@7171al71 - an erudite and well-thought out presentation.

Thank-you.

👍

@Alkasyn: mmhhh...you are right, there is no prime amazon either 😂. and it is true that this is quite unique.
The problem is that the percentage of discard. is so high in the triple diamond or antique users that it does not manage to sustain the maintenance costs.
Deep down, you ***** the golden goose with that strategy.
To be able to continue to maintain yourself you have to look for a young market and adjust to that and that causes what you see today. The old market that consumes and is faithful, doesn't like the new format. While the young market does, but it is short lived. The average market age of this of how much will be 45 to 50 years ... and what happens, you have users from 30 to 65 years ... is too broad! You have three generations in the same bag with extrapolated tastes.
A generation that grew up with Playboy magazines and another with PornHub on the cell phone and there is a radical difference.
A market was loyal...and today the market is captivated. Excessive discounts are a bad strategy.
It is better to improve the product without touching the price, make special promotions and all that.
But if you touch the price on the basis of discounts that you can't withdraw, you're dead. It's a short range curve...bread today...hunger tomorrow.

Good analysis - maybe they're fishing in a different pond, and it's simply not targeted at forumites who actually participate in the discussion on the forums.

Interesting you'd think that discounts and the fact that there ARE whales is what drives the company into a corner. Definitely something to think about.

@sh42n81: Good animation sequence 👍, it served me well, with the theme of chained nodes was not working as I had and as you have them if.

I didn't show the images, I modified this:

texture {
id: Background
source: sh4_textures/Ruination1.png <------------------------------- the slash was reversed
}

texture {
id: Foreground
source: sh4_textures/Ruination1fg.png <------------------------------- the slash was reversed
}

@7171al71,

Excuse me if I don't understand, but how is this an improvement and what does it fix, at least on windows?

Because I followed your advice regarding the inversion of the slash, and I end up with more images suddenly when moving in the scene (I do not know the technical term of that). And still no shade under the girls.


@7171al71,

Excusez moi si je ne comprend pas, mais en quoi cela est-il une amélioration et qu'est-ce que cela corrige, du moins sur windows ?

Car j'ai suivi votre conseil en lien à l'inversion de la barre oblique, et je me retrouve avec plus d'images par à coup lors des déplacements dans la scène (Je ne sais pas le terme technique de cela). Et toujours pas d'ombre sous les filles.

@sh42n81: Good animation sequence 👍, it served me well, with the theme of chained nodes was not working as I had and as you have them if.

I didn't show the images, I modified this:

texture {
id: Background
source: sh4_textures/Ruination1.png <------------------------------- the slash was reversed
}

texture {
id: Foreground
source: sh4_textures/Ruination1fg.png <------------------------------- the slash was reversed
}

@Alkasyn: mmhhh...you are right, there is no prime amazon either 😂. and it is true that this is quite unique.
The problem is that the percentage of discard. is so high in the triple diamond or antique users that it does not manage to sustain the maintenance costs.
Deep down, you ***** the golden goose with that strategy.
To be able to continue to maintain yourself you have to look for a young market and adjust to that and that causes what you see today. The old market that consumes and is faithful, doesn't like the new format. While the young market does, but it is short lived. The average market age of this of how much will be 45 to 50 years ... and what happens, you have users from 30 to 65 years ... is too broad! You have three generations in the same bag with extrapolated tastes.
A generation that grew up with Playboy magazines and another with PornHub on the cell phone and there is a radical difference.
A market was loyal...and today the market is captivated. Excessive discounts are a bad strategy.
It is better to improve the product without touching the price, make special promotions and all that.
But if you touch the price on the basis of discounts that you can't withdraw, you're dead. It's a short range curve...bread today...hunger tomorrow.

Fanfan LD.......a new favorite 😍🔥🔥

Thanks for your reviews, it's always nice to see someting creative instead of the usual ***** :)

This happens with every calendar. The ratings crater on pretty much every card.

My guess is members resent buying something they didn't want and instead of taking blame for their own actions they instead take it out on the card or model.

I don't care how someone else rates but it keeps the demos from showing up in the carousel which I do watch.

I think this is the explanation for those low-rated non-reviews.

It's much easier to simply say 'the selection sucks' and downvote the models than it is to say "I shouldn't have bought the pre-order because it's an anti-consumer tactic but I couldn't help myself as I was thinking with my dick' :)

If you can't afford to b disappointed, don't buy preorder.

As seen even in this thread, there are people who understand and follow that modus operandi.

