Isis Ophelia wrote:like parties, art exhibitions, maybe a grid wide hunt? I bet you have many more suggestions and ideas
Parties and art exhibitions are excellent ideas. Possibly hunts within a given world could work well. It could certainly be good for getting people to explore your world.
I don't know about the grid wide hunt concept in Kitely. My stores participated in several of those over in SL and most of the time people popped in, found the hunt item, then left. That was it. On very rare occasions someone who visited during the hunt might come back later to browse, but those folks were few and far between. The fact that in Kitely you often have to a wait a few minutes for the next world to load might encourage people to browse more in Kitely hunts, then again maybe it won't.
Another consideration is the load that people quickly hopping from world to world would put on the Kitely cloud servers. The worst case scenario would be if the next hunt visitor tried to teleport to your world just after the world was shut down several minutes after the previous visitor left. All this extra world starting and stopping could really hurt performance for all Kitely worlds on the servers, not to mention really hit Ilan and Oren in the pocketbook. I don't pretend to know the precise calculations that they used to determine their new pricing levels, but they certainly can't have been anticipating the type of situation that could well occur with a grid wide hunt on Kitely.
What we really need is events that will draw groups of people to a particular world and keep them there for a period of time. Parties and art exhibitions fit the bill, as do boating, surfing or swimming meets, not to mention flying meets. (I actually attended a flying meet on the Quayside world that celebrated the Wright Brothers Centennial and it was a lot of fun.)
Isis Ophelia wrote:
I have a Club I have called La Ola (means The Wave in Spanish) nothing fancy but I got a dance ball and a radio tuner anyone can control to switch stations and after oopsee was so kind to give me an awesome DJ Booth the Club is ready to host some events. Unfortunately my region can host only 10 persons. At this time I can't think of upgrading and paying 49 usd to be able to host more visitors, maybe in the future. But at the begin might be that there won't be necessary to be able to host more than 10.
I have a meeting/concert venue set up in Donnybrook Beach. It's called the Sunset Amphitheater, and is on Pier 22 facing the ocean. The stage is at the end of the pier and the 70 seats facing the stage are all facing out to sea (which is right behind the stage). Theoretically this should reduce lag for visitors. Sunset Amphitheater is set up more for concerts or meetings, but it could be turned into a club if desired. There is space behind the seats for a dance floor.
Donnybrook Beach is a grandfathered 4 region fixed price world that can host up to 100 avatars at a time at no additional cost to me. So I'm quite happy to host events on the world. In addition to Sunset Amphitheater, there are several restaurants scattered around the world that could serve as venues for scheduled or impromptu meetings/events if desired. I even have a circle of beach chairs arranged on the public beach in case anyone would like to have a get together on the beach.
The big advantage of the Sunset Amphitheater is that it resides on a separate land parcel belonging to a group. I can give event organizers access to the group so they can rez objects as needed for their event and/or control the parcel media for that parcel.
