I don't know a better method than what you described. I think that combining the 1100 credits package + Reload bonus (+20% on each reload) and then waiting for the Cashback promo is the best option.

In addition, if you don't buy cards selectively and strive to buy the entire available collection, it is worth looking at the "Progressive Booster Packs", where you can buy a set of 10 cards with a discount of up to 70% or even 100% (yes, a set of 10 shows that you can add to your collection for free).

Is anyone using the clip timing function of the Playlist Generator? In version 2 I tried to capture the play time of clips because the algorithm I was using was not always accurate. For a while I used this capability myself, but discovered that measuring the play time of a clip through my application had a lot of randomness too. Also, this capability only works correctly in small mode when only one card is played at a time. It also works for large mode, but I have never tested it for full screen.I'm considering removing this capability from the Playlist Generator because it's a maintenance problem. I'll either remove it completely or retain the ability to manually enter a more correct playtime. If I do the latter, I'll retain the ability to export and import playtimes, but with much simpler logic.There is also a capability of maintaining a log of clips played. This too has limited value. In particular, it doesn't capture all the clips played when multipe clips are play in small mode. For a while I found it to be a useful debugging tool, but I haven't used it from more than a year.Is anyone using the log capability?Would anyone have a problem if I removed both of these capabilties?

Brand new to all of this. The play time is something I am glad is there. What I am looking for is basically a way to see all up which model and which card are played the most to least and how much time.

My clip playlist manager tab also is just showing completely blank. I tried adding inside the program or importing a saved playlist and neither work.

As @Alkasyn says you will not lose the models - provided you answer no when the uninstall asks if you want to delete your models.

Your shows are never lost if you uninstall, don't worry.

This might have been covered before I’m not sure but my laptops running out of space even thought there’s a drive that’s empty so I’m currently trying to move the app over there but if it doesn’t work will uninstalling compute the app delete my account and cause me to lose all the shows I’ve spent money on

Pretty much what the title says, as far as I know the absolute best way of maximising credits to card ratio(Without any elements of RNG involved) is to wait for the year end 100 Dollar offer of 1320 credits(It sometimes also happens at other times as well albeit rarely, like during the Chinese New Year period this if I'm not wrong) and wait for a Cashback event.

I choose to wait till the 100 Dollar Option instead of the 50 Dollar Bonus Option(Which is the one where you get 600 credits for those who don't know) because you get an extra 120 credits for the same amount of money spent. That's around 5 to 9 cards worth of credits depending on your rank.

I recall seeing a similar discussion on the forums before but for the life of me I can't seem to find it again so I thought I might as well create my own forum topic on the matter. So, do you guys have any other tips to maximising credits bought? I am especially interested in knowing the absolute best way to do this if you include RNG elements like the Slot Machine Event, Scratch Card Event et cetera. Thanks in advance guys.

Well, I had very different motivation to play. I already had all the cards, including SECs, but since the odds were so unbelievably favourable, I just kept scratching those cards. After 300+ scratched cards, I had won on average 1.2 credits for each scratch card.

300+ is statistically already relatively telling amount, so I decided to keep going. I gave myself the rule: as soon as I drop 100 credits from what I had peaked by that point, I would stop. This didn't happen until Monday, when they apparently changed the 20 credit win to 10 credit win. The 1.2 credit per scratch card ratio remained quite steady until Monday.

I didn't play constantly, 24/7, but on several little sprints during Friday - Monday.

All in all, I played 1,159 scratch cards and ended up being +1,380 credits up (peaked at +1,480 cards).

It does seem that collectors and wealthy new collectors are those who should be playing... a selector like me with 2k cards is going to lose a lot because the only wins would be the 50 and 100 credit wins...I don't want any cards, nor do I have a strong interest in the SE cards...I would have only bought half of them if they were available. I also have an addictive personality so I would never start with such a ***** game lest my credits be exchanged for more deleted cards.

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@arise77 moderators would already have deleted/censored your posts if they had to be...

OK IRL it is usually not fair to make private correspondance public wihtout prior consent of all parties involved but in the present case I think it does not *****. It even does some teasing so let's wait and see 😉

BTW at one point I was also selective buying my prefered type of shows, girls, etc until they were exhausted from the store, Then I started to be more "adventurous" and buy less prefered ones, etc. And finally I became a collector.

What I like is to be surprised by rediscovering ladies that are not always my preference but that have something special... all of them have something special 😋

Diversity! 😜

Well, I had very different motivation to play. I already had all the cards, including SECs, but since the odds were so unbelievably favourable, I just kept scratching those cards. After 300+ scratched cards, I had won on average 1.2 credits for each scratch card.

