Habbo Helpers Progress Report 3#

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This came in via Email and It will be on the Habbo blog Tuesday afternoon!

Below you will find the complete blog post containing the third, and possibly last, progress report before the global launch of the Habbo Helpers' path. It contains a couple of interesting details, including a brand new Habbo Way, changes to the way Achievements scores are presented and information about some expected downtime while a necessary database upgrade happens this week. This post will go live on the Habbo Blog Tuesday afternoon!

HABBO HELPERS PROGRESS REPORT #3
This might be the very last progress report before Habbo Helpers goes LIVE in all Hotels! I checked in with the project manager, and although they experienced some technical challenges in the last week that put them back a bit, he's still hopeful that the delays won't be too big. Here's what he had to say this time!

How is the testing going?
No major changes, we've been focusing on finalizing the Habbo Helpers' path!

What is the latest to be tested?
With the new Habbo Talents, and specifically this Habbo Helpers' path, we decided that the old Habbo Way needed a bit of a redo! This has been in the works for a while, and finally we got to test it in FI. I really like how it turned out. The new Habbo Way also has a Quiz attached to it and it will all be launched together with the Habbo Helpers globally.
[Linn says: I will fill you in about this later, but see below for a quick sneak peek!]

Did you hit any snags in the last week?
While creating the technical foundation for the Habbo Helpers' path, we noticed that it won't really be consistent with how the current Achievements work and how progress happens in levels. So we decided to technically unify the two. This is all very technical, but bottom line is that you won't lose any progress, but some of your Achievements will show their score a little differently (cumulative score in stead of zeroing on every level).

While we do this upgrade to the databases in preparation for Habbo Helpers, we unfortunately have to take each and every Hotel down one by one for quite a while. The time it takes will depend on the size of the Hotel, bigger Hotels might take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours to upgrade. We are doing this Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

After this, we can use Achievements as requirements on all our Habbo Talent paths, starting with the Habbo Helpers. So that every level on the path has a set of Achievements to accomplish.

Exciting stuff! So tell me, have we launched Beta testing yet?
No, but if everything goes well with the Achievement progress unification, we are still looking at launching Beta testing in Finland later this week.

So to wrap this up, it sounds like the global launch might not happen at the end of May after all?
Because we had to figure out the Achievements and all that, we might slip a bit, unfortunately. However, we are all working very hard towards a global launch at some point next week!
A bit of a delay, but not too bad! Looks like we might still see this launch in ALL HOTELS by end of next week. Fingers crossed!

Oh, and because it was briefly mentioned above, below you can see a little sneak peek of the new Habbo Way and how it will look! I'll do a separate post about that later this week - stay tuned!

[Ellz]

This looks kinda cool, nice to see they have made the habbo way abit more interesting!

[j0rd]

Released in a week, sounds cool !

[MKR&*42]

"bigger Hotels might take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours to upgrade."

Might actually have to go socialise irl for once . Anyvvay, sounds really good.. this is probably the 1 thing about Habbo vvhich I'm extremely interested in tbh

[Mr.Ballin]

hmmm...ive heard a little bit about this and find it somewhat interesting, but I think ill wait till it comes out to make my final judgement. Seems like a good add-on though.

[Mathew]

I'm still not really convinced with this Habbo Helping thing (is this what was being planned ages ago? They were called Community Leaders or something?) because I think it will just create an unnecessary hierarchy like the Hobba and Habbo X schemes did. Time will tell, I suppose!

[Nick]

"bigger Hotels might take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours to upgrade."

Might actually have to go socialise irl for once . Anyvvay, sounds really good.. this is probably the 1 thing about Habbo vvhich I'm extremely interested in tbh

Bout time mate !!! LOL

This sounds really interesting Can't wait for it

[auffant1]

Ooo this looks interesting. It's good to see Habbo telling us when things will happen. Hopefully they stick with their plans and all goes well .

[Samantha.]

Looks really interesting! Hope it's successful Looking forward to it.