Habbox Q2 2011 - What would you like to see?

[Hecktix]

I know there's already a thread for Habbox V6 but this thread is about Habbox in general.

What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months?
What would you like to see from Habbox Events in the coming months?
What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months?
What would you like to see from HabboxLive in the coming months?
What would you like to see from Rare Values in the coming months?
What would you like to see from Competitions in the coming months?

You can give Habbox.com content feedback in the other thread but any ideas that affect the whole of Habbox can be put here.

+Rep to all good feedback.

[iLogan]

Scrap HabboxLive & Merge w/ Hx, I think you're going to be doing that anyway?

[Alex3213]

What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months?


More departmental competitions
Definitely more of the bigger events, there were lots before and it worked surprisingly well. Now I have the impression that you're all "idead-out" and I'm sure that's not the case so I think that HabboxForum should start having that idea with the events again, it worked well. Maybe they could team up with Habbox Events.


What would you like to see from Habbox Events in the coming months?


More departmental competitions - definitely here as they've already done a couple and the ideas can be so varied
More weekly events which are original. There used to be 3 original events and now there's just one plus a quiz and bingo. Sure these are nice but a permanent event really has to have something which differentiates it from the same old, same old.


What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months?


More departmental competitions
Less clashing with the Habbox Events department, start communicating, it's something Habbox does lack I'm afraid and really needs to be worked on.
Talkshows etc. - wasn't there meant to be some sort of Meet the GM team or am I just dreaming?! :P If you could get a Habbo staff in that'd be rather cool, whether or not that's possible or not as I know it is hard I don't know.
Safety night. I'll just copy what I wrote before: "I once again bring up the idea of the Habbox Safety Schmooze! Maybe sometime on a Sunday, perhaps like 1pm so then you've got 11pm AEST, 1pm BST, 8am EST so it's quite fair for most people and doesn't get in the way of Prize Collection if people need to go there. Of course a safety quiz is a must to see how much people know anyway and maybe the second section could be half planned and half improvised, the staff check out what answers were wrong from some people and then explain why to give them a better understanding. I think it'd be really useful to get something like this up so it does promote the safety aspects of being on Habbo."
Have something existing in the 2nd area, why was it all removed? Pointless?!


What would you like to see from HabboxLive in the coming months?


More departmental competitions
More advertisement of permanent shows. HabboxLive have done a lot of giveaways etc. recently which is fantastic but let's put it into context: they're a radio department. What I think is lacking is the permanent shows and how much they're advertised and possibly their uniqueness. It'd be interesting to have more non-Habbo weekly shows because these aren't on a frequent basis (i.e. every other hour) and it means they suit others, possibly even Habbo users because after all, we all have lives and that means they don't just expect everything to be "80 LISTENERS TO WIN HC SOFAZZZZ", they expect some goss for example! :P


What would you like to see from Rare Values in the coming months?


More departmental competitions
Bring back Trade Tips, it will work as long as it's being stuck to as the last couple of times the person writing it just got fed up and lacked motivation and enjoyment of writing it.


I'll continue writing anything I think of :)

[Neversoft]

Smiddy's Shack.

[Alex3213]

Ah right yeah I know what I was going to write.

I don't know how the Staff List of Events for the Events Department is going, I know I was going to start on this but then I resigned however if that's been done this idea could be rather useful for the department.

When the HxF calendar was used for events, what happened was that a sentence would explain the game, for example: "Run to the seats before everyone else in tonight's Fallin' Furni hosted by Dilusionate at 8pm!" I was thinking we could base the idea off that, if the List of Events has been written this'd be rather easy to implement (not so sure about the coding side of it mind you!!!) There could be a page where it explains most events (maybe even add original ones) for example "To play this game you need to try your best to run to the seats as fast as you can!" or something for FF and "This game involves you repeating whatever the host says quickly and accurately" for Fastest Typer. Then when events are added to the calendar, it recognises the name of the event, for example "POD RACING" and will then take the description of Pod Racing so when you hover over the game in the event widget it'll tell you a brief description of the game. It means people will understand how to play the game before even arriving, or at least have some sort of idea about it. This will take quite a lot of work if the List of Events hasn't been updated but if it has, you'll have achieved three things:

1) The staff list of events will therefore be fully updated and more game variation will occur.
2) There'll be a list of events as part of the Habbox.com content meaning that people who don't understand how to play games in the first place will be able to learn.
3) Same sort of thing as 2 really but it'll explain the events before arriving to them by using the events widget.

Is it possible? Is it functional? I'm not sure about the first answer but the second I definitely would say it would be. As I said, it'll take hard work if the LOE hasn't been finished but it'd be a rather cool feature to have. :D

[Grig]

For HabboxLive, as Alex said they need better perm shows. In the olden days, we used to have shows that defined the radio stations, things like Primetime Live, F5, Vault Show, Chatterbox etc. These were shows that people would clear their schedule to tune in for, because they were unique and each of them were extremely well structured and promoted. I feel this is a further issue for HabboxLive to improve on, are such shows etc.

Also, I feel that we are again moving away from recognizing HabboxLive being an international fansites. I mostly see events during the UK primetimes and I feel we need more promotion of the EST and even more so of the AEST timezones. When I was Head DJ, I tried my hardest to make sure my timezone was being recognized with things like giveaways, setting up smaller events or shows etc. You could even have perm shows during these timezones. Of course the recognition is that the fansite is more predominantly aimed at the folks from the UK, but we must not swerve from the int. times.

