@2manychoices

On the Scratchcard Game window it clearly says CAN

Thanks @Yuufa. I didn't read the actual card.

As per the forum announcement:

PLUS
Scratch the 'Bonus' box and discover if you have won 1, 2, 5, 10 or 20 free credits!

im with @Number6 on this, "IF" you have won something (1, 2, 5, 10 or 20 free credits), with the alterative too wining something being winnng. But, i also give concession that it should directly say "...Or nothing"

However on the actual card you scratch it states definitively "You CAN win 1 5 etc credits"

It says:

2/ SCRATCH some Scratch cardsS and win up to 100 credits, one card or a special event card PLUS 1 to 20 FREE credits from the "Bonus" box!

Yes, there's no such statement as "You CAN win", but if we go this way, someone could say:

I should ALWAYS win up to 100 credits OR one card OR special event card, because the sentence doesn't say that "I CAN win". This sentence says "I win".

Well as someone who has just joined the VR Brigade all I can say is that the girls look stunning. It is so up close and personal you can really appreciate how beautiful (and sexy) they really are.

I am working my way through the back catalogue at the momnent.

Jia Lissa was the first one - absolutely stunning words cannot describe how gorgeous and sensual she is.

Liya Silver - those who ***** about the tattoo cannot seem to appreciate how beautiful it is and how well executed. Up closes it really emphasises her lovely breasts. The rest of her is gorgeous as well

Li Moon - another one who is stuningly beautiful and she appears to be much smaller than she looks on her cards. I guess that is due to the way the cards are fillmed.

I am looking forward to getting the rest of the available VR shows over the next few days and hope there will be many more in the future.

Slots i found personally not worth it. the scratch game for me was

@Number6 Sorry, but there is no "Can" stated. Its under the Plus heading; which is separate from the rest; but I can see how you could read it differently.

Question: does purchase of Advent Calender give boost to Reward bar? Or does nothing about it? Thanks

No, it doesn't. I bought advent calendar after the Black Friday promo started and my progress bar stays in the same place.

To be honest this would have been a little unfair to those of us who bought the Calender before the Black Friday event.

@2manychoices

It actually says "You CAN win 1...20 additional credits"

To me the "CAN" implies that you may not win everytime i.e. a Bonus of 0 which is why I wasn't concerned when I got some of these.

It is a matter of interpretation. I see it one way and you see it another. The team will doubtless clarify this tomorrow.

@Number6 It clearly says on the Black Friday 2019 page under the scratch game. Scratch the 'bonus' box and discover if you have won 1, 2, 5, 10 or 20 free credits. Too me, that says you should win one of those amounts; not 0 credits or one of those amounts.

No, it doesn't. I bought advent calendar after the Black Friday promo started and my progress bar stays in the same place.

Question: does purchase of Advent Calender give boost to Reward bar? Or does nothing about it? Thanks

@2manychoices

I think this is the way it is supposed to work. You don't get a bonus every time.

I had several of these when I was playing.

I am not getting any credits on the bonus of the scratch game. Last 2 times it said 0 credits on the bonus.

I'm not sure if it's due to the black friday specials, or if this is just new some development, but it looks like the $15USD reload is gone? Did i miss some update on this or...?

It's probably due to the 1100 credit option this week for Black Friday week. Will probably return next week.

I'm not sure if it's due to the black friday specials, or if this is just new some development, but it looks like the $15USD reload is gone? Did i miss some update on this or...?

@Celine : this is a firework of offers, this is not a Casino, this is the whole Las Vegas strip this time 😋

Well all I can say is that I am well pleased.

I was worried that this would be the same as last Black Friday. Because two of the games/offers failed last year and I could only get stars from reloads I ended up ***** in 2 hour shifts to make sure I didn't miss any reload events. This year because i have to be out most of Saturday (sister's annual Xmas *****) I was worried I would miss out on the Jia Lissa SEC.

So after scratching 100 cards I have Jia Lissa's Card and a Joker Card for a net outlay of around 50 credits.