300+ is statistically already relatively telling amount, so I decided to keep going. I gave myself the rule: as soon as I drop 100 credits from what I had peaked by that point, I would stop. This didn't happen until Monday, when they apparently changed the 20 credit win to 10 credit win. The 1.2 credit per scratch card ratio remained quite steady until Monday.

I didn't play constantly, 24/7, but on several little sprints during Friday - Monday.

All in all, I played 1,159 scratch cards and ended up being +1,380 credits up (peaked at +1,480 cards).

I'd like to point out that all team members except Celine (almost maxed-out) are also quite selective in their collection, most of them being under 3,000 cards. They might even have internal discounts we don't know about. Despite that, they don't want all available cards neither.
If only they took part in the scratch game, they could realise how pointless it is for members who don't have/want a full collection.

I would imagine the only group that would want the free cards given are those who are broke and are taking a chance with their small amount of credits...if they had enough credits they would surely buy the cards they wanted and skipped the ones they didn't...this is precisely why I don't play...there isn't a single card in the catalog that I want. Totem is playing like they are giving away wanted cards, but of course they aren't, they are giving away cards at a small discount that the customer would be unlikely to buy. This is the old coupon method...give people coupons to things they don't need or want and they will buy it....maybe they can get creative with stuff like 50% off card of choice...two free cards...something where people will gamble to get something they really want.

@kenkenken
Your profile shows no installation of the software. You must install it to play your shows. Download the latest version at www.istripper.com and install it.

a -They would certainly rather be criticized for achievements or gambling games than the actual product,
b - which has had a rough start to 2020.

a is unfortunately true; b is also true about 2020, but it should has also be pointed that 2019 had instead been a very good year, both about models' and animations' quality.

I'm not answering to anyone in particular, but...

I bet they (=Totem) are already regretting ever releasing these achievements :) All these disgruntled messages over something that doesn't matter really. The achievements don't give you any benefits regarding membership or purchases of cards, but for some reason getting them does seem to be surprisingly important for many people. For fun I tried a couple of times to get 4:20 and First to buy, and failed, and that's it. No ***** done :)

I understand collector mentality, I'm one myself, but fortunately I regard these badges as one very ***** addition to everything that is about being iStripper customer.

But I do love the design of the badges! Many of them look really great.

If these achievements at some point in the future become a kind of membership "level" with benefits / special treatment, then having them would mean something completely different, of course.

They would certainly rather be criticized for achievements or gambling games than the actual product, which has had a rough start to 2020. I would much rather they put money into better talent, fixing card quality, and new props or settings rather than paying a ui specialist or coder to design new cutting age gambling games or badges. I hope people realize that they took casting money and spent it on these superfluous activities while we get girls who won't even show full nudity week after week. I have 2000 cards to enjoy but there is no way that the current group of girls is going to entice new buyers, which can only be bad for totem and those of us who enjoy a high quality product.

All I see is more worthless stuff they can't keep up with. I don't care one bit about these.

@Celine - That's amazing. For several days now I have been pointing out, proving and proving this very fact, and it cannot be ignored. And still I have not yet received the badge.

You will get your badge shortly, like every one.

Um, @Celine, obviously still not. Some iStripper customers have already proven that here again.

Seriously, why does the TotemTeam support staff @Manue yesterday recommend using 13h20 in France? 13h20 CEST corresponds to 4:20 am PDT. And this has been pointed out several times.
https://www.istripper.com/de/forum/thread/44616/7?post=662239

What's this never-ending story?
I don't care about this badge myself, but I would like to see your server scripts doing what you publish here every day, namely called...

The 4:20 achievement is programmed to be won between 4:20:00 & 4:20:59 PM PDT time (Pacific time).
All members who deserve this badge will have it.
EDIT: in winter and in summer times

@Nikki768
There was no Selection for the SEC Cards in the Poll, so i think you are in the wrong Topic 😉

Why cant we just pay 2x or 3x the credits to get the limited cards or bring them back on one day of the year so we can still have a chance to own them.

When Totem started offering SEC cards, they pledged they would never be sold again. Then they started making them obtainable through gambling games. See..that is technically not being sold.

Because of the pledge not to sell them, I doubt your suggestion will be offered.

@pickle1 ... and not only in Paris 😀 On the other hand, if they had more meaning (discounts or some other tangible benefits), I'm sure Totem had taken much more care in getting e.g. that time zone debacle sorted out quickly.

