What could Habbox do with/without?

[Inseriousity.]

lmao oh yeah action plan

because you're using rare values in its more narrow definition. if you broaden out its role to be more about trading generally and get involved with the trading subculture via the department (who in theory should have some interest in that side of things) I think it has potential there.

[lawrawrrr]

Didn't you do exactly that by telling rare values staff they had to write articles?

When did I ever tell RV staff they had to write articles??

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lmao oh yeah action plan

because you're using rare values in its more narrow definition. if you broaden out its role to be more about trading generally and get involved with the trading subculture via the department (who in theory should have some interest in that side of things) I think it has potential there.

Basically, this

[FlyingJesus]

Doing what? Other than having a trade room which doesn't need an actual staff anything involving auctions or whatever can be handled by events (if they ever get back on their feet), and articles on the subject would obviously be under the domain of the articles chaps

[Lewis]

I agree, RV isn't as useful as it used to be all those years ago. If anything at all should be merged, it's content and rare values.

[Empired]

Probably bring back events screenies. I know regulars hated them but we moan all the time anyway and it did seem to boost that community feeling.

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I hated this so much. My laptop sucks and my Prnt Scrn button doesn't work very well and it was just so difficult UGH.

[Kyle]

The RV team has the potential to become a community-based department.

[Martin]

"in terms of any kind of remodeling."

Events
More weekly events added (work with other departments as well to see how they can boost these).
Scrap the guest role
Make event rooms (done)
Funding system (done)
More flexibility perhaps on when to host. half hour slots?
Probably bring back events screenies. I know regulars hated them but we moan all the time anyway and it did seem to boost that community feeling.
On the plus side, I've seen improvement in number of events hosted.

Thanks for the feedback Mike!

Funnily enough, the majority of these things are actually things we are working on at the moment, and I'll quickly post a brief description of each so people know where we are at.



More weekly events added (work with other departments as well to see how they can boost these).
There's a few of us currently working on a weekly event room (unfortunately me getting banned has put a bit of a halt to mine at the moment), and I've also been told that a member of general management is keen to make a weekly event too. The helpdesk department have informed me they are also working on another weekly event, so things are definitely looking up on this front! I think having more weekly events would definitely be a positive thing as people will come to expect them at a certain date/time and providing they're interesting/fun enough should encourage good numbers of regulars.

Scrap the guest role
Under previous management, the guest role was made far too easy to obtain, and the department ended up with heaps of people who were essentially 'full staff with a shockingly low minimum'. Guest roles do little to help a department significantly when used in this way, and is often seen as a way of people taking the easy route out of a department in a way. It also enourages others to follow suit and derails the point of having full staff at all really. I aim to keep the guest role purely for previous management, and it will be used rarely, until being phased out altogether.

Make event rooms (done)
We currently have a few pre-made events rooms set up for people to host events in as they wish and a system in place for this. I've just recently today had quite a bit of interest regarding people returning and making use of these rooms so we could be onto a winner here finally! I aim to do my best and all I can to help people host, and this is a step in the right direction for that. I'm hoping to get some more specific event rooms set up (i.e wired games etc) that will provide some much needed variety too and will be easy for anyone to host in.

Funding system (done)
This is also now in place, and Shonly is currently overlooking this. It's being used and seems to be okay so far! I'm also trying to encourage staff to host by offering credits myself in order to help those who host above the minimum and go out of their way to help habbox.

More flexibility perhaps on when to host. half hour slots?
I was actually having a discussion about this with you last night Mike (stealing my ideas pfft! - although it has been discussed before I believe). This is something I'm currently trying to gauge opinion on and see the feasibility of how well it would work. I know a lot of people are put off hosting by the commitment of an hour at a time purely to Habbo, but then would half hour slots be too small? I can see the positives and the negatives really.

Probably bring back events screenies. I know regulars hated them but we moan all the time anyway and it did seem to boost that community feeling.
On the plus side, I've seen improvement in number of events hosted.
I actually have something planned for the end of the month which will showcase events and boost the community feeling. I'll be posting a roundup containing statistics about events, all of the features that have been won during events this month, as well as some fun little bits I've been preparing. I've been taking screenshots myself throughout the month (kind of like an events roving reporter I guess haha and it's been really good to see how successful some of them have been!)


Whilst this week hasn't been great, I do think that the previous two weeks were stronger in terms of the amounts of events held. I have a fair bit of interest in people wanting to return to the department at the moment, so hopefully we'll see a good increase in numbers soon, as well as a lot more variety of events on the client! I'll certainly do my best!



Thanks again for any feedback!

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I hated this so much. My laptop sucks and my Prnt Scrn button doesn't work very well and it was just so difficult UGH.

Don't worry, I'm going to be doing that for people


REMEMBER THIS!!!

[FlyingJesus]

I have a feeling that image may have been edited

[dbgtz]

Scrao RV, it is no longer a USP and has basically been replaced by the Marketplace. The only thing the department could do that I can't look in the MP for is bundles, but it's not hard to work out what I can get 2 of for 1c etc.
Bring back Habbox mini games and HXTV!!!1!

Radio should focus more on quality than quantity. No offence to "DJ's" who stream, but I don't tune in to listen to music I don't like without something else to go with it. I also feel this was evident with the awards night show which seemed rather messy.

Graphics. My main issue with graphics isn't that big of an issue, but they never really seem to do anything in the graphics section by which I mean staff posting things they have done. Though, the actual department is probably as good as it has been generally speaking.

[scottish]

"Achievements system. lmao won't go into this again. I've already explained it lots before. A better prize and task structure than what was presented."

looking at the plugin everything seems VERY easy to implement and I don't see how they could have even failed that in the first place?

"A most interesting thread award. like member of the month but deliberately designed to reward interesting threads rather than spamming ones. "

surely a reworking MOTM would be a better idea, rather than yet another award thats similar to an already existing system (MOTM)?

"I know it's common to want to scrap it but lots of people come in for help. With the increase of Ipads and iphones, a guide to help staff answer these questions on a different layout."

if I got 1c every time I seen a staff member respond "I don't have x (device) so I have no idea"..

"Habbox TV"

if you're talking about the thing that we have in like 2007? no, it failed when habbox was at a peak.. why would it work now

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USUALLY it does have more than 2 members of staff though! It's not really fair to "delegate roles" because I know if I was a Content Designer and was told "you have to update Rare values now" then I wouldn't be very happy about it as I probably wouldn't do it right!

Plus, if I was Rare Values staff and suddenly told that I'd lose any dedicated manager (because what we have right now isn't permanent!!!!) and expertise from a senior member then I wouldn't be very happy then either!

there's no-one suitable to manage the RV department, so a drastic change needs to happen to rv.

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Mike how about an action plan

But 4real how does RV have potential? Literally everyone just uses MP to find values and anything not on there tends to be only traded between a small group of the ultra-rich who all know each other and each other's prices regardless of what 2 or 3 people might have witnessed happen once a year

the only time people use RV is for items that aren't on the MP (which is like teles, and that's pretty much it.. except very rare items (i.e. very limited in the hotel) and even then their price is based on whatever the person who has it asks for it.

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lmao oh yeah action plan

because you're using rare values in its more narrow definition. if you broaden out its role to be more about trading generally and get involved with the trading subculture via the department (who in theory should have some interest in that side of things) I think it has potential there.

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