@gkar45 Niemira's 'TIS THE SEASON was the last SEC show i unlock in the scratch game.

well when they find the next SEC. for now 0 . i own all my SEC'S 👍

La morale de cette histoire.

Les Sec, qui étaient là comme un plus au début pour fidéliser les gens, et les encourager à acheter toutes les cartes d'un mois, et dont plusieurs personnes, comme moi ont accepté d'y participer, se sont faient jouer un vilain tour par les gens qui ne voulaient pas suivre les premières règles du jeu.

Ainsi après plusieurs manifestations de mécontentement, Totem a créer une façon par les jeux de les obtenir, alors que ces cartes ne devaient jamais plus être disponibles pour ceux qui n'avaient pas accepter de participer à ces offres.

Coup de génie pour Totem. Ceux-ci réalisent qu'en agissant ainsi, cela leur rapporte +++ d'argent .De plus rien ne garanti que les personnes vont obtenir ces cartes SEC, même en jouant.

Ils poursuivent l'insatisfaction, en donnant l'illusion qu'il vont avoir ces cartes. Ils vont même jusqu'à créer la joker card, pour encore plus faire croire à la facilité d'obtenir ces cartes en échanges des SEC.

Oui les gens finissent par les obtenir mais à quel prix finalement (plusieurs n'ont pas fait le décompte e leur perte), et en plus ils se retrouvent avec des cartes qu'ils ne voulaient pas, tout comme lorsqu'il fallait que les gens achètent toutes les cartes d'un mois.

Ce faisant il se metttent à dos les premiers acheteurs fidèlent qui accepter de jouer les premières règles du jeu, car la solution des jeux de hasard ne conviennent pas à tous.

Peu importe les frustrations engendrées, Totem voit qu'il y a beaucoup d'argent à faire. Alors pourquoi cessé.

"Cerise sur le sunday", il ne font rien pour diminuer les frustrations. Ne viennent pas sur les forums avec les membres pour voir comment ils pourraient diminuer cette frustration. Au contraire la seule intervention pour essayer d'atténuer la grogne a été de dire que d'autres façons seraint trouver pour satisfaire les fidèles clients.

C'est à partir de ce moment que les jokers cards sont apparus, et que les SEC se gagnants seulement pas les jeux ont augmenté en fréquences.

Pour ma part cette histoire c'est n'importe quoi. C'est pourquoi j'ai perdu confiance en Totem.

Comme on dit ici, "ils ont déshabillé Jacques pour habiller Jean", avec de vieux vêtements, qu'ils ont fait passé pour du neuf.

Et maintenat que Jacques est tout nu, il doit se dire que ce n'est pas grâve au moins les filles sont belles.

Et Jean réalise après coup qu'il a fait rire de lui. Comme il a honte, il continue à jouer et se faire croire que tout va bien "madame la Marquise".

Il ne veut surtout pas que Jacques lui reprenne les vêtements et redevienne à nouveau tout nu.

Donc il essai de donner raison à Totem, qui lui a fourni ceux-ci.

C'est pourquoi je dit que Totem a créé une boite de Pandore avec les SEC.

(Désolé je voulais écrire : "Il ne veut surtout pas que Jacques lui reprenne les vêtements et redevienne à nouveau tout nu." plutôt que Jean, mais impossible de le corriger dans mon message en anglais. J'ai dû couper mon message en deux.)

(Sorry I wanted to write: "He does not especially want Jacques to take his clothes back and become naked again." Rather than Jean, but impossible to correct in my message in english. I had to cut my message in two.)

The moral of this story.

The Sec, who were there as a bonus at the beginning to retain people, and encourage them to buy all the cards for a month, and many people, like me have agreed to participate, have had a nasty trick to play. by people who didn't want to follow the first rules of the game.

So after several expressions of discontent, Totem created a way through games to obtain them, while these cards were never to be available again to those who did not agree to participate in these offers.

A stroke of genius for Totem. They realize that by doing so, it earns them +++ money, and there is no guarantee that people will get these SEC cards, even while playing.

They pursue dissatisfaction, giving the illusion that they are going to have these cards. They even go so far as to create the joker card, to further make believe in the ease of obtaining these cards in SEC trading.

Yes people end up getting them, but at what cost in the end (many did not count their loss), and in addition they end up with cards that they did not want, just like when they had to be people buy all the cards a month.