Very nice scene @sh42n81, but you haven't finished yet.

I really like the improvements you have made.

You may find me too perfectionist, but there is one aspect that escaped my notice.

And believe me any good vampire knows that.

There is no shadow at the feet of the girls in your scenes, which takes away from the realism.

Unless your girls are all female vampires, of course. 😊


Très belle scène @sh42n81, mais vous n'avez pas encore terminé.

J'aime beaucoup les améliorations que vous avez fait..

Vous allez me trouver peut-être trop perfectionniste, mais il y a un aspect qui avait échappé à mon regard.

Et croyez moi tout bon vampire sait cela.

Il n'y a pas d'ombre au pied des filles dans vos scènes, ce qui enlève du réalisme.

À moins bien sur que vos filles soient toutes des femmes vampires. :) 😊

My favourites here would include Amirah Adara, Ariana Marie, Leona Mia maybe Sherice and Jillian Jason.

I guess the software bases its show structure on market preferences or trends, which we see I guess reflects that. I think that when you stop consuming something, you stop being a target market for that brand. For example, I cancelled my Netflix subscription and I prefer HBO Go. I love Nike, but I don't like their current line and I prefer Merrell, that's what happens with this. Brands change, consumers change. Everything changes.

Yes and no. There's no HBO to change this Netflx for, and most of us who post here still buy cards, but at a reduced rate, sometimes much so.

You're right that tastes and consumers change, but we haven't changed enough to stop being a consumer here.

I do think that the current sales tactic is devoting too much time to milking whales without caring for the middle of the pack.

well, I broke it. Bought one of the shows that was on offer hoping for a reshuffle. Now I'm stuck with buy 3 for 54 credits despite already owning one

It doesn't refresh the offer that's visible, but you'll get a different third card - I think it's been tested by some of our forumites.

I'm calling from the Moon, Earth hears me? 😂😂😂

Loud and clear.

My previous post grew so large after a series of edits adding details that it got truncated, Here is the final paragraph in full:

You probably do not need to use much of the above in simple scenes, but even for such things it helps to understand what is going on - and to do that the simplest thing to do is to think of a scene as a collection of flat items positioned in 3D space being viewed from the camera which is looking at a particular point in that space (its target position). it's a bit like having an old fashioned toy theatre with various scenic backdrops, props and characters all on flat cut out pieces of thin cardboard. For 2D scenes an equivalent analogy would be building up a scene from layers of drawings on transparent film as was done for classic cartoons before it all became computerised.

@sh42n81

The only type of node that has an Angle property is the Camera node, so that is the only place you can animate it. The same is true for the Target property. Furthermore these only make sense for the 3D camera type.

All nodes, including the simple Node{} node and the Camera node, have Pos, Rot, and Scale properties that you can animate. Setting any of these properties for a node of any type, including any animations you may apply to them, will affect any nodes, of any type, nested inside it. There are limitations on what you can do if you are using a 2D camera.

Sprite nodes, including clipSprite and clipNameSprite, and Quad nodes also have Color and Opacity properties that can be animated. Setting these properties will not affect nested nodes.

The reason why the Z value matters when you are using a 3D camera is because if you are using such a camera then the various things (i.e. Sprites of all kinds) in the scene are placed in a 3D space rather than on a flat plane so their apparent size depends on ther distance from the camera. If you move them closer to the camera (either by moving them or the camera) then they appear to get bigger and get smaller if you move them away from the camera.

If then follows that if you move the camera towards the scene, by animating the Z component of its position, things will appear to grow at different rates if they are at different distances, in particular if they have different Z components for their position. However, if instead of moving the camera you animate the camera's Angle (i.e. its angular width of view) then this zooming will affect all of the items in its field of view by the same amount no matter how far away they are from the camera. As I said in a previous reply moving the camera in and out is "Tracking", changing the Angle is true Zooming as you would get in real life with a zoom lens.

Similarly if you move the camera sideways or up and down then the apparent speed at which items in the scene move will also depend on how far away they are from the camera. This can sometimes be used to good effect o enhance the 3D feeling of a scene (but it can also make the girls look as if they are sliding on the floor if they are not at the same distance from the camera as the image of the floor which is normally part of the background image. You can eliminate this sliding effect by having a separate images for the floor, the background and and walls in the scene but it gets complicated.

You can use the Z position of a clipSprite to ensure that if the sprite is moved it will automatically adjust its apparent size to match where it is positioned against the background - but for that to work you have first to have matched the camera's position, its target position and field of view (i.e. its Angle) to match the perspective of the image used for the background which is not an easy task. I have done that, for example, in the Dodgems scene and I do not recommend doing it unless you really really need to do it to make the scene work.

