Did Habbo eXperts get free furni?

[atpeak]

I know that staff officially stated that Habbo X's didn't get any rares etc on the FAQs. But I was wondering, because some broke Habbo eXperts when they hosted events seemed to have 20 thrones all of a sudden and I know some were close with staff who had the freedom to give out furni.

So this is a question to some of the ex-eXperts, can you lift the lid on this? :)

[GoldenMerc]

I got told for the group rooms / meeting rooms they got furni

[Kyle]

Only team leaders got free furniture to create meeting rooms.

I remember Universe and Archivist getting free furni from Akela! but this was because they owned a fansite together, not because of their status.

[lawrawrrr]

dbgtz; Jarkie; were both eXperts, they'll be able to answer ;)

I don't think they actually got GIVEN furni though, apart from trophies after it ended?

[dbgtz]

We had private competitions, that was about as close to free furni as the average eXpert, well that and the gifts when it ended.

[atpeak]

Only team leaders got free furniture to create meeting rooms.

I remember Universe and Archivist getting free furni from Akela! but this was because they owned a fansite together, not because of their status.

o.o Wasn't Akela! support staff for like 1 month or something?

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We had private competitions, that was about as close to free furni as the average eXpert, well that and the gifts when it ended.

What were the prizes?

[dbgtz]

o.o Wasn't Akela! support staff for like 1 month or something?

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What were the prizes?

Well I only remember entering one which got me a trophy and 20 credits. Also there was one time where they won a pink roller before it was released.

[Jarkie]

We didn't get 'free' furni, we got private competitions and so forth. the only free furni we got was at the end of the system which back then was the 'habbo eXpert sleeping bag.'

The leaders could request furni (I think) tm; can clarify that for me to make their meeting rooms etc.

[tm]

We didn't get 'free' furni, we got private competitions and so forth. the only free furni we got was at the end of the system which back then was the 'habbo eXpert sleeping bag.'

The leaders could request furni (I think) tm; can clarify that for me to make their meeting rooms etc.

I never got any furniture personally, but I never asked for any. I shall copy direct from our handbook.


For instance if you feel that your team would benefit from its own meeting room, we'd be happy to supply assistance in furnishing it.

[GoldenMerc]

I never got any furniture personally, but I never asked for any. I shall copy direct from our handbook.
So you could ask for what ever? or to a limit

[Jarkie]

So you could ask for what ever? or to a limit

Talking to other leaders, they could ask what they wanted, the staff in charge of the team, either gave it to them or not.

[tm]

So you could ask for what ever? or to a limit

Don't think there weren't specific guidelines but I'm sure 0rca/heidster/redtiz/ludus would have denied requests for thrones, dinos, stuff never released or anything else of high value.

[Kyle]

o.o Wasn't Akela! support staff for like 1 month or something?
nope she was a hobba and moderator for a long time (lincognito) and worked with her daughters 0rca and whitebengal. :)

I'm surprised the team leaders didn't take advantage for the free furniture and just request loads lol.

[atpeak]

nope she was a hobba and moderator for a long time (lincognito) and worked with her daughters 0rca and whitebengal. :)

I'm surprised the team leaders didn't take advantage for the free furniture and just request loads lol.

I'm sure some did man, they must have because some X's (not mentioning any names) were poor and then they had quite a bit of furni, it may have got taken back, I'm not sure though

[MissAlice]

I know that staff officially stated that Habbo X's didn't get any rares etc on the FAQs. But I was wondering, because some broke Habbo eXperts when they hosted events seemed to have 20 thrones all of a sudden and I know some were close with staff who had the freedom to give out furni.



So this is a question to some of the ex-eXperts, can you lift the lid on this? :)

During my time, every piece of furni passed to Leaders was for building rooms to be used for specific events. As Leaders we also had to return every single piece. We had a drop off room to return furni.

It was also very hard when trying to get furni for prizes, and again every item given we had to account for.


I never got any furniture personally, but I never asked for any. I shall copy direct from our handbook.