In doing so, they turn against the first loyal buyers who agree to play the first rules of the game, because the solution of games of chance is not suitable for all.

Regardless of the frustrations generated, Totem sees that there is a lot of money to be made. So why stopped.

"Cherry on the sunday", they do nothing to reduce frustrations. Do not come to the forums with the members to see how they could lessen this frustration. On the contrary, the only intervention to try to reduce the discontent was to say that other ways could be found to satisfy loyal customers.

It is from this moment that the jokers cards appeared, and that the SECs winning only by the games increased in frequency.

For me this story is nonsense. That's why I lost confidence in Totem.

As we say here, "they undressed Jacques to dress Jean", with old clothes, which they passed off as new.

And now that Jacques is quite naked, he must tell himself that it is not bad at least the girls are beautiful.

And Jean realizes afterwards that he made him laugh. As he is ashamed, he continues to play and make himself believe that all is well "Madame la Marquise".

Above all, he does not want Jean to take back his clothes and become completely naked again.

So he tries to agree with Totem, who provided him with these.

This is why I said that Totem created a Pandora's box with the SEC.

What was the second route of getting the 1st SECs if it wasn't gambling?

The second route was gambling. It was a way of gettiing the SECs. Without this second route there was absolutely NO way of getting a SEC if you had missed (or deliberately ignored) the original event. It was a solution that did provide the requested second way of getting the cards - that some people did not like that way of getting them does not mean that it was not a solution - albeit not a universaly acceptable one but no one ever claimed that it was.

You can put it in a simple way: if there is another way, there will probably be less people taking part in the scratch game. If people choose not to gamble, that might just be because it's not worth the time, credits and all unwanted cards.

Exactly correct, and that is pretty well the point I have been trying to make all along. Changing things is likely to cost Totem money unless they are careful, Changing things in the simple ways that have been suggested would almost certainly cost them money - would you willingly reduce your profits ?

We can only speculate on the intentions, but the odds show that this game is designed to make most members pour in a lot of credits, not for most members to win an SEC.

Yes we can speculate on the intentions, but whatever the intensions were the gambling games did provide a second way to get the SECs, no matter how unpopular that way turned out to be it was still a way to get the cards.

@arise77 You're right (I had forgotten the origin of the Jokers 😊).

But my point actually was that there was one way to get SEC without any gambling element involved. And that was purchasing that Premium membership when it was introduced (like I did). That way you got your Joker card, and therefore, effectively, an SEC of your choice without any gambling.

@titiii
That is just brilliant!
Hahaha the crane out the window is a master stroke, well done sir 👍

Thanks heaps for sharing them 😉

She's an amazing dancer, love her energy.

@Dfner I think Joker cards were introduced after the scratch game where you could get past SECs. Jokers were then given for some time when premium membership was introduced.

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42837/1?post=632068

@Enchantress

Premium membership also unlocks the 4k resolution versions of the cards released in the last year.

Of course if you don't have and are not planning to get 4k monitors/equipment then this benefit is moot.

But if you do then the 4k cards are another reason to have the premuim membership.

HTH

I was Buying Premium for discounted shows but only New shows are discounted, I am Very disappointed by this offer.

Well, it would too good of a deal otherwise :)

I was Buying Premium for discounted shows but only New shows are discounted, I am Very disappointed by this offer.

What was the second route of getting the 1st SECs if it wasn't gambling?

You could get a Joker card without any gambling involved, if you purchased a Premium membership "status" when it was first made available a year ago or so. I don't know if there have been any other ways to get them, outside gambling promotions, so far.

As far as I remember initially one was never able to gain a SEC if you missed the related promotion. Ever. That's been improved by being able to gain it in later promotions, may that be gambling promotions. I guess they also experimented with higher priced cards like Estonika / Harley XX. But I haven't seen many of those, so I guess that failed. Anyway, the SEC's by itself are not very special... it's just the idea of not being able to get them :-)

@TheEmu

... and then they ***** when the second route was offered over and above the special event. The cards only available by gambling came later (and of course there were more complaints).

What was the second route of getting the 1st SECs if it wasn't gambling?

Yes, of course I do (except for the "simply") but that does not mean that by doing so they did not provide a solution to the "problem" that initiated the first wave of complaints.

I think you put the quotation marks " " on the wrong word, haha... Joke aside, the "solution" provided is not much of a solution if it doesn't allow people to actually get the card. Gambling doesn't guarantee you get the card you're playing for.
We can only speculate on the intentions, but the odds show that this game is designed to make most members pour in a lot of credits, not for most members to win an SEC.

