As all the above comments suggest, "Bring back the functional carosel!!!" The option to confirm a purchase is also missing. Please reinstate these back in the software.

i also suggested this.

A button like "add to preview/carrousel" would be awesome.

cheers

Well, unless you would never buy anything again, your "cents" will add to your next purchase, so what's the big deal about it?

I see where moonhorizon is coming from though. And all the members that don't frequent the forum. Some have busy lives or simply have no interest in participating in the forum, nothing wrong with that. I remember that some while ago I received a message through the software telling me to update to a newer version. Now with all these changes to the software, discounts, prices, etc, Totem should send out this message to everyone still using older versions, maybe also include the main reasons why they NEED to upgrade.

Some people will still ignore the message, but at least then they can't ***** that they had no warning or that they had to come here to search for answers.

I see no problem with the new pricing system. It seems reasonable and fair to me. It makes sense to give a bigger discount to me,bears with bigger collections.

Yes, I now pay a little more for some cards. But I still think the price is reasonable.

I also have no problem with decimals we can't use. This is no different from iTunes or Amazon card where I am often left with a few pence which I can't buy anything with. The same principle applies here.

@Dorsai6, great idea but wouldn't a limit be necessary? Otherwise you could have thousands of members downloading hundreds of demos every day, putting a strain on Totem's servers. 10-20 demos per day should be enough to browse something to purchase.

@ChaoticEvil,

Re: add card to carousel? Probably the most brilliant idea ever! You just have to think how its gonna affect non paying members.

I think it is more likely to boost sales than to add to Totem's expenses. However, Totem should have enough usage statistics to determine if this is happening. If there is a problem, the simplest solution would be to put an upper limit on how many cards could be added per day or per week or per month. Each sale off the carrousel would allow an additional carrousel add action. A more complex approach would factor in the member's status - bronze, silver, gold, etc. This kind of limit wouldn't be too hard to add, but it probably won't be needed.

Just thanks for response and this topic.Would be great to be able to download demo's as well. It is possible to stop them after x playing or x days so don't see any issue's there..

Cheers,

Hello everyone!

Just few words to tell you that yesterday I replaced the internal hard disk of my PC with a 1 TB (2.5 ") one and, after reinstalling the VG software, copying only the two folders "Models" and "Data", everything worked perfectly!
Thank you all for the tips and tricks! Have a good time!

BJlover

A long time ago there was a version that allowed you to Replace a Demo card on the Carousel.
You could do this a limited number of times..

That was when the Carousel was used to give members a discount..
The Limit was to prevent loss of profits from too many discounted sales.

Now that the Carousel isn't used for Discounts, I'd like to See 30 cards on the carousel, and the ability to replace them freely..

It's now a sales tool, to let members preview the demos before buying..

But I would also limit Free members, replacement options..

Some members might think, Why buy when you can get all the free demos you want..???


So only for members who have purchased credits or cards in the past 6 months.
or something like that...

How about a list of all cards, rather than having the carousel?

add card to carousel? Probably the most brilliant idea ever! You just have to think how its gonna affect non paying members. With this function all ppl can download unlimited number of demo girls which will result to traffic changes but perhaps more popularity of VG? or less sales among newcomers? Interesting question to think about .. Though you can add this function for Platinum members for example .. this is gonna work much better (IMHO) .. @Dorsai6 GREAT IDEA!

If new cards are not appearing in your carrousel, it's a bug and we're going to look into it.
I also like the idea of adding cards to the carrosul, makes sense, I'll talk about it with the team.

Endorse everything Vixen01 said, but considering you feel aggrieved by the way the old software presents the carousel cards until you upgrade, and you hadn't been aware of this by reading the forums beforehand you ought to be aware that clicking on the 'Buy Now' button does not present a confirmation action any more. Just in case that upsets you all over again. It has received some negative comments, so it may be reinstated, but Totem haven't confirmed that yet.

Whilst we are experiencing a problem with the new Interactive cards appearing on the carousel but tagged with 'Last Days' (I reported back on the .46 release thread) and some (myself included) having slow downloads, would Totem consider increasing the 7 day period for the extra discount to give us time to see the demo files?