Just like tm I never requested any furni to make my own meeting room, and I do recall redtiz during her time making it very clear, that we shouldn't be requesting lots of rares.

I can't speak for how the situation was when Orca became involved as I quit some 4/5 months after she took the helm.

[LiquidLuck.]

During my time, every piece of furni passed to Leaders was for building rooms to be used for specific events. As Leaders we also had to return every single piece. We had a drop off room to return furni.

But if you didn't have like a time limit to return the furni, you could have just kept it once it was over?

[MissAlice]

But if you didn't have like a time limit to return the furni, you could have just kept it once it was over?

There were time limits for furni used for events. Like I said each piece had to be accounted for, each Leader was responsible for ensuring they returned furni used by their team. I was a Leader for over a year and never experienced problems with furni not being returned.

More importantly I am not dishonest, and I even passed on my winning team trophy to the Leader that took charge of my team when I quit.

[LiquidLuck.]

There were time limits for furni used for events. Like I said each piece had to be accounted for, each Leader was responsible for ensuring they returned furni used by their team. I was a Leader for over a year and never experienced problems with furni not being returned.

More importantly I am not dishonest, and I even passed on my winning team trophy to the Leader that took charge of my team when I quit.

Lol yeah the important thing is being honest. I just asked that because a lot of people aren't.

[Kardan]

We got free Habbo Club for the whole program, so essentially we got free HC Rares. I remember in December 2005, there was an X Event within the team, and I ended up winning 3 Thrones from the Team Leader, AvadaKedavra - whether that was provided by him or staff, I don't know.

With X Events to the public there was one competition, where one team of Habbos - about 1 X and 6/7 Habbos would be awarded with a grand prize, which I got - A Throne and the Birdbath set.

As a Team Leader under 0rca, you were still allowed to request furniture for meeting rooms, and personally I emailed her asking for about 6 Petal Patches and a few Green Birdbaths and told her they would be returned whenever requested - but she never did request them, she simply replied saying 'Items sent :)' and they just appeared in my hand from housekeeping.

With 0rca though, Team Leaders weren't in charge of creating rooms, so there were no large loans of furniture - infact, I can't remember any events being held under the 6 months I was Team Leader that required room building.

Oh, and we all got a unreleased super rare when the program ended, and very few eXperts actually sold theirs, I kept mine. I remember only 2 or 3 got sold, so the rare value price was quite hard to figure out. It was the blue sleeping bag, I don't think it actually had that much value, about 1T even though it was unreleased - I don't think the rare value market liked rare sleeping bags much, if it were another rare, I'm sure the value would have been much higher. Of course, it didn't matter in the end, because the merge brought the value down to about 3 credits ;)

So, essentially the answer is no - but for Team Leaders, they could easily, but it was barely used, if ever.

[atpeak]

We got free Habbo Club for the whole program, so essentially we got free HC Rares. I remember in December 2005, there was an X Event within the team, and I ended up winning 3 Thrones from the Team Leader, AvadaKedavra - whether that was provided by him or staff, I don't know.

With X Events to the public there was one competition, where one team of Habbos - about 1 X and 6/7 Habbos would be awarded with a grand prize, which I got - A Throne and the Birdbath set.

As a Team Leader under 0rca, you were still allowed to request furniture for meeting rooms, and personally I emailed her asking for about 6 Petal Patches and a few Green Birdbaths and told her they would be returned whenever requested - but she never did request them, she simply replied saying 'Items sent :)' and they just appeared in my hand from housekeeping.

With 0rca though, Team Leaders weren't in charge of creating rooms, so there were no large loans of furniture - infact, I can't remember any events being held under the 6 months I was Team Leader that required room building.

So, essentially the answer is no - but for Team Leaders, they could easily, but it was barely used, if ever.