One ***** thing you may notice in 3D scenes is that the girls, or rather their sprites, towards the edges of the scene are not directly facing the camera. This is because the front face of a sprite, by default, is perpendicular to the Z axis (i,e, the sprite i in the X-Y plane parallel to the screen) so a straight line from the camera to the centre of the sprite will be at an angle to the surface of that sprite. Normally the effect is not noticeable but In very rare cases (e.g. if you are using a very wide angle camera or have moved the camera a long way from the centre of the scene) you may want to correct for this effect by slightly rotating the sprites to directly face the camera (if necessary animating the rotations to match changes in the camera position). An extreme example of this would be if you set a scene in a room and slowly rotate the camera about the vertical, Y, axis by 360 degrees to see all four walls of the room and the girls in those directions - by the time you had rotated by 90 degrees you would be seeing the girls edge-on unless you had applied a compensatory rotation to their clipSprites. You can also see the induced apparent rotation if you change the camera's target differently to its position - which is why I normally animate both pos: and target: if I move the camera other than directly towards or away from the target. This target dependacy can be reduced by placing the target position a long way behind everything, i.e. by giving it a large absolute value for Z, but moving it with the camera eliminates it completely as that keeps the target direction costant.

You probably do not need to use much of the above in simple scenes, but even for such things it helps to understand what is going on - and to do that the simplest thing to do is think of a scene as a collection of flat items positioned in 3D space being viewed from the camera which is looking at a particular point in that space ...

I'm calling from the Moon, Earth hears me? 😂😂😂

test?

I forgot to study...

Revisiting "Ruination 1" one last time, now that I have accomplished the camera motion that I wanted for it. Thanks to @TheEmu for advice and examples.

I also fixed a layering problem in the southwest corner.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=15qntl2dalvj__snAPOP5x2-U_ODPoYJJ

well, I broke it. Bought one of the shows that was on offer hoping for a reshuffle. Now I'm stuck with buy 3 for 54 credits despite already owning one

The difficulties arise because you are moving the camera in and out relative to the both th performers and the other screen elements, consequently those that have been placed closer to the camera are more affected than those further away which can often result in unrealistic apparent changes in the relative sizes of the objects in the scene.

In principle this problem can be overcome by properly placing the various objects in the scene at their proper positions in 3D space

@TheEmu

I finally had a chance to tuck into this and gain an understanding. I have gotten around to figuring out the sequential panning and zooming that I wanted to do with "Ruination 1" and was chagrined to discover that "animate: angle" doesn't seem to work inside a nested node. At least, I couldn't get anywhere with it. So, it was back to animating the camera's position again, and back to the clipSprites sliding all over the place.

So I have thought about your comment above. I gotta admit: I have been thinking in mostly 2D terms all this time. The only reason I use a 3D camera is because the first scene that I used as a template had one, and that's what I have been using ever since.

I actually and intentionally have ignored the z value for the clip positioning, having tried it and having observed that it seemed to only change the scale and vertical position of a clip on my 2D screen the same way that I can do by adjusting the y value and the size or scale values. I have a pretty good sense of what the size and y values need to be when I place a clip, based on the camera size and position that I always use, so I can quickly drop a clip very close to where I want it, and then only some fine tuning is needed. Modifying the z value throws all those values off (of what I'm accustomed to), so I haven't bothered.

But now I see. At the least, it matters when changing the camera position, and placing a clip at the same z value and the camera definitely makes the operation smoother. Thanks again for you insight. It must be amusing to you to watch me attempting to make scenes without a whisp of a clue what I'm doing. You are very kind to withhold deserved ridicule. 😂

I guess the software bases its show structure on market preferences or trends, which we see I guess reflects that. I think that when you stop consuming something, you stop being a target market for that brand. For example, I cancelled my Netflix subscription and I prefer HBO Go. I love Nike, but I don't like their current line and I prefer Merrell, that's what happens with this. Brands change, consumers change. Everything changes.

Just a data point: I normally buy about 20 of the newly released cards each month. So far this month I've only purchased 15. The others just weren't what I'm looking for.

