Prokofy Neva wrote:
One thing I've found to be a real deal-breaker for hangouts and more so rentals is the music stream.
Have NO music stream, people are driven away.
Have A music stream they HATE, they are also driven away.
VERY hard to calibrate as Groove Salad Ambient Music is not the thing that can solve this problem, believe me.
I have a hangout which is the headquarters of the SL Public Land Preserve called Botany Grove. It has a huge tree made in the old prim craftsman days which I love and will never part with. I made it into a kind of Fairy Grove, with fairies, little things for them, stuff, you know -- fairies! This should appeal to SL's lead demographic of 30-something single females! No?
Well, they don't come in anything like droves, I'm lucky if they donate $1 or buy a $1 egg about once a week. I see some people on the boats or the camp store but basically, this is not anything like the traffic you are describing. And here, I thought I had done the fairy thing, which I like myself, and it should work.
Then this male 20-something came along and told me the parcel looked like a Texas fish camp.
I was a bit crushed, you know? Texas fish camp? I don't live in Texas and I don't even know what a Texas fish camp LOOKS LIKE.
However, I decided to embrace my Texas fishcampness there and added a bit more fish stuff. This helped may be a tiny bit.
There is no mesh on this lot because did you know that mesh is injurious to fairies? In fact the entire Internet is, as it is based on metal, but there are a particularly hardy SL breed that can at least grow on SL but you can't push it with things like mesh.
I even segregated off the parcel with the tinkly Irish Gaelic kind of fairy music since I knew that this was part of the demographics problem.
I have found that people in SL really perplex you. I once had a dirt lot with nothing but a stick on it and THOUSANDS of avatars came there to chat.
It's true social networks are more important than all the other stuff except not really, as you need glue for those networks, and that glue does have to do with the stream, the mesh, and maybe a manager that gooses things along, I dunno.
I'm from Out West in RL, so the whole Texas Fishcamp thing is a draw for me :-) I'll have to stop by !