What a joke.

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That's the issue though, people with popular rooms enter with minimal requirements knowing they will win Top 10, Top 100, solely because of their rooms popularity. That's what people are annoyed about. I think people should be mad about the way the two room competitions were handled. Paul was made aware of the voting issue right after results were posted, as is shown by all of the tweets in which he responded about stopping the comps, yet no changes were made to the actual process. Instead, he was parading around for "chat relaunch" parties with his supposedly amazing bacon hair.

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Yeah, I totally agree. Although, he is the CEO of a multi-national company, and therefore has a lot on his hands. Don't forget that there is other hotels to go around too. Nevertheless, he should be paying more at attention to people practically scamming badges, additionally with bans and unmuting a very large hotel. I think stopping the competitions would be better, instead of yes, parading around in 'his' Hotels become clubs, which he was trying to stop. He is becoming as bad as the people he is was trying to ban in the first place. Also, instead of getting happy when someone sticks some bacon hair on his head using paint, maybe he should be paying more attention to others on Twitter.

The daily visits to Habbo have dropped dramatically, as shown by wolfram alpha, and something needs to be done.

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Brilliant. Discarding a system because it's from 2001 apparently? Ok let's wave goodbye to moderators. We dont need them cause they're from 2001!!!! and lets just discard any form of staff event, thats from 2001 as well omg omg. The man is an idiot at times, saying that because a system is from 2001 it is flawed. It was never broke so there was no need to "fix" it. The only minor issue with staff judging competitions was that... I believe it was you karter pointed out that in 2 competitions, they had copied and pasted the first bunch of winners into the second bunch and then added 50 more.

I highly doubt he was on Habbo in 2001 so he really shouldn't comment like that.

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yep it was me who pointed that out :P

and yeah! thats what i said to him, he said that the old competitions system was suitable for 2006-2008 and we have to change it now. after a month of pleading and telling him that old doesnt necessarily mean its bad and outdated, he blocked me, tagged me a griever and negative. and he did this with almost everyone who was not happy with the new unnecessary changes. the most annoying thing about him is that he expects only good response for new stuff, if he doesnt get good response, he just ignores everyone.

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Absolutely agree!

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WOW, LMAO. Someone needs to get a grip. I got a minus rep saying 'you must be brain dead if you agree with that'

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The daily visits to Habbo have dropped dramatically, as shown by wolfram alpha, and something needs to be done.

http://i45.tinypic.com/2n7o5ld.png

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Isn't that because of the whole mute thing where god knows how many people just wouldn't bother to log on because there wasn't any point? Looks like traffic was actually on the rise before that exploded

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ahahahaha! did he really say that?? i'm sure his statistics team must be pretty challenged if they take on board suggestions like "u shud giv users 100c a month"

talking about statistics, i'd love to see the data on how fast this campaign furni is selling for, as much as i hate room building competitions, i can't see the stuff selling as fast without an incentive of badges. sure if they were in game or video competitions they waste staff's time, but i know loads of people who wouldn't have even touched the new range if there wasn't a competition.

would you have bought so much of this range if there wasn't a comp kirst?

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yes he said it in response to this :
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(my idea in the uservoice which wanted twitter news out and habbo articles back was 2nd most popular at that time. now it nearly has 4k votes.)

his reply :

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Isn't that because of the whole mute thing where god knows how many people just wouldn't bother to log on because there wasn't any point? Looks like traffic was actually on the rise before that exploded

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It's going back up, very slowly.

http://screensnapr.com/e/YOuhLA.jpg

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yes he said it in response to this :
http://i48.tinypic.com/ojkpc9.png


(my idea in the uservoice which wanted twitter news out and habbo articles back was 2nd most popular at that time. now it nearly has 4k votes.)

his reply :

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Lol oh my goodness, that's pathetic. I'm pretty sure more users would like 10 free thrones than articles, but that doesn't mean you should necessarily follow that trend. They are getting incredibly lazy in regards to news articles/the news reel now. At the start they had all this;

http://screensnapr.com/e/NcE5NI.png

Then they evolved into just not bothering with text:

http://screensnapr.com/e/GtBhGM.png

And now they don't even bother using it to report about any major stuff at all. Like with this "Ancients" campaign they've made the hotel view and bloody Twitter the only source of promoting it, they haven't even bothered with the news reel. I fail to see how this....

http://screensnapr.com/e/6lCrL6.png

Still needs to be there. It could easily be replaced with something else, preferably something with text. Because a new user is not going to have a clue what "fast food" is with just an image and a button... at least give them a brief explanation so they would be inclined to click the button.

