Tringo Bullies

I'd be happy to tell the story (names, places, etc.) of this little episode in world, but not in the forums.

That aside, I do want to be clear that I am not painting all tringo places with the same brush. It is happening, and getting worse, but not everywhere.

Hahaha, hold on a second. Playing Tringo is free? So instead of making someone pay some nominal fee for each round to fill the pot, everyone and anyone can play for free?

Good lord. What a phenomenal business plan. This right here is why people say you can't make money hosting events. Even in the simplest terms, no one is even trying.

I was at a game at Ice Dragon's, the mecca of Tringo the other day and a person won a 10,000L pot. Everyone was estatic for the winner. He tipped the host nicely and added 2,500L back into the pot with zero pressure and everyone just had a great,great time for hours and hours. Not all places act like the place you mentioned.

Would the problem be solved if there were no pot at all, but just a friendly game?

Would that stop you playing, though?

Hahaha, hold on a second. Playing Tringo is free? So instead of making someone pay some nominal fee for each round to fill the pot, everyone and anyone can play for free?

Good lord. What a phenomenal business plan. This right here is why people say you can't make money hosting events. Even in the simplest terms, no one is even trying.

I think the problem is that the Tringo-pot is all down to good-will.

Would the problem be solved if there were no pot at all, but just a friendly game?

Would that stop you playing, though?

As someone who doesn't really participate in the gaming/gambling activities in SL, I have noticed a relatively new trend that appears to be specific to places that sponser numerous tringo events. I have noticed that if someone wins a decent jackpot that they are pressured to give back a large portion of their winnings or face ridicule and scorn by the landowners, hosts, and/or their "friends."

One would think that the term "winnings" implied that you had "won" something. If you have truly "won" a jackpot, then it is by definition....yours. You have absolutely ZERO responsibility to provide any welfare whatsoever to the tringo business owner. I know that many people do contribute back to the pot, after winning, and I agree that it does make the game fun to have a nicer pot. But no one should be bullied for giving away enough of THEIR money.

I know that I am by no means an "oldbie," but I remember when bingo was the big game draw and seeing people win larger pots. There was no pressure from the landowners to give 1/2 or 1/3 back for the next pot. There were no friends of the owner calling people a "cheap c*nt." There were people who, even if they were disappointed they didn't win, would congratulate the winner and try again next time.

I used to play bingo and remember how fun it was to win a good sized pot (especially as a basic account) so that I would have some money to buy things with. I know that the landowners who engage in this practice (or allow it go on), run tringo to try and make their places popular. It would seem to me that abusing your customers isn't exactly going to make you, or your place, popular at all. People don't want to be treated like this and will go elsewhere. I know that frustration can be a natural response when you have put alot of real $$ into SL, trying to make your gaming place extremely popular, and then find that:

A) Your place is slipping in popularity

B) You have to put in more real $$ to have large pots in order to compete for players

C) People are contributing a reasonable amount, but not enough for to support your advertisments of HUGE pots

Quite frankly, none of these things are the players' fault. People contribute what they can and are willing to. If you have bought into this "we must have HUGE pots like tringo hall ABC in order to compete" mentality, then you knew what you were getting into before you started.

Either way, those who do this are their own worst enemy and, most likely, the cause of their own business demise.

If I recall correctly Kermitt, the creator of tringo did modify the game to enable the hosts to charge an amount per game. I am guessing that because the hosts are desperate for as many people playing as possible, and there is so much competition, they don't use this function.

As to the original post, that host should definitely have been ARed. I suppose the answer is not to go back and if enough people do the same, their number of players will shrink drastically to the point where they stop hosting tringo. There are plenty of others to go to.

I play a couple of times a month and always go where I know the host is a decent one. There are some who are bad hosts and I avoid them like the plague.

Alexa

Nobody makes any money from -ingo games. In fact, the owner pays money into the pot to encourage others. It's mainly for the dwell and to get people to their sim in the hope they might look at other things nearby and maybe buy from a shop.

The owner pays the hosts to host the games. The owner pays the host a certain amount to put in the pot.
The players put what they want into the pot and win the owner's money plus other player's money.

-ingo games are a money sink for owners.

Oh and in the event of my demise please find the #24 locker at the SL bus station w/ all the pertinent info enclosed. I've been informed he was a 'bomber' whatever the hell that means, but I can use my imagination.

How would it work out if people got $500 for a Tringo event, like used to be, and five games were played for $100 each, or ten for $50 each?

coco

Hmm and here I always thought dwell created $L weekly. Guess they changed that when I wasn't paying attention...