Hey beans!
We wanted to show you the first results of our survey that is currently going on. We will make another blog post, as we go. But for now, here are the results, information's & changes we will make/already did make to keep you up to date!
We will post a summary of all given answers so far. You can answer the questions in the survey either with 1-5 points or with Yes, No, Don't Care, N/A & Other. We will also answer/explain things in a little comment section, as we won't publish the answers given.
LETS GO !
1. How friendly is the environment?
- 4,1 points / 58,8%
2. How do you like the content, being provided?
- 3,9 points / 52,9%
Other:
1. Great mix of things! Would love to see more accessories over skin mods but getting to see the variety of styles is wonderful.
2. Mixed bag. I'm finding only one or two stalls that have anything I'd want. Not into canines and the event is overrun with them.
3. How lag friendly, are the event builds for you? (Party & Event itself)
- 3,5 points / 32,4%
Other:
1. party was fine, lag at event was bad with vendors crashing.
Answer to this :
This event round, sadly clashed together with a few other bigger events, every one of them mostly uses caspervendors which caused them to crash/not function properly. There is nothing we could really do about this, it was simply just bad timing this time! However, we will try to encourage our designers to use the event replacement script that is offered by caspervend itself to prevent future crashing of vendors! ♥
4. Do you like the music being provided on the parties?
- 3,0 points / 29,4%
5. Do you like photo contests or other community events going on during the main event?
- Mostly answered YES / 58,8%
Other:
1. love seeing the photo contests but from twitter and the discord there seems to already be a bias towards people who are friends with content makers, but still really enjoy community events.
Answer to this:
What our customers, decide to buy and publish, is up on their own. The photo contest, is ONLY for our customers, means, no bloggers/designers/staff members of the current round, are allowed to enter. The contest is held between FS & CC and only the Owner's of these two venues, talk about the pictures, share links, information's or decide, which photo wins at the end. The designers DO NOT know, which picture will win at the end nor will they say which one THEY THINK should win. For making sure, that exactly this does not happen. No personal preferences will be included into this.
6. Do you want to see a more simplistic shopping build?
- Mostly answered DON'T CARE / 47,1%
7. Do you want smaller events planned for in between rounds? (Parties, shop sales, give aways, prize hunts)
- Mostly answered YES / 76,5%
Other:
1. More furry events
2. hunts during event will draw in crowds past opening day.
Answer to this:
We will host smaller events during/in between the happening round, starting with the next upcoming round. More information's about what/when/how will follow, as soon as we figured things out with our designers!
8. What else can we do, to improve? (Customer service, announcements, discord & inworld groups)
We will leave this part out, due to anonymity. But we will write a little comment in order to answer all given suggestions so far!
1. Some of you, complained that the event will be every four months, instead of every two, like it was usually planned. We know, this is a big gap, but after announcing this, we already got plenty of reactions to this, being a good idea. As it gives our designers/bloggers/staff members, a little bit of time to rest in between rounds. We don't want to risk, our members to get burnt out because of the pressure, of needing to make/finish an item before the deadlines end. Everyone needs to rest sometimes and we want our members, to enjoy the event as best as possible. To reduce the long waiting time in between rounds, we will throw little community events in between rounds and we will also build a little hangout area for you beans to come by and enjoy!
2. Needing to be more clear with a shopping list, is a good point. We will always, try to publish everything on our social media accounts. Some designers don't post their ads, cause no one is forced or required to do so, this means, we can't publish them, even if we wanted to. It is up to every designer, if they wish to publish it or not. However, our event gets covered by Seraphim, which means, you can go to their webpage and see all items that will be provided for the current round, of each designer. Our event, always starts at 4PM SLT. The opening parties will be held before, schedules change. We will publish the LM's to the party & event area, always about 15-30 minutes, prior to opening. However, in some cases it could be that this happens belayed, sorry in advance for this.
3. You wish for more redelivery terminals, you will get them! For the next event building, we will set up, next to the landing point, a redelivery point. You can access every purchase you ever made, through a single terminal. It doesn't matter if it does not belong to the store, you bought an item from. This way, our designers don't need to rezz some on their own, which will reduce lag because of the scripts inside. We hope, this makes life easier for you, please let us know, if it worked or if we need to change/adjust things!