Que signifie sur les cartes 3k - 20 % ?
J'arrive pas à éditer le bandeau - 20% sur la carte

"bricks" is correct. So Totem should sell decimal credits!!!

The real annoying thing, at least to me, is that now we are stuck with decimal places that means we will almost always have unspent credit portions.

It really makes no difference to me, and I voted accordingly. But, if ***** to choose, I would vote against any form of political correctness. I have just spent 4 wonderful days at Melbourne's Spring carnival race meetings, watching with pleasure thousands of 'girls' of all ages dressed to the nines to entice the attention of the many males present. I doubt many of these females would think of themselves as models, but most would be pleased to be referred to as beautiful girls.

Yes next wednesday first soft landing on a comet ever..use of light and shade, streaming wake..and all free pics care of European Space Agency et al..amazing stuff ;)

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Edit: For those following progress of ESA's comet probe Rosetta & lander Philae..

New ET zip has been commenced 14th Nov 2014 as a new album.
This extracts to ET Scenes folder on your PC same as previously.
added single SCN: 'RosettaESA' zipsize: 1,778,708 bytes (1.69MB)

http://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET Scenes06.zip

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Credits: ESA/ATG medialab; Comet image: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam
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Re: I think it is the responsibility of Totem to put their pricing policies on an easily found web page on the site. No one should have to look through forum postings to find out what it is.

I agree. Documentation in general is a problem with VG. There are too many hidden features that can only be found by asking on this forum. The Help tab on both this web site and the VG application should be rewritten and expanded. VG is not a video game where some of the fun is figuring out how it works.

the software has changed the pricing has changed and you need to update the software, the demo carousel is no longer 1 credit, discounts are now given by membership level and you need to update the software for this to take affect, read the forums a little it might help you since totem announced all the changes were coming before they were introduced.

I have found that now every single one of the demos says it is for "Free," but when I click on one I think I might want to purchase, it now says it is 2 credits. Demos were supposed to be 1 credit as long as one buys them while still a demo. This is a bait and switch, and seems to me to be a very scummy business practice. Slimy. I don't do business with companies that behave that way, period. I won't be getting anything more from your company. That kind of behavior makes it clear that yes, we do have better things to be doing than looking at any of this. If there is a glitch that is causing this to happen let me know and fix it, but right now it doesn't look that way to me.

Good god, Totem! half of my carousel looks like 15 year olds. are there seriously no big boobs avalable in france? what about some of those previous models that are still known to be active (Rebeka, for one)? even the new collection seems ***** with B cups at best. is there an issue with contacting previous heavy hitters that you already have the contact info for? I don't mean to *****, but let's not forget that a lot of your users like to see women, and not little girls all the time. I'm just sayin'...

Could be a bug, yes. but still no official word from totem if this is a bug and being addressed. as was pointed out prior, this is a big selling point for the new cards, being able to preview them. I would think enough has been said, here and in other threads, that Totem would be looking in to it. my buying will become very limited (as in "none") if this is intentional. but I would hope it's just something they are still working on, as well as the upside down images in some of the new collections previews on the store pages. Totem has so far been strangely silent. I don't mind the price increases, if I can look before I buy. otherwise, forget it.

Demo's have been downloaded for the new cards so they should appear on the wheel... eventually! Could be a bug...

A suggestion
Could we have a function to lock a particular show to a particular slot ??

In other words I am watching 4 shows on the bottom of the screen and I want one to stay where it is (usually Demi) while others rotate out.

At the moment some seem to randomly end for no visible reason

@vixen01 - a very good point.

Thanks Dorsai for the link to pricing.

I think it is the responsibility of Totem to put their pricing policies on an easily found web page on the site. No one should have to look through forum postings to find out what it is.

I have installed the beta on my iMac. I hesitate to try it on my Air as the current version causes my fans to run while the girls are performing. It is the only application that does that.

I will post my experience with the new version in the Bugs… section.

