Oh I agree, I'm on your side in this, I wish we had better service in this regard.

Congrats.

@Darkness97 Hi, you can use Prepaid cards with Epoch. Please select Epoch , choose credit card and enter your information

These are all great suggestion but none of them will be implemented and the reason is money.

Yeah I know, just random moaning and throwing out random ideas incase they stick, you know, like before you walk into your bedroom you say "I wonder if Scarlett Johanson is in my bed today? Would be nice if she was!" You know it won't happen, but hey, doesn't ***** to ask, coz you never know, right?

These games and special event cards are definitely too hit or miss. Needs changes to make them better value IMO.

Firstly as some have suggested make them an instant prize after you buy a certain amount of tickets - or better still after you buy a certain amount of tickets you get a free joker card. That way if you don't get lucky with the scratches you can still get the special event card, or if you were lucky early on it would give you incentive to keep playing.

Secondly make them purchasable for Premium members. I mean, come on, we Premiums are already paying a premium for, well, premium services. Why do yous ***** us with such paywalls and luck games?

These are all great suggestion but none of them will be implemented and the reason is money.

These games and special event cards are definitely too hit or miss. Needs changes to make them better value IMO.

Firstly as some have suggested make them an instant prize after you buy a certain amount of tickets - or better still after you buy a certain amount of tickets you get a free joker card. That way if you don't get lucky with the scratches you can still get the special event card, or if you were lucky early on it would give you incentive to keep playing.

Secondly make them purchasable for Premium members. I mean, come on, we Premiums are already paying a premium for, well, premium services. Why do yous ***** us with such paywalls and luck games?

Le chanceux !!! Félicitation !!!! ^^

As soon as you move your small size model to another location, it remains the new default position. If you quit iStripper completely, a file 'entrances.dat' will be created in the 'Data' folder, in which these new position(s) will be saved and used again next time. Your models continue to come from the side you last set.
If you want to change the internal program default settings again, you can simply delete the file in the data folder (iStripper must be completely terminated, otherwise it will write a new (old) file the next time you exit).

At least it still works for me, like before ...

@Orclover - even if it turns out that the iStripper gambling is illegal because of the laws against lootboxes or some other reason that does not affect whether or not they are scams (which are types of fraud) which would be covered by different laws. Something can be illegal without being a scam or without being desceptive.

@orclover

I pretty well agree with all that you have said in your last post. If you had said that instead of firstly calling Totem's games scams and then as "suspect" (with no qualification - "morally suspect" I would have accepted) then I would have had no comment to make. It really does help to say what you mean when you criticise something.

With regard to gambling in general, people can know what a gamble is without fully understanding the implications of gambling - in particular how probablility works. This, unfortunately, leads them to believe many false things (like runs of luck). As you say it took some of the smartest minds - specifically Blaise Pascal - to understand probability.

Speaking of scam, suspect...these are somewhat legal terms. The rule of law is arbitrary in many cases. For example, right now there are many thousands of people illegally downloading media, a few of them will get cease and desist letters, and a very tiny minority will ever get prosecuted. But they are all doing something illegal. Have software companies been sued for lootboxing and games of chance? Yes, ironically EA is being sued IN FRANCE by two separate entities for gambling in FIFA...which I believe involves their algorithms that change real-time to encourage more gambling and attracts ***** participants. Totem seems smart enough to cease and desist any illegal action once it becomes precedent but their current gambling system is likely in a similar category as the ones being tried in court. You cannot rely on the fact they aren't being prosecuted so they aren't doing anything illegal or scammy. If scammy, they aren't uniquely scammy, they just picked up the tools of other companies. Once again, I would be a little sad if they had to stop this easy flow of money because it honestly only makes my life better..my favorite product has more money and is more financially secure. But it doesn't make it morally good or legal.

@Stanston 👍👍👍👍👍👍 nice one

Thanks, I just made the topic because I remember the old VirtuaGirl system having the option and thought that maybe I just missed it in iStripper.

No Problem, take your Time for your own Wishes :-)

Hmm, yeah I could probably do that but it's not anything pressing to be honest.

@Tommy7358

I just wanted a way to make it behave that way by default

Maybe a Feature Request to the Developer Team.

