Habbox Events

[lick]

Why does Habbox have the near enough the same events every week? Looking back before HxSS they events have been

Falling Furni, Twisted Falling Furni, Snake, Don't Roll a 6, Races, Don t Roll a 6, Falling Furni

What makes people choose these events over the hundreds of similar events that you can find by going to "Games" rooms? Nothing.. i went to an event and the only way you are really getting people there is by asking dj's to advertise via the radio, there is nothing that makes me wanna go to these events because well.. i could probably find the exact same games with better prizes.

Looking at other Fansites they host things like, Big Brother,The Apprentice,Carnival,Habbo Love island

Why can't Habbox host something like that? and don't even bother mentioning HxSS, because thats just all the games i mentioned first except you're in teams and you win points. I think you need to start hosting things for forum members only, if that means someone wanting to sign up to the forum just to take part.. then thats good also. Because half the time your probably just giving the prizes away to people who couldn't care less about Habbox and just take the Hc's and have no interest in what fansite is hosting the game.

So basically what i mean is can you start hosting and planning things that are not the same every week and go on for a period of time like Big brother, Habbo Love island or The Apprentice or maybe even a theme park. And maybe bring some of the things into the forum, for example people need to do tasks on the forum and on Habbo if they are in Big brother..

This is just my opinion x

[Black_Apalachi]

I agree really which is why I tried to create a more original event compared to rest of HxSS. However HxSS is such a large scale thing, it's like mass production of events :P. Mass production usually minimizes the options for variance and makes things pretty much repetitive.

However I could see what you're saying being applied to regular events outside of HxSS :).

[dogboy123]

With 10 events a day, 9 excluding hxhd

Its hard to get sucha range of events.

We try and I think the fact that there are 10 events available a day is good enough?

And events are events not big quests etc. (dunno what to class them in)

[lick]

Yay Someone relpied, i saw 2 events staff abd the manager come here and none of them posted... lol


But yeah i'm not saying it has to be during HxSS it can be at different times of the year, because at the moment i think the only big events are HxSS and a version of it in the winter if im correct .

EDIT- Dogboy, im not saying now during HxSS, im saying s in a month / few weeks when HxSS is over

[dogboy123]

But events are events not big hmm productions

[lick]

But why should there only be one/two events that are big like that? Its not that hard to do.. i don't wanna use this as a example but Clubhabbo manage to put these on with no events team and just 1 person running it all, and they even got a memeber of Habbo staff to host there big brother

Im sure Habbox should be able to do that with its 7 events staff maybe more?

[dogboy123]

But what dept could run say a bb

It doesnt fall under anything?

[lick]

It falls under events? Events just don't mean Falling Furni and Roll a 6

Big Brother is an event :\

[The Professor]

Habbox big brothers always fail anyway, I don't know if we've seen one through to the end and most just fall flat on their faces before they start. Just like real big brother has failed :P

[lick]

Habbox big brothers always fail anyway, I don't know if we've seen one through to the end and most just fall flat on their faces before they start. Just like real big brother has failed :P

But i mentioned other ones, and im sure the events staff could come with with a big long running event (other than one that involves the same stupid games over and over) if they tried..

hell maybe they could even do a chatshow and get staff / people well known on Habbo / Habbo staff to do interviews..

[luce]

Sorry for late reply first time i read this. Roxy and I Agree so much so that she wrote a thread with about 30 different events in with desc. for our staff you use and it's getting better to be fair. It is something i will look at when i'm approving events for the September calender this week :)

As for hosting the big events our EO's aren't allowed to organize events like that alone but if we talked about this with the assistant general managers im sure the department could do something like that. Not like every month though like bi-annual because we would want them to be "special".

Hope this sort of helped and i do agree with your points :D

[Alex3213]

But what dept could run say a bb

It doesnt fall under anything?

An event isn't just a "game". Things such are Falling Furni, Don't roll a 6 are games, making them into events. But that doesn't mean that's the only thing an event is. I think mwah has a really good point and it would fullfill the "event" status. I would agree with Alex that a Big Brother would probably fail, as out of the thousands of members Habbox has you'll have about 20 wanting to play, and probably ending that they can't make it, just like the HBB. Again, like mwah said, there aren't enough "forum" events. Half the time many Habbox Members turn up (agreed) and that tends to be through the radio, and normally it's not even them who win - it tends to be someone out of the bloom who hasn't a care about Habbox, again what mwah said.

