Can't find tringo game

I played Tringo for the first time a few days ago, and its quite addictive. So I wanted to play for a while before logging off tonight.

But I can't find a game. The only tringo event is at ice dragon, and the sim is full. So I went to a couple of other places where I know there are tringo boards. No games. So I looked at the event calenar to see where there were games earlier, maybe they are still going on. No games.

In all I visited 10 different sites, and the only one with a game going in is in a full sim.

I never went looking for Tringo before, so I don't remember how many tringo events there were, but people were complaining in the forums that there was too much tringo in the events. Well I'm complaining now that there isn't enough.

Why shouldn't there be a tringo game somewhere EVERY HOUR? WHY WHY WHY?

With Tringo plastered all over the SL web site, why shouldn't I expect to be able to log in and find a game? Any time I want???

Buster

Because this is Secondlife, and not tringo

Anyways, there pretty much is a tringo event every hour. Don't worry if there isn't one that fits your timeframe tonight, for there will be 40 of them waiting for you tomarrow.

Buster, I feel your pain..

It has been a real pet peeve of mine that people complain about the Tringo listings simply because they do not enjoy the game. What folks have to realize is that there is a LOT of interest in the game. That translates into a lot of games being held. BUT.. that does NOT mean we can always play! Due to the high interest, the sims are liable to be full.. or lagged to the point of not being able to play. Factor in the instances of places we simply do not like for whatever reason.. then the times... Well, it really IS hard to find a game now..

I'm ready to set up my own private board just to play. I never get to play at an actual event anymore. LOL

You missed the point. I wanted to play THEN, for a little while before signing off.

I would have expected that there are enough residents who want to play tringo that at 11:00 PM game time on a friday night, I would have thought I would be able to find a game.

Like many people, I am a creature if impulse. I get an urge to do something, buy something, build something, I go and do it. If you make me wait I lose interest. Its not the playing of tringo I need, its the filling of THAT particular half hour of my day that I was interested in.

My theory is that the event calendar changes may have prevented somebody from listing a tringo game, which prevented me from being able to find it, which prevented anyone else from being able to find it too, which prevented anyone from hosting a tringo game nobody would find.

TWO unhappy linden customers -- me, and whoever would have hosted tringo if they were allowed to. Plus, I never win, but I always contribute. (Ok, I won $2000 once, but I put that and more back in the pot.) So OTHER customers miss out on winning the money I would have put in the pot.

Buster

Your theory would be correct.

Definately correct that the new limits to the calendar are to blame.

Prior to the change I would log in.. look at the calendar.. select to be notified of what I was interested in for the day.. and wander off to the first event of interest. From that point on, I would rarely bored or unable to find a game to play. I would go to one location.. then zip off to another.. then over here for something else.. then back over yonder for a few games.. it was neverending and I LOVED IT! Occassionally, I would find myself with 30 minutes or an hour between events. Guess what I would do then.. I would go shopping. Lets just say I kept a few places in business just from my purchases.

Now, I seem to never find a game that I can attend. My favorite locations are no longer hosting.. or listing.. whichever. I find myself looking at the calendar each morning as always.. but I only spot MAYBE one event that kinda sorta maybe looks interesting to me for the day. Alas, those tend to be in my off-hours. So, I have ended up BORED.. spending a LOT less time inworld (heck, I haven't even logged in today.. don't think I did yesterday either *shrug*) and I haven't purchased anything in a week.

Even with the so-called clutter from before (gee.. looks the same to me.. places listed crap and multilisting as always), at least the events were there to be found if we looked.

I'm not missing the point. I was saying kindly that not everything revolves around you or your likes.

ya I totally agree with you buster

Im trying to save up enough money to buy tringo just for that reason

15k I think...

Yeah, weird with all these events you'd expect someone would be running 24/7 tringo.

Yes yes yes yes yes! Why limit the events calendar! I don't care if it's three pages; that way it would just be all the more likely I'll find something to keep myself entertained!

What they heck are they thinking? "Well, gee, people are having too much fun, and too much of it is TRIVIAL fun. Let's make sure they can't have that much fun!"

So instead of being invited to parties and events all day long to choose from, we have this arbitrary Fun Limit.

I can't get over it.

You'd think they'd be HAPPY to have lots of activities! Other games would die for more activitiy! Yup yup give us all the "tools" to do whatever we want, then say, "Well, you can't really do that MUCH of whatever you want."

Spare me.

I mean, aren't we supposed to have FUN here, or what? Draconian, it is, if you ask me.

Change it!!!

coco

lol someone actually complaining that there's not enough tringo? wow.

I remember I saw 26 Tringo events in one day, that was insane.