Wyldanimal is correct. I do want girls in small size to enter from the left and that I can just easily ***** and drop them to the left corner. Well, it's not a major issue anyways, I just wanted a way to make it behave that way by default but if there's none available then no biggie.

How would I use a virtual card under payment options to buy credits?

The way I would do it before, is I would pull out say $10 or $5 a week while at a store, then when I had $40, I would run to a local store and buy a couple of $20 gift cards for Steam, redeem both, and buy the $30 package. This is because I get questioned for anything above $10. IF I could send $10 to Paypal every week to collect up... that might work. Then I can spend the $30. But I don't know if it will show a charge of $30 when I do spend it. I also don't see an option on Paypal any longer to collect money like this?

Well i bought 500 credits, bought many scratch cards, got many card (including the christmas special card) and 100 credits 6 times. Epic Win for me.

@orclover

I pretty well agree with all that you have said in your last post. If you had said that instead of firstly calling Totem's games scams and then as "suspect" (with no qualification - "morally suspect" I would have accepted) then I would have had no comment to make. It really does help to say what you mean when you criticise something.

With regard to gambling in general, people can know what a gamble is without fully understanding the implications of gambling - in particular how probablility works. This, unfortunately, leads them to believe many false things (like runs of luck). As you say it took some of the smartest minds - specifically Blaise Pascal - to understand probability.

In theory you could have such bad luck that you never win.
@orclover - it is a gamble, and we all know that it is a gamble. By its very nature you can never be sure that gambling any amount of money will result in a getting what you are gambling for, be it a thousand, ten thousand, one million or even a billion credits,

It is not at all suspect (by which I assume you mean to imply that there is some sort of deception involved), though we may find it distasteful and some may have strong moral objections, but neither make it "suspect".

Lol, if we all knew what a gamble is...nobody would do it. Games of chance are set by the house to benefit the house in the long run, and always screw the player in the long run. Games of chance also release dopamine and create an addictive cycle while the house screws you over just enough that they win but you don't quit. The math is very clear, and has been worked out by some of the smartest minds on the planet earth. This gets us into some very philosophical territory. Should a person be allowed to be an *****, to experience the initial pleasure of addiction, and then face the terrible consequences without assistance? Or should we rid our society of ***** and addictive interactions to protect vulnerable people? I error on the side of giving choice but I also believe that we should have judgement while allowing choice. I judge that totem is wrong in doing this, that they have made a conscious decision to take advantage of vulnerable adults in order to improve profits, but I also benefit from their extra income and therefore am a party to the wrong. If you can't live with that reality and have to justify it another way then so be it.

Hello, everybody,

i'm a disappointment in the scratch game.
I would have liked to win the special event card.
But after almost 50 buys I gave up.
I now have 10 more cards that I didn't want and won 5 times 20 credits.
This is too little incentive for me to play in the future.
😕👎

By its very nature you can never be sure that gambling any amount of money will result in a getting what you are gambling for, be it a thousand, ten thousand, one million or even a billion credits,

In any case I would like to point that I don't think odds to be fraudolent: at the times I did play at some Totem's gambling game (now I don't anymore), if I started to spend big amonuts of credits I usually did won at least one SEC.

In theory you could have such bad luck that you never win.

@orclover - it is a gamble, and we all know that it is a gamble. By its very nature you can never be sure that gambling any amount of money will result in a getting what you are gambling for, be it a thousand, ten thousand, one million or even a billion credits,

It is not at all suspect (by which I assume you mean to imply that there is some sort of deception involved), though we may find it distasteful and some may have strong moral objections, but neither make it "suspect".

It is the randomness that makes it "suspect". If totem said straight out...a special event card will cost you at most 1000 credits, but...every time you scratch a ticket you have a 0.01% chance of winning a joker then totem would seem really greedy but would be transparent. The fact that you might have a 0.01% chance of winning but may have to spend 5000 credits and still not win is what makes it border illegal. In theory you could have such bad luck that you never win.

Casinos can use "credits" as well.

Can anyone give me the credit source?

Casinos can use credits or chips for the sake of ease and convenience, but, after winnings, such things can be changed back into real money; so, it's a money gamble. Istripper credits can not and never be changed into money, so it's a totally different matter. Gamble with them is not a money gamble.

The point is the games promise a service, but because of the randomness, do not always provide the promised service.