A Word about "Business" etc... Business is NOT the Main Aspect of I-Stripper - it's ONE also important Aspect - but it is by far no the only One - the main ASPECT of I-Stripper and Virtual Girl however was and is - real good ALLROUND EROTIC Entertainment and to be in total as fair to everyone as possible and to Show also real Humanity - because EROTIC - also of Males btw. - is basically an all good and natural Subject. Therefore is had to be said.: Almost all Female Erotic and/or Porn Models are mainly and mostly real good Female Humans - I did know and know still a few of them personally. With their Work - and it is Work but also Joy - they do really spread some - majorly Visual/Virtual - mainly Erotic and SEXUAL Love and Warmth around and basically it is an all good Subject and very many of them are generally like good carrying and loving Nurses and really want to share their Erotic Beauty, their Sexuality and also their "POWER" with - when possible many other - good and also carrying , human - but also Erotic and Beauty and Sexuality Loving Peoples - even when this is mainly in a Virtual-Visual Way. And this is however - in this Regard an all GOOD Subject - not to show and share the own Erotic Beauty with just ONE MAN behind closed Doors ( and Walls) but to share and show their Erotic Beauty and Power at least visuell with many - hopefully - good Peoples - Males as well as other Women , who love Female Erotics as well. With their Work they also ease , reduce the ***** of good Lonesome Peoples, spead some good to perhaps wonderful Erotic Joy around to many and to create some Erotic and Fantasy - if possible - in all Directions and basically to EVERYONE who is interested . Their are also many Erotic and/or Porn Models who love also Erotic Fetishes of all Kind ( including also Femdom-BDSM etc.) most of all and want to remit Message in this regard, others like it really to be naked as often as possible, others want to show mainly the Power of Female Erotics - and others love all Aspects of these or two or three Aspects .. - But despite of that almost all want and have the urge to do and to deliver a real GOOD and JUSTFUL work - and this is also the MAIN Ambition of I-Stripper/VG to support also this basically and in many ways also general good Ambition - for the Benefit of Everyone - ! - And EVERYONE that is the Ordiance/Customers, the I-Stripper Team and of course the Models - who send an Erotic Gift and Blessing out to Everyone who love Love, Erotic, Fetish and Sexuality. This is all the Main and First Aspect of I-Stripper ! Business - however - comes also, but it is not the First Aspect - it is only the Second and it is also a necessary Aspect- without also this Aspect I-Stripper /VG wouldn't have been possible ! But the main Aspect of I-Stripper is to spead positive, good Love, Erotic, Fantasy, Fetish and Sexuality and to share it with - if possible - many good Humans - Males as well as Females. - When an Erotic Model performs in I-Stripper and is doing her best to make a good Erotic-Sexual Show - they don't PERFORM for the "Worse, Bad and Ugly" among the Viewers - they think at and do it for all the GOOD Peoples/Humans in the Ordiance, for those who really love what they show, who love their Erotics and Beauty and the postive Warmth they also spread around by doing so ! And this ALL POSITIVE Aspect is the First and Main Aspect of I-Stripper ! - And last not least.: The WORLD needs good and kind Erotic Models as Erotic , Sexuality and also Fetish and Fantasy is a VERY important and positive ART for the World and where would Humanity be without Art ??! 👍❤️👍

Look for Talia Mint, Sapphira A, Merry Pie, Sherice, Kristi, Angelika Grays, Lovenia Lux, Tiffany Tatum, Clarice, Zazie Skymm, Sade Mare, Linda Elisson, Katya Clover.

i'm looking for some fit thin girls can someone give me some suggestions?

More precisely, they want to be paid more than East Europe ones, in order to do it.

Cynic! I quite liked @Sexy3DBoy 's suggestion that they're orientated to the "artistic nude" end of the market and wouldn't normally want to be associated with porn. But they're all self-employed, so they all need the $ after Le Confinement, so maybe the cynicism is appropriate.

girls in France, who prefer to expose their genitals less.

More precisely, they want to be paid more than East Europe ones, in order to do it.

Pour ma part je pense que le covid19 a eu une grande influence, du fait que cela a diminué l'offre des filles, et qu'il y a probablement des filles plus locales en France,

Je suis du même avis,

qui préfèrent exposer moins leurs organes génitaux.

Il est possible qu'en France, les filles soient plus axées sur le nu version on va dire "artistique" à l'instar des filles de l'Est telles que Margo Dumas et Anastasiia mais c'est pas sûr :)

De plus Totem en a profiter pour offrir une carte SEC, pour attirer plus les gens à
acheter, toutes les cartes du mois d'août.

C'est pour cela que j'ai accepté pour la première fois le pre-load du mois car il y avait une SEC. Autrement je préfère de très loin le teasing de la demo avant tout achat.