I wouldn't go for a full "more than one day duration event" yet but maybe start off with more Forum Events as that would help the Habbox Publicity rather than just Habbo Users. I think mwah has raised some really good points up and I totally agree with them.

EDIT: Lucy has raised a good point about we don't want them to occur too often, but if they're yearly, then my bet will be that we have that event once then it gets chucked away. Many things have been tried like this, I think the only succesful one has been Habbox Summer Spectacular. You'd also need to make multiple types event, rather than all Big Brothers, and they should try to be quite common but again quite rare as well.

[dogboy123]

1) First of all, you need to think of an event to run, not a party, or a ball - the General Management will run these. An event is things like Fallin' Furni and Races, including modern games such as Walk the Plank. Although you could do a load of fallin’ furni’s, try to be creative because otherwise they’ll start to get boring!


Does that answer?

EDIT: If you want something for forum users, isnt that up to the forum staff

Im sure MissAlice hosted a Forum Quest ages ago?

[Inseriousity.]

Well yeah Big Brother is worst example cos it sucks :P
However, I do agree! I don't know how many quizzes I've been to lately but when alex3213 is there, they should rename it to 'Beat Alex3213' to make it original!

Bigger events should be one-off things to punctuate the never-ending cycle of falling furni, quizzes etc. I do not see why events department can't do this.

On a brighter note, the competitions department will be doing big competitions soon (like quests etc) so maybe that will give you something to do... even if it's not the department you're talking about?

[luce]

Does that answer?

That's from the handbook btw

@Mwah - That's what productions used to do like talk shows and the whole department collapsed. We're events so i don't see us ever doing talk shows.

[lick]

Sorry for late reply first time i read this. Roxy and I Agree so much so that she wrote a thread with about 30 different events in with desc. for our staff you use and it's getting better to be fair. It is something i will look at when i'm approving events for the September calender this week :)

As for hosting the big events our EO's aren't allowed to organize events like that alone but if we talked about this with the assistant general managers im sure the department could do something like that. Not like every month though like bi-annual because we would want them to be "special".

Hope this sort of helped and i do agree with your points :D

Yeah it has thanks :)!



And as Alex said also, there is really no forum events other than comps (thats being diff dept)

Im sure maybe you could Make a thread in Spam and say

1000 Post gets a months VIP and 200 reps points..


Thats not a very good idea for a forum event but im sure you can come up with something!

[Inseriousity.]

Im sure MissAlice hosted a Forum Quest ages ago?

*coughs* next month *coughs*

[Alex3213]

Well yeah Big Brother is worst example cos it sucks :P
However, I do agree! I don't know how many quizzes I've been to lately but when alex3213 is there, they should rename it to 'Beat Alex3213' to make it original!

Bigger events should be one-off things to punctuate the never-ending cycle of falling furni, quizzes etc. I do not see why events department can't do this.

On a brighter note, the competitions department will be doing big competitions soon (like quests etc) so maybe that will give you something to do... even if it's not the department you're talking about?

I love you.


Does that answer?

EDIT: If you want something for forum users, isnt that up to the forum staff

Im sure MissAlice hosted a Forum Quest ages ago?

Yeah but this isn't a party or a ball, this is still a type of social event which replies gameplay. I agree that it should be lead with General Management's hands but it shouldn't just be them. Even if the Events Staff aren't actually there, they should still work behind the scenes enabling the event to go smoothly. So rather than Back at School, an event like this would be pretty good.

About the Forum Events, sorry if I've got the wrong end of the stick but I think that it should still be typical events like you do now, but you'd have to be signed up to play just so that they show respect to the community rather than Random Habbos. I can guarentee 99% of Random Habbos who have no clue about Habbox won't tune in/sign up unless a mate themselves tells them to.

This, therefore, shouldn't be done by Forum Staff. They moderate the forum rather than do Habbo based things. It'd still be an event by the Events Team just Forum Members only.

