Hey, try orchestrating a nude contest, signing up contestants, photography, promotions & advertisement all the while trying to keep a business running in the midst of capturing the influx of traffic by staying put on a dance pole while you meticulously reconstruct the entire premises you just demolished from scratch.
That's right. We destroyed the original Pink Velvet and constructed a new one. Why, oh god why?
First off, we've been having a blast. The main thing is that we're having fun and meeting some of the most interesting people we have met on here in the process. Everyone and everything is great. However, by the end of the third week, i had been perusing around the lot sniffing out superfluous prims and contemplating what might be done about the lag we were experiencing when we peaked past 17 avatars. The club which housed rooms Pink & Velvet as well as extra poles had been sitting there for over two weeks, jealously watching the front yard capture all the club activity and standing in the distance, kicking a can, "Why does front yard get all the girls?"At about 600 prims, the club lay on the grass pretty fat and useless, really getting none of the action. Though the plan we had called for an eventual shift of the Elite to the internal premises of the club, thereby manifesting a physical exclusivity to the club, we realized the architecture of the site did not in anyway have to be used to establish this. The separation was becoming pretty resounding in just how the girls were presenting themselves as well as in the obvious consideration they have for each other.
It occurred to me to simply knock down the club. The girls were enjoying the open air, and why not simply make the whole place exposed to the wind. If we did so, it would give us an excellent opportunity to integrate it more as a dance club as well, an aspect we'd regretted not focusing on more the previous time we raised the area in under 3 days. But then i thought, that plan was just crazy enough to get us all killed. My partner, Eri Michalski, would never go for it. Alain would probably dishonor me and have me banished. About 12 hours later, Eri is sending me an IM: "I think we have to get rid of the club. I noticed the front yard is more popular anyway. We should go all open air... and get us all killed." The fact Eri and I had the same idea right around the same time was confirmation enough for me that it needed to be done. Off to Nagoya it was and sadly i had to leave the place to the girls for a couple of days while i layed the foundation down for this project.
One a side note, on the day before Eri and i decided to destroy the original Pink Velvet, the traffic to our property peaked at a little over 10,000. To us, it was quite signficant that we had achieved in just a tad over two weeks. Still, to be harshly critical, we were using techniques that aided the inflation of that number as we were aware that Second Life uses a complex algorythm to calculate exactly what traffic is. Traffic needn't meant that your site is popular, simply that, for some reason people are on it for extended periods of times. So we removed these elements as well in reconstruction and now we are going to do this the honest and barebone way. Regardless of tactic, though, 10,000 is really nothing to sneeze at.
Now that we are pretty much starting all over again, we did want to take the time to thank the girls that have continued their presence quite vigorously on the premises, even throughout riding this rough bump Eri and I had to iron out. At the moment, we are once again already approaching 5000, which puts us on the halfway mark of our previous high. We're very confident that this number will continue to escalate as time progresses.
So we'll leave you all with a video someone sent to me recently. Not sure who posted it or even made it for that matter, but it really made me laugh. It has a bit the old Pink Velvet in the background, so i suppose there is some sentimental attachment there for us. Whoever it was, they had a great sense of humor. Here it is featuring Elites Prince Qendra and Jane Verne. Enjoy!Double Pole Snapshot: Opticat Rhiadra & Misticia Moonwall
