Traffic -real or memorex?

ok, between rudy2zday and I we have approx 6 classifieds going. We throw events daily and do not charge for folks to put out their creations to sell at Fhelzgud's Free Public Yard Sale. We don't take a cut in anyones sales nor is anyone asked to join a club to be inviolved. Sometimes, over the last year and a half I will turn on the random cash awarder and give incentive to visitors so they might come back . Recently a new land owner in the region (a self-proclaimed scripter) has 15-18 avi's (apearing as the green dots on the map) on his site constantly. So making as much effort in getting shoppers I am interested in what he does to get the traffic so I go look. I watch starting fom about 6 avi's present the first day and see what appears to be alts being created ( many on the same day )and then more the next few days after till we suddenly have 18 dots on the map. Funny thing is all the avi's seemed stuck in midstride like mannequins. Ok whatever lol, this goes on for a week or so till I decide to look in again since the 18 dots were getting that constantcy look and to my suprise not one alt or avi could be seen anywhere yet the map still showed 18 present.
I don't know the nature of the scripters talent but this got me thinking and wondering how many "popular places" are really as popular as the green dots appear to suggest? How many other scripters can script in avi's and traffic? Heck if my yard could get into the popular places listings the very fact its there, would continue to feed the traffic numbers. Also, why have I never read anything about this kind of script? I could certainly understand why those in posession of it wouldn't want to share it. Anyway, just thought the community might like to know what may be out there. After my random cash awarder started paying out exceptionally high awards one evening to a bunch of alts created on the same day I reported my suspicions, next day and since no more 18 dots, looking now I see 2 .

look closer, all those popular places are eithe camping zombies or alts and with the lag u get u never return there again

he tries to get his traffic up wich will in the end do nothing for him but raise his electricitybill even more for no results and start closing down the region as only 40 can enter, wait till he puts 30 up heh

Ok Alicia lol, maybe not so apparent is that most business owners know traffic to be a necessary evil. Many will visit high traffic area since search is prefrencial to traffic, another words search for shoes the first places shown are hgher traffic. Classifieds simular but its costs that determines the sorting. So, we have been playing the traffic game for two years now , BTW although there are no longer 18 dots I just saw 7 dots(only 3avi are there, curious(and I am being sarcastic here)). We work way to hard to get traffic, and we pay way to much to get traffic, so when I see this I wonder how many other small to mid size busines are never being seen because of traffic numbers which are skewed by some script. This btw is also argued on a larger stage of how many players a game really has so implications are much larger than this guy beside me .

i went once to a new popular place and while there, saw rows of ppl, the lag was horrible but the amount of ppl made me curious as to where they all were

this is no joke, the sim was at 96 ppl, while looking around, i can say that i counted atleast 80, yes 80! camping chairs and a couple of idlers waiting for a chair to free up

they were charging outragious prices for shop space but wich ofcourse no real traffic at all. horrible lag and ofcourse over 80% full of campers, the point of it? beats me, stupid as hell, just going to a popular place is stupid as it`s only reached by campers

I can remember going to let me think the name it was an outdoor theater, I think its still about but used to go camp for money there (paid 5/10mins, yeah back in the day almost sure it started at $6L/10min but the pixels fade and my toons memory not so good lol) anyway the funny thing then was there were a lot more people present then bsing, being social while they camped. Rudy used to shop were she camped but anyway the Outside Movie stopped the camping chairs and I bet almost collasped because, ( and I tried that path early on as well) paying campers will bankrupt ya lol. Early in 2006 I stopped all camping pads though I know several large establishments that still have a few seats, much less than back in the day and of course the pay much smaller. Money or rather lindens was or seemed like it was more easily spread about then. Issues, lol your just hearing the panic of an avi(me) as I contemplate the end of Fhelzgud's Free Public Yard Sale.

oh yeah you must have been on an Island for that many but yeah know what you mean I would rather have traffic number in around a few thousand a day of honest to goodness shoppers then traffic in the upper 30K range of no one home . Right now I would be giddy to get traffic of 2,000 of true shoppers especially if they bought all my things twice , just in case rofl