Oh sorry for not quoting you earlier, probably got distracted with VM haha. The man is also a complete hypocrite, he is so utterly against anything remotely old (before BETA) yet he allowed Snow Storm to be brought back... he also brought back giving out free VIP/"HC" (was given out free in some comps) even though it's useless because it doesn't become a unique service if everyone has it for a week. I don't get his logic, introduces old features then complains they are completely pointless and out-dated.

There is no harm in being favour of an old system. Don't get me wrong, although before BETA looked brilliant I think some of the features we have on Habbo now which weren't in V29 or before are quite good haha (e.g. ability to sit, YES IK THAT WAS INTRODUCED UNDER PAUL BEFORE SOMEONE SAYS THAT), but it doesn't mean old systems are useless.

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It's going back up, very slowly.

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That's a bit of relief for Sulake I suppose haha :P

He's never complained that old features were useless. He's said that how some of the things were managed (using Excel Spreadsheets) are not acceptable in this time.

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He's never complained that old features were useless. He's said that how some of the things were managed (using Excel Spreadsheets) are not acceptable in this time.

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Well he seems to have a strong tendancy to dislike them and omg how do you spell tendancy ;l. Sure it was in this thread where he was CLEARLY in detest at a system dating back to "2001". If he doesn't like the organisation of them, edit it lol. Don't completely scrap a system purely because one feature of it needs to be improved.

Forgot what else I was going to say. Hmm.

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Well he seems to have a strong tendancy to dislike them and omg how do you spell tendancy ;l. Sure it was in this thread where he was CLEARLY in detest at a system dating back to "2001". If he doesn't like the organisation of them, edit it lol. Don't completely scrap a system purely because one feature of it needs to be improved.

Forgot what else I was going to say. Hmm.

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Yeah, he said he didn't like how some of the systems were manually organised in 2001. Nothing to do with functions within the hotel. You can't really argue with trying to find a better way to handle competitions for 300,000,000 users than having a staff manually document all their entries and points user an Excel Spreadsheet.

I think it should depend on the type of competition,

For example room building competitions would be best done manually of a staff member choosing a winner.

Taking out the unfairness of voting such as booster rooms winning.

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I think it should depend on the type of competition,

For example room building competitions would be best done manually of a staff member choosing a winner.

Taking out the unfairness of voting such as booster rooms winning.

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Yeah, he said he didn't like how some of the systems were manually organised in 2001. Nothing to do with functions within the hotel. You can't really argue with trying to find a better way to handle competitions for 300,000,000 users than having a staff manually document all their entries and points user an Excel Spreadsheet.

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Read what iBlueBox said. It's a very valid point tbh... Wait for my reply, I'll have to do a quick count of something ok haha.

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Ok, in regards to room competitions. For the Savannah one, there were 11 pages on the navigator with room entires = 11 x 50 = 550 entries, minus the ones that weren't themed at all, I would put it near 500. It isn't that hard for a staff member to manually record 500 room entries haha. He said himself that room comps weren't being entered before by a lot of people ages ago, so surely the manual system wouldn't have been a big issue if it reached (I believe it was <1%) of users.

Ofc if it was for some major competition that received 1000s of entries, I'd understand his point about excel haha.

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@Abdicators; ^

You've got to remember that there's not even that many people online right now, because of how we can chat. This room competition attracted 25% of the online population of Habbo.com (out of an average of 4,000~) at your calculation of 500. If you keep that percentage when say, 8,000 people are online, then that is 2,000 room entries; per hotel. There is 11 hotels at the minute. So that's 22,000 room entries. Excel would be silly for that.