I absolutely agree - but I do not think that finding something that will satisfy those that do not want to gamble and at the same time will not negatively impact the overall income is as simple a matter as some here seem to think. Introducing a new mechanism will affect the income from the old mechanism (if only by reducing the need to resort to it to get a SEC) so Totem will need to be careful that they keep things properly balanced if they are not to lose out by introducing something new.

You can put it in a simple way: if there is another way, there will probably be less people taking part in the scratch game. If people choose not to gamble, that might just be because it's not worth the time, credits and all unwanted cards.

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@TheEmu you make it sound like Totem made the first SECs "available" to win in order to satisfy ***** customers. I don't remember anyone asking for these cards to be obtainable only through gambling.

I did not mean to imply that that was the only reason only to give an order of events. However, I seem to remember that making them available as prizes as well as via proper special events had been suggested by someone - i.e. that there would be an initial event such as an advent calendar and that some time latter the card for that event would then be winnable as a prize. People objected before the possibility of getting a second chance was available (because they did not want to be bound by the conditions of the special event) and then they ***** when the second route was offered over and above the special event. The cards only available by gambling came later (and of course there were more complaints).

Don't you think Totem might have simply wanted to make more profit out of the these first SECs, otherwise useless?

Yes, of course I do (except for the "simply") but that does not mean that by doing so they did not provide a solution to the "problem" that initiated the first wave of complaints.

Having another way of obtaining SECs doesn't mean the gambling has to go away. If people still want to go for that one, Totem can keep it.

I absolutely agree - but I do not think that finding something that will satisfy those that do not want to gamble and at the same time will not negatively impact the overall income is as simple a matter as some here seem to think. Introducing a new mechanism will affect the income from the old mechanism (if only by reducing the need to resort to it to get a SEC) so Totem will need to be careful that they keep things properly balanced if they are not to lose out by introducing something new.

@titiii
I think the challenge was thrown at @sh42n81 but he wasnt overly excited about it.
Just go for it 👍

It's on my list of things to work on, but by all means, if you have an idea, I'd love to see it!

@Grabandt
If you want to speak about another subject in this thread, try to do what you wrote here https://www.istripper.com/fr/forum/thread/27449/99?post=677274

The subject here is : Discussions for Scenes for Version 1.2.X Fullscreen Mode here.

Thank you.

@TheEmo

I did not come to this conclusion. In the end I got this SEC after buying 120 scratch cards, and had 10 credits more than I started with. For me there does not seem to have been much of a change.

OK, so based on your claim that you were getting about the same "break even" odds as in previous events, I decided to buy another 100 cards "for science" and then post my exact results from both sets of 100 cards.

First 100 cards, which I bought back on Friday (prior to my earlier post) yielded the following:
66 -- no win
30 -- 10 credits
4 -- 50 credits
0 -- 100 credits
0 -- SEC
(net loss of 500 credits)

Second set of 100 cards, purchased today:
27 -- no win
67 -- 10 credits
6 -- 50 credits
0 -- 100 credits
0 -- SEC
(net loss of 30 credits)

Combined, over the 200 cards, that makes:
93 -- no win
97 -- 10 credits
10 -- 50 credits
0 -- 100 credits
0 -- SEC

As you can see, there's a HUGE difference in the "no-win" versus "10-credit" outcomes between the two sets.

Because of the relatively large prizes of 50 and 100 credits compared to the 10 credit cost of a scratch card, with corresponding low odds of winning them, you need to try far more than 100 cards before you can make a reasonable estimate of the long term odds for these games.

While I totally agree that 100 (or even 200) cards is not a statistically significant number for determining the odds of things like the 100-credit wins, it should be a realtively decent number of trials for determining the "10-credit" and "no win" chances. And while it's true that the differences between my results on Friday and my results today could be due to just very odd luck, I personally think (especially given Totem's track record for screwed-up coding) that it's probably more likely that something was very broken with the game before, and they fixed it sometime between Friday and today. When did you buy your 120 cards?

My hunch (just a guess) was that for people like me with all the cards that couldn't get normal card wins, perhaps the game was previously giving them a "no win" in place of a normal-card win, and is now giving them a "10-credit" win in place of the normal-card win. Indeed, my results today look much, much closer to what I've seen in past scratch-off events.

