Derai

4 hours ago, Lunarelf said:

it's sad to say... but it seems ppl are leaving this game now.

The player base has grown and shrunk a lot over the years.
People leaving now has another reason I think.
We saw a surge of new players from people stuck at home from the Covid Lockdowns.
Those are slowly being lifted in many places, so people are going out again. No need for an outlet like 3DX.

I would not worry to much about the number of players though.
Game's still vibrant and alive. Lack of updates notwithstanding.

24 minutes ago, Twiggy said:

Yep, I can imagine what those messages would say. "Not much done this week sorry, got to pissed while partying with all the money we are making from you guys.

 

No argument there lol

1 hour ago, Diana Prince said:

Assuming a product is not just vaporware, I would prefer an honest and open communication from the devs.

Something like a regular tweet every week or so. 

Here’s what we’re working on. 
Here’s our progress or lack of it. 
Etc. 

Even if it’s a message like “We haven’t done anything due to XYZ”

It would at least be communication. 

Found on Tumblr. 
This describes a bar I’d Love to visit and shake the staff’s hands for being awesome. 

No lofty thoughts today. 
No big dreams. 

Sometimes you got to stop and take a moment. 
Step outside, take a deep breath, close your eyes and just exist for a moment.

Just be.

Just listen, smell and feel the world around you.

No matter if you’re in a city, the countryside or wherever.

There is life all around you. 
Cherish it. 
Value it. 
Share it. 

Things will be okay. 

1 hour ago, JackPine said:

I get the sense you are not that worried~ 

Oh I’m worried alright. 
Worried I’ll make you skip work.

6 minutes ago, JackPine said:

I hope y'all don't mind, but I have extended my membership for another year (at least).  Guess I am not that easy to get rid of. 

Catch you soon in game!

Imagine having a friend. 
Imagine having them tell you they live in a specific area of the world. 
Imagine them telling you they have health issues. 
Imagine seeing the Pandemic ravage the geographic area this friend lives in. 
Imagine hearing the news and other friends report that it’s Really bad ‘there’.

Imagine your friend just going dark. 
Imagine their closest friends coming to you to ask if you heard anything. 
Imagine them telling you even their other social media going dark. 
Imagine resigning yourself to the fact that Death might have claimed yet another friend. 
 

Imagine nearly a year passing. 
Imagine suddenly getting a PM by a friend, “They’re back, as if nothing happened”

Imagine that...

6 minutes ago, Diana Prince said:

Yes, the testing of the poses is horrible right now. Wish we could do this inside the editor.

Kinda wish you could load Betty and Bob into the editor and onto pose markers huh?

1 hour ago, Diana Prince said:

I would love to invite e.g. my wife into the World Editor, so that we can build and decorate our rooms together.
Till now I'm using Twitch to stream when I'm in the WE and want her to see what I'm doing.

And you can't test a pose trigger inside the WE. Even not when using F6. You have to load the room outside WE, test the pose, load WE to make changes, load the room itself, test the pose, load the WE, and again and again

During the DLL days, you could open a room for Group and then go into Editor mode. The room would stay open, but any changes you made, only showed up for the visitors when they rejoined/reloaded the room. 
 

The visitors would not see you in the editor, but you could chat via group chat. 
And they could test poses for you while you stayed in editing mode to make adjustments. 
 

I used this method together with Cicely to fine tune some poses in a bar we had. 

52 minutes ago, Nektar said:

Ha! The guy sounds like a bit of a psycho "Come over to my death trap. Did i say death trap? I meant apartment! I'm a nice guy you fucking cunt!"

I swear the first part was basically a Girlfriend Application Interview. 
Him asking me stuff to get to know me, but basically shushing me whenever I said something he didn’t like. 
He got very salty about me calling 3DX a Game for instance. It wasn’t a game! It is a ‘chat service!’

I also told him straight up I wanted to be in public because I love the attention of my friends and eyes on me. 
He still got butthurt about me starting to dance to entertain my ‘viewers’

I made screenshots of his ‘tantrum’ to share with friends. They needed the laughs. 

4 minutes ago, alex9110 said:

Found a web with adult game reviews, and was curious to see what it said about 3dx... at the end there are pros and cons... and guess what...

 

"Rare fresh updates"... wonder why, lol

 

Kinda interesting, got a link to the full review by any chance?

Also. “Great friendly community” but also “A lot of Trolls” sounds about right mhm. Lol. 

Little note to memorialize a day today.
Just spent an afternoon verbally slapping around a 'Nice Guy' that called me an piece of trash, a cunt, and an asshole.
For the heinous crime of not falling over myself to 'connect' with him, and for not wanting to spend our first ever conversation in his apartment, but instead being in a public space among other friends of mine.

He was looking for something 'real' a real Girlfriend to Game with, and to connect with. He was such a Nice Guy and all the ladies he met on 3DX where Toxic Bitches for only wanting sex.

