HXSS SUGGESTION

[Inseriousity.]

Yes it's the only time newbies actually get any attention when people scream BLACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
or CHOOOSEEEE GREEEEENNNNNN
or PICK REDDDDDDDDD
or BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE

at them. Personally, I think it's why hxss is so good at bringing in new people and if teams are randomly assigned then that would be gone.

[Chippiewill]

Randomly assign accounts older than 1 year.

[sex]

i dont wanna be on a team with lots of people so random is gay

[Kyle]

I don't want to play on a team that already has lots of active players, there's no competition this year aside from between blue and green. Going to have to either quit like Gina did and not host any events o join rare values so that I can get on the black team. Sort out staff distribution it makes no sense ughhj

[FlyingJesus]

It's all a big lottery anyway you might get 40 people right at the start to join your team by shouting at them then none of them ever appear again or you might get 5 and 3 of them become regulars who get masses of points for you, that side of things only needs regulating when certain teams have 90%+ of the players in all of the games but otherwise isn't really a problem with a genuine solution.

As for points being public, can't see an issue with that but let's make it -50 points for green every time Kirsty complains about the scores given

[Inseriousity.]

It hasn't even started yet lol you can't determine which teams are going to be most active until it actually starts. its only after the first day has already been complete that you'll have a more accurate picture. for instance yes gina has been posting around saying blue blue blue but shes also away for the first couple of days. for instance yes drew has been posting around for the green team but he's also australian and international users tend to be at a distinct disadvantage with habbox events. it's all about who's active on habbo not the forum.

[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.

[nvrspk4]

Why not make the points reporting thread view-only? It's simple enough to set the permissions so that it's a subforum of the HxSS main forum where all members can view so only staff can post (similar to the old settings in the "Ask the Staff" forums). This way there will only be points reporting done in those threads. You can make the rule that you have to PM whoever is in charge of points if you notice a discrepancy, this way the arguments can be kept off the forum. If it becomes a big enough issue, you could even go draconian and say that if someone posts their points-related complaint on the forum, they forfeit the right to have it reviewed, but I honestly think just saying that people have to PM for point resolution is enough without taking further measures.

I think there's a fair point, unless you know exactly how many points you have it's hard to track it, and in a day where there are 10 events held in a row, people might not notice that one is missing (especially as some people don't report it until the end).

RE: Teams, I think management does close teams from time to time when one team gets too large. The problem isn't a ridiculous number of people (though sometimes it is, but not always) but sometimes even though the teams are the same size, the active Habbo-based core is bigger on one team.

[Chippiewill]

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.

As I stated earlier in this thread, a purpose built system would be trivial to implement (5 hour job max). You wouldn't have accusatory posting since you can't post to a purpose built system and any complaints would have to go to the support forum as they'd be about a specific forum member - not that you'd get any anyway as hosts would be able to add the points instantly and the user would see this.

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RE: Teams, I think management does close teams from time to time when one team gets too large. The problem isn't a ridiculous number of people (though sometimes it is, but not always) but sometimes even though the teams are the same size, the active Habbo-based core is bigger on one team.

The principle issue is all the active people join teams on the first day and management are always far too slow to react to balance teams.

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Why not make the points reporting thread view-only? It's simple enough to set the permissions so that it's a subforum of the HxSS main forum where all members can view so only staff can post (similar to the old settings in the "Ask the Staff" forums).

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

[Inseriousity.]

how are they too slow? it was the first day the red team got closed last year. they just got sloppy adding the points.