4. Make the blogotex spot easier to find - already done huns! We set up, at our mall area, a little Furry Snout kiosk build. Inside, you can find all needed informations, group joiner, blogotex access point and all current participating designers/partners for the happening round.
5. More places for social interactions - as already said above, we will build up a little hangout area for our community. We will announce it, as soon as we are done building/planning everything. However, we cannot provide a sandbox, we are sorry.
6. More love for european timezones - we tried our best to make the time schedules for our party and event opening as comfortable as possible, for everyone. As second life is mainly played by american timezones, we had to focus on these when planning our event/party. We, the founders, are europeans as well, so we know the struggle this sometimes makes. We will see what we can do, but no promises on here!
7. More diversity when it comes to items.
This is honestly, hard to answer at all, cause every designer, can do and use, whatever their heart wishes. We understand, that some of you would love to see more diversity when it comes to mods, clothing, accessories or heads, but that is nothing, we as event management, can control. There will always be popular and less popular items out there and every designer has their own personal taste/inspiration, when it comes to creating items. For our themed rounds, we will set up a survey, to find out what you would like to see (like we did for Dark Enchantment) as we are a community based event and want to keep it up like this!
8. More diversity when it comes to stores/creators.
Let us explain, how we handle things when it comes to sending out invitations/acceptance notes for the event rounds.
We looked through hundreds of pages on the Marketplace, as well as every store in world, we could find, to make sure, we find enough stores, to send out invitations. There are smaller ones, bigger ones, newer ones and established ones. We send out the invitations to inform the stores, that our event is happening. Most of them replied, some ignored it and some never read it all, that's just normal and nothing we can control. We always try, to have a good mix of smaller and larger brand names in our event, we also try to switch in between designers from round to round, to make sure, everyone gets a spot. However, it will always happen, that because of certain circumstances, some designers that got accepted, needed to back up, never replied or stepped back very last minute, which causes us to not being able to fill the empty spot. This means, another designer on the waiting list will be contacted if they'd like to join the current round.
This has nothing to do, with how popular a store is, if something like this happens, we go through our applications and look WHO APPLIED FIRST, and this store gets the empty spot. First come, first serve, just as simple as that.
You also need to keep in mind, that we only have a certain amount of booths available for each round, this means, not every store applied, gets a booth. If too many apply for a certain booth size/too many booths at all, we throw them all together in a pot and raffle it out through a RANDOM GENERATOR, to make sure no personal preferences are affecting this.
Yes, it might happen that bigger brands get the spot, but it also happens that smaller brands get it, we try to keep things as fair as possible and we try to please everyone. However, we can never make 100% sure, everyone applied can participate in the current round, same for sent out invitations. Just because you received one, it does not automatically mean, you are accepted. You will receive an acceptance/decline note to inform you about the status.
If you did not get accepted, it doesn't mean we didn't want you, this is nothing personal, nor are we trying to exclude smaller brands from participating at the event, we love to see all stores coming together and being a part of this, and we love to discover new stores and find our new favorite go to's, but there will always be circumstances we simply just cannot control.
9. We are still learning as we go, do we make mistakes? Of course. Are we trying to improve and make things better? Of course. Our event is community based, means, we really appreciate every one, involved into this. No matter if it is a customer, designer, partner or staff member. We can never, please everyone with either the content being provided, the music, how we handle things or how the locations are made. Everyone has its own personal taste, handles things different, has other priorities and this is what makes us all unique. We will always try, to find a good solution, to at least try to please the majority of the people involved. Some might be disappointed, some might be hella hyped, but that is just normal. We are a new event, we are on our second round, we still have a long way to go. We already made changes BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU TOLD US ♥ , you speak, we listen. We wanna make sure everyone enjoys this event at its max. There will always be situations where people, will disagree with how we decide to do/handle things or how we set everything up. And that is completely fine! We appreciate every type of criticism no matter if positive or negative, as long as you stay civil and don't attack anyone. Cause this is what helps us grow. We would be NOTHING, without our customers or our participating members.
Thank you all and much love!
The Furry Snout Team! ♥
Here some little screens of the hangout we are already building up for you beans to enjoy and hangout!