Am I the only one in thinking they need one person and about an hour of their time to literally look through the entered rooms and make their own judgement on whose is best, then announce the results fairly. A lot of people here could do that for free, though that's likely to be bias I suppose :P...

I still stand at Paul being a moron, his actions to a lot of the problems are just ******* stupid. It takes no-time at all to implement what these users want, but no.... Habbo is a sinking ship, and I for one shall never spend credits on it again. Profit is the most important thing, but if the user's are unhappy they won't play anymore - There's a certain level they must meet in order to retain what they are currently making. Some areas they are going to fall short, but these are not huge problems (like the botting issue is on Runescape for example). They are easily fixable and require very little money spent or effort put into them to fix.

I CAN'T THINK OF A REPLY. Anything I say contradicts myself @Abdicators;.

Only thing I can really say is, they managed to use Excel for so long so I don't see why they had to go full on scrapping the system now haha. If they felt in need of an update, go ahead and update it but don't just cancel a perfectly good system because of 1 minor imperfection :P

Would love to know what they'd plan to do instead of Excel though?

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Am I the only one in thinking they need one person and about an hour of their time to literally look through the entered rooms and make their own judgement on whose is best, then announce the results fairly. A lot of people here could do that for free, though that's likely to be bias I suppose :P...

I still stand at Paul being a moron, his actions to a lot of the problems are just ******* stupid. It takes no-time at all to implement what these users want, but no.... Habbo is a sinking ship, and I for one shall never spend credits on it again. Profit is the most important thing, but if the user's are unhappy they won't play anymore - There's a certain level they must meet in order to retain what they are currently making. Some areas they are going to fall short, but these are not huge problems (like the botting issue is on Runescape for example). They are easily fixable and require very little money spent or effort put into them to fix.

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It wouldn't even take that long to go through the top 100 rooms that received a badge for their efforts and remove the ones that aren't themed at all. I imagine most "addicted" players get through three times as many rooms as that per day.

Personally I think the final top 10 rooms should have been judged like the Stray Pixels entries. Simply with a poll, no going into a room with a giveaway to vote, making sure you can't use multiple characters on the same ID to vote, just allow the entire community to vote by placing a poll in a public room.

Answer could be as simple as,

Having one hotel manager per hotel like normal.
With deputy managers,

they organise in-site competitions and judge them.

I think you're all focusing too much on having a staff member do the work. There is much better ways to do it than that. A major issue with this system is that users could vote for the room by entering it normally. They should have limited votes to going through the hotel view and the navigator that listed the entries. far less boosters/gamers would use that to get to their favourite rooms.

The problem with the competition is the amount of fake entries - rooms that have deliberately entered with no plans to actually participate in the building aspect of the competition. All these suggestions about changing the voting are cool but Paul won't be listening to any of them because making competitions fun to enter but still fair for all isn't on his agenda.

I would say that the voting part is the fairest it could possibly be right now. All rooms are visible and if one wishes they can trawl through each and every entry to find those that they feel are worthy of their vote(s). Taking entries out of public view means that the only rooms that will receive votes are those that are kept full or those that are mad by people with a lot of contacts who they can badger until they vote the room. This means that really, boosting rooms and clubs will have a far higher chance of winning the competition than they do now.

The current setup is a good one, just not for themed competitions like these where habbos can abuse the system by only placing minimal furni down. With a crack down on votes per ID I think it would be a very good system for a room of the week type competition. For this competition though, it's quite obvious that some sort of vetting of rooms is urgently required. Even if it's just making sure the top ten follow the theme rather than going through hundreds of entries, that's fine by me.

Still think there is room for a competition council of some sort! Very little staff time would be taken to supervise it and they could help to eliminate the boost/party rooms from themed comps. :)

I'd say do the voting thing, then get a individual who works for Sulake to simply visit each of the 100 rooms, then the chosen individual must then choose a winner from that list, even a second, third.

Cost to Sulake: One hours wage, low paid worker .. £6-7?
Number of members happy: Hundreds? Thousands?

