I think you guys are overthinking it. The minimum bid amount is the minimum for making the next bid on the card. Say the current bid price of a legendary card is 3000, to make the next bid you have to bid 4000 or more.

Cool. Good luck on that novel. 👍 😎

There is also a forum on Discord.

https://discord.gg/3ssN3utTks

@MKST @TheEmu

This html syntax works for me:
<a href="file:///C:/PATH/FILENAME">LINK TEXT</a>

Thanks, I was hoping for a relative path .. relative to the scn file as if I distribute a scene I don't know where the user might have installed iStripper

If I have interpreted correctly.......

Let's keep it simple. Imagine there are 100 "limited" cards available. 100 people bid - 90 bid the 200 dolz minimum and 10 bid 210 Dolz (because they are keen). At this stage, all will win and pay the amount they bid (90@200 and 10@210)

Now - 10 of the original 200 Dolz bidders decide to re-bid to improve their chances. They must now bid 10% above their original bid so each of them now must bid 220 Dolz.

So we now have 10 at 220, 10 at 210 and 80 at 200.

Now 10 more new people decide to bid at 210. This gives us 110 bidders for 100 cards, so we will have 10 at 220, 20 at 210 and we will have to lose 10 of the bidders at 200 so that we have 70 at 200. How the system decides which 10 of the bidders at 200 will lose out, I do not know (maybe the most recent bidders).

So you could win by bidding the minimum amount but it is a risky ploy if you really want that card. Put in a higher initial bid to get yourself into the winning group.

I am fascinated to see it working. I will be bidding on a select set of cards that really take my fancy - a combination of the girl and the outfit.

If he posted that he did not post it where everyone can see it.

I guess this is where we are at.

Announcements by the team are made on Discord.
The team, May or may not duplicated them here on the forum.

So If you want to be up to date, on all the new info Use Discord.
Otherwise, you might not get the information, or you will get it 2nd Hand from another member.

You can get a high capacity normal HDD. These are basically just videos you're watching, so it doesn't require much speed.

@Socialhazard Tks for da kind words. Appreciated as always 😊

My custom skin color in the header text actually doesn't work in .516 so I switched back .514 for now. I only just modified it yesterday so I will be sad if it doesn't work moving forward.

That was the issue in .514 Theu used the wrong pallete value.
the correct pallet value is now being used in .516

so if you changed it to work in .514, it will not work in .516.

My name is Marc, I used a picture of my character from Kelly's Heroes, Oddball as my avater. I am working on a novel about a young girl who meets a witch and a few others on her journey to self discovery. I might take a look around this forum, but yeah this is me. See you around.

Also, Guillaume just posted

If he posted that he did not post it where everyone can see it.

For quite a few of us posting on Discord is completely useless.

Please can someone from Totem provide some information here clarifying just what is the current status of this latest release.

They want to be sure it is easy to set up a new account, that's what is being tested.

Just how do you think they will know how easy new users find it to set up a new account if those new users do not know that they are taking part in a test and have no reason to provide any feedback ?

@EverthangForever

Nice work on the latest. Also, I noticed the "NIS" in the corner now.

My custom skin color in the header text actually doesn't work in .516 so I switched back .514 for now. I only just modified it yesterday so I will be sad if it doesn't work moving forward. I was just getting used to it even if it is a little weird. I have green text, red for cursor hover over text, and cream for selected. Oh well. 😕 😄

Unless Each Biders Bid is Separate, and to Increase your Own bid, it must be 10% higher then your previous Bid.
Then that Moves you up or down the current list of High Bidders?

Perhaps that is more how it will work?

I don't think that it works that way, as I understand it you bid for every card seperately, so you can just outbid the last in the row and don't have to outbid the highest bid.

If that were the case, then every bid after the 1st bid would all be the same.
Till All the cards are sold.

for 1000 cards,
one bid of the minimum, followed by 999 bids of Minimum plus 10%

I think the 10% increase per Bid is Much too High !!
for a Legendary card,
by the 200th card / Bid, it will cost 20000 Dolz or $200 at the current DOLZ price.

I don't think that it works that way, as I understand it you bid for every card seperately, so you can just outbid the last in the row and don't have to outbid the highest bid.

They want to be sure it is easy to set up a new account, that's what is being tested.

Also, Guillaume just posted that "Dunno where that topic was raised, but this version also fixes 2 small bugs: the skin color in the header texts and the infinite loading splashscreen. If you need to have the corrections, feel free to get it from the website or from the update check in the settings"

Increase each Bid by 10% of the 1st Bid.