I did waste a number of 5 credit spins on the slot machine but to be honest it is pointless for me as I can only win credits and the Progressive packs has nothing for me (I have all the cards).

To be honest although it is still gambling you do know that after 50 scratchcards you will get the Jia Lissa SEC and after 100 scratchcards you will get the Joker Card. The main gamble is will you win enough credits to cover most of your costs.

I have also done a credit reload and essentially earned 320 credits which has covered my credit expenditure today and also "paid" for my Advent Calender.

Thank you Totem - at least I can relax and enjoy myself this weekend.

Is there a chance to scratch the older special event cards as in the past? I missed Sky last time. Neverming read Dfner's post time to scratch that itch and reach for the Sky...Blue that is

Will there be any other offers this week?

@Dfner the bank always wins... please send thank you and kisses to all other players who lost for you to win 😋

@Number6 Good that you have chosen Eva Sugar. She is my Number1 and my favorite window cleaner. She should clean my dirty windows, since I'm too lazy to do that. I would pay her very well.

@TheEmu Thank you for your candor.

Also I have it on good authority that Alyssai does reasonable rates for businesses - especially over Christmas.😎

@PascalsWager - No, for me the Special Event cards add little or nothing to the iStripper experience - they end up being just a very small number of very ordinary cards. I would have prefered it if they gad never exusted and I would prefer it if their were no explicit gambling games. As far as the advent calendar is concerned your question does not apply to me as I have always bought them as soon as they are offered because I currently buy all of the cards each month therefore the extra card is just one more that I get "for free" and, having cost me nothing, is has always been "worth it". For those that do not normally buy all of a month's cards the situation will be very different ranging from it being a cheap card to a very expensive card if they do decide to go for it.

I have Eva Sugar, Alyssia Kent and Lena Reif doing mine😎

@TheEmu Thanks for listening to me. Real questions, though I think I'm catching the answer subtextually: Do you think the Special Events Cards contribute to the iStripper experience or to the community? Has there been an Advent Calendar you bought on the last day of the window where you felt like you were getting a "good" deal?

though I could point out that buying 24 cards sight unseen to get one I want is tantamount to gambling

That is correct, but as the description of the Advent Calendar says (and has been pointed out in a few posts) you do not have to buy the cards "sight unseen" as you can wait until the last day to buy it, at which time you will know exactly what cards you are buying.

So what happens when you reach Jia Lissa's special event card in the ticket meter if you already have it (from a lucky scratch game)? You instead get nothing, or a ticket, or something else?

@TheEmu You're correct.My logic isn't perfectly transitive, though I could point out that buying 24 cards sight unseen to get one I want is tantamount to gambling. Both the gambling and the Advent calendar are completely transparent psychological *****, and the SECs are at the core. The SECs are the lure to incentivize purchases of things less desirable than the SEC. And a large piece of the SEC's desirability is precisely because it's been made (more) difficult/expensive to acquire, by design.

I'm not participating, not out of some logically inconsistent "morality" but simply because the only vote I have is my money. I've spent 0 credits trying to attain an SEC card and never will. It's a collective action problem. A prisoners dilemma. No subscriber would prefer a situation that makes it more difficult to buy a card than not. But as long as people continue to buy gated cards, the situation won't change.

@stevnev1 Just a different gamble. In this case it would be how many of those 24 cards I didn't want in the first place. Given that I've currently purchased 2023/4340 cards, we could guess I wouldn't like at least 12 of them on average. So the pre-order definitely involves paying money for an unknown outcome.

@PascalsWager - I am sure that you do indeed have a valid argument, but I still do not see it. You still seem to be objecting to the existance of a non-gambling alternative as if having this alternative was worse, or at least no better, than just having the gambling version. I quite understand the objection to SEC cards in general, and to having them as rewards for gambling - but I can see no reason why any of this affects the morality of buying the Advent Calendar (other than an imagined connection that seems to exist only in your head).

