BBBC for day 3 is: If there was one thing on the grid that you could snap your fingers and it would be gone forever, what would it be and why? It has to be something other than lag.
Traffic. I feel very strongly about this, and I think it might be the core of several problems. The main problem I think about is: Newbies come here, not knowing their butt from a hole in the ground, and when they see "ORGY ROOM!" in popular places - they think thats all SL has to offer. So, you get the pervy newbs going around asking every female avatar if they want to screw. Its extremely irritating, because I wish people would come to SL for more than a reason to have SL sex.
Another problem I see with traffic is the money camping. While I understand new people need money, and thats pretty much the only way for them to get it - I really hate going to a sim with quite a bit of traffic and seeing nothing but campers. I think for new players, there are alternate things to make them look good, like prize camping. I have no problems with prize camping or lucky chairs (hey, even I prize camp occasionally for some time to do some much-needed inventory cleaning) :D
Now, I know I might get asked: "Why do you hate money camping, but love prize camping?" Well, prize camping cuts down on the bots, and if you like the offered prize and want it enough to camp for it - then the traffic you add to the land is worth it. ^^ Also, prize camping will get newbies to look reasonably good on no budget at all. :D
However, as I was ranting about traffic somewhere else, the point came up to me about clubs. I've never really been into the club thing (and I am definitely -not- the party type), so I have no idea how they work. But apparently, clubs rely on traffic for patrons.... (is patrons even the correct term? O.o;;) So, maybe something more traffic-correct could take its place.
June 9, 2008 at 2:13 AM
Gahhh I HATE traffic !!! Ever since I started to 'do business' it has come and haunted me even in my sleep...
Unfortunately people think traffic is truly important. But with all the bots out there it's so fake! One of my former neighbors has 20 bots stashed away in a black orb in the sky so she can pump up the traffic to 8000! She runs a ***club, but instead of doing something original she fakes traffic.
We also had some shopkeepers who rented shops at our place and complained about the fluctation in traffic. At club nights the traffic would get a boost, but it would also go down on non club nights. Unfortunately some shopkeepers (resellers) don't understand that people can pass by (generate traffic), but that doesn't mean they will actually buy something *sigh*
For clubs ... I rely heavily on our crew, VIP group and promoting events. I'm not really busy with traffic there. Because I think it's the music / event that has to pull people in.
June 9, 2008 at 2:39 AM
I hate traffic!!! When we took over management at the Viper Pit, people kept screaming about how we needed to raise traffic or no one would ever rent from us and no one would ever visit us. Well how could we raise traffic if our traffic was too low for people to want to visit? LOL After really killing ourselves trying to do it, we figured it wasn't worth it and now all the traffic we have is just from people who WANT to come hang out with us. I don't even bother going to high traffic spots myself, just since it's usually filled with campers and bots.
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