Very interesting to hear from a team leader. I know some other leaders must have requested loads you know who I am talking about :)

[Kardan]

I really don't :) Personally I never discussed this with Team Leaders at all, I couldn't even hazard a guess really :) I'd like to know though :P

[atpeak]

I really don't :) Personally I never discussed this with Team Leaders at all, I couldn't even hazard a guess really :) I'd like to know though :P

I believe you but it was kind of obvious some leaders who literally had nothing became super rich. Think about some of the other leaders

[Jarkie]

I believe you but it was kind of obvious some leaders who literally had nothing became super rich. Think about some of the other leaders

Aye but it was bound to happen if staff allowed them to have access to pretty much anything they wanted.

[Laurensh1]

On the Dutch program we got a some tickets for testing SnowStorm, got some furni as gifts when for example the new Snow furni was released and one time a rare I think. We didn't get free Habbo Club, only free HC clothes and 'benefits' (bigger friendlist, no banner on homepage, etc) but not the gifts. Did you get them?

[atpeak]

On the Dutch program we got a some tickets for testing SnowStorm, got some furni as gifts when for example the new Snow furni was released and one time a rare I think. We didn't get free Habbo Club, only free HC clothes and 'benefits' (bigger friendlist, no banner on homepage, etc) but not the gifts. Did you get them?

Yes they did, if you read Kardan's post he said free Habbo Club memebership and gifts

[Kardan]

I believe you but it was kind of obvious some leaders who literally had nothing became super rich. Think about some of the other leaders

Still haven't got a clue :) There were 20 odd team leaders, so it could have been any of them :)


On the Dutch program we got a some tickets for testing SnowStorm, got some furni as gifts when for example the new Snow furni was released and one time a rare I think. We didn't get free Habbo Club, only free HC clothes and 'benefits' (bigger friendlist, no banner on homepage, etc) but not the gifts. Did you get them?

We got free tickets aswell, forgot about that :) And yeah, every 3 months or so, staff would just give us a large amount of Habbo Club days, so we got the gifts :)

[iFlame]

I dident think they got free furniture, however quite unsure lmao.

[Dwight]

Only team leaders got free furniture to create meeting rooms.

I remember Universe and Archivist getting free furni from Akela! but this was because they owned a fansite together, not because of their status.

The furni only really was for the benefit of the fansite and the competitions/events run by the fansite staff, not either of us personally :)

[Emz]

I was habbo eXpert on habbo.no (Norwegian hotel) from desember 2005 to october(?) 2008 when it ended.

In the beginning eXperts could enterlocked rooms and full rooms. But after a while staff removed the ability to enter locked rooms, and that is why we got free habbo club membership instead. (I actually forgot about this, but I just recently found the old e-mails where they explained it)

So at .no we got:
- Free habbo club membership
- Ability to enter full rooms
..That´s it.

But...When the habbo X competitions were added, all the habbo eXpert hosts could host their own competitions. And we could design rooms with furniture staff gave us. We simply sent them an e-mail with all the furniture we needed. I had 3-4 competition rooms. But all these got deleted when the habbo eXpert program finished. :)

So yeah, we could get unlimited furni for our competition rooms (At habbo.no), but staff removed them later on.

^^

[atpeak]

I was habbo eXpert on habbo.no (Norwegian hotel) from desember 2005 to october(?) 2008 when it ended.

In the beginning eXperts could enterlocked rooms and full rooms. But after a while staff removed the ability to enter locked rooms, and that is why we got free habbo club membership instead. (I actually forgot about this, but I just recently found the old e-mails where they explained it)

So at .no we got:
- Free habbo club membership
- Ability to enter full rooms
..That´s it.

But...When the habbo X competitions were added, all the habbo eXpert hosts could host their own competitions. And we could design rooms with furniture staff gave us. We simply sent them an e-mail with all the furniture we needed. I had 3-4 competition rooms. But all these got deleted when the habbo eXpert program finished. :)

So yeah, we could get unlimited furni for our competition rooms (At habbo.no), but staff removed them later on.

^^

Thats news to me didn't know you were able to enter locked rooms, that was cool

[Laurensh1]

Thanks Emz. Nice to know!