Feuermond

On 6/7/2023 at 1:38 PM, Feuermond said:

Dear @Gizmo,

Regarding your statement on the beta bug fixes for build 450, see https://3dxforum.com/index.php?/topic/15207-3dxchat-30-beta/&do=findComment&comment=448827 I now have some criticism, respective review . Well, I think you might have expected this.

I think we all highly appriciate you are fixing the beta bugs. But I think you ran a bit out of focus, so:

• Instead of adding new material for clothes and tattoos, please first transform all clothes to the new material system. There is still not any pair of panties in the new material system for women! Also please give women gloves, you did it for men, so please do so for female avatars too.
• Instead of new materials in the world editor you should fix the editor crashes, espically reported for room loading in the beta! I personally offered you help by providing a world file that causes the crash on different hardware.
• We are waiting badly for bug fixes of the bugs which have been already addressed before the beta, all the avatar dislocations, the broken f/f slwodance out of Idle 5, the awful female breast physics, to get them now finally fixed after years, just like you announced it in this developer blog 2 and in your tweet from December 2022!

Regards
Moon, CEO of Virtual Secrets.

 

FYI:

Lately @Gizmo continues to talk with me. He asked for procedures to reproduce issues and for assistance on the disconnect issue. For sure I support as good as possible, I want a flawless user experience finally with 3DXChat.

I think we all want the bugs to get fixed and maybe some bugs will never get fixed but I was informed about a concrete successful bugfix which, I think, will be included in the next 3DXChat beta 3.0 update. (Please do not ask which bug. I was informed in private messages and not authorized to publish anything which means I leave this absolutely the business of SGD to publish their changes in the software.)

It might not be 100 % of what we want but for sure in contrast to former times, SGD is now working on problems. For now, not forever but for now, that’s a from me.

Welcome @Varz,

I think the majority welcomes and appreciates your aims and goals for better and open communication with the community. There is much to be improved but I also believe it is possible. I am looking forward to read more form you and will look for the according communication channels.

Kind regards
Moon

Dear @Gizmo,

Regarding your statement on the beta bug fixes for build 450, see https://3dxforum.com/index.php?/topic/15207-3dxchat-30-beta/&do=findComment&comment=448827 I now have some criticism, respective review . Well, I think you might have expected this.

I think we all highly appriciate you are fixing the beta bugs. But I think you ran a bit out of focus, so:

• Instead of adding new material for clothes and tattoos, please first transform all clothes to the new material system. There is still not any pair of panties in the new material system for women! Also please give women gloves, you did it for men, so please do so for female avatars too.
• Instead of new materials in the world editor you should fix the editor crashes, espically reported for room loading in the beta! I personally offered you help by providing a world file that causes the crash on different hardware.
• We are waiting badly for bug fixes of the bugs which have been already addressed before the beta, all the avatar dislocations, the broken f/f slwodance out of Idle 5, the awful female breast physics, to get them now finally fixed after years, just like you announced it in this developer blog 2 and in your tweet from December 2022!

Regards
Moon, CEO of Virtual Secrets.

Okay @Paulinus ,

I have some guesses for you for I think the problem is caused by improper memory management within the editor. You can do nothing about it, that's completly up to SexGameDevil, but I have some hints which could help you to get it working anyway:

• Before you merge, end 3DXChat and re-start.
• Close as many other programs as possible. If you need Word running or a browser, close as man documens/tabes as possible.
• Restarting your computer and then straigt forward, whithout doing other thing, trying to merge your room might be of help too.

The effect of these hints is to minimize the chance the editor tries to write into already reserved memory for keeping as much memory unused as possible.

22 hours ago, Stronos said:

This is my only comment:

Gold transfer will break the community 

Also, 10% fee on the transfer?!? A Mafia Boss would make u a better deal! 