[Edit: Just for reference... In both cases (both days), I purchased all the scratch cards in 20-card batches, though I wouldn't suspect that it makes any difference.]

Kitana Lure

@midnightmoans
Anatasia comes from Spain and she has 6 shows yet on iStripper. Look at the store and type in her name in the search field at the upper right of the tab.

@titiii
I think the challenge was thrown at @sh42n81 but he wasnt overly excited about it.
Just go for it 👍

Part 3 the last.

@arise77

previous message was too long so it got cut 😄

Yap, too much Text for this Forum 😀

About loyalty, I know our loyalty is valued in a way because there are humans behind companies who do care.
This might have sounded a bit extreme.

Nope :) Because beside of those mentioned Customers i was always trying to be Helpful as much as i could.
And Yes, there were definitely Customers, which were nice to me and appreciated my work.
But there were only a few, maybe a few more which i couldn't see any more, because of this Situations before.

Let's say the gambling makes it look like our loyalty doesn't matter so much.

It's possible but, for myself i'm never judging a Situation, when i'm not aware of the Facts.
I would like to give you a Brief example and i know it could be annoying, but if you have the Time
please take it for yourself and read this whole Topic from the beginning until to the End (11 Pages).
Achievements: It ain't gunna happen https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44621/1
Important Step! Stay Neutral the whole Time over it.
After reading this Topik, Ask Yourself! the following Question:
Is it now possible, to get the 4:20 Achievement Badge?
And when you found your Answer, For Yourself! compare your Answer with this Topic.
And hopefully you should know, what i was meaning :)

Thanks for your kind words, let's enjoy the girls and stay positive.
Take care and have fun! 😊👍

The same to you 😊

Part 2

@arise77
OT

I used to work in customer service so I know exactly waht you mean. I know it's hard to be shouted at even threatened for other people's mistakes.
I'm sorry to hear about what you experienced, but as you said, we also learn a lot from these situations.
Talking about customer service, I think @Manue is doing a great job, and she's probably on her own most of the time.
Everytime I contacted her, she has helped me out and I'm very ...

From my own Expierience for that almost 7 Years in these Company, i'm drawing my Hat in front of @Manue or
in Front of everybody else from the Customer Care.
Because it can be a crappy Job when you have Yelling and Crying Customers.

@ComteDracula be sure i know that you are not Yelling and Crying, just to make sure 😉

And also the following Fact, after some Conversations with my Doc.
This Time/Expierience in this Company, definitely broke something in me, that is for sure.

And my Hope is being so personal, that someone is reading this here to getting aware of the Fact,
that the Human Soul is more breakable as you could Imagine.
Then on the other End is sitting a Human out of Flesh and *****, and believe it or not with a breakable Soul.

And last but not least, we all know that there are people out there which are be able,
to Break the Mind from someone else. These Individuals are known as:

Soziopaths https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soziopathie (unfortunately not available in English)
Narcissists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
Psychopaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

It is unfortunately an overall Problem with our Humanity, the only thing we can do is take care about ourself,
to not get influenced from those People.
OT/

End of Part 2

Just in case :) Part 1 (it will be three in Total)

@arise77

I think it was kind of a letdown for long time members, because we were used to a way of getting cards for a certain price,
but with the introduction of cards only obtainable through gambling, it kind of felt like Totem was tricking us suddenly.
So yes, after some time, you take things for granted and you don't expect this from a company you're used to.

Trust me or not :) i know exactly about Disappointment and how hard it can hit the one or the other,
or even for both ourself. And when i'm coming back to these Customers which i mentioned before,
they were not aware of that the Fact, that they lost Money through the Backdoor.
And yes that is Fraud, no Question about that.

And here on iStripper we have the Fact, that every Customer can see that he needs to Gamble to obtain these
SEC Card's, at least at the Moment you have to play a Gambling Game.
So we are talking definitely about Gambling Games.
Regardless what's happening in the past, at east for myself.
Sure, without a speaking about the Odd's but for sure speaking about the Rules for these Games.
And the Rules are always mentioned in the specific Topics, for those kind of TGIF-Events.
But this would be another Topic, and i will not go deeper into that.

And yes it is not the exact same Situation, i'm aware of that, but in my Opinion here is no Fraud.
Everyone can see those specific Topics, they are Public and everyone can say YES or NO to those Games.
And also everyone of us can see, how much Money you have to pay for an specific Amount of the virtual Credits.

