Draconian Enterprises

Draconian Enterprises

Draconian Enterprises (also known as DNE) is the administration wing of several projects and companies owned and managed by Swythe Quirksettle. It primarily focuses on providing the infrastructure for others to benefit from its services.

Draconian Enterprises in Second Life is known as Draconian Enterprises SL or Draconian Estates SL. A space leasing service in Second Life that runs the regions Drachen & Grand Junction. It also manages the Dragon Club DrachenStein, as well as Project: Spacebagel.

Draconian Enterprises outside of Second Life, run by Swythe as well, does computer repair and part recycling in the Lehigh Valley area in PA. As well as serves as an umbrella to protect Swythe's creative works. Draconian Enterprises is a Sole Proprietorship class business. It has also contracted in brief with non profit groups in June 2009.

History

Draconian Enterprises started as Draconian Estates SL in August 2007. It was founded with the region Drachen and at the time hosted and supported Dragon Spire, Hantu and Stronski Sisters furry vendors. It was originally owned by both Swythe Armistice and Obsidian Stormwind.

Successes and Failures of 2007-2008

In December of 2007 Swythe Armistice invested in Amaru, the second region of four he planned to acquire. Expanding Draconian Enterprises to twice its size in Second Life. Swythe also laid down the groundwork to fill up Drachen, and began expanding the management structure more.

Draconian Enterprises earned the nickname DNE through its initial plans to go public on the Second Life "World Stock Exchange." However, due to banking bans enforced by Linden Labs, and Swythe's desire to trade in all currencies via paypal. The company was declined.

In addition, Swythe opened up Quirksettle House, a SL banking system he was developing gradually for the last year. The bank in total brought in over 500,000L$ on its first month, but was shut down due to the banking policies enforced by Linden Labs. Quirksettle house refunded 100% of its money plus interest by February 2008.

Due to rising social tension between large groups on Amaru and Drachen. DNE began to move away from what was once "open" land rental agreements. By April 2008, DNE's entire client base was completely under written agreements.

It was in April 2008 Obsidian Stormwind resigned from ownership of DNE, Swythe, now the sole owner of the company, proceeded to purchase his share of the company out and created a more centralized way of management and rental payment.

It was during the summer of 2008 that Draconian Enterprise's clients held two of the top ten spots for furry adult. During that time as well the company purchased the rights to link www.draconianenterprises.net.

By the end of the summer, the Dragon Spire club left Drachen. Swythe Armistice built his own Dragon club called DrachenStein, allowing the community the infrastructure to host events and entertain each other for free. DrachenStein is completely funded by rental income of Draconian Estates, and is an official subsidiary of DNE.

Despite setbacks, in January 2008 DNE had over 30 clients with only 3 leaving dissatisfied with the business and its services. Others leaving due to DNE being unable to meet their immediate demands in terms of lands mass, or economic troubles. In 2008 DNE had a 90% client satisfaction rate, with returning renters, most of those clients directly rented with Swythe Armistice.

The First Quarter of 2009

In a bold move to get rid of the inequality in Draconian Enterprises arrangements with clients and admins and remove his company from the firing range of the dramas of the communities, as well as become even more competitive with his prices and services. The results impacted everyone on his regions. When completed in February 2009, a number of changes had occurred:

• Removal of all his admins, who were creating rivalries and conflicts within the community
• A ban on private business, who were fighting and feuding more then anything
• Prices lowered from L$2200 a week to L$1600 a week for 4096 sq meters
• Updates of the covenant that had a FAQ section, a list of boycotted products and reasons why and a reduction to less the one page of text
• Completion of a rental scripts that were 10 times faster then the previous versions used.
• Region layouts that exploited back face culling to reduce frame rate lag significantly and eliminate all wasted space.

This chased out most of Swythe's lager clients who were sparking feuds within the community and some were violating laws (not just the rules of Swythe regions). The losses were short lived, as Swythe reached 100% occupancy by April. And broke even in lifetime profit in mid-May.

Second Quarter 2009

In July 2009, Swythe finished and opened the Draconian Mall. With it he launched a more realistic business model for vendor subleasing. This model allowed poorer artists to setup vendors for no monthly rent. The only difference was that they have to use the Draconian Vendor script, witch substituted vendor rental cost for 10% of the sales. The vendor scripts provided were also about 0.0002ms of simulation time, faster then most scripts used grid-wide. The mall has room for almost 2000 products, and will be strictly managed. Lag is expected to go only as high as 2ms of frame time for scripts.

In addition, several 1024 meters spaces were opened for businesses at L$500 a week in rent. A very low price compared to Second Life grid averages.

Future Plans

With a sketchy date of January 2010. Draconian Enterprises is gearing up to offer low cost secure off site data services, formally known as DNEWeb. Few major details were officially announced, as a great amount of care is being taken into the disaster recovery policies and security. Since Feb, Swythe has been hoarding legacy computer equipment for this venture (emergency and routing hardware), and has purchased the equivalent hardware to the region Drachen in Second Life. Swythe also has slowed down on Draconian Enterprises to focuses on writing projects. However, all his creative works are now legally protected by Draconian Enterprises.

DNE and Adult Content

In the summer of 2009, Linden Labs required age verification of accounts for adult contents. This was done by labeling the land adult. Ironically, the actions of Draconian Enterprises and Swythe removed any sexually oriented content from his regions months prior. As such, Drachen and Grand Junction remained unaffected by the age verification rules.

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