HXSS SUGGESTION

It needs to be faster than first day, it needs to be checked on a twice hourly basis for the first ~12 hours.

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

I think laura's concern was that the staff would be inflammatory posting. Which doesn't make any sense, but sure.

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So make a rule against that as well :P Say staff also have to PM an (A)GM to sort it out.

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

It needs to be faster than first day, it needs to be checked on a twice hourly basis for the first ~12 hours.

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Aren't these typically managed usergroups where you request to join and one of the team leaders has to accept you? So I'm sure they can manage it satisfactorily with that if they communicate well. Obviously you don't want to hold it very strictly, I think even 70 on one team while 50 on another team is fine. You just don't want 100 on one team and 50 on the others.

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Originally Posted by nvrspk4

So make a rule against that as well :P Say staff also have to PM an (A)GM to sort it out.

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I don't think a rule really need stating, it should be rather implicit that the thread is for reporting points and not casual discussion.

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Originally Posted by nvrspk4

Aren't these typically managed usergroups where you request to join and one of the team leaders has to accept you? So I'm sure they can manage it satisfactorily with that if they communicate well. Obviously you don't want to hold it very strictly, I think even 70 on one team while 50 on another team is fine. You just don't want 100 on one team and 50 on the others.

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The final team numbers as you stated earlier are pretty irrelevant, what is important is achieving a balance in the active users and the way to do this is to get them balanced nice and early.

lmaooooo as nvr says it's not number of people, its the number of active people and it takes longer than 12 hours to see a trend. with the lack of events these days I'll be surprised if the first 12 hours will even give enough 'data' to work with.

Let's play games and have fun

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Originally Posted by Inseriousity.

lmaooooo as nvr says it's not number of people, its the number of active people and it takes longer than 12 hours to see a trend. with the lack of events these days I'll be surprised if the first 12 hours will even give enough 'data' to work with.

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Which is exactly my point. The active people generally join earlier than inactive. If someone goes to events once a week then they can feasibly signup as late as a week in, whereas if someone goes to events twice a day then they can feasibly signup as late as 12 hours in. It's not a perfect model, but it's better than waiting a day, realising all the active people are on one team and then realising it's too late to do anything about it.

no because not just active people sign up early, most people on habbox sign up when it opens. whether they play is an entirely different matter. it's really only the non-members or people who are away and start quite late that sign up later on. Even if it is 12 hours all the active people will have signed up by then so it still doesn't solve anything. signing up is different to going to an event because signing up takes 5 minutes on the forum so everyone does it pretty quickly. this also ignores the fact the team leaders need to register them in first, that can also take a while depending on how active they are at sorting it out. again, you can only determine it when the first batch of points have been counted out and after going to a few events and seeing for yourself, all of which does not solve the problem. you're trying to solve an unsolvable problem really.

Regardless, as long as you evenly distribute people at regular intervals when the bulk sign up in the first 12 hours you should roughly evenly distribute the active users too.

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Originally Posted by lawrawrrr

On the team side, it does seem very obvious that there are two teams which the majority of people seem tow ant to be on but I'm not sure what the best way to get around that is - obviously we can cut off people getting on that team, but by the time we do that it's still probably gonna have the top 10 most active players on it or something.

Points-wise, I think it's the worst idea ever to have it in public - although it'd be great for your piece of mind, at least all staff have to have access to post in it, at least, and not forgetting it's easy to get lost when adding points, there could be a lot more accusatory posting within the thread itself, not what we really want to be presenting, especially with the amount of new people who are getting their first impressions of Habbox during HxSS, as we do have a lot of people join during - and a lot who leave due to some attitudes as well.

If anyone wins an event and doesn't think their points have been recorded, we'll do anything we can to investigate it and try and figure it out: with the amount of senior staff (talking more HxL here because that's where most of the points problems stemmed from last year) there'll usually be someone listening in to let them know what's going on. It'll never get to the stage where there's enough unreported points to make any real difference to the scores.

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what how is the worst idea ever??? a bit dramatic???

all im saying is let staff post them in public in the thread thats usually used rather than have it hidden!!i dont expect a change to how they are reported or who reported them just that everyone can see it. i dont see an issue there

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if you mean it could cause arguments i dont see how thats different to the year when there was a thread for people thinking they are missing points, if they are they can post in it an have it checked so no arguments

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