I am not exactly the biggest fan of SexGameDevil and what they promise and what they do, or better do not, Gizmo can tell you, but even less I am fan of trolling, so with this you will get three answers in one if you do not change your style, the first one, the only one and the last one:

As long as you do not explain why it will break the community it is as good as my words: Gold tranfer will support the community for the better! So, you are wrong, sorry.

A mafia boss would request 10 % every day after the transfer. Again you are simply wrong.

15 hours ago, Diana Prince said:

maybe the servers are not resilient enough against packet loss. If your ISP is not "good" enough and a few packets are lost, that might disrupt the connection.
But that's just my theory. When I had that problem with uploading rooms a couple years ago, a VPN helped.
So my room was the same, the server was the same, the only difference was the path that the internet connection went through...

This would mean a constant change of the package loss rate on different routes, because my experience is at time it works better with VPN at other times not.

2 indications for overacting DDoS protection for me are:

1. At times it seems a disconnect-wave runs around, several users are affected at the same time but not all. When they are back to stable, other face the disconnect issue. For me this looks like a system and the only explanation I have so far is DDoS fighting.
2. At times I do not face a disconnect but a “Connection refused” red box. Trying the same IP again most often works. Seems like a typical repeat test: If the contact is tried again it is okay, if not it was an attack. It also appears the IP does not work at all but the next day all is fine again.

9 hours ago, Diana Prince said:

My biggest room with 14 MB is loading fine in the beta. What you can try is: use a VPN and see if this makes a difference.
A couple years ago I had a similiar problem that I couldn't "upload" some rooms. Using a VPN did help.

I wonder what the root cause is for these problems. I do not believe that's always some internet censorship or net outages. I more think the DDoS protection overacts every now an then ob spefic IP blocks or ports.

4 hours ago, SerenityWillow said:

I am pretty sure the devs added the commission aspect so they can monitor all xgold transactions and will be able to see who is abusing it, and then take appropriate actions.

So let's just see how it works out before making assumptions that may or may not be accurate. 

If you control the system you would not need to add comissions and checkboxes or anything to monitor something, you can simply log it. I think the comission is more to let us think twice before we use the functionality, to keep the business of selling XGold for money and it is a way to reduce the amount of XGold in 3DXChat, a kind of deflation.

16 hours ago, Xaufin said:

Sending XGold

This is a great feature to enable, but people might try to sell their XGold to other players for RL monetary transactions. It is against the Rules/ToS, but will you remind people of this or take extra steps to monitor those attempts?

I think this will not become a big problem. See:

You can collect up to 300 XGold per day. This will be 300 x 365 XGold per year = 109,500 XGold. You can collect this per account and one account is, let's say, about 50 USD per year. So:

Ingame 109,500 XGold are 50 USD.

On the other hand:

Buying 100,000 XGold is about 90 USD.

So selling your own gold is somewhere between 50 and 90 USD, below 50 you have an own loss, over 90 there will be no buyer, it is cheaper to get it directly from 3DXChat. In the end, as seller, you can win around 40 USD per year and account, not that much. If you want to earn 400 USD per year you need to have 10 accounts first, 500 USD and then you need to login with each account every 24 h hours. Quite an effort if you cannot be sure anybody will buy the XGold.

(Please note my figures are reasonable rounded, not exact, to make the math a bit easier and better to understand.)

Dear @Gizmo,

it was long time from "almost finished" to now, but I admit after all criticism you have done it in a reasonable time: December to May is not that bad. Thank you for that.

See you in times of more criticism but for now thank you for having the job done you promised.

On 5/10/2023 at 9:37 PM, Akeli said:

4 months after your presentation still not on the official server... should I be surprised. I do not think so 

Right, it is the usual: Some simple updates with even more and never fixed bugs around Christmas, little statements around Easter and then nothing except marketing which can bring more users and more money.

Well, they obviously they earn enought money, so why change it? It's frustrating for us, but not for them.