Gamble games never promise anything, their nature is to be mere chance. So you know in advance you may not and never be sure to win anything. I don't like it, and I simply don't play gamble games.
We can ***** about presence and frequency of gamble games here, but not because we didn't won anything at a gamble game, precise nature of which being a total uncertainity.

Totem obviously changes its games mid-week, often for the better but they still update them.

This, instead, is a good point. If - as it seems it was done - they did change odds for better ones after complaints, this would be unfair to people who did play same game for worse odds before the change.

I asked it yesterday too... it can be seen up in this thread.

I don't need to have every card. But i would like to see a preview to see if the card is worth purchasing or pursuing. Why no previews for special event cards????

As has been said a number of times before, look at the fabulous website provided by @lukaszr under https://www.isworkshop.eu/showroom/.

That's not the point aout which we asked. We were asking about the 3 animated previews which we get in the software for all other cards. I know i can use lukaszr's site in order to get some pics, but I would like to get the the animated previews, and am still asking for which reason (if any) we can not have the usual 3 preview animations in the software for exclusive cards too.

If the Models is on your screen dancing

Right Click to bring up the Context Menu ( Circle of Icons )
Click on the Magnify Glass ( See Details )
Click on the Other Cards Icon.

The Fastest and Easiest way is as @SetFuego said.

Go to the girls store, in the Text Filter box, type in the first part of the Models name.

No Scrolling, no Searching through 1000's of cards...

Fast and Simple.

I think even better that a right click on an existing card.
Because to Right click on that card, you still have to Search and Find it 1st.

See next post for option when a model is dancing on your screen.

Thank you very much to all of you, really appreciate.So the conclusion is that you can not know if you have bought a card from a particular model when you are in the gallery, just, let's say, looking around,So I' d suggest to implement a tool that will show you how many cards you have from a particular model just by right clicking on it, , or showing up an ad saying " you have X cards from this model". Something easier and faster than the currnt way to do it.

But you have already got this!

Click on the model and you will see the detail page for her. Then click on the icon that show you how many cards she produced. It will show you a thumbnail of all the cards and any you already own will have the words "Full Show" across them.

I don't need to have every card. But i would like to see a preview to see if the card is worth purchasing or pursuing. Why no previews for special event cards????

As has been said a number of times before, look at the fabulous website provided by @lukaszr under https://www.isworkshop.eu/showroom/.

Just a small Experiment 😀

My experience, 10 games 200 credits initiallyBut what is this empty entry? says i won a card, bit no card was even given.

it happen 3 times for me too.
it's like if we won cards that doesn't exist anymore.
i contact support, and they ask for pics.
i send them my historique, and the exact way that this error happen..
They say that they will discuss with the technical team.
For now, they didn't talk about a way to compensate me about the 3 missing card i won.

I don't need to have every card. But i would like to see a preview to see if the card is worth purchasing or pursuing.

Why no previews for special event cards????

Thank you very much to all of you, really appreciate.
So the conclusion is that you can not know if you have bought a card from a particular model when you are in the gallery, just, let's say, looking around,
So I' d suggest to implement a tool that will show you how many cards you have from a particular model just by right clicking on it, , or showing up an ad saying " you have X cards from this model". Something easier and faster than the currnt way to do it.

Edit: Just re-tested this in the Newest Version. The Information from the Older Version is No Longer Current.
Changing the Entrance location No longer works to control the In/Out clips.

@Wyldanimal - Strange. Just tried it, it still works. I used the two In / Out clips from Shayla / e1096 for the test. After moving her to the left in small size, she continued to come from the left. Or did you mean another change of entrance now?

Edit: Just re-tested this in the Newest Version. The Information from the Older Version is No Longer Current.
Changing the Entrance location No longer works to control the In/Out clips.



@willyweekly

When you ask for the Clips to enter from the Left side
are you talking about the In/Out style clips that seem to start off Screen and enter from the Side of the Screen?
By default it is the right side.

On the Clip List these have the Double Arrows facing Left and Right, In / Out.

In Small Size With just ONE girl
You can ***** and Drop a clip, so it is To the Left of the Screen Center.

After that, ALL future In/ Out clips will enter from the Left.

There is NO way to do the Same for Full Size Clips.

