Now that's a blast from the past, even if the past is still fairly recent...
Neovo Geesink has rebuilt
Metro Memoriam, the sim in #
OSgrid that preserves iconic elements of the #
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grid, the first and formerly biggest German grid in #
OpenSim. It used to contain only the top level of the legendary welcome building. Now it's the entire welcome sim itself plus a sky platform with more structures like the 1078-prim Reichstag and Café Achteck from CenterWorld, a carousel that used to be one of the first objects made in Metro and the backup dance floor for the farewell party a good 8 months ago, the first event this place had seen in some three years or so.
Come to think of it, as old as this structure is, I've met two contributors to it just this evening.
A few things have changed in the building, though. The last remaining MRTPS teleport terminals are descripted dummies now, there's an #
OpenSimWorld beacon now (there used to be one already when I joined Metro), the teleportals on level 2 are all blank, the big SuperTeleporter points at OSgrid targets instead of Metro targets now, and next to it, there are two additional teleporters, one to the sky platform, one for events. Level 1 has an unscripted Clubmaster dance ball now as a kind of souvenir from the farewell party; the building's built-in club didn't have a Clubmaster before that night.
The Metropolis logo on top, however, has been there when Metro was still alive. The commsys is still there and appears to be functional; it has actually been expanded to the sky platform. In general, I could post some of the pictures from before the shutdown here, and you wouldn't notice the differences, except that my pictures don't have the "eternal sunset" setting.
Also, nice to see new Bertha back at the info counter.
Here are two pictures from shortly before the shutdown; again, except for the sun which I had changed to have some better light, it doesn't look any different today.
Speaking of Bertha, amongst the surviving historical pieces of Metro is also Lacchi Macchi's legendary freebie sim
AquaDark which disappeared from Metro in 2019 already and resides on its own grid now. There you can also find the full avatar which new Bertha is inspired by the android Maria from Fritz Lang's
Metropolis.
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