On 5/5/2023 at 10:28 AM, Bigbadpoppaj said:

I do get the frustration and all that. We all paid money for this better communication is needed for this. I absolutely agree. But we do need to remember. This isn't some AAA studio company. It's not like activision working on it. Hell Activision makes millions and they still put out products with tons of bugs in them. I can only imagine companies with a small dev team working on the project. Just something to keep in mind about it all. 

Then they should better stop to promise things they do not keep! I do no way accept any further excuses of not fixed major bugs since years! Even if it is not an AAA company, there is no excuse of having done nothing on major bugs that are reported since years!

On 2/24/2023 at 2:58 PM, Gizmo said:

I will not comment on the pose editor at this time. The time has not yet come.

I understand what you mean by "there was a new clothing system, with for instance adjustable length of pants". Our research on this system has been put on hold due to higher priorities. We may revisit the idea later. But there is no development in that direction at the moment.

Dear @Gizmo,

let me see if I get this right: The poll for the pose editor was on March, 24th in 2018, 5 years ago and now it is still too early to speak about it? Over a year later, on Septemer, 1st in 2019 you still wrote about this feature and suddenly it is too early? Really that?

Poll for the pose editor: https://3dxforum.com/index.php?/topic/6540-pose-editor/

Mentioning of the pose editor again: https://3dxforum.com/index.php?/topic/9070-what-is-ghost-partner-from-mods/&do=findComment&comment=351842

Instead of getting the pose editor done, we suddenly have been informed about work on customizable clothes is in progress and we would be kept updated. This was on June, 15th in 2019. Without any notice we never heard of it again until now, then you suddenly mention some vague higher priorities that stopped the work. Only after more than 3 years some vague statement? Again: Really that?

Work in progress:
https://3dxforum.com/index.php?/topic/8234-upcoming-updates-2019/#comment-344665

I am sorry, but this all looks like Xaufin is correct: There have been some enthusiastic statements but than you found it all beyond your possibilities and skills but instead to say "sorry, I cannot do it" we hear some vague words about "time not come yet" and "higher priorities" after years. Explicit not answering does not change the fact these features have been mentioned and we never got any status information.

Xaufin and your reply: https://3dxforum.com/index.php?/blogs/entry/1-3dxchat-development-update-1/&do=findComment&comment=40
 

On December, 22th 2022 you informed about holidays but then work on bugfixes. Well okay, we all have holidays. But on February, 24th 2023 you already wrote in your answer for me, the Unity engine upgrade was almost done. Almost done in just 2 month, great! But now in May, again 2 month later all is suddenly back to the normal silence, no more information, not any visible outcome. I really would expect, when after 2 monthe something is nearly done, that after 4 month there is an visible result r information.

Twitter about bug fixes: https://twitter.com/3dxchat/status/1605856184002437121
Answer stating Unity engine update almost done: https://3dxforum.com/index.php?/blogs/entry/1-3dxchat-development-update-1/&do=findComment&comment=39

Maybe this helps you to understand why the reliability of your company is not given anymore: Again we are left alone without any reasonable news about when the update will come, again we are left alone with all the bugs which make virtual community living in 3DXChat more and more impossible and leave the field to the ones who just need some quick animation for masturbation. - Maybe this is all you need for your income but the social users paid too and they got promises of an update with bug fixes which means they payed for what you promised, bug fixes as well as features! But it is all back to silence now. Why? I assume you ran into trouble an the bug fixes are hard, because of the given structure of the software but anyway, they have been promised. So, when after 2 month there was the developer blog, why is there no more information after next 2 month?

Moon, CEO of the magazine Virtual Secrets about 3DXChat

7 hours ago, Gizmo said:

I will not comment on the pose editor at this time. The time has not yet come.

I understand what you mean by "there was a new clothing system, with for instance adjustable length of pants". Our research on this system has been put on hold due to higher priorities. We may revisit the idea later. But there is no development in that direction at the moment.