I think the 10% increase per Bid is Much too High !!
for a Legendary card,
by the 200th card / Bid, it will cost 20000 Dolz or $200 at the current DOLZ price.

A bid Increase of 1% or 2% per bid is more likely to create More bidding.

For a Limited edition card,
By the 1000th card / Bid it is 20180 Dolz or $202 at the current DOLZ price

10% per bid increase is just way to high !

The full screen scene info box can contain html links 👍I've been using this to link some of my scenes back to their Shadertoy page, which has been a big time-saver for debugging.

All the shared Fractal Garden shader conversions contain provenance links in their .fsh code comments if people are looking for them. For shared work, I prefer this rather than it being displayed openly on the iStripper player scene caption no matter how convenient that is for use at home.

What do you folks think would be a reasonable offer for Sia Siberia's NFT ?There doesn't seem to be a lot of trading going on at the moment for the other cards on OpenSea with prices varying quite a lot. I'd love to see a nice liquid market with low trading costs.

You are asking people to show their hand up front - anybody serious about buying the card will not do that.

If you go to the Dolz.IO site you will see the following

What is the minimum bidding amount per rarity level to obtain a trading card?
Legendary: 1000 DOLZ
Epic: 400 DOLZ
Rare: 300 DOLZ
Limited: 200 DOLZ

What we do not know yet is how many cards will be released at each level.

Apparently .516 has some changes to setting up a new account that they wanted to test- and that only works well with new users.

I don't buy it. By far the biggest problem that I am aware of with "setting up a new account" was with existing users who are updating or reinstalling iStripper accidentally clicking on the "new account" option when the setup program starts. I very much hope that that particular wart has been addressed.

If new users have never seen the old version how can they be expected to know if the new version is an improvement or not? So how are they expected to be able to provide meaningful feedback? Come to that how are they supposed to know that any such feedback is wanted?

Apparently .516 has some changes to setting up a new account that they wanted to test- and that only works well with new users. That's why they did not enable auto-update on that build for the rest of us. And also why it's on the web site for new users.

Was it even released? Thre's not a lot of interest in trading those cards at all, is there?

EDIT: I saw it's slated for release next week.

Anything above a few bucks is too much, IMO.

@Wyldanimal

You said something similar 514 - which then turned out to be a beta.

In my opinion If 516 is not a beta then there really ought to have been an offical announcement of that fact by Totem. Leaving it as an almost invisible option for existing users unless you go looking for it is silly.

As far as I can remember Totem did very visibly make an announcemeny for all previous official releases.

The Team needs to get feedback from New Members

The team also needs to get feedback from old users, including those that avoid using beta versions of software. In my opinion feedback from existing users is rather more important than feedback from new users who have nothing to directly compare the new version with.

It is still not entirely clear to me whether 516 is a beta or not (though I lean toward "not").

@Calgon

The full screen scene info box can contain html links 👍I've been using this to link some of my scenes back to their Shadertoy page, which has been a big time-saver for debugging.
For a different project, I want to link to an html file in a scene sub-folder rather than a web address but not sure how to address this. Anyone have any ideas ?

This html syntax works for me:

<a href="file:///C:/PATH/FILENAME">LINK TEXT</a>

V 516 is targeted at NEW signups.
There was no Automatic update from 514 to 516 for this reason.
The Team needs to get feedback from New Members
so this is the reason that 516 is the Download from the Main Page.

@cfrec2

I don't know about that Uniporn banner, but the other one is still available here:

https://www.istripper.com/img/newspromo/melena_oil.jpg?3

@Calgon - In Firefox I use this as my home page

file:///C:/Users/Public/Public%20Accessories/Internet/FireFox-bookmarks-as-start-page.html

and have used similar links to browse folders on my PC.

So I would have expected using the file: protocol like that instead of the http: or https: protocol would work - but it didn't when I tried it in an iStripper fullscreen scene link.

Maybe it's necessary to treat forward slashes in the flename as special characters.

The full screen scene info box can contain html links 👍I've been using this to link some of my scenes back to their Shadertoy page, which has been a big time-saver for debugging.

For a different project, I want to link to an html file in a scene sub-folder rather than a web address but not sure how to address this. Anyone have any ideas ?

I can confirm this : no auto-update for the 1.2.516 version. I had to "Check for updates" in the settings to download and install this new version.

What do you folks think would be a reasonable offer for Sia Siberia's NFT ?