[Alex3213]

For HabboxLive, as Alex said they need better perm shows. In the olden days, we used to have shows that defined the radio stations, things like Primetime Live, F5, Vault Show, Chatterbox etc. These were shows that people would clear their schedule to tune in for, because they were unique and each of them were extremely well structured and promoted. I feel this is a further issue for HabboxLive to improve on, are such shows etc.

Also, I feel that we are again moving away from recognizing HabboxLive being an international fansites. I mostly see events during the UK primetimes and I feel we need more promotion of the EST and even more so of the AEST timezones. When I was Head DJ, I tried my hardest to make sure my timezone was being recognized with things like giveaways, setting up smaller events or shows etc. You could even have perm shows during these timezones. Of course the recognition is that the fansite is more predominantly aimed at the folks from the UK, but we must not swerve from the int. times.

Yeah I agree despite you using the i word! :P The amount of events have been fantastic but if you're going to do them they should be spread out and really promoting the AEST and EST users. This is something events need to work on too because otherwise you've got two departments battling because they are all trying to do as much in the BST timezone. I noticed it a few weeks ago where I saw quite a lot of HabboxLive Habbo related events going on at the time as events. COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY: IT IS NOT HARD TO HAVE A QUICK CHIT CHAT OR A PM OR A VISITOR MESSAGE OR SOMETHING. It is something Habbox lacks (I think I did mention that in my first post) and more adventurous could be tried if there was a little talk somewhere across the line.

[AgnesIO]

For HabboxLive, as Alex said they need better perm shows. In the olden days, we used to have shows that defined the radio stations, things like Primetime Live, F5, Vault Show, Chatterbox etc. These were shows that people would clear their schedule to tune in for, because they were unique and each of them were extremely well structured and promoted. I feel this is a further issue for HabboxLive to improve on, are such shows etc.

Also, I feel that we are again moving away from recognizing HabboxLive being an international fansites. I mostly see events during the UK primetimes and I feel we need more promotion of the EST and even more so of the AEST timezones. When I was Head DJ, I tried my hardest to make sure my timezone was being recognized with things like giveaways, setting up smaller events or shows etc. You could even have perm shows during these timezones. Of course the recognition is that the fansite is more predominantly aimed at the folks from the UK, but we must not swerve from the int. times.

Let's not forget that HabboxLive is not the fansite - Habbox is.

The problem is, the large majority of our users are British. So more applications fgor jobs will be sent in from those in Britain, meaning there is a higher chance the successful applicants are British.

[scott]

For HabboxLive, as Alex said they need better perm shows. In the olden days, we used to have shows that defined the radio stations, things like Primetime Live, F5, Vault Show, Chatterbox etc. These were shows that people would clear their schedule to tune in for, because they were unique and each of them were extremely well structured and promoted. I feel this is a further issue for HabboxLive to improve on, are such shows etc.

Also, I feel that we are again moving away from recognizing HabboxLive being an international fansites. I mostly see events during the UK primetimes and I feel we need more promotion of the EST and even more so of the AEST timezones. When I was Head DJ, I tried my hardest to make sure my timezone was being recognized with things like giveaways, setting up smaller events or shows etc. You could even have perm shows during these timezones. Of course the recognition is that the fansite is more predominantly aimed at the folks from the UK, but we must not swerve from the int. times.

I know something that Jess is working on currently is perm shows so I think there will be a few changes / additions to them soon probably!

Whenever we have giveaways we always have one at uk/est/aest times. I'm always the one that tends to stay up to 3am doing the giveaway and Jess is on at 9am to do aest giveaways. I just think that giveaways is something that needs to be worked but when you're lacking in furni it doesn't really help! :P


Yeah I agree despite you using the i word! :P The amount of events have been fantastic but if you're going to do them they should be spread out and really promoting the AEST and EST users. This is something events need to work on too because otherwise you've got two departments battling because they are all trying to do as much in the BST timezone. I noticed it a few weeks ago where I saw quite a lot of HabboxLive Habbo related events going on at the time as events. COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY: IT IS NOT HARD TO HAVE A QUICK CHIT CHAT OR A PM OR A VISITOR MESSAGE OR SOMETHING. It is something Habbox lacks (I think I did mention that in my first post) and more adventurous could be tried if there was a little talk somewhere across the line.

I'll get shot down for saying this or called selfish but I don't care. The bit about "HabboxLive and events battling out because they are doing too much at the same time" I totally disagree, HabboxLive may be a part of Habbox (yes i'm quite aware that it's part of Habbox before that excuse comes out) but it is also it's own department and site (at the moment) . The fact that we can't have events at the same time as HxEvents is silly. It's all HABBOXLIVE MUST ADVERTISE EVENTS, YOU MUST DO IT. What do we get back from events for sending all the people to their events? Absolutely nothing. Not once recently have I seen HabboxLive mentioned in any events so it's not promoting Habboxlive and then if we can't do our own events and habbox events are not promoting habboxlive then that's when HabboxLive listeners start to fall.


What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months?

Some more bigger events would be good. I know that section competitions were starting to come back slowly and I think that is something else that there could be a few more of. I like the "Quick Quizzes" that are posted in the notices so certainly keep them. When I say more bigger events I mean the sort of things like Big Brother but not big brother because that was too long (But it could work if it was shorter)!

What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months?