Thanks again,

seems to me this is just a bug of the new sofvtware, i see no reason why Totem would continue to make the png files and demo files for the carousel for the new models if they were not gonna include them, the software is new, give them a chance to get it working as it should, Totem would not waste resources on making items they were not going to use and they know the demos are a selling point so sure they will want to push the new product through the carousel.

If limited preview is the new policy, it is very disappointing. I can't tell anything about a show from that little 2 second "preview" on a card's page. Although I was (as only a Diamond member) disappointed to hear about the price increase, I understood it. But to increase the price and ask us to gamble on a card more than before is just too bad.

I hope this is just one of the things that the Totem team is working out as they roll out this overhaul. They've been very good about taking what we say into account.

I support Dorsai6's suggestion. I don't know the difficulty of this kind of programming, but it would be a great addition.

I have nothing against the duo cards. My main issue with them is that they don't really work for me. Usually the costumes are a bit naff.

The main problem is that Totem and the girls never really knew what a duo card in VGHD was supposed to be and how it would work. They couldn't work out if it was just supposed to be two girls frolicking about or a weak attempt at lesbianism. In my view, most are quite dull, except for the odd isolated top notch clip.

I certainly wouldn't say they were sickening, but then again I like DB.

Yes, you will find duo cards with lesbian activity in them. But this was often, but not always because they were produced before DB.

In my view, there is a place for duo cards on VGHD. But it should NOT be lesbian action in them. It should be just two girls frolicking about and dancing together. Lesbianism is adequately catered for on DB.

This post has made me consider my use of terminology on this site.

I will now use the term girl much more often than before. I think it is an appropriate respectful way to refer to a model. I will still use the word model though.

Everyone else, including Totem, can do what they like. That is consistent with my option 2 vote.

The new cards show up in the store page off the program with the discount. Before I would get the new cards in the carousel the day after. If the card has a discount, they can show that also in the carousel, I don't see a problem with that. I don't mind if the discount is changed.

The big issue is that the new cards aren't showing up in the carousel as before. Making I can't see the card when it has a discount.

I would love an official answer from Vg what's is what now? Is this still a bug? Or did they changed this also?

I haven't seen any of the new girls pop-up as demos yet and this disappoints me as that was one of the cool features of this program was seeing the demos of the new girls each week and deciding who I was going to add to my collection.

Oh well I guess everything changes and not always for the best.

I've been posting this idea to a number of threads because I'd really like to see Totem make this change and to see what others think.

Now that the carrousel does not have a discount function, I think there should be a way for a user to add any card they wish to the carrousel. The added card would replace the oldest card currently on the carrousel. That was a user could stock the carrousel with cards they are more likely to buy and they could use the carrousel to see a full-size demo. Like many customers till now I bought more than 95% of all my cards from the carrousel. I like that way of previewing a card.

I can think of two ways of doing this. First, there could be an "Add To Carrousel" button below each card in the store tab of the VG application. Second, double clicking on the card itself in the store tab could add it to the carrousel. The first approach make the function obvious, but clutters the screen. The second approach keeps the current appearance, but adds another hidden function/feature. I ***** hidden functions, but I also ***** cluttered screens. Both approaches would take about the same amount of new programming.

Guess it's time to revive this thread as none of the new series cards have been tagged "nakedfeet"

Lola Reve: Easygoing Girl. Shoe removal and barefoot scenes. All on task I think

Sabrisse: Elegantessa. Barefoot on task, I think there's a shoe removal as well.

Amber Cute: Spider Kiss. Shoe and nylon removal several times, even in standing scenes, not sure about pole. In any case a great show for barefoot fans imo.
edit: Just started her show and the first clip it played was a barefoot pole clip.;-)

Not sure I can always post as I've gotten really busy in RL, but I'll try to keep up as long as shows continue to not get tagged.

I think the 20% discount showing is new - At least I don't think it wasn't there when I last looked.

So the dilemma begins for me. I bought Sabrisse but I'm not sure about Amber Cute?

If I buy it and don't like it I'll be annoyed. If I don't buy it soon than I probably never will. I guess I'll never know what I missed.

I had no idea how much I was going to miss the functional carousel.