I have a video where I try to explain how this works.

http://www.virtuastripper.net/video/In-out-clips-part-1b.mp4

There is also a part two
http://www.virtuastripper.net/video/In-out-clips-part-2b.mp4

Warning at 9:10 I had to Cough. It's loud...

In the US you can set up Virtual Credit cards through Privacy.com

you need to set up a Credit card or Bank account as the Funding Source.

You Name the Virtual Credit Card any thing you want.

Such as "Dinner at the Y"


It is free for Personal Use, but has one restriction.
You can ONLY have ONE payment Funding Source, But you can Create as many Virtual Cards as you need.

If you Do use Epoch and Pay Pal.

the Charge shows up as Epoch...

EPOCH EU LTD IAT PAYPAL

Steam, with Steam gift cards. Was ***** to migrate due to Steam's new policy. :(

I am looking forward to the next time. Since the SECs have been coming in monthly rhythm for six months and certainly now, at least in the same rhythm, in addition to gambling, especially among collector customers, dissatisfaction will remain an ongoing topic here in the forum. Congratulations on this step, totem ....
... satisfaction among all customers is quite feasible, there have been plenty of suggestions in recent months.

Gamble on Istripper is not a money gamble, it's a mere credit gamble - and credits don't have any monetary value.

Can anyone give me the credit source? So I silly have always had to spend real money on it. 😲

The legality of using games of chance to take money from people while there is chance you do not offer a service is still in question.I too don't like exclusive cards nor gamble games at all, but also have to say that such one is, a time more, not a right argument. Gamble on Istripper is not a money gamble, it's a mere credit gamble - and credits don't have any monetary value.
We don't purchase gamble plays - neither cards - with money here. Only thing we purchase with money on Istripper are credits, which have no real value, are not money and are not convertible back into money. Everything we then do with our credits is, economically speaking, totally fictional.

Moreover, we can dislike gambling games, we can ***** about existance here or frequence of gambling events (and I do), but it has to be pointed, also, that we totally know in advance what gambling is: a game of chance; so we will not be EVER be sure to win, even spending tons of credits. We know it: if one likes, he plays anyway - if he doesn't, then he should simply not play.
I find it's not right instead to gamble, and then ***** after not having won anything and because of that - which was precisely the nature of gambling. We knew it in advance.

Casinos can use "credits" as well. You can load "credits" on a card and then use the card to play different electronic slots and other games...these are some of the most nefarious games because the games can be manipulated real-time using algorithims. Totem obviously changes its games mid-week, often for the better but they still update them. The point is the games promise a service, but because of the randomness, do not always provide the promised service. ***** dealers, doctors, con-artists get in trouble for taking advantage of a sub-set of society who are vulnerable to making poor decisions. There is a ton of science behind the addiction associate with gambling and there is a fine line between obsessive collecting and collecting for fun. I have often had derision for people who ***** about losing at gambling, I do not gamble, but totem is not right in this...there is a whole lot of wrong. The company is wrong for putting its customers in this position, and the vulnerable customers are wrong for continually overpaying to merely fill a collection or a set. Why the heck can't totem just provide amazing girls...have a scratch game or two where new customers can win discounts to build up their accounts. Why do we need "not special event cards" that put full collectors in a vulnerable position, and why do we need games that are setup for people to only lose?

Simply write (part of the) name or other search patterns into the search box top right within the Girls Store...All cards belonging to the search pattern are displayed. Every card in your collection is marked "In My Collection".

Another 60 credits spent. 15 more scratches, 2 useless cards but SEC No safe word. Stop now

It seems fine to me.
120 credits spent, 25 scratches, 8 cards got(2 XXX, 1 appreciated, 3 so so) + Hard Candy.

The legality of using games of chance to take money from people while there is chance you do not offer a service is still in question.

I too don't like exclusive cards nor gamble games at all, but also have to say that such one is, a time more, not a right argument. Gamble on Istripper is not a money gamble, it's a mere credit gamble - and credits don't have any monetary value.
We don't purchase gamble plays - neither cards - with money here. Only thing we purchase with money on Istripper are credits, which have no real value, are not money and are not convertible back into money. Everything we then do with our credits is, economically speaking, totally fictional.