Considering how much Sulake makes, I don't see how someone couldn't see them not doing something like this as a complete joke. Anything less than doing this is just showing that they really don't care about the community.....................

anyone else agree

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I'd say do the voting thing, then get a individual who works for Sulake to simply visit each of the 100 rooms, then the chosen individual must then choose a winner from that list, even a second, third.

Cost to Sulake: One hours wage, low paid worker .. £6-7?
Number of members happy: Hundreds? Thousands?

Considering how much Sulake makes, I don't see how someone couldn't see them not doing something like this as a complete joke. Anything less than doing this is just showing that they really don't care about the community.....................

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I don't agree. It isn't hundreds or thousands of people that are angry. The majority seem very content with how the competitions are going, it seems to me only a small percentage of users are getting angry about this.

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I don't agree. It isn't hundreds or thousands of people that are angry. The majority seem very content with how the competitions are going, it seems to me only a small percentage of users are getting angry about this.

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There seems to be a correlation between the amount of those who spend hundreds of coins and time building rooms and those who are upset or angry about how the competition is being handled... I wonder why that could be...

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I don't agree. It isn't hundreds or thousands of people that are angry. The majority seem very content with how the competitions are going, it seems to me only a small percentage of users are getting angry about this.

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How?

that g.c.magic or w.e won didn't he? and his room was a race room and pure gob ****e. People made fantastic rooms and popular rooms end up winning.... because they're popular?

I thought the whole point of having a room comp is that the best themed room won.. else they might as well say may the most popular room win.... I'd be angry too if I'd spent ages building a fantastic room then some idiot whose room was **** won. I wouldn't bother again.

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There seems to be a correlation between the amount of those who spend hundreds of coins and time building rooms and those who are upset or angry about how the competition is being handled... I wonder why that could be...

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Yeah, that's true. I can understand why they are annoyed though, I would be too. But having staff employed to come and verify your rooms isn't the way to solve this. It'd start favouritism, some users would start to hate and then attack that staff member; you need a better idea than that.

No you're wrong. There has been an absolute ton of people that have come up to me since I won and said that its unfair how he has won with that room twice in a row. So no the majority are not 'content'. It would have taken five minutes to look at the top ten rooms, check them, If not a savannah give them to the new room with highest votes that was.
Still don't know if this is confirmed, but they couldn't even get the voting system right and those with egypt had their votes added on? All I'm saying is they better buck their ideas up and get that fixed for the next one.

I don't see how 'attacking a staff member' is an issue either. The Sulake staff member who would end up judging won't be attacked.. because we won't know who it is... Sulake don't have to tell us. It could be anyone, so we'd be unable to target even if we wanted to.

And so what if they were attacked? They're not ******* babies.. surely that's not a problem. At work everyone hates my boss, and by half doesn't he know it, but he doesn't care????

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No you're wrong. There has been an absolute ton of people that have come up to me since I won and said that its unfair how he has won with that room twice in a row. So no the majority are not 'content'. It would have taken five minutes to look at the top ten rooms, check them, If not a savannah give them to the new room with highest votes that was.

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However much you want to, you can't kick out winners if their room meets the entry requirements; which theirs did. It's unfair, and it's not right, but if the majority were not content, then they would not have voted for those rooms. There are hundreds of thousands of Habbos, and each and every one of those is just as entitled to enter the competition.

Having a staff member judge the top ten after they have received votes is not fair. That is in the same league as a millionaire winning the lottery, then The National Lottery not paying them because they've already got the money, so they'll just give it to the next closest person.

If you don't want them in there, you have to come up with an idea to change either the entry requirements, or how users vote for their rooms. You can't kick them out after they have entered, fairly, like you.

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I don't see how 'attacking a staff member' is an issue either.

And so what if they were attacked? They're not ******* babies.. surely that's not a problem. At work everyone hates my boss, and by half doesn't he know it, but he doesn't care????

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Wow lol.

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However much you want to, you can't kick out winners if their room meets the entry requirements; which theirs did. It's unfair, and it's not right, but if the majority were not content, then they would not have voted for those rooms. There are hundreds of thousands of Habbos, and each and every one of those is just as entitled to enter the competition.