Pour ce qui est du contenu moins "sexe" c'est peut-être un choix du studio...

Keep in mind that totem has also been accumulating extra profits for the last two years through somewhat nefarious gambling methods and "special events". They haven't appreciably improved the product technically with these extra proceeds, with the 4k being a tiny upgrade and being paid for by subs. They haven't opened new studios, or added new features, props, or even costumes for that matter.

We don't know that they have been accumulating profits. They replaced the studio after the fire, including costumes and camera kit, and we don't know how much of that was covered by insurance. I've never known an insurer to pay out in full. But you're right, Totem don't get a free pass on any fall-off on quality.

I'm not convinced that models get paid significantly more for open leg shows - what they are prepared to do is part of the package, like their dance skills or looks. The French girls that they are hiring at the moment don't do it, because they can make a living without it. The Ukrainians need to justify the cost of visas and flying to Paris, so maybe they'll be prepared to do more for the money.

I also disagree that the supply/demand model is broken. The collectors aren't numerous enough to justify making shows. I vaguely remember that Totem have said that about half of their revenue comes from "new users" and also many contributors to this forum pick and choose what they buy. Both these groups must be a significant part of the business model and attrition amongst new users will be ***** for Totem, as will no-buy decisions from established but picky users.

So I think that, if the prevailing view on this thread is representative of the user base as a whole, it'll return to the way it was. Eventually.

For my part, I think that covid19 had a great influence, because it reduced the supply of girls, and that there are probably more local girls in France, who prefer to expose their genitals less.

The next few months will tell us exactly what it is.

Because great collectors, there have always been on iStripper. It's really more this month, that we see it more clearly.

In addition, Totem took the opportunity to offer a SEC card, to attract more people to buy all the cards for the month of August.

For my part, I am not *****, because it is the way I recommend for obtaining the SEC.


Pour ma part je pense que le covid19 a eu une grande influence, du fait que cela a diminué l'offre des filles, et qu'il y a probablement des filles plus locales en France, qui préfèrent exposer moins leurs organes génitaux.

Ce sont les prochains mois, qui vont nous dire, ce qu'il en est au juste.

Car des grands collectionneurs, il y en a toujours eu sur iStripper. C'est vraiment plus ce mois-ci, que l'on constate cela de façon plus évidente.

De plus Totem en a profiter pour offrir une carte SEC, pour attirer plus les gens à acheter, toutes les cartes du mois d'août.

Pour ma part, je ne m'en plaint pas, car c'est la façon que je préconise pour l'obtention des SEC.

(Short) Reply to Alkasyn ! - Alkasyn that is a GOOD Opinion - I agree to you ! - Good is also that you don't mind "the Lack of Nudity" - majorly in the NORMAL Shows ( not the XXX-Ones) I guess. I am only a (true) Layman Erotics and Allround Fetish Expert - but this Opinion - if you like it or not - is correct , because it means that you are basically more OR approx. equally interested in the (Female) Erotic and Fetish Aspect of I-Stripper Shows - rather the pure sexual/pornographic - all naked - Aspect ! I am - personally - MORE interested in the Erotic and Fetish Erotic ASPECT/Issue/Impact of the I-Stripper - Shows. And I know that REX tried to increase this Aspect especially for the normal Shows - but also for several XXX-Shows ( but by far not all XXX-Shows) and the Rex and the Team also react to my truthful note/remark that the Full Erotic (Power) of a Human and of course a Wo(w)man can be best seen in a Standing Position and not stitting and even most less in a crouched position - and to react to this was righteous. - Nonetheless there are still in the MAJORITY of Shows - most of all in the majority of XXX-Show ( but also the most Normal Shows) - very many of all-naked/nude Minutes left for all the All Nude and Porn Lovers in the majority of all Shows ! - So - all in all - I-Stripper did the right thing so far or until the Present - in both Directions - Erotic/Fetish and also All Nude/Porn - in total it had TRULY become quite good balanced ! - And this is the Truth as well - at least in total.

I wonder if there would not be a way either to lower the image to the cut of the legs or to put an object in front of the ***** of the feet.

@ComteDracula

Thank you for the feedback. You will see this in a lot of my scenes. Older fronttable clips are affected by this, but newer ones are not because Totem began filming the entire model for these clips at some point in time. When I create these scenes for myself, there are a few things that I choose to ignore and accept as just part of how it works with iStripper. This is one of those things.