To conclude, here's my achievements, posted here for posterity :) It is VERY unlikely that I'll win any others in the future (except 3rd - Nth anniversary badges obviously)... 24 / 43 right now. Won't be actively chasing any others, they "ain't gunna happen" for me.

Today is May the 4th, the only day of the year when you have a chance to win this achievement!
All you have to do is buy one card :)
Enjoy!

I'm not answering to anyone in particular, but...I bet they (=Totem) are already regretting ever releasing these achievements :) All these disgruntled messages over something that doesn't matter really. The achievements don't give you any benefits regarding membership or purchases of cards, but for some reason getting them does seem to be surprisingly important for many people. For fun I tried a couple of times to get 4:20 and First to buy, and failed, and that's it. No ***** done :)I understand collector mentality, I'm one myself, but fortunately I regard these badges as one very ***** addition to everything that is about being iStripper customer.But I do love the design of the badges! Many of them look really great.If these achievements at some point in the future become a kind of membership "level" with benefits / special treatment, then having them would mean something completely different, of course.

@Dfner - it is ***** how important such things can become in people's minds, Is it the "completist" nature of some that means they need to have everything? That can't apply for me because I know there are some badges I casn never get, so the pressures off.

But could you imagine how disgruntled people will get if the badges did mean something? There'd be rioting in the streets of Paris....😆

I never tried deleting or editing a post before. Seems it's not possible after some time. Can a moderator delete my quote of Kaiju's message and screenshot I posted before?

I'm not answering to anyone in particular, but...

I bet they (=Totem) are already regretting ever releasing these achievements :) All these disgruntled messages over something that doesn't matter really. The achievements don't give you any benefits regarding membership or purchases of cards, but for some reason getting them does seem to be surprisingly important for many people. For fun I tried a couple of times to get 4:20 and First to buy, and failed, and that's it. No ***** done :)

I understand collector mentality, I'm one myself, but fortunately I regard these badges as one very ***** addition to everything that is about being iStripper customer.

But I do love the design of the badges! Many of them look really great.

If these achievements at some point in the future become a kind of membership "level" with benefits / special treatment, then having them would mean something completely different, of course.

Tiffany Fox (Solo #595) does some dirty talk and moaning-singing-howling while she's fingering herself...but I think in a kind of unerotic, cheap way...other guys might like it though.

@dragontaylor - I have just won Solo by Sophie Moon in the scratch cards and I think you should check it out.

Despite it breaking the rules, it is from 2011 (it's 720p but the quality is quite good) and although she is from Budapest her English is perfect - and dirty and interactive. It also helps she is a rather fit blonde!

I'm half way through watching it but I thought I'd let you know. I may not be able to type afterwards.

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@Z22 you're probably right, I'll edit it.

I'd like to point out that all team members except Celine (almost maxed-out) are also quite selective in their collection, most of them being under 3,000 cards. They might even have internal discounts we don't know about. Despite that, they don't want all available cards neither.
If only they took part in the scratch game, they could realise how pointless it is for members who don't have/want a full collection.

@TheEmu

@AcidBurnBE

The point is that the effective hardship differs immensely depending where in the world you are living. For me in Germany and you in Belgium trying for the "First One" badge means using iStripper at a rather convenient time, for others it means being awake at 3:00 in the morning. It is not that there is difficulty in gaining the badge, but that it is not the even approximately the same for everyone.

Let me give you an extra example. In my case it is physically impossible to achieve. I am a disabled person, I need a caregiver to get out of bed in the mornings. There is no way I am ask that person to come at 1:20 am (local time) to get that.

I don't think you should be posting the contents of a private message regardless of its content, unless you have actually asked Kaiju first...

I have been using both of these (clip timing and logging played clips), but "using" here means only that I have switched them on whenever I have played any clips. I haven't yet used the data gathered for anything, and I agree, it is not essential - in my use, at least.

So, losing these capabilities wouldn't be a problem at least to me.

Is anyone using the clip timing function of the Playlist Generator? In version 2 I tried to capture the play time of clips because the algorithm I was using was not always accurate. For a while I used this capability myself, but discovered that measuring the play time of a clip through my application had a lot of randomness too. Also, this capability only works correctly in small mode when only one card is played at a time. It also works for large mode, but I have never tested it for full screen.

I'm considering removing this capability from the Playlist Generator because it's a maintenance problem. I'll either remove it completely or retain the ability to manually enter a more correct playtime. If I do the latter, I'll retain the ability to export and import playtimes, but with much simpler logic.