Also maybe, what is helping myself in different Situations:

Don't expect anything from anybody, Except from yourself. And you will not get Disappointed any more.

Maybe this could be helpful for someone else.

End of Part 1

There is an update on the cards, when we made one or several corrections. That can be an error of tag or level, some transparencies on the outfit due to the green screen, ect..

Indeed you can refer to the forum "Bugs & Fixes / List of corrected" shows to see why there is an update on a card, which has been corrected.

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44954/1?post=667277

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44955/1?post=667279

Short answer: The odds are ALWAYS better for Totem than for you. House always wins.

My stats on this one:
150 cards (1500 credits) gambled, 1300 credits + 1 SEC won.

That SEC cost me 200 credits, or roughly $16.65 USD, as I usually only buy credits when they are on sale with the +20% bonus.

That's more than 10x what a normal card costs.

Whatever the unpublished odds are on this one - they are NOT in your favour. I really, REALLY wish there was a way for PREMIUM, TRIPLE DIAMOND members to just get the cards without this gambling rubbish.

It's not fun. It's not fair. And it totally degrades my opinion of Totem's business practices.

By the way, is the "Flying Dutchman 😱 Challenge" still available ?

Dont know where you find these beautiful specimens but they are AMAZING in every way....Dont know if I should salute her or my penis should salute her .She will def do well and I would love to see more of her..good luck kiddo....you got this sexy mamma😉

Just a quick post wanting to ask what the updates to some of the existing cards do? I've noticed it's Inna Innaki's Night Shift, Florane Russell's Yes Daddy! and Eva Elfie's Trouble Maker this time. I do remember there were some other cards a while back.

My best guess is that iStripper updates them to have 4K but would like confirmation.

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@Stanton

previous message was too long so it got cut 😄

About loyalty, I know our loyalty is valued in a way because there are humans behind companies who do care. This might have sounded a bit extreme. Let's say the gambling makes it look like our loyalty doesn't matter so much.

Thanks for your kind words, let's enjoy the girls and stay positive.
Take care and have fun! 😊👍

Je précise que je respecte beaucoup @Sexy3DBoy.

Par contre je trouve que ses propos sont l'exemple parfait que je parlais de certaines personnes, qui vont conforter Totem dans sa décision de ne rien changer.

@ComteDracula
C'est réciproque pour la marque d'estime.👍

Il n'est pas acceptable d'être sur le terrain de la revendication
avec une société dont le business est basé sur du
divertissement privé! Quand on entre dans un casino sur le
strip de Las Vegas, on ne peut pas y dicter ses propres règles.
Quand on pénètre dans un strip-club, là aussi on ne peut
pas y dicter ses propres règles. En y entrant, on en accepte
tacitement le règlement qui peut par ailleur évoluer au fil du
temps.

iStripper joue sur le terrain de la passion humaine, c'est un
fait mais cela n'ouvre pas à de quelconques droits sur les
SECs et à une justification de leur part.

Les seules fois où je me suis exprimé sur leur activité, c'était
au travers d'un survey, ou face à des problèmes techniques.

Quand ils ont pris la décision en 2017 de stopper leur activité
avec l'Amérique du nord, ça m'a foutu les boules mais c'est
leur choix, pointbarre.

Ceci dit et à contrario, les revendications ont peut-être permis
d'avoir celle de Nici, mais il faut savoir mettre un terme à ce
type de mécontentement!

Et je ne cherche pas à les conforter dans leur décision, c'est
leur business!

Wuuuuuuuuuu huuuuuuu! Stasy get new boobs?