Thank you for your questions. I am happy to answer them.

1. The migration to the new version of the Unity engine is almost complete. As I said, some systems were broken due to incompatibilities, and we had to fix everything. The beer-drinking system was utterly broken, and we could either remove it from the game entirely or rebuild it from scratch. We chose the latter and rebuilt the system from scratch, improving and expanding it considerably. It is much closer to our original idea of a food and drink system in the game.
2. The top 3 features that players are asking for are "Additional Sex Poses", "Avatar setting improvements", "Additional Clothes". We plan to add all of these as we develop.
3. We will happily share the survey results with the community as soon as all the results have been finalized. NoirDesire, as the organizer of this independent survey, is kindly helping us to process the results. We appreciate and thank her for her help. So let's be patient and respect her work and time. As soon as the results are ready, we will publish them.
   Our initiative was to set up a food and drink consumption system. As the authors and owners of the 3DXChat project, we wanted to add such mechanics to the game. We hope this new mechanic will be to the liking of most players. I would like to mention the players' idea to have the deducted funds from buying food and drinks go to the host room account. It's an exciting idea, and we'll probably revisit it.
4. The top 3 bugs are "Sync Bug", "Naked/Bald Avatar", "Disconnections"
   Also, about 90% of the bugs are related to the networking part of the codebase. We have a lot of work to do on refactoring and improving the network part. This will allow us to get rid of 90% of the bugs.
5. We are planning to switch all clothes to the new material system. It will take some time to do this.
   Why did we decide to move to a new version of the Unity engine first? First of all, the current 2018 version of the engine is already outdated. Secondly, we want to develop the game using all the new engine's features. Finally, Unity has fixed many bugs and optimized the engine. Players will be able to use a more stable client while we work on the network bugs.
   The transition to the new Unity is a necessary step and an essential preparation for the next significant bug-fixing effort.

Dear @Gizmo, I appreciate to get this answer. It does not exactly hit all of my points, but at least some, thank you. I will forward your answer also to my Discord server internal blog.

Regards
Moon, CEO of Virtual Secrets

17 minutes ago, KayliMoon said:

I agree. We don't need a list saying who's in the room. I already have to deal with stalkers sometimes that somehow can track alts attached to your account. I can't even go to an alt without same people bothering me sometimes. I don't need people checking rooms for me too.

I am really tired of people not accepting the inquires of others. I suggest you read the following and then answer the question why there should be a reason why long term players should not look with very skeptical eyes on what is announced, where are these features? They are not in sight:

Dear @Gizmo,

This all sounds reasonable and like being on a good way, that's out of question.

Anyway, my concerns if we ever see some of the improvements in the near future are high as ever. I think you are aware of the long ago pose editor survey and that there was a new clothing system, with for instance adjustable length of pants, which was never mentioned again. If needed I can provide links or screens, it was here in the 3DXChat forum.

So without a concrete roadmap I am afraid I am reading just another declaration of intent. I am sorry to say so, because I think in the end you all are of goodwill and I have plausible guesses why features have not been implemented and these would be reasons I understand very well, but the communication still lacks and therefore my doubts stay.

So I kindly would like to ask some question, please:

1. When do you expect the migration to the newer version of the unity engine to be finished?
2. What are the main feature people asked for and which of them do you plan to implement and when?
3. Did the users really asked for drinks and food consumption, the feature you propagate in this blog entry? Can you please publish the resulst of the survey? Of course some whishes are dreams and you cannot fullfill them but anyway it would be very interesting to see them.
4. Which have been the most reported bugs and which ones will be fixed? It does not really help with the existing, at times really annoying bugs, when bugs caused by the migration to the newer unity version are reported to be fixed. What is with the bugs reported for the current system, please?
5. Why is the development not forked regarding to continue to upgrade all clothes to the new material system? Female avatars still stay without any customizable panties.

Kind regards
Moon, CEO of the Magazine Virtual Secrets