SL International Business

First, you might wonder tag “from Tyrian’s Desk”, what is it for?
Well, this tag will be used for my “random thoughts” and opinions …

So let’s get on with it!

Second Life has been having a lot of problems lately, well, yesterday and today.
They did yet another maintenance downtime, to upgrade to 1.15 YAY!
Ok, the client had some nice updates, like shadowing with texts etc. But after that, SL has been mostly laggy,
or issues with very important things like Logins and Land Sales…
Oh come on! I know they are having scaling issues, but shouldn’t they limit how many is online or something finally, add throttling god damnit!

Currently land sales are down, and i was in middle of doing transferring Mainostaulu parcels from group to another, now i’m just stting idle waiting … for miracles to happen.
For the last 1-1½hours i’ve been trying to transfer these parcels, but i have gotten only a few transferred due to SL issues…

And that’s not all, i might have today loosed a GOOD land deal due to Sim crashing, just after today’s downtime.
We are talking about roughly 8k L$ of profit from that one… Now it’s probably a missed sale gawdh!

LL could do SO much more to get more cash rolling in  and make SL more enjoyable, but we are currently just ridiculed with these problems.

How about if they’d add Moneybookers and Neteller as payment methods … And yet again would money be rolling in!
Now also, if they’d bring in to the DBs more hardware on the lines, and what pieces functions as web services, using LigHttpd or something similar to get more juice out of them, and load balancers, be gone would be issues with them.

Instead, what are they doing? Pushing more and more and more sims into the grid, basicly making many realtor’s lifes hard, trying to get land sold, they do make a killing tho, but this fast pace just might not be good for the overall economy. Yes, land prices could be less, but what is a big factor keeping them up?
Nope, it’s not demand vs. supply which i’m talking about, what they think keeps them up. It’s tiers, yes LL is making a killing on them also, hardware is paid upfront and then tiers are way more than a server’s upkeep costs.

In my opinion, land prices in SL are bound to be at around 20-25L$/sqm naturally as it currently is, due to tier costs. a small piece, 4k sqm costs 200USD, well not anymore, more like 150USD now, but still, it’s very costly …
Tiers down, and we would have natural drop in land prices.
How could it be done to keep profit margins the same?

Best possible price vs. performance vs. electricity consumption vs. MTBF time hardware, “not the fastest & most reliable” … Besides, you can from open markets acquire an killer server, without any discounts, for ~200USD. Yes,  with that money you can get an Dual Core Xeon, with 2Gb of ECC Ram and 100Mbps connection

**** SLIB Advisory SLIB-003: NN Bank, going under? ****

This time it’s a really short Advisory.
I’ve been watching NN Bank lately, after their ATM became very luggish and slow. A month or so now.
I withdrew all SLIB funds from there weeks ago. Never had there more than 8,000L$ because i never
trusted them.

Thing is: I don’t see their ATMs in many locations, Search results only go to group and one Gold Rush casino location.

After they lowered their interest to half, i haven’t heard much of them.

Group shows no new notices, no new proposals.
Group chat, yesterday somebody was wondering where the ATM is.

On their only ATM location, Terra 19, 34, 22 parcel name has been erased, and i don’t see people there
about anytime anymore.
<a href=”http://slurl.com/secondlife/Terra/19/35/22″ target=”_blank”>NN Bank ATM - NN Dez!gn, Terra (19, 34, 22)</a>

Parcel description: Description removed : Please see blog post Advertising
Blog posting: http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/04/05/advertising-policy-changes/

Nonnux White has last time been online 10th of March according to group info!
a Running scammer? Might be, we will not know for sure for a little while yet.

All this leads to conclusion: Probably gone under/bankruptcy lurking OR
a Running Scammer. With the very sligh possibility of that NN has everything
running smooth inworld and interest generated offworld. But how likely? 0.01%?

** My Opinion: ### Running Scammer ###.

PS. Notecard is updated way too often also …

SL Investor’s Bank Weekly Report
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Sorry for being day late, yesterday i tried to send a notice with the main figures, but SL was lagging.
I had yesterday for the whole day a major headache, so at that point i decided just to go into bed,
SL lagging so bad that i couldn’t teleport, save notecard nor send a notice… Great!

And that lag happens about EVERY night.

Anyways, here it is, by yesterday’s figures.

Also, i decided to make blog public even tho i didn’t put it on the shape i wanted to:
http://blog.sl-investors-bank.com
It’s been there for sometime now, but unused as i was planning on putting there a good
layout, few plugins etc. But i’ve been just too busy for that.

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Mainostaulu advertising network

It’s up and running, and showing campaigns!

Weighting algorithm is heavily being changed still, but i’m expecting to get it in a good
shape by next week. Currently it doesn’t account in maxtime, and i want to add a slowing
option, so i can put spillover advertising on the network

Spillover means: when there’s little campaigns, show these Those will be SLIB adverts
mainly.

With first advertiser it ended up badly, because advertiser didn’t understand the terms:
http://blog.sl-investors-bank.com/2007/04/11/this-is-what-happens-when-advertiser-doesnt-understand-the-terms/

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Financial stats

Last week i said growth was amazing, well… Now it’s time to say STUNNING, simply
STUNNING!
Last week there was client funds roughly 537k L$, now there’s 1 726k L$!
That is growth to over 3 times :O
Last week, i also said that liquid funds were at all time high, well i’m about to say it again,
liquid funds are in all time High Of 591,666.12L$

WSE Portfolio value: 439,875.47L$
Land holdings total: 70,240sqm (+53,296sqm)
Land holdings approximate value: 929,731.08L$
Land holdings immediate liquidification value: 828,832.00L$L$ (11.8L$/sqm)
Difference of actual and immediate liquidification: 100,899.08L$
Mortgages value: 10,300L$
Total assets: 2,017,617.67L$
Total accounts funds: 1,726,595.09L$
Bottomline profit: 283 982,58L$ (+72,579.36L$)
Bottomline profit with immediate liquidation: 183 083,50L$ (+10,012.86L$)

If there are more financial stats you would like to know, IM Tyrian Camilo and let’s see if these could be arranged for you.