EDIT: Oh right I get it now (mwah's post). As well as what I said, forum prizes would be good as an additional bonus :).

[lick]

event - something that happens at a given place and time

Thats my understanding of event, i dont see why events should not be in charge of "Habbox Balls" and other things like that, including chatshows. They should obv tell managment if they are hosting a ball or some other big event tho.

[The Professor]

event - something that happens at a given place and time

Thats my understanding of event, i dont see why events should not be in charge of "Habbox Balls" and other things like that, including chatshows. They should obv tell managment if they are hosting a ball or some other big event tho.

Productions failed because there was no demand for those sorts of things regularly. Maybe once a year or something but having it in the job description for a department isn't an option imo, too much work for little reward.

[Roxy]

As Lucy said we did make a list of events for the eos to use to help get rid of the easy option of quizzes etc, and personally I think the range of events has improved :P.

Someone said about there bieng more big events, weeelll we already have Back to school (January) Love week (February) Easter Extravaganza (Easter) HxSS (August) Halloween stuff (October) + Christmas events (December). Personally I think that's a fair amount because if there's too many they're not anything special. I do see what you're saying though, and not that long ago me and Lucy were talking about how to make the bigger events more interesting rather than just doing a week of events every time. It'd be helpful if you could tell me more about the kind of events other fansites are doing and how they work to *hopefully* spark our inspiration, or of course suggest some other ideas which we could use.

Forum events would be hard since events has always been a community based department and the only way I can think of doing a few on the forum would be to do with the chat, like a quiz on there or something with a forum prize. We'll be giving away VIP in regular events starting from september too so that'll hopefully bring a few more people from the forum to events since as there'll be a useful prize to them (I'm guessing the majority don't use Habbo anymore).

[lick]

Back to school (January) Love week (February) Easter Extravaganza (Easter) HxSS (August) Halloween stuff (October) + Christmas events (December). Personally I think that's a fair amount because if there's too many they're not anything special.

Yeah but i dont remember any of these but yet i remember when Clubhabbo had an apprentice two years ago, because it was big. And what kind of things did you do in these events? Was it just the same games that can be found in the Game room section?


It'd be helpful if you could tell me more about the kind of events other fansites are doing and how they work to *hopefully* spark our inspiration, or of course suggest some other ideas which we could use.

Fansites are basing there events on TV's shows which users like for example
The Apprentice,Big brother, Love Island,

Im sure you could make an X Factor forum event where people send in clips of them singing? And they prize can be a few months of VIP or maybe some rep.. or maybe something else?

[Roxy]

Yeah but i dont remember any of these but yet i remember when Clubhabbo had an apprentice two years ago, because it was big. And what kind of things did you do in these events? Was it just the same games that can be found in the Game room section?


Yeah it was just a load of games that can be found in the game room section, but most of them (if not all) had forum prizes, hence why I was asking for ideas on how we could make it different.



Fansites are basing there events on TV's shows which users like for example
The Apprentice,Big brother, Love Island,

Im sure you could make an X Factor forum event where people send in clips of them singing? And they prize can be a few months of VIP or maybe some rep.. or maybe something else?


There's already an X Factor event but it's run by HabboxLive and is better known as habboxstars. We'll have a think + hopefully we'll be able to get some more interesting events rather than just the usual events, but more in a day and bigger prizes.

[Dusty-09]

I agree with the points said from Mwah, the events have become repetitive and simple there's no originality in the events anymore.

@Mwah Habboxlive host the X Factor thing you're talking about, habbox starz so thats still running.

I think events should do team events more like a monthly TC and each eo has a room? Quests, long events. These events make more originality and creates a wider range of events which will make Habbox more interested. I think to run such events will be difficult but can be managed. The prizes need to be good as thats the whole objective of a player when they go to events - to win. It will be hard but events can pull it off!

[lick]

But how many forum members listen to Habboxlive? Its mostly Habbo users sending in Clips so maybe even a seprate one or just make that comp for the Forum users?

[Dusty-09]

Maybe a forum quiz which takes place for a space of a week and win vip or something? I don't know! But the forum is more for the FORUM Managers and people on the forum. Events is more for Habbo and Habbo events rather than on the forum. But I get what you're saying. Hopefully events will do something :)

[MissAlice]

I imagine it can be difficult to continually come up with new and exciting events.