More events :p I know they have that separate bit of the room now and for ages they have said "It's great we can do more events!!!" & everyone posted saying it's been said before it's a great idea but events will need to be done regularly and I think i've seen like two or three. It's certainly an improvement and it's good to see the SNQ going ahead most weeks too :)

[Grig]

@sct: Isn't the point of having a Head DJ from every timezone there so that they can do events? Otherwise that just defeats one of the points of doing so (obviously apart from the DJ monitoring jibber jabber). You guys shouldn't have to be the ones staying up late for that :p. Also, I'd be weary to start being overly reliant on giveaways!

[scott]

@sct: Isn't the point of having a Head DJ from every timezone there so that they can do events? Otherwise that just defeats one of the points of doing so (obviously apart from the DJ monitoring jibber jabber). You guys shouldn't have to be the ones staying up late for that :p. Also, I'd be weary to start being overly reliant on giveaways!

Yeah but at the time when you left we were without one for quite a bit so I guess that's why it happened that I ended up doing it :P We aren't relying on giveaways we do have quite a lot of eventy sort of things planned for next week which I think will be announced soooon.

[AgnesIO]

I know something that Jess is working on currently is perm shows so I think there will be a few changes / additions to them soon probably!

Whenever we have giveaways we always have one at uk/est/aest times. I'm always the one that tends to stay up to 3am doing the giveaway and Jess is on at 9am to do aest giveaways. I just think that giveaways is something that needs to be worked but when you're lacking in furni it doesn't really help! :P



I'll get shot down for saying this or called selfish but I don't care. The bit about "HabboxLive and events battling out because they are doing too much at the same time" I totally disagree, HabboxLive may be a part of Habbox (yes i'm quite aware that it's part of Habbox before that excuse comes out) but it is also it's own department and site (at the moment) . The fact that we can't have events at the same time as HxEvents is silly. It's all HABBOXLIVE MUST ADVERTISE EVENTS, YOU MUST DO IT. What do we get back from events for sending all the people to their events? Absolutely nothing. Not once recently have I seen HabboxLive mentioned in any events so it's not promoting Habboxlive and then if we can't do our own events and habbox events are not promoting habboxlive then that's when HabboxLive listeners start to fall.


What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months?

Some more bigger events would be good. I know that section competitions were starting to come back slowly and I think that is something else that there could be a few more of. I like the "Quick Quizzes" that are posted in the notices so certainly keep them. When I say more bigger events I mean the sort of things like Big Brother but not big brother because that was too long (But it could work if it was shorter)!

What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months?

More events :p I know they have that separate bit of the room now and for ages they have said "It's great we can do more events!!!" & everyone posted saying it's been said before it's a great idea but events will need to be done regularly and I think i've seen like two or three. It's certainly an improvement and it's good to see the SNQ going ahead most weeks too :)

Luckily that problem will soon be solved when HxL merges with Hx. I think it is important to take in to account that Habbox.com is always talked about at events - and Habbox has a radio on it too - so people will still find out about HabboxLive.

[Alex3213]

I'll get shot down for saying this or called selfish but I don't care. The bit about "HabboxLive and events battling out because they are doing too much at the same time" I totally disagree, HabboxLive may be a part of Habbox (yes i'm quite aware that it's part of Habbox before that excuse comes out) but it is also it's own department and site (at the moment) . The fact that we can't have events at the same time as HxEvents is silly. It's all HABBOXLIVE MUST ADVERTISE EVENTS, YOU MUST DO IT. What do we get back from events for sending all the people to their events? Absolutely nothing. Not once recently have I seen HabboxLive mentioned in any events so it's not promoting Habboxlive and then if we can't do our own events and habbox events are not promoting habboxlive then that's when HabboxLive listeners start to fall.

By no means am I suggesting that you're being selfish. In fact I agree with you and I actually never said the comment was directed at your department! There needs to be some communication going on, though- it defeats the whole object. Whether that means times are specifically done for your department where events stay clear then maybe. After all, if you've got two events going on at one time you're bound to have less new people going to both events. I think there is a huge battle between the departments. A department is part of one thing, in this case Habbox. Remember that when you are one thing you need to work together and I think there is a loss for more improvement because of this battle whether or not you agree. Both rooms suffer (or at least suffer more than they could), uh oh problem. I must admit I disagree with the fact that it seems to be all "A DJ MUST COME TO THIS EVENT" - when I was SEO I rarely requested DJs because of this. However, also as SEO I never noticed one bit of communication between HabboxLive and Events apart from the DJ requests. There needs to be a lot more of it. And no, it doesn't just go for those two departments, it goes for Habbox as a whole as it really does lose its bone structure and looks like it's unprepared when there's this, that and the other all going on at the same time. I noticed when there was a weekly event on at 8pm (or 7 can't remember) Wednesday there wasn't much communication with the forum, seeing as they have a takeover then.

In addition, I agree with Milestone.

