissions to allow transfer, then the next owner of the object will be able to transfer it with them if they choose to access a hypergrid location from Island Oasis. This leaves all content creators in control of their own content and what permissions they choose to allow.
Please view the video which will answer many of your questions:
Island Oasis virtual grid has found a way to have the best of both worlds. The regions owned by the grid will be, by default, hypergrid enabled. Resident land owners will make their own decision regarding what kind of environment they will have for their region: Closed commercial grid environment or Hypergrid access.
Island Oasis is once again putting the power to decide in the hands of the landowner. As a landowner YOU choose if your region remains as part of a "closed commercial environment" accessible to ONLY Island Oasis residents OR allow hypergrid access to your region. Welcome to the future, where the decision is YOURS!
For content creators the important decision will be to decide if they will allow transfer of their content off the grid. In short if, as a content creator, you check the next permissions to allow transfer, then the next owner of the object will be able to transfer it with them if they choose to access a hypergrid location from Island Oasis. This leaves all content creators in control of their own content and what permissions they choose to allow.
Please view the video which will answer many of your questions:
Town Hall Meeting Feb 7th, 10am IOT
Posted February 6, 2016
The upgrade is now complete and Island Oasis is now partially hypergrid enabled. All of the grid owned regions will have hypergrid access and land owners can now choose if they wish to have their region hypergrid accessible or not.
Island Oasis is known for putting the power in the hands of the landowners with tools and control over their land to have the experience as they choose. Hypergrid accessibility will be no exception.
There will be a Town Hall Meeting tomorrow Feb 7th, Sunday at 10am IOT (PST) to discuss the changes to the grid and the option for landowners as well as what this will mean for content creators. The Meeting will be open and Island Oasis invites you to attend. IO strongly encourages all landowners and content creators to be in attendance. The meeting will be conducted in voice. Please arrive early with voice enabled.
Town Hall Meeting will be at the Meeting Center.
The upgrade is now complete and Island Oasis is now partially hypergrid enabled. All of the grid owned regions will have hypergrid access and land owners can now choose if they wish to have their region hypergrid accessible or not.
Island Oasis is known for putting the power in the hands of the landowners with tools and control over their land to have the experience as they choose. Hypergrid accessibility will be no exception.
There will be a Town Hall Meeting tomorrow Feb 7th, Sunday at 10am IOT (PST) to discuss the changes to the grid and the option for landowners as well as what this will mean for content creators. The Meeting will be open and Island Oasis invites you to attend. IO strongly encourages all landowners and content creators to be in attendance. The meeting will be conducted in voice. Please arrive early with voice enabled.
Town Hall Meeting will be at the Meeting Center.
Upgrade and Town Hall Meeting rescheduled
Updated February 6, 2016
The scheduled upgrade is going well. Island Oasis is still working diligently to meet our timeline. Island Oasis is expected to be back online around 4pm IO time (PST) Hope to see you there. Once logins are enabled please wait for your region destination to show online on the grid map before attempting to teleport to that destination.
Updated February 2, 2016
Island Oasis will be conducting the upgrade and turning on the hypergrid on Sat 2/6/16 starting at 8am IO time. We will be down for about 8 hours. Please watch our twitter, facebook, and news portal for updates. Sunday 2/7/16 at 10am IO time we will be conducting a Town Hall meeting to discuss the hypergrid upgrade. Please mark your calendars.
Posted Jan 31, 2016
The previous announcements of an upgrade and Island Oasis' Town Hall Meeting is being updated once again. Due to illness both have been rescheduled. The upgrade will now occur on February 6th from 8am IOT (PST)- approx 4pm IOT (PST) with the Town Hall Meeting to convene February 7th at 5pm IOT (PST).
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and we are looking forward to the upgrade and the Meeting. This meeting is very important and all landowners and content creators are envouraged to attend. Town Hall meeting will be conducted in voice and is open to Island Oasis Residents and hypergrid residents. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Town Hall Meeting will be at the Meeting Center.
Watch this site and our facebook and twitter for announcements and updates.
The scheduled upgrade is going well. Island Oasis is still working diligently to meet our timeline. Island Oasis is expected to be back online around 4pm IO time (PST) Hope to see you there. Once logins are enabled please wait for your region destination to show online on the grid map before attempting to teleport to that destination.
Updated February 2, 2016
Island Oasis will be conducting the upgrade and turning on the hypergrid on Sat 2/6/16 starting at 8am IO time. We will be down for about 8 hours. Please watch our twitter, facebook, and news portal for updates. Sunday 2/7/16 at 10am IO time we will be conducting a Town Hall meeting to discuss the hypergrid upgrade. Please mark your calendars.
Posted Jan 31, 2016
The previous announcements of an upgrade and Island Oasis' Town Hall Meeting is being updated once again. Due to illness both have been rescheduled. The upgrade will now occur on February 6th from 8am IOT (PST)- approx 4pm IOT (PST) with the Town Hall Meeting to convene February 7th at 5pm IOT (PST).
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and we are looking forward to the upgrade and the Meeting. This meeting is very important and all landowners and content creators are envouraged to attend. Town Hall meeting will be conducted in voice and is open to Island Oasis Residents and hypergrid residents. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Town Hall Meeting will be at the Meeting Center.
Watch this site and our facebook and twitter for announcements and updates.
Important News: January 30-31st
Updated January 30, 2016
Update - We're pushing the upgrade back by 24 hours. Due to illness Island Oasis will conduct the upgrade tomorrow morning at 8am IOT and will be offline until approx. 4pm IOT on January 31.
We apologize for the short notice and the inconvenience.
Regards,
Damean Paolino
Posted January 24, 2016
January 30th at approximately 8am IOT Island Oasis will begin a major software upgrade and will be opening the hypergate for hypergrid connectivity. Upgrade is expected to be complete by 4pm IOT.
January 31st Island Oasis Staff will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting at the Meeting Center. Meeting is scheduled to begin at 5pm to discuss the upgrade and the new implementation of the hypergrid. Please arrive early to be prepared for the meeting. This meeting will be conducted on voice. All Island Oasis landowners and content creators are strongly encouraged to attend. This meeting will be open to all Island Oasis residents and hypergrid residents.
Update - We're pushing the upgrade back by 24 hours. Due to illness Island Oasis will conduct the upgrade tomorrow morning at 8am IOT and will be offline until approx. 4pm IOT on January 31.
We apologize for the short notice and the inconvenience.
Regards,
Damean Paolino
Posted January 24, 2016
January 30th at approximately 8am IOT Island Oasis will begin a major software upgrade and will be opening the hypergate for hypergrid connectivity. Upgrade is expected to be complete by 4pm IOT.
January 31st Island Oasis Staff will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting at the Meeting Center. Meeting is scheduled to begin at 5pm to discuss the upgrade and the new implementation of the hypergrid. Please arrive early to be prepared for the meeting. This meeting will be conducted on voice. All Island Oasis landowners and content creators are strongly encouraged to attend. This meeting will be open to all Island Oasis residents and hypergrid residents.