There is also a capability of maintaining a log of clips played. This too has limited value. In particular, it doesn't capture all the clips played when multipe clips are play in small mode. For a while I found it to be a useful debugging tool, but I haven't used it from more than a year.

Is anyone using the log capability?

Would anyone have a problem if I removed both of these capabilties?

@gkar45 as long as we can watch lovely ladies undress here, our vision is fine 😆

@gkar45 oh right sorry, I didn't even check after posting. 😄
I just paste Kaiju's reply here:

March 26
hi Arise77
Sorry for the delay. It's quite the rush here.

This scratch ticket costs the double price of the previous one, but in this one, you win 2 cards instead of 1. You never pay more than double price of a card. In the worse case scenario, you pay 20 credits and win 2 720P cards. As a triple diamond, that means you pay 20 credits instad of 17,6 credits. This is a very particular case wich has been taken in account in the overall odds calculations. That's why you can alos win credits (up to 200 with this ticket) And it shouldn't happen often except if you have only 720P to buy.

Believe me, at the end, the cards sold via the sctach tickets are a huge bargain for members. And this is without counting the thousands of exclusive cards we offer ( more than 5000 for now with this scratch ticket).

But for all guys that are not into tose kind of promotion, we will soon launch a loyalty-based scratch ticket system.

Stay tuned, Stay safe too Arise :)

@gkar45
Here it is:
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/44668/1?post=661671
Everyone can of course also post there other suggestions about oher fixes or emprovements that Team might want to do during these times in which they have maybe more extra time to fix issues than they usually have...

I am sorry, but would like to point it again...
I saw literally tons of posts about issues with this (in my opinion) rather insignificant, even if cute achievement. Which, of course, is ok.
But may I ask you guys if you could please also help me supporting my request of a total fix and reworking of Search function of forum, and of a fix of all the defective cards, both of which, I think, could be much more important and relevant for all of us on this software? Thanks!

At the last scratch game, since Kaiju replied on this thread, I asked him in a private message why as a triple diamond member my results were so bad (No SEC, unwanted 720p & 1080p cards for double almost triple their normal price). It seems he didn't understand my question. Despite the numbers I presented he insisted that this never happens and said I should "believe him" this was advantageous for me. He basically told me when I pay 25 credits on average for a card worth 8.8 (and that I don't even want) was "a huge bargain".

It seems from his answer they don't take into account many factors when they design these games. Every edition many bugs are reported.

Scratch game is probably advantageous for new members building their collection, who plan to get all the cards.
From what maxed-out members posted on the forum, this edition was advantageous for them, because they got the SEC and extra credits.

All other members are wasting their time and credits on the scratch game, because it is not designed for us to win SECs.

I'm asking @Totem, what's the point in me playing if I can't get an SEC (main reason for playing) and I get mostly lower quality unwanted cards for more expensive than what they are worth?

As other members have suggested before, all members who are between new and maxed-out members are the ones paying for this promotion. If we stop taking part in this, Totem will have to improve this game to make it worth it for us.

@willyweekly and @HansSachs. I support the desire to tag a clip without having to set up playlists. We can tick the box alongside a clip to prevent it playing the next time - so could that be extended to allow the marking as a favourite?

@willyweekly

Is there a way to tag a clip as favorite so that it plays more often than a "non-favorite" clip?
Is this something that could be done?

It could be easily done. I would support the possibility to tag both cards (above all) and also clips (why not) as Favorites. Some say there's no need of such a feature because it can be also done with playlists; but it's laborious, while with a specific function as the one proposed by you (and me) just a click would be needed.

@kenkenken Hi, are there any error messages ? Please provide more details

@AcidBurnBE

The point is that the effective hardship differs immensely depending where in the world you are living. For me in Germany and you in Belgium trying for the "First One" badge means using iStripper at a rather convenient time, for others it means being awake at 3:00 in the morning. It is not that there is difficulty in gaining the badge, but that it is not the even approximately the same for everyone.

It's a bit weird they would remove the 20 credit prize if people were winning too much, they should have a compensator running to adjust the odds based on used credits vs wins/payouts like fruit machines have had for decades (~75% payout). Then again, i only know about the compensator because a friend used to work for a fruit machine company so maybe they haven't even though of it...

but for others it will be much more inconvenient and require being active at 3:00 in the morning. Similarly qualifying for the 4:20 badge, no matter whether it is 4:20 am or 4:20 pm will be easier for some than for others depending on where they live - this last could be alleviated by allowing both 4:20 am and 4:20 pm as qualifying.

