How to help newbies financially?

Yes....and in Good Humor....I've already been defined as a Gamer....so my conscience will allow it.

Would it be less than tactful for me to send a questionnaire to the Users...have a few informative questions on it....give them 50L credit to answer? One of the questions being "how did you hear about the Cone?"

Ah but what they won't know is that I would have fixed it so that the only places they are offered are my satellite shops

I don't think it would lack tact at all. We are trying to find out all we can about the system, especially since the creator didn't make it here yet, and asking questions of users is a very good, and normal, way of doing it.

I thought about that earlier....I may go get another one, and put it in a section of store that is in another sim....see if the effect doubles.

Yep. That's already been pointed out as a shortcoming. It should be used as the TP method rather than the SLURL in Chat.

Are you sure that's not Gaming?

With that arrangement, I'd be more interested in how many uniques you get from both (or even from one). I'm very curious to know how wide or narrow the recipient userbase is.

Not that I'm aware of I asked for some details (info) from the owner of the cone where your cone sent me. If I'm going to use the thing, I want to know all I can about it before I commit myself. It was as a result of the info I got from that owner, and what I found when using it, that I decided against using the cone as it is now.

There's a piece of advise that is often seen - when trying to decide whether or not to go in for something, ask some existing customers for their opinions. Asking recipient users about the cone is doing exactly that.

A LM would be better.
A problem with a link that appears in chat is that it creates a pressure to do something about it then and there. Otherwise one is scrolling up later in the chat history to find it.

The LM in their inventory becomes associated with a feelgood, if for no other reason.
The LM could also trigger a further 11 minute linger if the person wants to pick up a trail of cones at a future date.

Here's the wording:

Title of Notecard: Thank You for Visiting! 50L Credit for you!

Thank You for visiting the EtCetera Store and taking the Cone Tour!

If you would like to earn a 50L Credit to the EtCetera Store....please take a minute, and return this notecard with some quick answers to a simple questionnaire. Be sure to put your name inside the notecard to receive credit.

1) How did you hear about The Cone?

2) How many places did you visit on the Tour?

3) What was the most interesting place you viewed?

4) Would you take The Tour again?

Thank You!

Let me know if there would be another valuable question to add.

Here's my concern at the moment.

There has been green dots at the cone location on my map all morning. Only two pay offs. They are not the same person. They leave...then another one comes.

I got the visitor/traffic....which is the point....but why aren't all those dots getting paid.

Something else occured to me...

The current cone probably works like this, but a person can be a start-clicker every time. E.g:-

Start-click >

"here or at another place?" >

11 mins, get paid >

"Another place y/n? You can continue looking around here and click again when you're ready." >

No >

Some minutes later...

Start-click >

and so on.


I really like the whole thing in theory - apart from the current system's shortcomings and the possible small recipient userbase.

If it hasn't been sent yet, how about..

5) How often do you use the cone system?

or something like that.

Bots that can't get the code right maybe?

We don't know much about the bot protection. All we know is that it's a menu that requires the matching button for the floating text to be clicked. We don't know if the various floating texts are the same for all the cones or if they are created for an individual cone on rez. We don't even know what happens if the wrong menu button is clicked. Bot protection is something that we haven't discussed.

If it were me, I'd stand nearby and watch what happens. If the cone is moddable, it might be worhwhile putting another touch script into it to find out if it's being clicked on.

NO the Hippo owner gets 2 or so % commission....i was suggesting the Cone owner could take 5 or 10% on payments made to Cone. .....but there is a problem by taking variable payments and applying a % from a prim. He would have to make it fixed stepped contributions e.g 100 L at a time

I went down there, and tried to go through my visitor list from that section....but other shoppers are mixed in with it, so hard to tell. I put a visitor list maker right next to it.

But I'm going to have to isolate it, to get the true picture.

Not really. He could take, say, a 5% or 10% commission on whatever money is put in, as it is put in - rounded to the nearest whole number. It would be just like paying for n hits in advance.

E.g. if I put 57L in, he could take 6L straight away, then divide the remainder by 2 = 25, rounded down. I will have paid for 25 visitors in advance.

Is it mod? If it is, you could add a script to tell you who clicked on it.


I'm very tempted to get one of these things for testing with.

Just go get one. I'm going to get another one to try in a different section of the store.

Before I do that, is it mod? Could I put a script into it?

yes, bots trying to use it....but unsuccessfully.

Potentialy this system could really take off ...and be useful to all parties if done right.
It almost like a sight-seeing tour and getting paid....taking you to different Sims.
Clubs, places of interest as well as Commercials can use it.
You could have different trails starting points if it ever got huge.....you could have the Old Continent trail, the South Continent trail, the Ursula trail.....and then one for the Estates broken up. Would be nice if it were further broken down by category.....so all the Places of Interest could be on one trail......all Clubs on another...that's another option.

It's imperative that it spits out a LM to the Inventory.....that's one of the benefits you'd want to be paying for.

if there is such a script...then sure.

The closest thing i know is the "Split Commission script", there you have to specify UUID of recipient, Sale prices and Comm %.

A script only pays what it's told to pay by the script, so anything like can be easily written.

It's Not Mod.

I just got another one, and put it in a different sim....this part of the store has more traffic....I better not lose a sale! Today is Newcomer Day! LOL (which appears to be a bust, so far)

My traffic count has not rolled over yet since I set it in place yesterday.....waiting to see that. But this morning...there has been a dot almost non-stop at it's location. Just not non-stop pay outs.

And No Sales from anyone who received a pay out....but that's my fault. I need to get some inexpensive items set out near it.