Lack Of Events

[Sian]

I imagine a 'staff hosting reward system' might be pretty flawed. If you get one staff member that's free all day Sunday and just hosts, the rest of the staff are going to have a hard time catching that person up in the rest of the week (even more so for those that work and go to school), of course, I don't know how the system works in depth, so maybe they've already tackled that issue, but your idea could help towards that.

Exactly, it sounds like it's doing alright, though personally I wouldn't award points if people just stuck to the minimum (if they're giving points out every even the host does). It should be seen as an incentive to go above and beyond, not as one to get them to do the work they've volunteered for (which I know in the current situation it is probably needed). In any case, points systems can be adapted etc.

If I made sense there.

[Chug!]

So, instead of facing up to the fundamental issues, you are blaming us for not advertising your event, because you cannot be bothered to take the initiative of doing so yourself?

That's how it sounded like to me. I'm not surprised there's a problem then.

I didn't mean that Grig. I do advertise, and you can see that in various staff chats as-well as on the client itself & forum.

I understand that maybe games are hosted too frequently too, which causes boredem and noone wanting to go.

And I'm not blaming 'us' hxl on the own cos some djs do, it's just when there is an event on and a dj with a party room tells everyone to go there, or to the helpdesk - it's frustrating.

Tbh, I like the idea of having wired games that auto run so people can play all the time, they could then post a screeny of them being in a certain position to show they have won and get given their prize at the end of the week or something. Just so that there are events, event if an event organiser isn't there. These rooms can be moderated by Events Hosts so if something goes wrong, they know how to sort it out.

[Kardan]

In my mind, there's 3 big issues with events that need dealing with:

1) Event variety - Some events require little thought, are completely boring, and are based purely on luck. Nobody wants to spend ages waiting for a game to start, only to lose in the first minute because they couldn't get the RNG to roll a 6 for them.

2) Prizes - Once again, what is the point of waiting for a game to start, and then get through the whole game, to win some furniture that is less than a credit? It's not worth the time input. I'd be about 90% sure that if you hosted an event that had the words '10 credits per win', you'd get a whole lot of people. Of course, funding that is the issue (But it sounds like the 300c on giving it to the staff that hosts the most could go towards that...)

3) AFK Areas - This is the biggest issue for events for me, and if I were in charge, I'd introduce a new rule immediately to get rid of these. These AFK areas, or these 'Habboxvip' areas, whatever you like to call them. Staff members and the same people just go to these areas and just chat casually, something that should be left to the HxHD. So event rooms that have 10 people in, it turns out only 2 people actually want to play the game.

If a Habbo sees the room and thinks 'Ooh, let's go play Bingo', but see the event room itself is empty because it's just full of people idling, they'll just leave and find an event that's actually taking place. The amount of times I've been in an event that's not running because everyone is just chatting amongst themselves, even with the event host pleading for them to join in. Just scrap these rooms, make them like the old days, a queue, and a play area.

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some events staff can be just pure lazy, take for instance posting away but still playing habbo and doing your other habbox jobs like djing or helpdesk because they cba, espiecally when the department is in crisis, step up help out.

If this is the case, why isn't there one whole 'Habbox Staff holiday thread' rather than a 'Events Staff holiday thread'. The staff member requesting time off would request time off from all departments, and tag their managers so it's seen. It would stop people essentially taking time off from certain departments because they can't be arsed.

[Empired]

If people actually turned up to events, if Radio staff actually advertised, rather than 'Go to the helpdesk' or 'go to my amazingly cool party room' then I might be more interested in hosting my minimums. But seeing as the events pick up like 10 people, thats not worth it.

I hosted Pacman the other day at 7PM GMT. PEAK TIME. Had the same 6 people playing for the whole hour. Noone inviting, whoever on the radio not supporting. Staff from all departments not turning up to support.

You all say HFFM have loads of events with loads of people in the rooms; most of them are staff.... They actually have a TEAM that support. Unfortunately, Habbox doesn't have that. Habbox has a community with 80% of them who prefer to ***** about events and hxl and other departments than actually help to support them. Staff don't support. That's the issue.

I'm not booking an event to sit with maximum of 10 people in my room. It isn't worth my time... So it isn't a managers fault, or even the Events Staff. Everyone needs to pull there weight.

Ps. Laura this isn't a dig at you at all, xoxox

Like I said in the help desk, I find this an appalling attitude. You can't blame DJs for not sending people to you. DJs can't do anything more than suggest for people to go down to the event- it's up to the listeners if they wan't to do it or not. Just like you can't blame HxHD either. The "regulars" in HxHD come to the room because they don't like playing events very much and that's fine. But, also like I said in the room, you coming in and literally telling people that you can't be bothered to host events because they're not turning up to your event is going to repel them from your events entirely.

If nobody wants to go to your event I'm sorry but it's your fault. If you're not hosting events that are exciting and new then nobody is going to care. It's not HxHD or HxL's fault that you're not getting enough players. From what I can see, it's your attitude.

[Kardan]

Yeah i can see where you coming from. However, i remember it was mentioned in the thread earlier that the main problem within the events department was that the staff do not feel motivated. So perhaps an awards system will help that? .

Haven't people already mentioned that there is one at the moment for 300c? It doesn't seem like it's doing much to change anything.

[Chug!]

3) AFK Areas - This is the biggest issue for events for me, and if I were in charge, I'd introduce a new rule immediately to get rid of these. These AFK areas, or these 'Habboxvip' areas, whatever you like to call them. Staff members and the same people just go to these areas and just chat casually, something that should be left to the HxHD. So event rooms that have 10 people in, it turns out only 2 people actually want to play the game.

If a Habbo sees the room and thinks 'Ooh, let's go play Bingo', but see the event room itself is empty because it's just full of people idling, they'll just leave and find an event that's actually taking place. The amount of times I've been in an event that's not running because everyone is just chatting amongst themselves, even with the event host pleading for them to join in. Just scrap these rooms, make them like the old days, a queue, and a play area.

Pretty much agree with this.

[despect]

I do like the idea of having some sort of wired maze as an official room where people can use that when events are not on. Also, perhaps start introducing more weekly events? I know Alex had one, can't remember what it was called though haha. But yeah if we had weekly events going on, its something that people can look forward to and actually attend. However, the weekly events need serious amount of advertising and i think that's something the events department needs to start doing. Advertise, Advertise!

@Kardan; - sorry must of missed the 300c comment haha, apologies.

[Chug!]

Like I said in the help desk, I find this an appalling attitude. You can't blame DJs for not sending people to you. DJs can't do anything more than suggest for people to go down to the event- it's up to the listeners if they wan't to do it or not. Just like you can't blame HxHD either. The "regulars" in HxHD come to the room because they don't like playing events very much and that's fine. But, also like I said in the room, you coming in and literally telling people that you can't be bothered to host events because they're not turning up to your event is going to repel them from your events entirely.

If nobody wants to go to your event I'm sorry but it's your fault. If you're not hosting events that are exciting and new then nobody is going to care. It's not HxHD or HxL's fault that you're not getting enough players. From what I can see, it's your attitude.

okay - point taken.

[Kardan]

The only issue I have with mazes and auto run rooms is that the events team will take credit for activity being boosted without any additional effort from the event organisers themselves. Fair enough, we can add these, but other changes need to be made as well.

[Sian]

Auto-run games should only be run by management then?

Another idea I had, was maybe scale down the slot time, so instead of an hour, half an hour, but then put the amount of slots a week up. Might encourage the EOs to spread their slots. Not entirely sure if that would actually work, and would need a lot of thinking.