In this case, masking the cut-off feet would then have the opposite effect on newer clips where the legs are complete: they wouldn't show because they, too, would be masked. I like legs too much to do that. 😊

The main problem is people continue to buy shows even if they do not like them...lets say they only pay $1000 for nudity or slight full nudity model .vs...$1500 for a true open leg or xxx show...they can make same profits for 33% fewer sales. The normal supply/demand model is broken on istripper because so many people just buy cards to fill a collection or they treat totem like a patreon or donation site. I actually thought this was fine before the gambling and SE but totem doesn't need the donations because they can hit their profit goals via a slick SE or gambling promotion.

I agree. If people do not demand a better product, we will simply be served an average one.

Bottom line is, if sales drop, we see a change n businessp ractice, because the company wants to make money. It's simple.

REPLY to ZZMASKERS - First of all let me say to you that I do really APPRECIATE you and - of course - mainly your Opinion and Erotic Judgements very much ! - EVEN SO - this is NOT the Reason when I say to you now - that I do agree with your Opinion somewhere between 90% - 95% - and this is - of course as good as 99% - lol.. So I agree to almost anything you wrote ! - I also love Takha for example as she is very natural and also a quite good Performer in Truth and I also agree with your Opinion that her latest "***** Show" ( "Sunshine of your Lives") - this Show and the Shows " Duchess of Desire" and "Come on in" had been her 3 best Shows ( so far). Last not least - my main Intention with the more or less small Critic - mainly just for this August - and the last 2 weeks of Shows most of all is that I-Stripper itself is aware of the Fact that THIS August was by far NOT the very Best Show Month - they have ever had and this is mainly all ! - However, even despite the awfull and ***** and very anoying COVID-19 Problems and Issues - I-Stripper had in total - just easy going - to work on improving the Shows - also by improving the Outfits - not for every Show - btw. - just only in allround total. For example - I would like it to see - from Time to Time a Show in which a Girl is dressed like a GIL ELVGREN Pin-Up Girl ( including Garters and Stockings) including also "real" or look-alike Retro Style Lingerie. All due to this I hope for a more or less better or noteable better September and October in regard of the Shows - compared to August 2020. BUT - For the moment - also due to Corona btw. - let's wait and see..... Last not least I think my Critic was in total really justful and true. I do think that I have basically the same Interest that I-Stripper becomes and stays as good possible like REX itself ! 👍💕👍😉😊

For my part, what bothers me the most about the shows in August are the shows that are too modest, with the level of "nudity" hotness.

I find that in a show, the minimum must be "full nudity".

For my part, I am 58 years old, and I have no problem with XXX shows. On the contrary, the more I see, the better.


Pour ma part, ce qui me dérange le plus dans les shows du mois d'août, ce sont les shows trop pudiques, avec le niveau de hotness "nudité".

Je trouve que dans un spectacle, le minimum doit être "nudité complète".

Pour ma part j'ai 58 ans, et je n'ai aucun problème avec les spectacles XXX. Au contraire, plus j'en voit et mieux c'est.

The main problem is people continue to buy shows even if they do not like them...lets say they only pay $1000 for nudity or slight full nudity model .vs...$1500 for a true open leg or xxx show...they can make same profits for 33% fewer sales. The normal supply/demand model is broken on istripper because so many people just buy cards to fill a collection or they treat totem like a patreon or donation site. I actually thought this was fine before the gambling and SE but totem doesn't need the donations because they can hit their profit goals via a slick SE or gambling promotion.

For my part, what bothers me the most about the shows in August are the shows that are too modest, with the level of "nudity" hotness.

I find that in a show, the minimum must be "full nudity".

For my part, I am 58 years old, and I have no problem with XXX shows. On the contrary, the more I see, the better.


Pour ma part, ce qui me dérange le plus dans les shows du mois d'août, ce sont les shows trop pudiques, avec le niveau de hotness "nudité".

Je trouve que dans un spectacle, le minimum doit être "nudité complète".

Pour ma part j'ai 58 ans, et je n'ai aucun problème avec les spectacles XXX. Au contraire, plus j'en voit et mieux c'est.

Show quality comes and goes and judgements are very subjective. We need to give Totem a break...the Ukrainian border is closed, their strategy of using girls from there is unworkable and they're using whatever performers they can find in France. I have no idea what the make-up and costume people do about social distancing, but it can't be easy.

If everybody else agrees with you, it'll show in the sales figures and they'll get back to the standards we're used to as soon as circumstances allow. Personally, I reckon we've seen a few very good shows in recent weeks and I certainly don't regard August as a disaster. More like a breath of fresh air....