Having a staff member judge the top ten after they have received votes is not fair. That is in the same league as a millionaire winning the lottery, then The National Lottery not paying them because they've already got the money, so they'll just give it to the next closest person.

If you don't want them in there, you have to come up with an idea to change either the entry requirements, or how users vote for their rooms. You can't kick them out after they have entered, fairly, like you.

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Wow lol.

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No the fact is the majority are just completely blind to how well a room has been built, and only give 2 **** about having fun in some damn wired maze or getting furniture if they use a giveaway to gain votes. I imagine most of the people who voted anyway are just new users who thought the room looked big and colourful so clicked "vote".

Truthfully, the room doesn't even look that good imo... :S.

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Apart from that you've made some "ok-ish" points. I just think Sulake need to change it so that you need your room to be a certain name as well to submit it? That way people wouldn't go into a room titled "savannah room competition" if they were looking for a wired maze, thus reducing the amount of people just voting cause a maze looks good lol.

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However much you want to, you can't kick out winners if their room meets the entry requirements; which theirs did. It's unfair, and it's not right, but if the majority were not content, then they would not have voted for those rooms. There are hundreds of thousands of Habbos, and each and every one of those is just as entitled to enter the competition.

Having a staff member judge the top ten after they have received votes is not fair. That is in the same league as a millionaire winning the lottery, then The National Lottery not paying them because they've already got the money, so they'll just give it to the next closest person.

If you don't want them in there, you have to come up with an idea to change either the entry requirements, or how users vote for their rooms. You can't kick them out after they have entered, fairly, like you.

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Wow lol.

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Why wow?

and I have no idea what the millionaire winning the lottery has got to do with it? The lottery isn't a competition. Believe it or not most competitions are judged by people..... duh

If a Sulake staff member doesn't know any of the Habbo's and therefore is not bias.... what's unfair about them judging the rooms?.......oh wait.... nothing

If it doesn't meet the brief, then they should be disqualified. Anyone is entitled to enter but they can make a room which fits to the brief. Simple. Most don't have a clue what the banner is, so just vote because his face comes up on the navigator. And anyway if the voting tho was true, I won by over 1000 votes anyway. Staff aren't judging rooms. I'm not saying, oh the room with 600 votes is better than the one with 2000, so lets move it to first place. All they would be doing is removing the ones that did not 'make a savannah' 'make a tree fort' and giving it to the next person with the highest votes that did.

You could do a few things to try and curb it.

• Force a new room to be created for the competition (Existing rooms cannot be entered)
• Force the room into a competition category ('Savannah Themed Rooms')
• Hide the room from normal navigator categories (Game/RPG/Popular Rooms/Trade/Etc.)
• Ensure that the room has x% of furniture related to the competition before allowing a user to vote for it. (for example 30% of the furniture has to be from the catalogue page)
• Ensure that the room has x pieces of furniture related to the competition before allowing a user to enter it. (Like it is at the minute)

You could even disallow certain pieces of furniture, like wired. No real reason to use wired.

I found through asking people to vote the room that a lot of people much prefer to vote a room that's actually good than if somebody pays or begs them to vote. A lot of people had already voted the room before being asked because of how good it was ;)

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Yeah, that's true. I can understand why they are annoyed though, I would be too. But having staff employed to come and verify your rooms isn't the way to solve this. It'd start favouritism, some users would start to hate and then attack that staff member; you need a better idea than that.

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I would much prefer a little bit of staff favourtism of one or two users than have that bloody clown win again lmao. Besides, only a few staff were subject to this in the past, the rest were relatively fair when choosing winning rooms and if somebody like revolver enters an outstanding room every time (which he has, lets be honest) then you cant really accuse people of picking favourites just because the person has won in the past. If somebody deserves to win more than once then they should win more than once, regardless of how fair it seems. I do think that some people are rather greedy though by entering competition after competition with a win-worthy entry.