There doesn't seem to be a lot of trading going on at the moment for the other cards on OpenSea with prices varying quite a lot. I'd love to see a nice liquid market with low trading costs.

I guess the team likes to keep members (including new members with no knowledge of testing betas) in the dark about some things. Not telling members that there is a new beta, and giving no warning that a beta is not necessarily a stable version, and that inexperienced users should not install does not seem like a good idea.

No team member has mentioned anything about version 12516, or that a new beta is available. This is in the channel for beta testing.
@vg4us created a thread there over two hours ago.
Nothing from the team.

@TheEMU
My problem with 516 is that there has been NO announcement by Totem as to its availability and status (unless it was done on Discord which is of no use to me).
I did not see it on discord either. By habit, I check for updates in settings in the morning.

None of the pop-up tooltips on the settings page (the question mark icons) appear to be working. Nor do the few that I haave checked elsewhere.

I remember a while back Melena Maria Rya had a couple of banners, would anyone know the links for them?

One was for her Tanned & Oiled card and I think the other one (not sure) was for her Uniporn card.

I did not run into the forum issue on my laptop after updating to 516. I have been playingshows on my desktop for over an hour now with no problems.

I have seen it quite a few times (well over a dozen using 514) but only when going from the Home page to the Forum immediately after the app starts. When I have managed to get the the forum once there has never been a repetition of the problem until I stop and restart the program.

Yes 516 did not seem to auto-update on my laptop when I booted it this morning Honestly, I don't mind that. I would rather "check for updates".

My problem with 516 is that there has been NO announcement by Totem as to its availability and status (unless it was done on Discord which is of no use to me).

I did not run into the forum issue on my laptop after updating to 516. I have been playingshows on my desktop for over an hour now with no problems. Laptop I started in fuullscreen and music stopped just like the desktop.

Yes 516 did not seem to auto-update on my laptop when I booted it this morning Honestly, I don't mind that. I would rather "check for updates". If auto-update is to become a peranent feature I would think informing the user that an update is available may be a good idea rather than silently updating.

With regard tothe problem @vg4us reported. When it has happened to me I had the same solid white window (not the whole screen), not even the usual busy indicator commonly seen when something is hanging.

I am using version 12514. I have not been asked to install a newer beta version.
Does not bother me. I wonder why though.

I see that 12516 is on the website but stilll not called a beta, and with no warning that is may not work well for some users.
(maybe the install has a warning, but by then it may be too late)

Ditto. I have neither been automatically updated nor invited to update. Nor have I seen any announcement that a new version of any kind is now available or what its status may be. The situation now is even more ***** that it was yesterday.

Can you please clarify what is going on.

@The EMU
I have had that happen quite often with beta 1,2 5.16, especially when I have gone to the Forum very quickly after the home screen first appears. If I wait until the top area scrolls three or so times then it never seems to happen.

That was the first time I seen that happen. Solid white screen.

Weird. I loaded the beta 516 and the forum screen was completely blank.

I have had that happen quite often with beta 1,2 5.16, especially when I have gone to the Forum very quickly after the home screen first appears. If I wait until the top area scrolls three or so times then it never seems to happen.

I suspect that there is a timing issue with the program waiting for some event that actually happened before it started to wait and this is due to the program being multi-threaded.

I rebooted and now it is fine.

I never needed to reboot, just to quit and restart iStripper.

I see that 12516 is on the website but stilll not called a beta, and with no warning that is may not work well for some users.
(maybe the install has a warning, but by then it may be too late)

I am using version 12514. I have not been asked to install a newer beta version.
Does not bother me. I wonder why though.

Confirmed music broken in fullscren mode. Plays only one sog.

Weird. I loaded the beta 516 and the forum screen was completely blank. I rebooted and now it is fine.

Merci @EverthangForever. Très belles scènes. Tout fonctionne bien pour moi. Merci aussi à @Calgon. 😊

@EverthangForever

much obliged 👍

... You're welcome.

I've amassed over 1500 shaders... many first converted by yourself ... and still you find new ones I haven't seen before. 😊

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/29408/79?post=764696
Srry I meant @Calgon , thanks to you for the textures link..much obliged 👍

FGA056-FGA067
Twelve selected WebGL shaders remixed & converted to OpenGL
to run &/or remix on iStripper's Fullscreen OpenGL platform.
Standing or table work randomly applies to all these scenes
unless otherwise captioned.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGardenA056-A067.zip

zip size = 3.1 Mb
Extract the zip straight to ../scenes folder. Allow merged folders
and allow to overwrite any existing same name file.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/27449/151?post=764697