[Mathew]

I'll get shot down for saying this or called selfish but I don't care. The bit about "HabboxLive and events battling out because they are doing too much at the same time" I totally disagree, HabboxLive may be a part of Habbox (yes i'm quite aware that it's part of Habbox before that excuse comes out) but it is also it's own department and site (at the moment) . The fact that we can't have events at the same time as HxEvents is silly. It's all HABBOXLIVE MUST ADVERTISE EVENTS, YOU MUST DO IT. What do we get back from events for sending all the people to their events? Absolutely nothing. Not once recently have I seen HabboxLive mentioned in any events so it's not promoting Habboxlive and then if we can't do our own events and habbox events are not promoting habboxlive then that's when HabboxLive listeners start to fall.
And what do HabboxEvents get back from holding them? Events is the department which does the advertising for the Forum, HxL and the site, we don't have any direct benefits :P
I don't think this is worth commenting on really because Habbox and HxL will hopefully be merged shortly, which is such good news. I'm gonna be honest and say I've always frowned upon HxL - it's always been such a distant section of Habbox, lacking communication and everyone pretty much leaves you guys to just get on with whatever. I'm not gonna complain because I know Oli is working on it with recent stuff, but for years I've always been surprised how special themed weeks and events just spring up without any real notification to anyone else.

Oh and it's not an excuse. It's the truth. HabboxLive is part of Habbox.com and departments should be working together to achieve one common goal.. and that is to promote it as much as possible. That isn't going to happen when there's two events running with a tiny amount of people in each.


By no means am I suggesting that you're being selfish. In fact I agree with you and I actually never said the comment was directed at your department! There needs to be some communication going on, though- it defeats the whole object. Whether that means times are specifically done for your department where events stay clear then maybe. After all, if you've got two events going on at one time you're bound to have less new people going to both events. I think there is a huge battle between the departments. A department is part of one thing, in this case Habbox. Remember that when you are one thing you need to work together and I think there is a loss for more improvement because of this battle whether or not you agree. Both rooms suffer (or at least suffer more than they could), uh oh problem. I must admit I disagree with the fact that it seems to be all "A DJ MUST COME TO THIS EVENT" - when I was SEO I rarely requested DJs because of this. However, also as SEO I never noticed one bit of communication between HabboxLive and Events apart from the DJ requests. There needs to be a lot more of it. And no, it doesn't just go for those two departments, it goes for Habbox as a whole as it really does lose its bone structure and looks like it's unprepared when there's this, that and the other all going on at the same time. I noticed when there was a weekly event on at 8pm (or 7 can't remember) Wednesday there wasn't much communication with the forum, seeing as they have a takeover then.
If depts want a time specifically putting aside then they know who to contact. Otherwise, events is just gonna keep trying to fill as many times as possible.

Also (this is in reply to sct too) about requesting DJs. That forum is being scrapped and HxL will be asked to mention all events on air (the DJ doesn't necessarily have to visit the room). This sounds perfect to me as it's cutting down on admin work by requesting DJs, adding to panels, etc... DJs can just take a look at the daily events before their show and see what needs mentioning. At the end of the day, I see it as departments working together to achieve that common goal as opposed to "we're doing all this advertising and seeing no benefits" :)

[FlyingJesus]

Bring back the Shack!

[Catzsy]

Bring back the Shack!

Agree totally. It was a Habbox Institution. I would like to see more interaction with members by all the staff.
Some already do but quite a lot just stick to their jobs which is not Community spirit really in my view. Controversially I would like to see a spam thread in all major sections i.e. Habbo Spam, Games, Spam, Tech Spam, Sports Spam (no post count). This idea will probably go down like a lead balloon but I do think that
there are communities within communities who would favour this and add to the popularity of the forum.

[Nemo]

Smiddy's Shack and Classic skin.

[AgnesIO]

Agree totally. It was a Habbox Institution. I would like to see more interaction with members by all the staff.
Some already do but quite a lot just stick to their jobs which is not Community spirit really in my view. Controversially I would like to see a spam thread in all major sections i.e. Habbo Spam, Games, Spam, Tech Spam, Sports Spam (no post count). This idea will probably go down like a lead balloon but I do think that
there are communities within communities who would favour this and add to the popularity of the forum.

I don't think it would be right to look at normal staff for not posting, when not even an Assistant Manager posts!

Would it be possible to add one thread withoit post count? If so, brilliant idea!

[Mathew]

I don't think it would be right to look at normal staff for not posting, when not even an Assistant Manager posts!

Would it be possible to add one thread withoit post count? If so, brilliant idea!
lololol

Yeah I also think it would be great if there was the option of a Spam Thread in each of the main sections :)!

[Hecktix]

I like the idea of the spam threads although I don't think it's possible to make one thread without post count.

[Catzsy]

I like the idea of the spam threads although I don't think it's possible to make one thread without post count.

That's a shame as I really think it would add a lot of popularity. I guess a sub forum would be too much? :( @ Dom, I meant all staff not just normal staff. :P :D

[Calvin]

I like the idea of the spam threads although I don't think it's possible to make one thread without post count.Allow post count perhaps, but make sure they're closely moderated and talking about the topic.

[Hecktix]

Allow post count perhaps, but make sure they're closely moderated and talking about the topic.

Perhaps, do we not think this idea may stop new threads being made though? I think it may help in spam

[Inseriousity.]

Perhaps, do we not think this idea may stop new threads being made though? I think it may help in spam

I personally think it'd stop threads being made if there's a spam thread. Sure, there can be an active discussion but if it's all in one thread, it makes the forum look worthless.

[FlyingJesus]

To be honest, the only section that would truly benefit from its own spam section would be in the Habbo forums, as anything in there would of course be geared for those who actually play which is still a pretty hefty number of our members, but they don't have the sort of subcommunity that areas like RS and anime section do. Those guys could really post their rubbish in normal spam and have enough e-chums to not feel like total outcasts, but the Habbo forums don't have enough cohesion between regulars to actually bother getting involved in threads that they'll get shot down for

[RockyHorror]

18+ forum.

