Would you like SNQ to be replaced?

[Chris]

I know some people are immediately going to hate the idea of replacing SNQ, but please read the entire thread before making your reply!

We all know that SNQ is a classic Habbox event and one that has been surrounded by many disagreements over the years. It occurred to me over the past couple of weeks that SNQ may have become stale and boring for players, so I thought now may be a good time to start thinking whether or not SNQ should to be replaced with something new and a bit more exciting.

What I would like from this thread is some feedback on whether or not you would like SNQ to be replaced and the reasons for your answer. I would also like your suggestions for a replacement if you do want to see it replaced.

It SNQ was to be replaced then that would mean that a new event would take the primetime Saturday slot that it is currently in, however that does not necessarily mean SNQ would have to end all together. It could continue to run on any other day of the week under a different name, or it could alternate days each week.

What are your thoughts? Would you like to see a refreshing new weekly event replace SNQ?

[Samantha]

No I wouldn't like to see it replaced. However, for years now the prize has been a bit limited to those who already use Habbox and it's forum. An alternative Habbo prize should be available for those who win, even if it's say a Sack or alternates each week. Perhaps more themed ones could be done as well say once a month.

In room designs though, I think the event part could make a comeback so there's stuff to do in the week as well.

[Lewis]

I'd like to see something similar to Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

[Empired]

Yes. I no longer attend SNQ (or I turn up and leave halfway through) because it's boring, it's usually the same people who win every time, and often it's badly hosted if we have trialists attempting to ask questions. Also, that new rule about no one else being allowed to be behind the desk during SNQ is absolutely ridiculous. Does that mean that if people come in during SNQ asking for help then they're just to be ignored? You can try and argue that staff will help them even if they aren't behind the desk but we know that that's ******** unless dbgtz or Absently are around to tell them off if they don't.

I'll just include everything about HxHD events here I think.

• Mini Quizzes. There's so much potential for little events to be run in HxHD but nothing ever seems to happen. To partially replace SNQ I'd like to see mini quizzes run throughout the week with a small prize (maybe something like 5c for one winner OR a piece of furni per question answered right) that wouldn't need to be regular but would need to be frequent. Maybe they wouldn't even need to be prebooked, but if a member of HxHD staff sees the Help Desk is particularly active at one point they just pop an announcement in the CNB and alert the manager. And maybe make it a requirement that each member of staff has to host a mini quiz at least every X (month?). And to stop the excuse "I can't because I don't have any furni/coins", fund one quiz per month per member of staff.
• Mini Events can be run in HxHD as well. The other night @Zealoux; @welshcake; @Ripieno; @lesbon; @Expling; and I were playing tag where we were just running about HxHD tagging each other. Can be played with an item as well and doesn't even require a prize necessarily, but keeps people active in the room instead of just parking themselves on the AFK seats and buggering off to do something else. Afterwards a few of us played Hide and Seek where we can hide in any of the public rooms and one person has to come and find us. You can delete the finder or turn off stalk to stop cheating.
• Ball. Bring back a ball or something similar because that always gets people moving during hours of boredom.
• Truth/dare. You could bring back that spin the bottle thing. That was super popular and I never understood why it isn't used more. Plus it increases forum activity.
• DJ area. It's been suggested time and time again and most people, including management I believe, seem to think it's a good idea each time it's brough up. So where is it?

What kind of events would you suggest replace SNQ? I don't want anything that the Events dept host as it should be something unique.

[FlyingJesus]

Replaced by what? We already have other weekly events don't we

[lemons]

no but the choice of questions needs to be looked at because most of the time it's a competition of who can google fastest

however something could be done in the snq hour because it only lasts 15-20 mins so maybe some of empired's ideas

[Absently]

Back when I was manager, we had a few threads about working with Saturday Night Quiz and changing it up. One of our main ideas was to have it different events each week on a rota. I'll just copy and paste from one of the threads our main ideas:

Book Club/Current Affairs Discussion
We could have users discussing a book (or an old classic that most will have previously read) or discuss about current affairs. If reading a book the most contributed can win VIP. Have a set area for them to discuss their opinions on news items that have happened during the week. Or come up with the *funniest* news they heard of during that week. Funniest/Most contributed wins VIP.