@arise77
But you are talking from Long time members, and we all know, when you are doing a specific thing too long,
like using iStripper, it will get in most cases Boring over Time. Even if you still like/love the Product.
Maybe it is not the case on yourself, but i lost in my past track on many things which i was doing way too long.
And i was trying to find something new and satisfying on that specific thing, but i was not be able to do that.
And who knows wher i'm standing lets say in 3 or 5 Years for myself and on iStripper.
I can't really tell you today. But i know one for Sure, I Love Girls, and iStripper is giving me an easy and
very convenient way to Access different Type of Girls. Even if i can see them only on my Screen.
That is indeed a good/important Point, but we (including myself) didn't talk to anyone from the Team in personal
about those internal things, because we are not be able to get involved in to internal Discussions.
And further about Loyalty.
I'm not naive, I know a business doesn't care much about my "loyalty", and is just looking for a way to keep the big wallets coming and attract new customers, and try to make everyone spend as much as possible. Business is business.
That is not a 100% true. As i told earlier in this Topic from that Company which i was working for almost 7 Years.
Of course i will not telling any Names or Persons, but my Boss would liked to give his Customers something back.
And not only as a short period Solution, No as an Long Term Solution for all New and Long Term Customers.
At the end, he had to pay more as he could imagine to have Money for that.
It was ruining almost his Company and many many Customers were pissed off, understandable of course.
And it ended with the Situation where many Customers came in the Store and smashing their
***** and disappointment on me.
Only on myself, i was their match ball for their ***** and offending speaking.
They were Insulting against me on and on, but my Boss was sitting in his Office as like happened nothing.
Until to an specific Point, where he had to call the Police, because of an very mad and nasty Ranting Customer.
Gladly there were no Weapons in play, but he threatened me physically.

And until today i ***** my Boss for that, what he was offering his Customers,
and not thinking about the consequences. Even there was a good Intention in the Background.
Until today i can't get this Situation out of my Head any more.
And i'm thankful to that Customer that he had no Knife or Gun in this Situation with it.
Otherwise he shall ***** in Hell forever.
And this is one of the Reasons why i'm sitting at a Psychologist, because of that ***** in my past.

When one is getting Nasty against someone else, who is not fault for his Situation then you can still handle that.
But not 10 or 15 Customers per Day, against one Employee, and yes it is a true Story.
And we are talking from an Timeline of almost 3 Months.
And at the End, you can't satisfy everyone like i was saying before. It is not possible, because we are all different.
You know > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ

So with that saying, we don't know who the Teammembers are, or what they are planning,
but i had this Year PM Contact to one specific Teammember.
I will not give any further Details to this Contact/Conversation of course.
But from my Perception with this Conversation i will not believe that Totem isn't aware about our Loyalty.
No way, because this Conversation was just too good, even it was short.

Thanks again to my Conversation Partner at this Point 😊 just in case you are reading here in this Topic.
I agree we should relax about this, be patient & enjoy the girls.That's right, i'm here for the Girls on iStripper, i will further put my Money in it,
and hoping further for an native Linux Client.

But i really really don't care about the SEC Cards, because i have 1918 other Shows to
enjoy over and over every Day. So please to all have a great Time on iStripper 💚 👍

@Stanton
I think it was kind of a letdown for long time members, because we were used to a way of getting cards for a certain price, but with the introduction of cards only obtainable through gambling, it kind of felt like Totem was tricking us suddenly. So yes, after some time, you take things for granted and you don't expect this from a company you're used to.

I don't know anyone from Totem personally, so you're right we don't know what's happening behind the scenes.

I used to work in customer service so I know exactly waht you mean. I know it's hard to be shouted at even threatened for other people's mistakes. I'm sorry to hear about what you experienced, but as you said, we also learn a lot from these situations.
Talking about customer service, I think @Manue is doing a great job, and she's probably on her own most of the time. Everytime I contacted her, she has helped me out and I'm very ...

Anastasia came back to our studio and she was even hornier than the first time!
Get her new VR180 here: https://www.istripper.com/vr180/detail/d06737cd888d3f11 😍

And don't forget to check out Stella's VR video, released few weeks ago: https://www.istripper.com/vr180/detail/1897b71281c8f401

@RAGORN Merci. 😀

@TheEmu & @ComteDracula I think most of us don't mind an SEC given as part of a package like for the advent calendar or August pre-order lately. There's a simple way of getting it: you choose if the SEC is worth a 24/30 card pre-order.
I got 2 SECs this way, whenever I wanted it I would go for the pre-order; if not, then I pass.

Totem introduced SECs

Some people ***** about the rules for obtaining them.

Totem changed the rules to go some way to meeting the original objections.

Some people ***** about the new rules for obtaining them.

They could have simply stuck with the original rules.

I am pretty sure that no matter what they do, short of selling them as normal cards for the normal price, will attract complaints.

@TheEmu you make it sound like Totem made the first SECs "available" to win in order to satisfy ***** customers. I don't remember anyone asking for these cards to be obtainable only through gambling.
Don't you think Totem might have simply wanted to make more profit out of the these first SECs, otherwise useless?
Plus, look at the ratio now, of all SEC cards, how many could you only get through gambling? That shows Totem favours this way.