Mysteriously, today my collection of VirtuaGirl, appeared empty. And my registration appeared as "new member". And I could not solve it. So I uninstalled the program and installed it again. But now, I can not register again with the same login and password as before. What should I do now, Totem?

Why is that the new collection cards only show up for 10 minutes (I timed one) with the "last days" stamp on them, and then disappear? has this been addressed, Totem? I don't buy cards I can't preview (speaking for myself) and it defeats the purpose of the carousel anyway, does it not? just asking....

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Perhaps it makes a sense to look in to a Girls Store from time to time. That's the place, where those new cards show up with 20% discount for sure. Also keep your eye on VG News, to not to miss the new cards.

Another matter is a preview of the shows. If the girl doesn't show up on the carousel, the only chance to see her in action is that tiny non nude preview window in the Store, but its image quality does not stand any criticism - it's just crappy. This is a problem of a long overdue and I really hope that Team will look at this one day, 'cause if the people are ***** to visit the Store more often, they must get a much better picture of the things in there.

Edit: I'm a Diamond member, so you guys might see different prices, depending on your status.

Just to let you know.........

This post by Rex, Totem CEO, is concerning a question asked about support for dual monitors.


by teamRex - 3 day(s) ago

it's in my posts. It'll be featured in the .50 update in about two weeks. We rushed a bit to release this version to be able to release cards and had to make choices. Next version will include a good multiple screens support.


http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=4&ftId=28803&gotolastpage=1#post452870

@EverthangForever

You are far too kind, especially considering it was your Kowloon Lights and WyldAnimals' Shades that finally inspired me to look at doing my own scenes (although I still haven't got my head around creating shaders). _____________________________________________________________________________

Just to add to @EverthangForever's posts.

If you want to create your own scenes you may also want to spend some time looking at this thread.

http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=8&ftId=27410&pageNb=1

This has a lot of discussions, tips and several excellent tutorials. I spent hours and hours with this thread open whilst doing my scenes.

A few things to note.

Firstly, when scenes are installed they appear in the Full Screen List on the Full Screen Tab in Settings. What isn't obvious is that some of scenes can be expanded. You need to double click on the main scene name. If you want disable certain scenes in the list without disabling them all just clear the checkbox next to the scene you want to disable.

Secondly some scenes are set up to only display certain types of clips (e.g. only cage clips or only swing clips or only pole clips). If you do not have cards with those types of clips then you will get an error advising that clips are not available. This will be even more apparent if you use the new "wheel" to send a particular model into "Full Screen".

Thirdly, some of the member created scenes contain multiple models (10 or possibly even more). I'm not sure who holds the record at the moment but you will need a fairly high end PC to display some of those scenes.

I am also disappointed that Totem haven't publicised this facility more. I am fairly certain that there would be a lot more members interested in this if they knew they could modify or create scenes to suit themselves.

@EverthangForever

Thank you for your comments and your latest updates. I am running through them at the moment.

Love the blue fractal.

I never even thought about using Mars as a backdrop:-). If Rosetta manages the landing next week there'll be a comet's surface to think about using in VG scenes.

I pop in here every now and again to see if there is anything new. I have a shortcut to it on my desktop otherwise I'd never find it again.

I agree this needs to be fixed asap. Why remove a feature from an older version?

@Barley, for me it worked strange too! When new cards from the new collection appear they appear with LAST DAYS tag and then suddenly disappears! So i CAN see new cards as demos but basically cant play them because they disapper! Total mess actually! But i guess its all because they have too much of new stuff and really busy and soon will sort it out.

@Kibosh, but you still have your Diamond member discount .. but i agree that no demos = less sales .. for me it works the similar way ..

"Maximum VirtuaGirls"
"VirtuaGirl's name"

This works in translation to other languages as well, as it does not get translated as being a product name.
Throughout the site and software it already is in effect mostly, only these examples aren't.
If one has issues with the product name(s), that's another story :)
Kind regards,
Eddy

For me it worked when I bought first new card, then all others came to carousel, tho they showed up strange, I got a new card from old collection but when I clicked on it to take off "New" tag it reappeared as new interactive card with "Last Days" tag. Still I was able to download demo and watch it before purchase.