Personally i'm so glad they changed event hosting, there were too many people profiting off event stupidity. Each day i'd look at the events and only see 3. Not that I saw just 3 event listings, but just the same 3 events OVER AND OVER AND OVER. And each one of these events were getting funding from LL. I rarely ever see creative or helpful events anymore, (though thanks to LL there's finally some support for building/scripting/texturing classes).

I've tried Tringo before, it was okay. I played it for a little bit, won a bit, and decided that it wasn't worth the time. So i'm not saying Tringo is horrible just that LL was right on cutting the funding to cookie cutter useless events.

I'm not talking about the funding, I'm talking about not being able to post your event on the schedule!

coco

Ok. look at the events, honestly look at the calendar prior to January 17. then look now. You Have to see that events are more similar now than they ever were then.

This is a direct result of the fact that now people must pay to entertain you. Before it was possible to actually make a whole $250/event to host it (not a fortune by any means) now it costs money to entertain people and not the linden's money. Why do people continue to do it? Lord only knows. I must be insane! lol

Back when I was a tringo addict, I was member of like 5 or 6 tringo groups and I never had to look at events 'cause someone would announce games via group IM all the time.

So, join tringo groups and ask for running games.

Buster, have you thought about hosting tringo?

Maybe people are sick of lagging their sims to death so tringo leeches can come play. I'm just saying.



Tringo is a fad game, people are going to tire of it. Woot! Maybe the back of the camel is broken!

Nah there's still like 17 tringo events a day.

hmmm 9 dollars a month some one could make this game for a web site and charge nine dollars a month and make a killing. for isnt that all what some people do in this game why not cut out the middle man.

Another successful graduate of the Prokofy Neva School of Non Sequitur and Accusatory Rhetoric. Congrats.

Of course everything doesn't revolve around me or my likes, that would be idiotic for me to think so. Am I really that much of an idiot?

It would be different if I was imposing on somebody by wanting to play Tringo. Of course I should not be able to impose my likes on somebody else. But why do people want to impose limits that prevent me from doing what I want to do?

There's no non sequitur there. Prok's theory that Linden's supposed socialist bent is to blame for the event calendar changes is an example of a non sequitur.

That I couldn't find a Tringo game at 11:00 PM on a Friday night is a likely result of the event calendar changes. That's a perfectly logical conclusion.

Buster

I'm not interested in hosting on a regular basis, but I would set up a game on my land if other people would host. Any volunteers?

Not really. Especially when there are as many other 'perfectly logical conclusions' one might choose, any of which is much more readily supported (i.e., Occam's Razor), with the most obvious of which being that you live in EST (as stated in your profile here) while most late-night Tringo is running on Pacific Time (Cali folk and those overseas).

If you actually look at the calendar, you can see this lull.

Or, you can just blame it on something totally unrelated because it gives you something to complain about... whatever.

Buster, when you're ready to take it to the next step, and analyze the Lindens' thinking on any number of things, including their hippie/socialist/dope-smoking group tools that circulate every dollar equally to all, and make all land owned belonging to "everyone" and therefore "no one" so that "some one" can steal it all...well, come and talk. It's not crazy ravings. It's just observing the outcome. Doesn't take a lot.

There's a big kabosh on event listings because of Linden squeamishness about commerce...too much commerce...too much of the *wrong sort* of commerce...too ugly...to mass...not kewl enough...not controlled enough...well, it's just the new cybersocialism, is all, it is decked out in very kewl tekkie clothing but it's the same old dustry dreck from that library in Germany more than 100 years ago...



See what I mean, Buster? Player attitude...affecting Linden attitude...finding a *home with* Linden attitude...symbiosis.

What is any event "stupid" just because you find it low-brow, view yourself as high-brow, and hate commerce *when somebody else besides yourself engages in it*? That's what this is all about. Mass culture, and Bobos in Paradise!

And what made you think these events like Tringo are getting paid? Huh? The Lindens removed event support like that MONTHS ago.

What's wrong with repetition? Buster just explained that he couldn't make a dollar!

I recall what tipped the scales for Lordfly and others who are now massively organizing on IRC to shun me here, using IRC's looser rules to do and say what they couldn't do here: my request for them to *shut up about Tringo if they didn't have any good events of their own to displace the Tringo.*

If you have nothing to displace Tringo with, then you're the problem, not Tringo.

Every so often, when I'm walking to work with a Starbucks cup in my hand, someone will stop me and ask, "Hey, where's the Starbucks?" It's happened enough times now that I'll just stand there and laugh at them. I live in midtown Manhattan. You can't walk 20 paces without passing a Starbucks shop.

How this is relevant to this thread, I leave as an exercise for the reader.