[Josh]

V7

More events for international ok ok ty

[Chippiewill]

At the moment you may as well rename the Spam forum to Smiddy's shack, re-enable post counting and make a new spam forum, because the quality of the posts in there is currently substantially higher than in Discuss anything since rather than trying to get posts by asking questions about things they don't care about in order to win some silly competition, people are actually enquiring about other people's daily lives and having fun film bonding sessions. And at the moment lots of forums already have spam threads anyway, for example "Post what you're listening to' or 'What did you last watch' (When was the last time you read through such a thread just to read what another person has watched recently, it doesn't make sense because if you want to talk about the Artist or the TV programme or the song and show specifically then you can just make a new thread about it)

I'm not sure why management would be that bothered about having threads in forums that would have substantially higher posting quality than the current 'Post your' threads that we currently have, even if left unmoderated, in fact I would crave for a general technology thread where I can talk about stuff that doesn't really merit a thread (ie 'here's some cool PC case mod that I've just found' or 'where's the best place to buy memory sticks), just simple short things.

[-Danube-]

What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months?


A referral competition. Obviously at the moment we are having a posting competition which is controversial to some people. But a referral competition maybe an alright idea. Get members of the forum to go out around Habbo (or even different sites to attract people to our other forums that are non-habbo based, which have a nice little community going already) and spread the word about HabboxForum.com and help them in signing up and get them posting.



The return of the Classic Skin. Obviously i can now see it as i'm admin but everyone else wants it too. When i wasn't admin i was seriously lost without it, not even joking.


What would you like to see from Habbox Events in the coming months?


An event an hour. Yeah this may seem ridiculous but it should be what they should aim for. I mean HabboxLive manage to basically have the radio covered for most of the day every day, so events should branch out and get more international staff and get them to cover events for that time zone. This should attract a larger fanbase from different timezones to Habbox which is still dominated by GMT people (although we do have a large array of people for all different timezones now, which is natural due to the merge)



The requirement to do events in 50/50 rooms rather than 25/25 rooms. Alot of events are getting packed full lately and it's hard to get it. Not only that but if you get a 25/25 room full you still will not get the room on the 'Room with Most Visitors' part of the navigator. If you use a 50/50 room you only need to get like 30+ people in the room and you are on that part of the navigator. This means more exposure for Habbox.com as the URL will be in the Room Name. You could use the 50/50 room like HxHD if you want to keep similar room dimensions as a standard 25/25 room.


What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months?


Roxy is really into events and with the new events stage more things are happening in there. I think maybe HxHD should aim for a Perm Event each night of the week, like they has SNQ on a Saturday, they should do some event for each day of the week, every week. This could be run by ANY member of staff from ANY department.



Creating Habbo Events in the room. I've seen Martin doing this alot whilst sat in the room, where you make one of the Room Events on Habbo, this attracts alot of new people to the room and this should continue to be done.


What would you like to see from HabboxLive in the coming months?



I'm very much Pro Hx & HxL Merge. It seems pointless to have 2 separate sites, there really is no argument for keeping both as they same could be done on each site. Alot of DJs just advertise www.Habboxlive.com which does not attract people to Habbox.com itself, which is the official fansite and it has loads more content on it for other departments like News, Rare Values and Forum.

What would you like to see from Rare Values in the coming months?



This was something i was going to do if i was still RV manager. I was going to set up a script that would detect new additions to furni on Habbo as they come in and do news articles on them. I understand it could be seen as 'Releasing unreleased information' which is against the Habbo Fansite Way, but other fansites get away with it like Habbotimes.de etc So i think there wouldn't be an issue. And if there was Sulake would just say so and we'd remove the feature.



RV needs to do more Community Events, i am guilty of not doing this myself. Although i did have a massive RV Quest planned and finished and regular HxHD Takeovers were in planning stages.

What would you like to see from Competitions in the coming months?



Less spammage of www.Habbox.com/Comps :P Jokes. I really cant think of anything. Maybe we could introduce something like a Rep Quota? Oh wait.... (Sorry mike it was too tempting.

[Catzsy]

To be honest, the only section that would truly benefit from its own spam section would be in the Habbo forums, as anything in there would of course be geared for those who actually play which is still a pretty hefty number of our members, but they don't have the sort of subcommunity that areas like RS and anime section do. Those guys could really post their rubbish in normal spam and have enough e-chums to not feel like total outcasts, but the Habbo forums don't have enough cohesion between regulars to actually bother getting involved in threads that they'll get shot down for

I think the tech and runescape communties are pretty close too, among others, and might welcome a chance just to lay back and chat. :)

[Mathew]

Obviously i can now see it as i'm admin but everyone else wants it too. When i wasn't admin i was seriously lost without it, not even joking.
Just thought you'd slip that in? :P


What would you like to see from Habbox Events in the coming months?



An event an hour. Yeah this may seem ridiculous but it should be what they should aim for. I mean HabboxLive manage to basically have the radio covered for most of the day every day, so events should branch out and get more international staff and get them to cover events for that time zone. This should attract a larger fanbase from different timezones to Habbox which is still dominated by GMT people (although we do have a large array of people for all different timezones now, which is natural due to the merge)


Habbox Events isn't HabboxLive. Simple.
Events Organisers have to find time in their busy schedule, think of an idea, book the event, make the room, announce the event, get the event popular, host the event, request reputation, get prizes, give out prizes, and sometimes request points to be added to a leaderboard. They're not robots and I think it's silly to expect them to be.