This is what happened with first advertiser with Mainostaulu network.

He bought with 200L$, 100L$ to each campaign, wanted 50L$ time-unit bid, i gave him a lot of bonus as early adopter. So, he had 2 campaigns, with both having a weight of second highest.

This is the actual conversation after which i muted him, altho this results to triple checking the credits accounting portion of the system.

[2:05] Tyrian Camilo: Hi
[2:06] Tyrian Camilo: Your campaign has already been displayer for tens worth of L$
[2:06] Tyrian Camilo: i’m assuming it will last approximately 3days more with the current bid
[2:06] Tyrian Camilo: tho, there is now about 60 locations
[2:06] Advertiser: really?
[2:06] Tyrian Camilo: 50-60
[2:06] Tyrian Camilo: Yeap
[2:06] Tyrian Camilo: i’ll give you more details
[2:06] Tyrian Camilo: i’m hoping to do some metrics today
[2:07] Advertiser: then i guess its a jip…i thought i had bought two months.
[2:07] Advertiser: but i knew it was a scam.
[2:07] Tyrian Camilo: Anastacia 1, Bid 50, Credits 93.150L$, Weight 223
[2:07] Advertiser: but its cool
[2:07] Advertiser: you live you learn.
[2:07] Advertiser: lates.
[2:07] Tyrian Camilo: Anastacia 2, Bid 50, Credits 64.844L$, Weight 216
[2:07] Tyrian Camilo: WtF?
[2:07] Tyrian Camilo: I explained you in detail how it works
[2:08] Tyrian Camilo: So don’t call it scam
[2:08] Advertiser: its a scam…you said two months…
[2:08] Tyrian Camilo: 2 Months of Airing time DOES NOT EQUAL 2 Months on ALL Billboards
[2:08] Tyrian Camilo: It means 2 Months of Total Airing Time
[2:08] Advertiser: then its a scam…what good is to show the ad ones in all the screens?
[2:09] Tyrian Camilo: They are rotated, chosen randomly by weight
[2:09] Advertiser: its okay..T you run your scam your way…
[2:09] Tyrian Camilo: i explained to you in detail
[2:09] Advertiser: yeah two months is what i paid for…
[2:09] Tyrian Camilo: Actually you paid for the current bid to have a total of 4 Months airing time
[2:09] Tyrian Camilo: 1/4 of it has been shown already, you are suspecting a bug in the system?
[2:09] Advertiser: not 3 days on 60 screens…but like i said your scam your rules…its cool.
[2:10] Tyrian Camilo: You wanted high weight
[2:10] Tyrian Camilo: I gave you high weight
[2:10] Tyrian Camilo: minimum price is 35L$/1 Month of airing time (Time-unit)
[2:10] Tyrian Camilo: you wanted 50L$, which is on the high end
[2:10] Advertiser: i wanted an ad that would run for two months a few times a day… maybe i understood wrong,,since its a scam.
[2:11] Tyrian Camilo: 22 boards are currently showing your advertising
[2:11] Tyrian Camilo: Scam is where you are being fooled out of your money, without giving any return
[2:11] Advertiser: and still i have not sold one magazine because of it……
[2:11] Tyrian Camilo: You should of have said straight in the beginning that you don’t want 50L$ bid, but long running time
[2:12] Tyrian Camilo: i’m now lowering your bid
[2:12] Advertiser: i sold more on my own…its cool. like i said your scam your rules. bankers.
[2:12] Tyrian Camilo: Not a scam, a service. My rules, Yes they are, and made for the best of everyone
[2:13] Advertiser: scam….you said two months. 2 months.
[2:13] Tyrian Camilo: i’m also lowering max time to 30 minutes per showing
[2:14] Tyrian Camilo: that means –> your ad will be shown less, the campaign runs for longer
[2:14] Advertiser: the best for you…you say two months and the ad runs a few times on 60 machines and the ad had run out of time…
[2:14] Tyrian Camilo: It’s not out of time
[2:14] Advertiser: but don´t worry about it. pull the ads if you want to.
[2:14] Tyrian Camilo: remember, you paid for 200L$, i gave you a lot of extra due to early adopting and possible bug, from your budget not much has been spent
[2:14] Tyrian Camilo: I’m not pulling them because you paid for them
[2:15] Advertiser: Tyrian Camilo: Your campaign has already been displayer for tens worth of L$ Tyrian Camilo: i’m assuming it will last approximately 3days more with the current bid then what does this mean?
[2:15] Tyrian Camilo: ok, both have now ~92L$, you paid for 100L$ on each, meaning total of ~16L$ spent on the last day, even tho you have getting a lot mor eworth of advertising.
[2:16] Advertiser: it will last 3 days more? how can 3 days more = 2 months?
[2:16] Tyrian Camilo: This converstation is now over, please enjoy your campaign, but do not ask for a new one.
[2:16] Tyrian Camilo: If you do not understand plain english, it is not my problem.
[2:16] Advertiser: scamer.
[2:16] Tyrian Camilo: I explained how the billing works.
[2:16] Advertiser: you said the conversation was over….sacmer.
[2:17] Tyrian Camilo: Now the campaigns should last for a lot longer. You have already gotten approximately 2 months worth of airing time. Be happy.
[2:17] Advertiser: what ever scamer.

(A rough miscalculation there, 1½months of airing time already).

Well, finally my headache is gone, and SL isn’t lagging, i’ll get working on the weekly report.