Keep in mind that totem has also been accumulating extra profits for the last two years through somewhat nefarious gambling methods and "special events". They haven't appreciably improved the product technically with these extra proceeds, with the 4k being a tiny upgrade and being paid for by subs. They haven't opened new studios, or added new features, props, or even costumes for that matter. So I don't think they deserve a free pass because from the customer point of view they are supposed to be reinvesting these "non-service" profits back into the models, so we can get better performances. It is clear they aren't willing to pay full price to get a parisian girl to do a full show, and are treating 2020 as an isolated event, while ignoring the massive amount of money they made in 2019 and 2018 while not providing an improved product. It does appear as if they adjusted in the middle of the summer as Audalove shows more than anywhere else on the internet, and Fanfan ld, a glamour model, appears to do some level of xxx. This seems to mirror their american experience where they tried to save money by limiting the models, but the shows were so poor that they had to increase investment. The good thing is totem is still building a catalog, so if the girls do not make their money back immediately they can still be used to market the product and eventually they will turn a profit.

Reply to Pantalone - To approx. 60% I agreee with you to approx. 40% - I don't ! - Please note and remember I didn't speak here about May/June - nor about February/March - or even 2019 or 18 - JUST about last month and most of all about the last 2 August Weeks of Shows - which had been somewhere between quite dull to very dull. But also YES - there had been also a few REAL GOOD Shows - like (for example ) also Clara Rene's erotic Police Costume Show - which had been in Truth or objectively seen a real good Show in total - as well as on behalf of the Outfit ( including Stockings and Shoes - basically very good looking Half-Boots btw..) as also on behalf of the Performance. Also this Show proofs in my Opinion - just for example - that a good Outfit can increase the Female Erotics pretty much and makes it all much more powerful as well as joybul. But I also know that their are a lot of "ALL NAKED/NUDE " Fans in the Ordiance of I-Stripper and the Majority should be more than less young Men - mainly below 35 yrs. of Age - but also several Women - mainly Bi-Sexual Women and Lesbians are ALL-NUDE Fans ( to avoid further misunderstandings -I personally love Bi-sex. Women and even Lesbians - the later however most of all when they love Classic Erotics and Fetish as well). Important to me with my Critic is only - or most of all - that despite the ***** Covid-19 issue and problem - I-Stripper will get back to the better again and recognize ( and is aware of ) also the Quality reduction during August - apart from a few good Shows also in September - no matter how high the Rating turned out - a basically and/or generally good Show (including a more or less - but good - Outfit) STAYS to be a GOOD Show - no matter how low or high the Ratings turned out ! - Therefore I-Stripper should also be and STAY (!) OPEN minded for "Experiments" coming from them no matter if those Experiments come from the I-Stripper Team itself, from the Models or of course also from I-Stripper Fans like me.💚💜😉😄

@Alkasyn - the 16K is the number of members who have ever made at least one post to the forum - a lot of those have made only one and many last posted quite a few years ago. How it relates to active members is anyone's guess (other than it being an upper limit to active posters). I agree with you that the active membership, depending on how you define that, may well be of this order of magnitude - I think rather higher but not 10 times higher and I have no data to support that conjecture. I think @Rex once gave a rough figure for the active membership but I can't remember whether that was in the tens or hundreds of thousands though I think he said it was not in the millions.

Indeed, I agree with this train of thought. A userbase in the millions would also be bringing a different kind of profit which I don't think is reflected in the software - it's a niche within the industry, and not a very well-known one. I don't think I've ever met anyone who has heard about, much less used the software IRL.

thank you for these scenes @sh42n81

Small problem with the sh4_Carnival3 scene

I wonder if there would not be a way either to lower the image to the cut of the legs or to put an object in front of the ***** of the feet.

The girl behind the counter finds it funny that the girls no longer have feet. Bad girl. 😄



Merci pour ces scènes @sh42n81

Petit problème avec la scène sh4_Carnival3

Je me demande s'il n'y aurait pas moyen soit de descendre l'image jusqu'à la coupure des jambes ou de mettre un objet devant l'***** des pieds.

La fille derrière le comptoir trouve très drôle le fait que les filles n'ont plus de pieds. Mauvaise fille. 😄

It's hard to read the OP due to poor formating but in general I agree that the recent crop of shows - the girls filmed during COVID - was not that interesting for me. I don't mind the lack of nudity, I just don't find them too attractive. Celia and Audalove are fun for me, but that's about it.