Oh and yeah, find us some international people who are willing to host events and then get back :)




The requirement to do events in 50/50 rooms rather than 25/25 rooms. Alot of events are getting packed full lately and it's hard to get it. Not only that but if you get a 25/25 room full you still will not get the room on the 'Room with Most Visitors' part of the navigator. If you use a 50/50 room you only need to get like 30+ people in the room and you are on that part of the navigator. This means more exposure for Habbox.com as the URL will be in the Room Name. You could use the 50/50 room like HxHD if you want to keep similar room dimensions as a standard 25/25 room.


Indeed, events are "getting packed full lately" because it's Easter and it's the school holidays. In the quieter months and on school nights, it's not always easy to get 15 people, let alone 25.
I made a thread in the Events Organiser section a couple of days ago advising events to be held in the large V9 rooms for the Easter period. Introducing yet another requirement is silly.

Thanks for your ideas :)

[FlyingJesus]

I think the tech and runescape communties are pretty close too, among others, and might welcome a chance just to lay back and chat. :)

Aye you're right that was kinda my point though - they're close enough that they could make threads in the current spam and have enough of them take part to not feel like they "can't" post there. Back in the olllllllld days RS guys used to invade spam almost daily without being told (too often :P) where to go and I know it died for a while but there seems to have been a revival there

[Catzsy]

Aye you're right that was kinda my point though - they're close enough that they could make threads in the current spam and have enough of them take part to not feel like they "can't" post there. Back in the olllllllld days RS guys used to invade spam almost daily without being told (too often :P) where to go and I know it died for a while but there seems to have been a revival there

Well it would be great to see! :)

[Recursion]

Less strict moderation, more strict super moderator guidelines.

[smiffy70]

What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months? A brand new update for the site skin to match what we currently have

What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months? Design a help desk competition where people get shortlisted and the best design becomes he real help desk for a month or two

What would you like to see from HabboxLive in the coming months? A new layout for the habboxlive.com site + more server trials

What would you like to see from Competitions in the coming months? more competitions with BIG prizes

What would you like to see from Events in the coming months? A lot more staff v member based games

[scott]

Just thought you'd slip that in? :P


Habbox Events isn't HabboxLive. Simple.
Events Organisers have to find time in their busy schedule, think of an idea, book the event, make the room, announce the event, get the event popular, host the event, request reputation, get prizes, give out prizes, and sometimes request points to be added to a leaderboard. They're not robots and I think it's silly to expect them to be.

DJs need to find time in their schedule to book a slot as well. They have to plan a show and think of an idea to do during the show. They need to make a party room or at least find a party room or if they are doing a special event they need to organise that as well, they need to advertise the party room (as well as advertising your events which goes towards getting them popular) they need to spend the full hour hosting their show as well as putting a lot of time and effort into it. They have to make sure they have prizes and issue prizes during or after their show as well so I don't understand why you think it's so much different but just as much work goes into the DJs show as events organisers put into their events. The requirement for a DJ is 3 hours a week at least and I think it's 4 a month for events?

Maybe the events should have to do more than 4 a month and there would be quite a lot more.

[,Jess,]

What would you like to see from HabboxLive in the coming months? A new layout for the habboxlive.com site + more server trials


There will be some server trials in the next week, should be details about when in the next couple of days :)

[Mathew]

DJs need to find time in their schedule to book a slot as well. They have to plan a show and think of an idea to do during the show. They need to make a party room or at least find a party room or if they are doing a special event they need to organise that as well, they need to advertise the party room (as well as advertising your events which goes towards getting them popular) they need to spend the full hour hosting their show as well as putting a lot of time and effort into it. They have to make sure they have prizes and issue prizes during or after their show as well so I don't understand why you think it's so much different but just as much work goes into the DJs show as events organisers put into their events. The requirement for a DJ is 3 hours a week at least and I think it's 4 a month for events?

Maybe the events should have to do more than 4 a month and there would be quite a lot more.
Yeahhh, EOs are required to do at least 1 event per week (while ensuring it adds up to 5 a month). To be fair, I wouldn't say no to the requirement being raised because the majority do it anyway.

It's also worth noting that HabboxLive has 42 DJs which is, on average in a 168 hour week, only 4 hours per DJ.
Fitting that ratio to the events team which only has 12 people at present (albeit adding a bunch of trialists shortly), EOs would have to do 14 events per week. Our staff limit at events is 25 which still means 6 events per week; not impossible, but shouldn't be expected. There's the reason why Events can't be compared to HabboxLive and shouldn't be expected to perform 24 hours a day.

[scott]

Yeahhh, EOs are required to do at least 1 event per week (while ensuring it adds up to 5 a month). To be fair, I wouldn't say no to the requirement being raised because the majority do it anyway.

It's also worth noting that HabboxLive has 42 DJs which is, on average in a 168 hour week, only 4 hours per DJ.
Fitting that ratio to the events team which only has 12 people at present (albeit adding a bunch of trialists shortly), EOs would have to do 14 events per week. Our staff limit at events is 25 which still means 6 events per week; not impossible, but shouldn't be expected. There's the reason why Events can't be compared to HabboxLive and shouldn't be expected to perform 24 hours a day.

Well if they did 3 a week that would tripple the amount you have just now which would fill the time up quite a bit. Posting an announcement as well doesn't take ages either it takes about 30 seconds lol :P But I think Dan meant that in the future what he would like to see was more events which with more staff and an upped amount of required events would start to do.