Event Marathon
A daily event that somebody hosts and at the end of each week all the winners would be added into a raffle where they can win 500 tokens, 1 month of VIP, credit prize. Each win would = x amount of tokens. The event would be the same event everyday (could also be done weekly) x amount of staff host the game. This could be something like a Carnival perhaps? Have several different same events and one takes place each week? (pre-made rooms)

Scavenger Hunt
Each week there could be different tasks that need to be completed in the help desk or in other rooms. You could find that specific question for that week in the Help Desk and you need to find a specific furni on the hotel, or what room we're referring to, etc.

Pub Quiz
A mix-up of Saturday Night Quiz would be a teamed-quiz with x amount of questions and the winning team can win VIP, prize, tokens etc.

As far as I know, the Book Club/Current Affairs was really, REALLY, really disliked Obviously, they still need ironing out.

[thms]

i like empired's ideas and absently's scavenger hunt one, obviously it'd be better switching it up weekly because SNQ every week can be a bit of a snooze especially if you just want to hang out in the help desk and it's overtaken by everyone spamming answers/questions/snq related stuff

[Kyle]

"It occurred to me over the last few weeks that SNQ may have become stale..." hahaha oh chris you really do have your eye on the ball don't you? SNQ has been stale for the past couple of years

Should it be replaced? Nope - it should be tweaked! The prizes are stale, there is no accumulation for those who win more than once, and pretty much everybody on the forum has won the forum award. It's very rare for me to talk zebbadi up but I must say that his alteration of snq to include an additional credit prize was one that I think would be welcomed back and would encourage more casual habbo-based hxhd visitors (i.e. not just the forum lurkers complaining here) to participate.

The team aspect is an exciting prospect that works to bring together real life quiz teams on a regular basis that I can see working well for this quiz. Logistical nightmare though considering googling and time limits but properly thought through would be fabulous. I think I recall Mathew having a regular pub quiz back in the day that was very enjoyable?

The questions have already been mentioned, they're bloody horrific. Usually it's honor-branch sat there asking siri what the answers are and garnering the lion's share of the points. Is there any way we can counter this? Can we have more habbo and habbox questions again? It used to be about 1/2 habbo/habbox and 1/2 GK - bring that back. Also - PC? Most modern habbo quizes have questions created based on topics of the players' choosing - Perhaps a couple of PC questions to change things around.

Empired mentioned mini quizzes - Hopeless (immenseman) did lots of these when he was staff and a good few of us found them enjoyable and stimulating. If any staff are struggling to fund small prizes for events like this either do them for fun or ask me for furniture.

[Kardan]

Should it be replaced? No.

Does it need improving? Yes.

You talk of disagreements, but all the disagreements come down to one thing. Bad hosting. Disagreements on who answered first? Bad hosting. Disagreements on the correct answer? Bad hosting. Disagreements on questions being too easy/hard/fast/slow? Bad hosting.

Do new SNQ hosts still sit in on previous SNQs before they can host? Personally I'm not a fan of half/half Habbo(x)/General Knowledge questions, since you could say it alienates those outside of Habbox and they would never have a chance of winning - but hey, when does someone outside of Habbox ever take part in SNQ anyway?

We also need to get rid of stupid questions that are ambiguous such as 'How many colours are there in the German flag? 2. Gold and Red, since Black isn't a colour' and classic wrong answers that people don't bother to check such as 'Largest desert in the world? Sahara'.

Some questions are ridiculously hard which turns the competition into fastest typer, but likewise, so do ridiculously easy questions. A good balance is needed.

Some sort of cumulative reward system needs setting up where repeat winners get something other than a month of VIP.

I agree that we could do something after the 15/20 minute quiz, basically an 'SNQ event' linked from the help desk. Kick wars? Hide and seek?

Not sure why people would want SNQ to be replaced when it's only taking up 20 minutes of a 7 day week. There's plenty of time to have other regular weekly events.