@sh42n81 if I may D/L "Carnival 3" this looks really nice, mainely cause it's a summer time thing & down to the
ground

@gkar45 Thank you for the feedback!

Thanks for the help @TheEmu

I managed to get the shadows to follow with the girls. :)

Thank you for the clarification regarding the reverse lettering @titiii.

Indeed it would have been quite weird to see the girl appear out of nowhere in the center of the screen in an in / out scene.


Merci pour l'aide @TheEmu

J'ai réussis à faire suivre les ombres avec les filles. :)

Merci pour la précision concernant le lettrage inversé @titiii.

En effet cela aurait fait assez ***** de voir la fille apparaître de nulle part dans le centre de l'écran dans une scene in/out.

That works well. 😊

How do you go about inverting the whole scene from the code I showed you?

Thanks @TheEmu.

Most of ALL in my Opionion on behalf or in regard of the OUTFITS and as well as in TOTAL

What are good outfits is very subjective: what the one likes, the other doesn't like, but outfits are very important to me in the buy/not buy decision.
A great outfit of last Friday was for me Takha in the ***** outfit, which corresponded with her girlish face and supple way of moving.
When I buy a show the following decision process is taken:
1. Do I like the model
2. Do I like the outfit (preference for normal clothing)
3. e-card or f-card (preference for e-cards)
4. Is the model a reasonable dancer
When buying a show it's always a kind of compromise. The last years I have become more selective with buying shows, which feels good. A week without buying a new edited show: no problem.

I didn't participate in the August pre-order. Still one point of critisism: too many shows of the same models, so lack of variation. There were three shows of Takha!
In the Advent of 2019 there were far more different models; maybe one or two shows of the same model.

"Carnival 3"

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1JWwnzKdb3rmQ0UWtiWOCvstMggNgfeXn

Show quality comes and goes and judgements are very subjective. We need to give Totem a break...the Ukrainian border is closed, their strategy of using girls from there is unworkable and they're using whatever performers they can find in France. I have no idea what the make-up and costume people do about social distancing, but it can't be easy.

If everybody else agrees with you, it'll show in the sales figures and they'll get back to the standards we're used to as soon as circumstances allow. Personally, I reckon we've seen a few very good shows in recent weeks and I certainly don't regard August as a disaster. More like a breath of fresh air....

Let me first of all say , that I am still sure , that I am convinced that I-Stripper - still is the very best Erotic Show Side - respecitively Program in the Internet - most of all in total and it is " mucho sympatía " ! BUT - I think - especially after the last (warm to hot) Summer Months of August in my Opinion - and MOST OF ALL during the last 2 weeks of Shows (second half of August) I think I witnessed a more than less stronger/strong downfall on behalf of the Shows Quality in total - with some exceptions - Kitana Lure, Audalove, Celia Clay and Stella.... On the other Hand - however - I also know that I-Stripper and many others still have to deal with the Impact Desaster of the "Neverending Story" of CORONA/Covit-19 and so far - after my - Impression I-Stripper dealed with this Problem VERY well and GOOD in total ! - Nonetheless I think that the Show Quality did fall downward during the last Month of August - and especially during the last 2 weeks. - NOT so much on Behalf of the Perfomance within the Shows and maybe also not sooo much on behalf of the Models - Girls and Women - Most of ALL in my Opionion on behalf or in regard of the OUTFITS and as well as in TOTAL - most of all compared to the recent Years 2019, 2018 and 2017 - I think that has to be stopped and turned again towards the better again - by some ***** (small) new Show Performance Rules and partly better feminine and/or Erotic Outfits - again. What I mean by that I will explain somewhere around the Middle to the End of September - in a - perhaps - not too long " Show Improvement Suggestion Comment " by me . So, the Conclusion is - I do have the Impression that I-Stripper Shows had especially during August ( and especially during the last 2 weeks) reached a new Low Point - after some Years with a lot of ***** and good Improvements and has to get better again (compared to this August - most of all.). Although I need to say that I do have the "unspecific" FEELING that this is ALREADY in the Making - BUT - perhaps - also not - I don't know yet - so , let's also wait and see what the entire SEPTEMBER 2020 will bring in total - will it be better than this August - most of all on behalf of Outfits in total or not ??! - I don't know yet - but I hope stongly for the better again - also due to some very fine - real good looking erotic new Models who still had been in the Studios recently. 💗😊👍

@TheLanger
suggested this too a few months ago :

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44704/1?post=662767

Let's hope this improves someday... 😉

they should use the graphics and dvelop game mode. they can have stripper fighter, like mortal kombat but strippers