Not sure if it's been done before, but something the Events Department could run is an Olympics. The Habbox Olympics.

Similar to the current summer event, but over a longer period of time. Coloured teams probably 4, or even fancy named ones. Lol, the Habbox Hotshots springs to mind. No staff leaders, staff to run the events and keep score.

Three or four events held during each week, over 4 weeks or so. For example a fridge race, 8 lanes, two players from each team to compete, you could even have a relay team event, and you must collect a specific item ie. something from the fridge, before you can race off. Give it some twists, you must be sitting with an icecream or similar to finish race. Make a simple race, a fun race.

How about an obstacle race? Again narrow lanes, use rollers, seating, plants or whatever. Not an over complicated maze. Again this could be used for a relay race.

Or how about a pet rescue, 8 players maximum at a time, 30 or so porters in one room, most are pairs, except 4 or 5 which lead to random rooms, but one does lead to the hidden pet. First 4 to find the pet earn points for their team and for themselves. This event could be run with 4 players, and easily run a few times. Shuffle the porters for each session.

Points awarded to first 4, 10 points for 1st, 7 points for 2nd, 5 points for 3rd, and 3 points for 4th or similar.

Winning team receive an award, and winning team members something special.

If it's so important to have Habbo Staff involved, why not ask them to come referee, or attend the awards ceremony, when winners take the podium.

I'm really out of touch with Habbo these days not having played for a long time, so forgive me if I'm talking rubbish if events like this do already exist.

*Vanishes*

[lick]

You could hold a Speed dateing event for forum only members, but just call it that but its really just for members to get to know people they dont/would not really talk to.

And make people post in a thread and then PM them a room PW so they can get into the room and it would stop normal Habbos / make them register and become active to take part in it..

God i think i should be events staff :P

[Black_Apalachi]

MissAlice sounds like the best events organiser ever :O.


*coughs* next month *coughs*

Ouu I'm excited :).

[luce]

event - something that happens at a given place and time

Thats my understanding of event, i dont see why events should not be in charge of "Habbox Balls" and other things like that, including chatshows. They should obv tell managment if they are hosting a ball or some other big event tho.

Ok well if you look at the departments in Habbox alot of what you want is covered.

Habboxlive - Habbox Starz (singing) and All the Balls ie Halloween, christmas etc etc mainly because they have the radio to do all this.

Comps - Well looks like they have the forum quest sortid

Events - HxSS, Love Week etc.

I think the best idea for a big event has come from MissAlice with Habbo Olympics, you say all the other fansites have HBB etc. We don't want to be like other fansites and follow in their footsteps so i would try as hard as possible not to do love island and so forth but i would be more then happy to organize Olympics.

[Molly.22]

Ok well if you look at the departments in Habbox alot of what you want is covered.

Habboxlive - Habbox Starz (singing) and All the Balls ie Halloween, christmas etc etc mainly because they have the radio to do all this.

Comps - Well looks like they have the forum quest sortid

Events - HxSS, Love Week etc.

I think the best idea for a big event has come from MissAlice with Habbo Olympics, you say all the other fansites have HBB etc. We don't want to be like other fansites and follow in their footsteps so i would try as hard as possible not to do love island and so forth but i would be more then happy to organize Olympics.

I do agree with you Lucy,

If we did a HBB or The Apprentice this would be copying and would give Habbox no originality what so ever. I do like the sound of a Olympics though. :P




I do think that Habbox Events can get repetitive sometimes but I admit myself I could pick events which a lot of people don't do very often. :)

[nvrspk4]

In fairness to the events team, with an outgoing Community AGM this thing was thrown together in a HURRY. I remember when I was events managed I forced things to be very different and there were a ton of different events. Also last year we had departments doing events (we did the year before that too) so there was a lot of difference.

A HUGE amount of the burden this year fell on Events and they also didn't have the time I did to deny events that were Falling Furni again (though I'm sure they can verify it, the booking thread is somewhere in the archives) because they needed to fill every slot - pronto.

As far as big events, Habbox does TONS of them. A lot of people do remember the spectacular, there's Habbox Stars etc.