[Phil]

Well if they did 3 a week that would tripple the amount you have just now which would fill the time up quite a bit. Posting an announcement as well doesn't take ages either it takes about 30 seconds lol :P But I think Dan meant that in the future what he would like to see was more events which with more staff and an upped amount of required events would start to do.

Although we ask our staff to do 1 event per week we expect more and they know that, however, if we asked them to do three per wee/12-15 per month I think it's a lot to ask because the have to spend their own furni for prizes. I myself would agree with the limit being raised but some people just can't afford that.

[Inseriousity.]

What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months? A brand new update for the site skin to match what we currently have

What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months? Design a help desk competition where people get shortlisted and the best design becomes he real help desk for a month or two

What would you like to see from HabboxLive in the coming months? A new layout for the habboxlive.com site + more server trials

What would you like to see from Competitions in the coming months? more competitions with BIG prizes

What would you like to see from Events in the coming months? A lot more staff v member based games

;) ;) ;) Funny you should mention that actually... keep an eye out next month :D

[-Danube-]

Yeahhh, EOs are required to do at least 1 event per week (while ensuring it adds up to 5 a month). To be fair, I wouldn't say no to the requirement being raised because the majority do it anyway.

It's also worth noting that HabboxLive has 42 DJs which is, on average in a 168 hour week, only 4 hours per DJ.
Fitting that ratio to the events team which only has 12 people at present (albeit adding a bunch of trialists shortly), EOs would have to do 14 events per week. Our staff limit at events is 25 which still means 6 events per week; not impossible, but shouldn't be expected. There's the reason why Events can't be compared to HabboxLive and shouldn't be expected to perform 24 hours a day.


Although we ask our staff to do 1 event per week we expect more and they know that, however, if we asked them to do three per wee/12-15 per month I think it's a lot to ask because the have to spend their own furni for prizes. I myself would agree with the limit being raised but some people just can't afford that.

I wouldn't expect you do get your current Staff Member to do 14 events a week, do you think i'm crazy? LOL.

What i meant in the post i made was that you as Managers should have a long term target of getting as close to 1 event an hour as possible. Everyone should have a long term target or we just wouldn't progress now would we. I meant in my post that you should slowly increase the amount of events required per week and also slowly increase the amount of staff you have. If you filled your department up to 25 people and they were all doing say 2/3 events a week, then none of us would have an issue with you increasing your Staff Limit even more.

You also said



Oh and yeah, find us some international people who are willing to host events and then get back :)


This really isn't up to me is it now? If you started to slowly do more and more events you would find that you would be slightly overlapping into the peak time for another Time Zone, which attracts people from different Time Zones to Habbox. This means that when Events Apps open, you would have an increased amount of applications from international people.

I feel like i gave some rather obvious improvements and targets for your department and all i got back was a 'NO WE ARE FINE AS WE ARE'.

[scott]

Before international people apply for events there needs to be some international events held. That will attract the international people to Habbox and then eventually they will apply. You cant expect them just to come to you.

[sophiethenerd]

I feel I should stick up for events here.
Hosting international events is hard. You have to book them in advance, you don't know when your going to be free anyway let alone in the morning and in the very late evening. Parents might say "Right go to bed now." " I need to host an event for habbox!" "I don't care go to bed." "Can I just cancel it?" "No,go to bed!"

Or you might want a lie in or want to go to bed early so you miss the event.
Also its difficult hosting an event let alone when your tired.

[Catzsy]

Less strict moderation, more strict super moderator guidelines.

In what way?

[Mathew]

I wouldn't expect you do get your current Staff Member to do 14 events a week, do you think i'm crazy? LOL.
Yep.


What i meant in the post i made was that you as Managers should have a long term target of getting as close to 1 event an hour as possible. Everyone should have a long term target or we just wouldn't progress now would we. I meant in my post that you should slowly increase the amount of events required per week and also slowly increase the amount of staff you have. If you filled your department up to 25 people and they were all doing say 2/3 events a week, then none of us would have an issue with you increasing your Staff Limit even more.
Perhaps a long term target sure, but I was under the impression this thread was for quick things which we could see from each department in Quarter 2. As I do say though, we're not HabboxLive and, personally, I think striving for 24 events per day is OTT. I don't quite understand the last sentence here either: what's the point in having a staff limit then, regardless of how many events our current staff do? :P


This really isn't up to me is it now? If you started to slowly do more and more events you would find that you would be slightly overlapping into the peak time for another Time Zone, which attracts people from different Time Zones to Habbox. This means that when Events Apps open, you would have an increased amount of applications from international people.
This past month we have been slowly "doing more and more events" (12 yesterday) and I'm sure we've overlapped into several time zones considering how many there is. Indeed, we get international applications, but no where near enough where we can afford to turn down GOOD people from the UK in place of not-so-good people from overseas.

It was our intention last month to open applications specifically for people in a non-GMT time zone, however with an influx of resignations towards the end, it seemed much more appropriate to open to all. Perhaps when we have a stable team of GMTers then we'll consider other options.


I feel like i gave some rather obvious improvements and targets for your department and all i got back was a 'NO WE ARE FINE AS WE ARE'.
Perhaps the obvious-ness of the suggestions were what surprised me :P Several of our Department Reports have stressed the need for us to get some non-GMT EO's. Pretty much all general Habbox Feedback threads (whether it be events, HxHD, HxL); everyone says more people are needed from overseas. Sadly, you can't magic them out of nowhere.