10 minutes ago, Nektar said:

Well, it finally happened. I got burned out from work and now I'm on sick leave for the next three weeks. I suck.

Aww hun. Hope you feel better soon. 
But in the mean time that means you have three weeks to unwind and recharge the old batteries huh?

Or more time to roam 3DX and leave a trail of spent and sated lovers behind. 
Up to you to decide. 
Just make the most of it luv. 

1 minute ago, Nektar said:

You can only be in so many places at once, Derai, and only divide your attention between a finite number of people at a time. I've experienced what you're describing, and yeah it's never fun to feel like you're neglecting someone in favor of someone else, but at the end of it all that's the choice we have to make. You shouldn't feel guilty about it.

I try to mitigate this somewhat by scheduling "dates" with my friends, so that I keep in touch with them. It sounds rigid when put like that, but it's more like "hey, can we hang out tomorrow?" and not "I have a time slot between 8 and 9 PM where I can fit you in."

Only thing I don't really do is try and invite friends to meet each other. I just get the feeling that some of my different friends wouldn't play well together, so I don't extend invites. I will usually accept an invite though, unless I'm occupied.

You make some good points Nek, thanks. 
I do the exact opposite as you in regards to inviting my friends to meet friends though. 
 

I kind of don’t want to have friends that dislike each other. 
My view on that is that if one of my friends has viewpoints or habits that upset other friends of mine. Either the habits and viewpoints are to extreme. Or the upset one is just narrow minded. 
In either case it would make Me reevaluate the friendship. 
 

I must add that this only applies in very rare situations and often involves the more divisive aspects of life. Eg political views and the like. 

Sometimes it is hard to be friends with someone who is introverted. 

Recently during my wandering in 3DX got a PM from a person I had hooked up with months before. 
Just a quick encounter back then, and I just moved on. 

Seems that person didn’t forget about that and poked me when they saw me again. 
We hung out a bit and friended each other. 
All pretty straight forward so far.

However the wrinkles appear when I was hanging out somewhere and bunch of my friends showed up, surrounding me and letting me bask and indulge myself with dancing for them and having all eyes and attention on me. Feeding my narcissistic tendencies and letting me entertain them.

My ‘new’ friend asking me what I was doing via PM and me inviting them over, only for them to practically shut down because they can’t handle groups. 

The true issue revealing itself in the days after when they log on each day. And ask if I’m doing something, and sounding low key disappointed when I say I’m with people or in a friend’s party room. 
 

Bluntly speaking, at times I feel like a bad person for not spending time with them. 
But on the other hand, I don’t owe them anything. 
If I hang out with this person one on one, my other friends could be justified in missing me. Right?

Or am I as always, overthinking things?

Anyway. Just a thought.
 

Stay safe out there! 

30 minutes ago, Lunarelf said:

such like dancing or walking etc, they just purchased some finished animations

This is very obvious. ALL of the early dances are lifted straight out of Mass Effect. Or from the same place they got them. 

10 minutes ago, Twiggy said:

This forum gets about 2,000 visits a day, yes most don't participate but I think it does have a lot more influence than you think.

You have a good point. 
I went of of the posting folks. Failed to consider the silent readers. 
Point conceded. 

8 minutes ago, Twiggy said:

I agree, some of the people who complain do go overboard and get really insulting. But also some of the people complaining about the people complaining get very insulting and disrespectful as well. Often to people who don't deserve it.

Very true. 
There is another element to consider too. 
We here talking about it on the forums are just a loud minority of the total player base. 
 

Even if all of us packed up and left. It would just be a drop in the bucket revenue wise. 
 

I agree that we have every right to complain. 
About the lack of updates. 
Lack of communication. 
And lack of explanation about the reasons Why we are left hanging. 
 

That’s our right as paying consumers to complain and ask for clarification from the content provider. 
 

I do feel however that we as customers have to stay respectful. 
Just a common decency really. 
 

Just my thoughts on it. 

5 hours ago, Anaganda said:

But truth of the matter is 3dx is a home made game that's maintained by one developer and his sidekick... And we have to dream according to that. 

3DX is in essence, a very polished Indie Game.
There is no 'Studio' developing this, it's the equivalent of one person running it from their garage.
Or so it appears.
We should be happy that the game exists at all, and not jinx it by being to demanding or Toxic(Looking at some here, you know who you are.)
If a vocal minority annoys the Devs so much that they decide to say 'fuck it' and close it all, there's nothing we can do.
In any way.

13 hours ago, DJ KACEY said:

Because I'm sick and tired of the same pose over and over it's like there's no new pose or dance

Welcome to 3DX, you must be new. 
Seriously though. We’re all waiting. 

Source: Insomnia-dot-ink on Tumblr. 

3 minutes ago, Silvio said:

Ohhh you are in many places...

I’m like a butterfly, wandering from place to place. Looking for the sweetest fun I’m in the mood for at that time.