Joker cards were also introduced, why not allow members to get Joker cards (which doesn't involve gambling) to exchange for SECs, since these will "never" be for sale?

Having another way of obtaining SECs doesn't mean the gambling has to go away. If people still want to go for that one, Totem can keep it.

@Grabandt

But there it shows me this topic that I have not opened.
I can only find my topics if I enter my topic in the search bar.
Then it shows me my subject.

Then you shouldn't Hijack this Topic, and put a Request in the proper Section on the Forum. As a Member since 2011 you should know how it goes 😉

@Grabandt

Why can't I find my new topics in the forum?

Inside the Client
Click on your Profile > Posts > there you have it.

Inside a Webbrowser
Click on your Username up right > choose My Profile from the Drop Down Menu > Posts > there you have it.

It seems people are getting tired of this, I support this website on every way possible but last time I tried this game of chance I spent 300 credits and no card, I don't know what the rate is and I no longer care, I'll have to live with these special events, but I'm not spending any more money on these special event cards. But with all honesty, if there's ever another website that starts doing these kind of shows I'll definitely give it a try.

I think we all would at least try out the competition to see how it is.

Competition is always good for the consumer, and arguably, for the companies, as well, as it makes them innovate more.

I remember that outside of the Russian copycat sites that used stolen code there was a US-based site a long time ago that shot similar content to then-Virtuagirl, but it's now defunct and you can't even check what it was about anymore, outside of a few poor gifs.

@sh42n81 resolution: 20 // determines how the Light is rendered // 20 is the default if you dont specify resolution material: true // will be affected by the lightsThe higher the Resolution is, the smaller the graininess of the light is.But it also adds significant GPU cycles to render higher resolutions.odd values for Resolution have a strange added effect.I have some samples that demonstrate it's affect http://www.virtuastripper.net/WA-lights-2.zip

Although I don't doubt @wyldanimal about this but when I tried using higher values for resolution: I did not notice any significant effect. There has to be some effect on the GPU load but what this parameter does is to control how many triangles a sprite is divided into (the default being two) and the work required to do this is quite light unless you specify a ridiculously high number.

There is some work done for each vertex of the triangular mesh established by this subdivision into trianlges and this is done in what is known as a vertex shader. It is possible to use your own vertex shaders in iStripper as well as the more commonly used fragment shaders (you can use them to distort the images by moving the vertices). But the default vertex shader does almost nothing, and even quite complex vertex shaders are unlikely to greatly affect the overall GPU load because there are so few vertices (normally by several orders of magnitude ) compared to the number of pixels that fragment shaders work on. Of course if you do specify a ridiculously high number of triangles are to be used then you pay the price.

The number of vertices does affect the latter stages of the graphics pipeline, in particular fragment shaders, because certain of the inputs to fragment shaders (their so called uniform input variables) are calculated by interpolating between their nominal values at the three vertices of the triangle in which the pixel being acted on lies. If this interpolation is done by hardware then it should incur very little cost in GPU usage and will in any case be done for each pixel irrespective of the total number number of vertices, but I suppose that this may depend on the particular GPU which may be why @wyldanimal noticed a significant effect but I did not.

In reality, as always, things will be a little bit more complicated than the above outline but it may help to give you an idea of what is going on. One of the complications will be for pixels that lie on the boundaries between triangles and there will be more of these when there are more triangles and this will also increase the GPU load as the number of triangles increases.

I suppose that all this boils down to don't be surprised if using a large value for resolution: has a significant effect on GPU usage, but also don't be surprised if it doesn't.

slightly off topic...
@7171al71 use of a web page as the background for Desktop mode
reminded me of something I started some time back.

I thought I'd revive a project I wrote a few years back...

Not a scene or full screen
but an App to play visualizations as a background for Desktop mode.
it uses a custom form.
***** and drop a music file on to the app
you can also ***** and drop a video clip.
You can right click the music or video to mute the sound, If you want your Own music in the background.
You can edit the sample playlist and add your own Music and video clips to a playlist.
***** and drop the playlist to have an extended experience.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/files/MP4Player.zip

quick instructions
Download it to your local profile
make a folder for it.
unzip it
create a task bar or start menu shortcut to the app.