@TheEmu Yes, all things could be bought with the Joker but why? There's only one thing with scarcity value, the SE cards. That value is artificial, and it's designed that way on purpose to incentivize purchases, either of 30 cards you were unsure of, or gambling. This can easily be seen in the conversations on the boards about the process, where nobody says "I'm so lucky to have won a Melissa card." If they're excited enough to write aboout it, it's because they won an SE card or a Joker. Those have rarity. Just like good loot in a loot box.

You get that, right? I'm not talking about a hypothetical future where a month from now I really wish I'd bought the advent calendar. I'm talking about the actual present where people are gambling for past and present SE cards and Jokers. It's very obvious that while some people are enjoying the endorphin rush of the game, others are with the hope /disappointment of getting/not-getting those cards.

Waiting a return of "favorite", you can manage some playlists with your favorite models.

@Happy1
Not the good topic for your question.
By the way, have you tried to synchronize with servers, or log in again with your ID and password ?
You can also quit and restart the software, or shutdown your computer and internet router then reboot them.

I consider myself very lucky, too... When I started to test my luck today, I was missing only about 20 cards (not counting the Virtuagirl Classic 480p cards). My slot machine credits didn't get me much, but scratch game brought good results.

After I had stopped playing, I had won 15 new "regular" cards + Jia Lissa's new special event card + 1 new Joker card + the only special event card that I was missing from before (Skye Blue's "Bend to My Will")... and in addition to getting all that, I have more credits than I had before I started playing(!)

@bamboombamm
Joker card is a card that you can exchange to any card at any time, even to a special event card.

You guys are lucky, I played the scratch card for 14 times, got 50 credit, 2x 1080p card, 10 credit and a 3k card.

What is a joker card?

they are both gorgeous but i would choose Belka

@lukaszr LOL dude LOL

Who's cleaning your windows?

My mom.

It is something wrong with the RNG for betting 1, 2, and 5 credit?

I bet x20(approx) on 5 credit, but couldn't get at least one -50%, max -30%

But betting x50(approx) on 2 credits gets me x2 -70% and a few of -50%

How about scratch card?

The first 2 scratch gets me 50 credit and a 1080p card.
But 5 to 12, I get nothing.

Or...

@PascalsWager - OK, that I can sort of understand (just) but it is not what you first said. If it is the possibility that part of what you buy will somehow in future be connected with some gambling game then this applies to all of the cards, not just the SECs or the Jokers - they can all be won via various gambles and all can be obtained using a Joker.

I've lost access to my collection due to some update apparently. Please fix this as I'm not comfortable deleting anything from my computer, nor should I have to, to make the program work.

I'm happy with Black Friday! I spent 19.98 € on the scratch game. I won enough credits for the rest of the week. Now have 5 lottery ticket and two SEC. And 14 more cards😊

...not always even the people you meet in the business but the ***** and harsh repercussions you face from people back home...

Fair point and indeed tragic. Working for iStripper, like any other adult website, requires that a performer can manage the backwash. I suspect that many of them cut themselves off from people back home, but that's only based on the odd anecdote. Maybe many of them regret having done it, but most seem to cope - if I thought otherwise I wouldn't want anything to do with adult products or services.

I've stopped playing the games of chance. I might reconsider if Totem published the probablilities associated with them.

Well, I certainly wasn't expect that! I just spent a bunch of time going through 51 scratch cards. After all of that, I ended up with 12 credits more than when I had started. I wasn't paying attention to the rewards meter, though, so I was extremely surprised to see that I managed to win the Jia Lissa SE card after my 50th scratch card! I still very much disagree with these gambling events but it was kinda nice to end up being paid 12 credits to waste time trying (and succeeding to my surprise) to win the SE card. Now I can rest happy knowing I don't have to deal with any more of this bullshit for a while!

This feature use to exist a long time ago, so it shouldn't be a big deal to re-incorporate it into the software. If I remember correctly, it has the effect of having your favorite cards show up more often. I would love to see this again.

As far as I can work out Totem have released another SEC with no defined pathway to obtain it.

These Black Friday offers appear to be two gambling games and a discount offer where you need at least 100 old cards not in your collection to obtain the maximum discount.

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