Moreover, we can dislike gambling games, we can ***** about existance here or frequence of gambling events (and I do), but it has to be pointed, also, that we totally know in advance what gambling is: a game of chance; so we will not be EVER be sure to win, even spending tons of credits. We know it: if one likes, he plays anyway - if he doesn't, then he should simply not play.
I find it's not right instead to gamble, and then ***** after not having won anything and because of that - which was precisely the nature of gambling. We knew it in advance.

I know I got lucky with this game, but also wanted to say that it is possible to do so: got 64 cards, a number of 20, 100 and one 200 wins, a number of cards I don't really need, but also the two SECs I was after (Stacey and Ellie, the ones I was missing) and came out with just 20 credits less than when I started. Really good deal for me, obv. And just wanted to say that so it's clear that the game is not rigged, from my experience. It's just, you get lucky, or you don't. And I am done now. Thanks, totem.

Here's my take (and vision) of all this:

IMHO one SEC card per month is - in the long run - too frequent even for Totem's financial interests. It will mean devaluation of all SEC cards... "how are they so special when they are released so frequently?", people will ask.

After members have used their Joker cards - which were quite easy to win earlier, but now don't seem to be part of any promotion - it will become obvious that you can't keep a complete collection with reasonable costs.

If they continue to release a SEC card per month when most members don't have any Joker cards left, it is clear that even us who now have full collection, will be having more and more "gaps" in our collections.

Aaand... when we learn to accept those "gaps", the whole goal of having the complete collection, will become more and more futile battle to fight for. And when THAT happens, the SEC cards will become way less desirable.

After purchasing the new Stacy Cruz SEC, and not taking part of the scratch games, I now have one Joker card left. I believe I will have to use it on one of Belka's forthcoming cards, but after that - if the SEC release schedule remains at 1/month, I won't be even trying to keep complete collection.

@orclover

to me this is similar to any email or online scam.

That I agree with - but "similar to a scam" is not the same as "is a scam". If there really was a scam involved then Totem would be subject to prosecution for fraud.

@orclover

The definitions of scam in all the dictionaries that I have checked make it abundantly clear that what Totem are doing is not a scam. It may be regarded as resembling a scam or as unfairly taking advantage, but that is a different matter. Unlike Humpty Dumpty we are not free to say “When I use a word,it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” Nothing that Totem have done in offering the SECs is either fraudulent or deceptive. The cards have not been called Special Cards by Totem.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scam

an illegal plan for making money, especially one that involves tricking people:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scam

Definition of scam

(Entry 1 of 2)
: a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation

Definition of scam (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb
1 : to deceive and defraud (someone)

The legality of using games of chance to take money from people while there is chance you do not offer a service is still in question. The EU is currently discussing whether lootboxes and other gambling services should be allowed in different forms of software. There are times when a participant pays credits and does not receive any service.

Looking at the picture above we see that there certainly is a pattern where totem gives the impression that a card is "special".

• 2 christmas cards
• 2 dominatrex cards
• Red fox special outfit
• The first duo in a long time
• A card with a shopping prop
• Roller blade card

Level-headed and experienced buyers on istripper might still think that some of these offer unique content other than a bag, or a roller-blade, or a whip. Those of us who have some of the card now know that the cards are nothing special, and are consistent with cards that cost us $1. I could not find any instance of totem explicity making it known that these cards are not special from the other cards. Therefore they are using a gambling system that rides the line of legal, while giving the impression that special event cards are special, when they are not special, except for in their exorbinant cost.

I do not necessarily disagree with their business plan. It only works because collectors are vulnerable and easy to *****. There is responsibility on that side to make a decision that $500 is too much for a single card. But to say that it isn't a scam at all isn't clear to me.

We know that there are buyers who spend many hundreds of dollars for a single card. A investigator or psychologist would have to conclude that these people are likely of similar mind to those who might give money to an email or online scam. It is possible for a person to spend $500 and not receive the special event card that they desire...to me this is similar to any email or online scam.

I want to be clear...I love totem as a business. They produce my favorite entertainment software and have always been respectful and generous with me as I with them. I have ***** that they are going to struggle through the end of this year and I am grateful that they have a source of income that is not related to producing new cards. But...I also can't feel morally positive with how they use the gambling and special event features. But it is also a porn software and so the morality is *****.

It seems fine to me.
120 credits spent, 25 scratches, 8 cards got(2 XXX, 1 appreciated, 3 so so) + Hard Candy.

Congratulations on the win. Enjoy the shows.