The reaosn you remember what CH does is because CH is a much smaller forum. Its much easier to know everything that's going on because you can keep track. Habbox is much larger and you can be busier keeping track of the new information in a single section than the CH forum.

That's not an attempt to rip ClubHabbo - we have become two different types of fansites, Habbox has a large userbase and is the more dominant fansite HOWEVER ClubHabbo has a small but very faithful community and is much more tightly knit BECAUSE it has a smaller community and as I said, its very difficult to miss users as you can here because you can spend your entire day occupying a single forum :P

[dogboy123]

OK, this is what realllyyy annoys me

Im hosting a game trapped now, a different event not ff etc.

But then i get this crap that im being biased and that im unfair, you ask for different events then you complain about them?

[lick]

OK, this is what realllyyy annoys me

Im hosting a game trapped now, a different event not ff etc.

But then i get this crap that im being biased and that im unfair, you ask for different events then you complain about them?

What are talking about? I made this thread LAST NIGHT before your "original" event and no one said you where being biased?

[dogboy123]

What are talking about? I made this thread LAST NIGHT before your "original" event and no one said you where being biased?

Yes ino, and other people complain but this is what you sometimes get with different events, people will find away to complain about it and hence organisers get put off

[lick]

I have never seen any thread complaining about events before, so can you show me one to back your point up please?

[dogboy123]

Why does Habbox have the near enough the same events every week? Looking back before HxSS they events have been

Falling Furni, Twisted Falling Furni, Snake, Don't Roll a 6, Races, Don t Roll a 6, Falling Furni

What makes people choose these events over the hundreds of similar events that you can find by going to


Its gone a bit off topic, but I'm trying to say that with these big events that you want, people will complain and find a way to criticse it and that does get really annoying after a while when you try your best to bring new things in and get shot down

[lick]

How do you know they will complain?

[The Professor]

Its gone a bit off topic, but I'm trying to say that with these big events that you want, people will complain and find a way to criticse it and that does get really annoying after a while when you try your best to bring new things in and get shot down

As much as I know you're feeling victimised for whatever reason and I hate to add to that, but that really is the wrong attitude. If nvr and MattGarner said "yknow what, we aren't going to make any changes to improve the forum any more because people might criticise us" there would be uproar. You have to do adventurous things to improve and keep things fresh. If people criticise you for it, you take it on board and alter what you're doing to please the critics (or tell them to sthu :P). Criticism is a good thing, treat it as such!

[lick]

As much as I know you're feeling victimised for whatever reason and I hate to add to that, but that really is the wrong attitude. If nvr and MattGarner said "yknow what, we aren't going to make any changes to improve the forum any more because people might criticise us" there would be uproar. You have to do adventurous things to improve and keep things fresh. If people criticise you for it, you take it on board and alter what you're doing to please the critics (or tell them to sthu :P). Criticism is a good thing, treat it as such!

Yeah i agree with that and i dont know why he feels like that.. no one is complaining everyone is just suggesting way in which events can improve. It's not like im saying "HABBOX EVENTS ARE **** CLOSE THE DEPARTMENT"

[Inseriousity.]

Yeah i agree with that and i dont know why he feels like that.. no one is complaining everyone is just suggesting way in which events can improve. It's not like im saying "HABBOX EVENTS ARE **** CLOSE THE DEPARTMENT"

Maybe he's talking about complaints he recieved on Habbo not HabboxForum?

Although I do agree with Alex (as always :D)

[nvrspk4]

In fairness to Dogboy, I think the point he was making can only be illustrated by the on-Habbo response.

A LOT of events (Furni Trap, Pick Me Up, Cozzie Change, Dropper, etc.) can be called on favoritism and honestly there's no way to fully disprove favoritism except *intentionally* getting those you are friends with out. Then we have reverse favoritism :P

The point he's making is that Staff are limited in the number of events that they can do without being accused of favoritism, and when they try events that really aren't that biased (ie Mocha Thief) there are those who accuse them of bias anyway.

That said I don't think that the issue of favoritism necessarily eliminates every possible different game that could be done, however I can also see his point. Though perhaps it would have been better made when he wasn't upset with people who had obviously been rather irritating and unfair.