Isn't it the essence of earning badges?
I mean, for me badges is a way of showing that I do something special.
If everybody can have it in two clicks, where is the fun? :p
I'm from Belgium and it'll be fun to try time to time to get ready at 3 in the morning to get it.

Have fun ...and Belgium beer of course :p

A feature of two of the badges, those for the "First One to buy a card" and the "4:20" achievements, is that meeting the conditions to win them will vary depending on your geographical location. I had pre-qualified for the First One but if I had not then trying for it would involve no hardship as the daily release time is is always about 10:00 am but for others it will be much more inconvenient and require being active at 3:00 in the morning. Similarly qualifying for the 4:20 badge, no matter whether it is 4:20 am or 4:20 pm will be easier for some than for others depending on where they live - this last could be alleviated by allowing both 4:20 am and 4:20 pm as qualifying.

Currently there's no such feature. A long time ago you could tag cards as favourite, but they took that away for some reason, too.

The 4:20 achievement is programmed to be won between 4:20:00 & 4:20:59 PM PDT time (Pacific time).
All members who deserve this badge will have it.
EDIT: in winter and in summer times

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[quote]E@Celine - That's amazing. For several days now I have been pointing out, proving and proving this very fact, and it cannot be ignored. And still I have not yet received the badge./quote]

You will get your badge shortly, like every one.

@JuppKowalski - I understood you the first time - but as has been mentioned several times in this thread by myself and others 13.20 CEST does not correspond to the time that Totem give as the target time for this badge. The time currently given on the achievements page before you win the badge is 4:20 PM PDT, as is the time appearing on the badge itself and in the most recent Erratum message from @Celine.

I can well believe that 4:20 am PDT was intended or that 4:20 am was programmed in error - but it is not what was published.

The questions that now arise are

1) What was the intended time, 4:20 am or 4:20 pm ?
2) If the intended time was 4:20 am will those that met the published conditions get the badge ?
3) If the intended time was 4:20 pm but the the wrong test was implemented what will happen to those that got the badge at the "wrong" time ?

A question for later in the year is what happens when Europe and the US seperately switch back to Winter time ? Will this comedy of errors be repeated twice, once when Europe switch and also when the US switches.

@Llander

@Celine 's initial post on Friday did not mention the 20 credit win, nor did the original pop-up description. The post was edited shortly after my post regarding the discrepancies between the texts and the experience of playing a few cards, I do not know when the pop-up was modified.

My objection is not that we may lose in a game of chance. My objection is in Totem's complete and utter lack of ethics or respect when they alter so drastically the chances of winning mid game. This is not the first time they put out a scratch game. They should already know what to expect. Changing the rules like they just did is the equivalent of a casino removing all aces from a blackjack game while the gamblers are playing!

You should never gamble digitally, it is incredibly dangerous, much more so than mechanical gambling. you have to udnerand that the game can be different for each customer based on their collection, their win % in previous games...the game can give cards that are rarely bought or that an algorithm decides you are unlikely to buy based on your current purchases...it can keep you winning this week but make you lose next week. And obviously the odds can change daily. If the community was smart they would boycott the games until totem gives us the odds for each type of win and assures us the game is random. They have released broken games multiple times and having to be clear about the math behind the games might be helpful to totem as well.

I am pretty sure that the 20 credit prize was never mentioned in the main picture, nor in the initial announcement or any other post originating from Totem. The pop-up explanation originally mentioned 5, 10, 25 and 50 but this was changed and now has 10, 20, 50 and 100 credits instead - checked only a few minutes ago following a new start of iStripper). I have no idea if it is still possible to win 20 credits, nor am I going to test it - I did very well out of this promotion and have quit while I am ahead.

@lander. As @TheEmu says, the 20 credits given for a blank card was never promoted; it was obviously a bug or oversight and hence Totem were perfectly within their rights to fix it.

The game anouncement in @Celine TGIF post on friday quite specifically mentions the 20 credit prize so does the popup explanation (both verified seconds ago). So it is neither a bug nor an oversight. It is simply that they felt we were winning too much.

It´s quiet simple. If you get pissed by loosing, then don´t play games. It´s obvious that those games like scratchcards or slot mashines are made to make money. Just like in a casino, the bank never looses.

My objection is not that we may lose in a game of chance. My objection is in Totem's complete and utter lack of ethics or respect when they alter so drastically the chances of winning mid game. This is not the first time they put out a scratch game. They should already know what to expect. Changing the rules like they just did is the equivalent of a casino removing all aces from a blackjack game while the gamblers are playing!