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If it doesn't meet the brief, then they should be disqualified. Anyone is entitled to enter but they can make a room which fits to the brief. Simple. Most don't have a clue what the banner is, so just vote because his face comes up on the navigator. And anyway if the voting tho was true, I won by over 1000 votes anyway. Staff aren't judging rooms. I'm not saying, oh the room with 600 votes is better than the one with 2000, so lets move it to first place. All they would be doing is removing the ones that did not 'make a savannah' 'make a tree fort' and giving it to the next person with the highest votes that did.

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But their rooms did make the brief, they had the required pieces of furniture in their rooms.

No they never.... the brief was to 'make a savannah' ....... ?!? :S
and clearly that was sulakes poor way to check that people did make one. It didn't work, so they are going to have to come with a better way in the future to ensure people do.

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No they never.... the brief was to 'make a savannah' ....... ?!? :S

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Using the required pieces of furniture. Which they did.

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No they never.... the brief was to 'make a savannah' ....... ?!? :S
and clearly that was sulakes poor way to check that people did make one. It didn't work, so they are going to have to come with a better way in the future to ensure people do.

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Using the required pieces of furniture. Which they did.

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Brief was to make a Savannah themed room.
Specification was to use the required items.

They met the specifications but not the brief, so it's a tricky issue haha.

Umm no. Just because they drop three pieces of furni in the room, doesn't qualify them to have fit the brief.

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You could do a few things to try and curb it.

• Force a new room to be created for the competition (Existing rooms cannot be entered)
• Force the room into a competition category ('Savannah Themed Rooms')
• Hide the room from normal navigator categories (Game/RPG/Popular Rooms/Trade/Etc.)
• Ensure that the room has x% of furniture related to the competition before allowing a user to vote for it. (for example 30% of the furniture has to be from the catalogue page)
• Ensure that the room has x pieces of furniture related to the competition before allowing a user to enter it. (Like it is at the minute)

You could even disallow certain pieces of furniture, like wired. No real reason to use wired.

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The creation of a new room is certainly a good one and forcing them into another category was something that was done in the past and proved to work very well. Just need an enable trading button in rooms settings again, then it'd be perfect.

Now, ensuring that people use a certain amount of furniture is something I am fully against. The minimum required furni at the moment is fine and forcing people to splash out even more would only cause a drop in entries. People can do amazing things with furni that's already released and still stick to the theme and, likewise, people can afford all the furni from the catalogue and add it to a terrible room, as proven by kaboom.girl.

Disallowing furni, ESPECIALLY wired, is a big no-no. If somebody designs a big room and the door is blocked then wired is needed to teleport users in. It can even be used to add special effects to the room, like the moving fish in Rabbit's savannah room. Game-related wired, perhaps.

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Umm no. Just because they drop three pieces of furni in the room, doesn't qualify them to have fit the brief.

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Well it did lol, because if it didn't they wouldn't have been able to enter their room. They did what was required.

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Brief was to make a Savannah themed room.
Specification was to use the required items.

They met the specifications but not the brief, so it's a tricky issue haha.

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This... theres a difference in brief and specifications. The required items was just an inefficient check that the rooms met the brief. It didn't work. So they are going to have to do something else because it is quite clear an automated system is not going to cut it.

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The creation of a new room is certainly a good one and forcing them into another category was something that was done in the past and proved to work very well. Just need an enable trading button in rooms settings again, then it'd be perfect.

Now, ensuring that people use a certain amount of furniture is something I am fully against. The minimum required furni at the moment is fine and forcing people to splash out even more would only cause a drop in entries. People can do amazing things with furni that's already released and still stick to the theme and, likewise, people can afford all the furni from the catalogue and add it to a terrible room, as proven by kaboom.girl.

Disallowing furni, ESPECIALLY wired, is a big no-no. If somebody designs a big room and the door is blocked then wired is needed to teleport users in. It can even be used to add special effects to the room, like the moving fish in Rabbit's savannah room. Game-related wired, perhaps.

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Didn't mean for the ideas to be set in stone. But that's the sort of thing I think you guys should be trying to talk to Paul about, instead of trying to coerce him into getting a staff member on the job; that wont work lol.