Current state of affairs at Habbox

[Inseriousity.]

I did cheekily mention it in my resignation from news manager where he said we'd get one soon but there wouldnt be any details. "Bringing back official rooms.Organising HxEE.Reforming News."Something like this (but hopefully you're all working on a lot more long-term goals than that) where you say the ideas you're working on rather than vague goals like 'increase members.' It'd only really be difficult if you haven't got any ideas you're working on

[Kyle]

We'll his thread has I hope fuelled some enthusiasm for new ideas to ad to the plan. 1 thing could be gettin a new forumanager who Actually cares about their users lmao jk Chris. Whole forum has viewed thread by now. Those who want to add anything please do so, we have managers here all reading it and taking it in. Use the opportunity


~~from phone

[Mr-Trainor]

Stickies in rooms should not be optional imo, but I saw a later post saying they're mandatory anyway so that's good

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In light of this thread, can I ask if you do the whole weekly management/staff reviews shebang? And if so, at least with management, do you then set them weekly tasks? The weekly tasks things should work with departmental staff anyway, with these tasks playing to each person's strengths (which you should hopefully know )

disregard this if you do a similar thing, but I honestly think staff would be more willing to go above and beyond if you give them something to do that you know they already enjoy doing.

I remember this used to happen when I was management of News or Rare Values which was then changed to monthly (haven't seen it in a while, not sure what happened). However, I do like the idea of weekly targets moreso than monthly ones (that are in/should be in the reports for managers). For some departments, such as the content ones (except news) and competitions this might not be needed as much as they work on a month basis as opposed to weekly.

I used to do targets in the Monthly Reviews I think, but that was one of the previous times I was in management. I'm not sure what's happened to them tbh, I'd guess they were phased out by the manager who took over. As for staff rewards which was also mentioned, Rare Values doesn't have much really; there was a Top of the Leaderboard reward previously, but there's no leaderboard anymore. The problem is, it's really not plausible getting a rewards system that'll equally reward reporters and furni editors, but I do have an idea for reporters, so I should need to somehow include furni editors in that OR get a separate system for them only .

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why you bothering with news
it should be shut down or moved to a side page of habbox. it doesnt deserve the main page it looks ugly
also jut give it to content to do xx

And Rare Values on the front page . But seriously, what would you sugges having on the front page instead ?

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Achievement System

I would like to raise some questions/points in regards of the achievement system you would like to see that has a similar style to how games such as Runescape work. At this present time we have "Awards" and "Tokens" - The awards just give you a badge on the forum and nothing else. There is no connection to the tokens or a point system.

But in games like runescape (I've never played but played similar games) once you have completed an achievement you would gain some sort of XP that would get you closer to the next level. Now we would be able to do that if we combined the tokens system into it as well. This is only an example so don't shoot me down for this crap example but say one of the achievements was:

• Post 5 Threads across HabboxForum

In my head I have it so if the user completes that task, they can go tasks page and say they have completed it. This would be checked to make sure they have and then would be approved. Would we still continue with an award and give X amount of tokens? Or just gain X amount of points to go up the next "level" sort of speak.

Maybe a combination of both depending on the achievement could get you the award badge/icon & X amount of tokens.

Now I think Mike said about starting it from scratch and if we did that, that would mean all the current tokens everyone has gained would be reset to 0 if we went down that route. As I think it would probably be silly to have tokens and another sort of tokens/XP system alongside of it if we didn't use what we already have installed.

I would say that I didn't imagine the achievements system like that.Instead of awards/tokens, it'd be tasks/tokens. Completing singular tasks gets you tokens, you can spend in the token shop. Completing a 'set' gets you a bigger reward (credits, VIP). So starting from scratch wouldn't mean you'd have to reset tokens to zero, it'd just mean that everyone would start from the same page. I think the only realistic exception to this can be something like post count but that's more because it'd be a practical nightmare to make a note of everyone's post count when the system started.

I think all of the ideas mentioned are really interesting, particularly those on the last few pages. I love the idea of having tasks and I think it'll definitely encourage people to get involved with the community more .

[Kardan]

Okay I get you both. I think we would be re-using the awards plugin as it is at the moment but changing it around so it makes more sense with achievements. Unless there's a specific achievements plugin that can work in a similar way. Do you still want images associated with them such as: http://www.habboxforum.com/images/aw...es/debates.gif or scrapped with just complete text on the page.

Here's how RS have it




I imagine you would have the icon on the side and then the task information to the right of it, so you would have images associated with them - would mean the current images wouldn't all go to waste and that the graphics department have something to do.

[Chris]

So if we were to use the current award system we could keep the images but alter all of the descriptions to state the requirements and the reward for completing it. Once the user has completed the achievement, they can request it in the usual way so that it then gets checked by myself or Matts. We would need to keep a log of the token rewards that get issued though so that nobody can turn around and say they never received it.

[Kyle]

Umm that's kinda just a poor revamp of an obsolete system rather than introduction of a fresh one. Idk just seems lazy


~~from phone

[Grig]

err it was you like 2 nights ago saying you hadnt been on in a month or something to that tune! i'll see you find she isnt really""!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!

That wasn't me, no idea who it was . Oh well she always has been in the past, so just basing it on this.

[Kardan]

I think the whole request system is what sucks about the current awards system.

If one of the achievements is 'Post 100 times during a single week', then you would already have that data from the posting weekly stats thread. And you would know if someone bought limited edition VIP etc. And surely there's something out there that would automatically give the tokens whenever an achievement was achieved - surely it doesn't have to be done manually.

[Inseriousity.]

I believe the manual admin is unavoidable. I think people would be surprised at how much admin is involved behind the scenes that needs to be done day in, day out for Habbox to run efficiently. I don't think that they'd have to request some awards, if for instance there's a task similar to the 100 posts a week challenge then it'd make sense to just request those awards. But the tasks aren't meant to be strictly professional and maybe some fun ones ("have a singsong that includes at least 5 other people in the spam forum") that would require people to request and say here's the evidence for my task. That is one of the reasons the system stalls all the time: thinking of the tasks and how you're able to get evidence for them.

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I would say the difference between requesting awards and requesting tasks is that with the tasks there's an incentive to get them complete because of the rewards involved.

[Kardan]

You could also combine the Anniversary VIP into the achievement system as well I guess.