Before international people apply for events there needs to be some international events held. That will attract the international people to Habbox and then eventually they will apply. You cant expect them just to come to you.
Maybe so, but I don't fancy having EOs stay up till 3am for the good of a fansite :P >> vicious cycle <<

[Andii]

Scrap HabboxLive & Merge w/ Hx, I think you're going to be doing that anyway?


yea agreed. . . theres no point having two different things when you can just combine them anyway

[Alex3213]

This really isn't up to me is it now? If you started to slowly do more and more events you would find that you would be slightly overlapping into the peak time for another Time Zone, which attracts people from different Time Zones to Habbox. This means that when Events Apps open, you would have an increased amount of applications from international people.

I feel like i gave some rather obvious improvements and targets for your department and all i got back was a 'NO WE ARE FINE AS WE ARE'.

As you are fully aware, Habbox originated as a UK fansite with a sister site being HabboxWorld - two entirely different things. Therefore, Habbox will always have a majority of British Isles visitors regardless of the merge or not, just like many US fansites we're not incredibly aware of nor visit often, I'm sure you'll agree. This means whenever applications open, the likelihood is the majority will be UK applicants, as many US citizens still are able to attend events (due to only the 5 hour time difference) there'll be a slightly smaller proportion of them who apply in the majority and the rest will just be anomalies (sorry Josh :() who will apply. Any manager who simply lets every single person who does not come from the BST or GMT timezone is clearly an idiot and does not deserve their job, I know for a fact not one manager here who needs international (yes, I... I said it!) people would do that. That is not a factor which gives them any advantage, it is beneficial for the department, yes, however will not be part of the choosing process when trialists are being chosen. It's like you hiring someone when you were Rare Values Manager just because they were rich and had an idea of the trading market but the report they gave was "I DONT HAVE ANY EVIDENCE BUT I THINK THAT LIKE THE THRONE SHOULD BE 2,000 CREDITS, AGREED???" - I wouldn't take them on board, Luke wouldn't take them on board now, you wouldn't take them on board.

Whether you had quit by then or not, before and even during your absence the amount of events was very minimal. At one point I'm sure you only had to do one event a month, maybe it was two (definitely two because that's how much it was when I joined). There was an event every three days, when I worked under Roxy that happened several times, that's the ratio events were happening at. If you think that they're saying "no, we are fine as we are" then you clearly must be mistaken unless I was hallucinating for the last three years.


Perhaps the obvious-ness of the suggestions were what surprised me :P Several of our Department Reports have stressed the need for us to get some non-GMT EO's. Pretty much all general Habbox Feedback threads (whether it be events, HxHD, HxL); everyone says more people are needed from overseas. Sadly, you can't magic them out of nowhere.

Dunno why you bothered putting the ":P" to be honest, I think that was a very valid comment. I'll get my favourite magician to abracadabra 10,000 users who live in Australia to attend our forums! Hooray, the world is saved!


Before international people apply for events there needs to be some international events held. That will attract the international people to Habbox and then eventually they will apply. You cant expect them just to come to you.

Of course but you've also got to remember that most people do have a sensible sleeping pattern (unlike Martin! :P) and therefore if you think someone will sacrifice a sensible sleeping pattern (even if it was a one off) to plan their event, book their event in advance and host it whilst they're half asleep (I can't function past 12am and 1am when I've been on MSN I speak stupidly). In addition, Habbox is a team and as you said, they can't be expected to come out of no where but there have been events in the morning whatever the department, I know that HxL, HxE and HxHD have done some fairly reasonable times for all timezones.


;) ;) ;) Funny you should mention that actually... keep an eye out next month :D

OMG WUT COULD IT BE?!?!?!

[Mathew]

Therefore, Habbox will always have a majority of British Isles visitors regardless of the merge or not, just like many US fansites we're not incredibly aware of nor visit often, I'm sure you'll agree.
This is so true. We don't go straying to USA fansites so it really is no different.


Dunno why you bothered putting the ":P" to be honest, I think that was a very valid comment. I'll get my favourite magician to abracadabra 10,000 users who live in Australia to attend our forums! Hooray, the world is saved!
The :P is in place so that a perfectly acceptable statement can be changed into a tounge-in-cheek comment if the recipient so wishes. Kind of like something to cover my back incase Danube turns ugly (even though he already is). :P, indeed.

Not much to add, just thought I'd say that this was a really good post but can't rep until tomorrow :(

[A]

What would you like to see on HabboxForum in the coming months? A new layout would be quite nice
What would you like to see from Habbox Events in the coming months? I think they are fine the way they are
What would you like to see from Habbox Help Desk in the coming months? New layout and design, staff are fine!
What would you like to see from HabboxLive in the coming months? Ive got to say a few things, some bigger radio events, and a new layout for habboxlive, that same layout is getting quite old and boring.
What would you like to see from Rare Values in the coming months? Rare values being posted quicker.
What would you like to see from Competitions in the coming months? Once again, these are fine the way they are!

Thank-you for letting me answer this :)

[Mr-Trainor]

What would you like to see from Rare Values in the coming months? Rare values being posted quicker.)

If you mean the new ones being added quicker, that's my fault and I'll make sure they are added quicker in future :D. I'll be adding Cubie once I can get someone to upload all the images (should be today) and as new Easter furniture is released, I'll be adding that too :D.