What a joke.

[Kyle]

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

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.

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.

[Abdicators]

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.

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

[Red]

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.

[Abdicators]

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

Using the required pieces of furniture. Which they did.

[MKR&*42]

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.

Using the required pieces of furniture. Which they did.

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.

[Red]

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

[Kyle]

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.

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.

[Abdicators]

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

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

[Red]

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.

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.

[Abdicators]

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.

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.