Sunday 21 January 2007

Club deleted from Tanglia

Nachtwlf and I opened our club, Broken Hearts, in November and at the same time several friends opened their clubs too. Today Carla and I went to see how they were getting on.

I had been to the opening night of the pub Coyote Ugly and there was a happy Country and Western atmosphere. The wooden bar had been built near the middle and 4 girls were dancing on it wearing shorts, stetsons and tied shirts. Amusing comments going back and forth and everyone joining in to create a party feeling. Today it had been turned into a bleak blue and white cube that was more suited to toilets than a club. There were dance bases and slot machines along the wall. No atmosphere even thought there were people there.

Kinky Kitty was doing quite well, but there was only one dancer and people were arriving and then leaving. When more dancers arrived, it got going. Carla and I were griefed there, I saw a guy out the corner of my eye and before he was 8m away knew he was out to cause trouble. He was walking straight towards us even though he had to walk at an angle to do it. He bumped us apart and started verbal abuse. In my own club we had a lot of people just out to cause trouble, maybe 2 or 3 a day.

There is another place we go, which is just a pub, but there are always people there and it gets busy. It probably doesn't make much money but its always fun to go there.


When we got back to Tanglia, Carla and I had a long talk. We decided that:-
  • A club is hard work as we need to interview and employ, events must be arranged, DJ's booked.
  • Most places will be griefed at some time so security or some way of dealing with those people is needed.
  • Clubs do not make money. The employees make a moderat income, maybe 3,000 L$ to 6,000 L$ per day and they have to work long hard hours to get that kind of money. If a club takes 10% from tip jars, the income will will get about 600L$ per day.
  • Money is to be made in shops and selling things, especially clothes and skins.
  • Gambling is potentially a big money earner but again needs a lot of work.
We decided to scrap the club part of Tanglia and run a pub there instead. We will run a few shops, but keep the shop area small to start with.

I have scrapped the whole Island map and started again. The pub will be in the SE side of the Island with the dance floors below. If you want to see what they look like, go to Empathy in Whitefish. On the SE side we will get sunrise and sunset and see more of the moon. I will make the place romantic and beautiful.

The remaining 3/4 of the Island will be hunting and capture with two forests and swamp and lakes between. The SW forest will be evil and the NE forest soft and gentle.

I will put up some maps when I have them drawn out.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.