Belated Memorial Day

Belated Memorial Day 2020

We have celebrated Memorial Day over and over again in the past years and had some nice events. So in 2018 we were in the old skybox and in 2019 we had a party in the Street. Also this year the Memorial Day was on our calendar of events. And again we chose and decorated the street in front of our Sunshiner Pub. 

This year the 25th of May is Memorial Day in the USA. We are belated but we haven't events at mondays.  But like each year will we celebrated this important day. This year is maybe the most crazy and cruel year for most of us. And a lot of this soldiers died in a world war and guaranteed the security of all free and democratic states during the Cold War, it should be reason enough to celebrate this weekend with our friends from America. And pray together that we come back into a more save world.

We hoped that many would accept our invitation. But Tuesday, we usually have fewer visitors. Besides, for our American friends it was the first day of the working week after the long weekend. So we could only wait and see. And then at 5pm it was time. DJ Yezika and Vanny and Hannah Nightwish came and opened the event. They had put together a very good music set and recorded it via Yezika's stream on our sim. And the atmosphere was very good right from the beginning.

But we had problems on the ground with the region. I have mentioned it a few times that we have neighbours who breed animals extensively and they say that they don't care. On the contrary, they have chosen this region deliberately, because our Sunshine Realm has visitors for 3 - 4 hours only a few days a week, and otherwise these resources are available to the region. So they refused to deactivate the animals during the event, even if they are not there themselves. Well, these problems have become much worse in the last few days, so it was hardly possible to use HUDs and reload things. 

At least this did not harm the mood in the beginning. And guests came quickly. So there were more than 40 visitors at our event that evening and shortly before the end we were together with 36 on the decorated street. We danced together, talked and laughed together. And as usual we had loaded and started our contest board with 1,000 L$. But then came the vote.

As I already wrote, we had noticeable performance problems today, especially when it comes to scripts. So there were already problems with the response time when I opened the voting. This was more than 10 seconds. I had reminded the guests once more to keep calm during the voting and to click the board really only once, and this preferably at the beginning, when a page appears, and not at the last moment, before switching to the next one. 

However, some did not adhere to this, and at least 5 of the guests clicked several times, and thus the contest could not be saved anymore. Every click is processed, and slows it down for everyone. And if it's a pointless click, and resources are needed for the "Unvote"- window and perhaps won't be released immediately, it becomes even more critical. 

Also moving the board into a building did not bring any calming, on the one hand the board and our sim was too overloaded to recover alone, on the other hand some people found the board in the building and kept on clicking. And with that we decided to cancel the contest for the 2nd mail this month. And since the contest might have been feasible if a few guests hadn't "riotted", we didn't look for a substitute solution. Maybe it will induce some guests not to come anymore in the future, or to be more considerate towards the others. We will see.

The pictures shows the performance in the region. Self the performance monitor as script couldn't log all issues. But you can see the development of performance trouble, and the events before were more crowded. Each peak with more as 10 visitors in average is one of our events. You can see that there events with more as 40 guests and without each problem. You can see too, that the region was this week in trouble before we started our event, as nobody used our sim and only a less persons stayed in the whole region. But I'm sure there were a lot "pets" happy and ran around.

Also on Tuesday we had a little after-party and danced topless. However, on Tuesdays the after-party is usually not longer than 30 minutes, because we start later and usually have to work the next day during the week. So also today, we said goodbye all at 8pm and wished us a good night. But it was nice to stay together with friends for a moment and to dance. 

The number of members in our group increased to 1,093. And we reached a traffic value of 5,285. For almost 3 hours for the event and the short after-party a very good value, with which we can be satisfied. We hope that these problems with the performance of our sim will be solved or not repeated, and we will be able to guarantee again in the future that we finish our contests successfully. We can only apologize here to our guests, but even we are only tenants who can't choose their neighbors. 

Also today there is a Google Images album with many pictures and I am happy to share it with you to give you an impression of our event. Even though we couldn't finish the contest, it was a nice and successful evening.