Important.
Open Media Player, and Select a Visualization.
you will have to switch from album view to Now Playing view Three dots bottom right
then QUIT media player.
This will be the Visualization that the App uses.

open the folder with your music or play list
start iStripper
***** and drop the media file to the app
minimize the folder

Demo Video
http://www.deskbabes.net/videos/MP4Player-002.mp4

edit:

After I ***** and Drop the edited Playlist to the app.
I left clicked in the App too give it the focus
now I can use the Media Keys on my Keyboard to switch to next or Previous Tracks.
That's what I was doing to make the tracks change.
The Last track was a Video Clip of fractal animations.
It was a saved clip in a folder ( Zoom-001.mp4 included in the zip file )

The advantage to this app
it plays local files on your PC or Network.
you don't need to be connected to the internet and use a web page or Youtube videos.
If the video clip has a bad soundtrack you can mute it, and play your own local music.

It'a a tool to experiment with...

Thankyou boys, Because of this conversation I just purchased iDancer for the curiosity! lol

So do you only have the standard version of iDancer, or have you added or improved something?

What you saw in that video is Not iDancer.
it is the iDancer Animations, being played by the iStripper GUI.
iDancer only allows for 1 dancer at a time, and the Dancer is based off the Music.

I'll send you a PM in private.

@Wyldanimal: very useful what you shared, super grateful !!!

I was doing a scene that wanted to integrate that and your contribution fell from heaven.
The code is easy to understand and the best of all is that it works super.
Mount the 2 photos and it worked !!! (Front and Back). With some time I will mount it in 3D well, adjust it and other things.
The scene I had written is in 2D, but the elements can be used by others for testing and other things. (https://tinyurl.com/downloadscene)

@Grabandt: what you are talking about is viable if the skin is made with CSS, you can add some animation stuff with some javascript.

The animated scenes are a bit complex and as for the lighting effects it is variable, I have tried many things to achieve them, some quite illogical, but they work.
Video 1: is based on 2 test scenes. Do not use ambient or lights commands, what I did in that minute was to give the parameters manually (the left spotlights is a .png that rotates and that in turn changes color in the same way as the casting scene is made, Cunado the scene darkens to fluor tones use the same principle.
Video 2 is different. I built it thinking in 3D, that is, the distances and behaviors will try to coincide with reality (there is a limitation in that since the software does not support .obj) and they are all 2D images, but handled as 3D objects, there are blocks of the command of ¨material¨ in some cases was: false and the color change was achieved with animated color transitions.
There is another limit which is the CPU load, in video 2, a lot of VFX. they were processed on the video capture, achieve them inside although it is viable, it takes a lot of computer to do it.
Video 1
https://youtu.be/AE_Ku_m-voA
Video 2
https://youtu.be/AE_Ku_m-voA

Anything that can help you, at your disposal.

if it helps i won the sec in about 12 scratch cards so i think the odds depend on how many cards you buy

@Grabandt

iDancer is a more modern version of MP3 Dancer
MP3 Dance is late 80's or early 90's
Like the origional VirtuGirl, the Dancers were only about 1 inch tall on the screen.

But it did have a few special effects, that iDancer doesn't have..

I don't think the sales volume fro iDancer, were high enough.
so I don't know the answer to if there will ever be new dancers added.

I had written to the team a number of times asking them to release the product.
Don't know if I played a tole in that, but they did finally release it.

I had been playing the iDancer cards for well over a year before it was released.
( I had discovered a way to Purchase the i series cards )
So they were added to my collection
It then took me a while to figure out how to play them, as the coding of the file names
does not match the standard cards.
So nothing would ever play.

But once I got them to play, I watched them on Full Screen for Months.
No Nudity of Course
but they were the High Energy dancing, that I felt is always been Missing from Virtual Girl / iStripper

I would enjoy cards that start out with high Energy Dancing on the stage, followed bu the Strip Routine.
But I don't think I've seen that type of Dancing in VG or iStripper, Only in iDancer.

Here is an Example
http://www.deskbabes.net/files/iDancer/iDancer-Max-002.mp4

I had made a series of videos, that I sent to the team showing it off.
with the idea, that seeing them in action would help push the release of iDancer.

We finally did see the release, and it was later added as a steam title.

Hi @781jingles
Please have a look on this Workaround,
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/42188/1
or this Post from here if the first Method isn't successful.
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/45480/1#post676320
In both cases i recommend you Turn Off P2P in your Settings before!
Hope it Helps 👍