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[Matt]

@mdport.; Having four events a week would be better in my opinion.

As a few other people have mentioned, the minimum used to be at 2 events and as far as I'm concerned, I think the minimum is fine at where it is. If it's too high, people are less reluctant to join Events and then we are left with no staff at all. It is up to staff if they want to go above and beyond that 3 event minimum and we can only make people do 3 and from that point onwards, it's up to the host.

No no no no, no, no, no.

Prizes are NOT a problem, getting people to come to the rooms are. The solution lies in the charisma of events staff, the willingness to integrate into the community and the type of events they host. A user who talks to nobody, asks nobody to come to their event, posts a CNB and simply waits in their room is not going to get visitors regardless if their prize is 20 thrones or 5 coins. People aren't going to ENJOY the event just because of its prize. The best hosts are those that talk DJs, advertise in the helpdesk when it's full and are active in the community.

I'd have to say that I've experienced so many people leave my events when I tell them that the prize is 3c or the rep/tokens on the forum. I've also had comments along the lines of "oh is that all" and remarks like that. So I assumed that that is what you were referring to Either they leave because they want more or they leave because it's a fansite event... not too sure which one.

The attitude of hosts should not really be an issue. They know they need to be interacting with the community, they need to be polite and answer questions, that they need to moderate the room to a particular standard and they need to make sure they follow protocol when it comes to advertising their events. If a host books only minutes before their event and it's not on the panel, a Dj may not always see that there's an event. In this case, the host should be sending in a shoutout to the on air Dj or a message to them on Habbo to get them to promote their event.

I understand that not all hosts contact the on air Dj and that's something we can't really monitor. In terms of attitude, they should be interacting with other people in the room and this is something that is addressed in reports etc. I can only really vouch for the non-BST staff in saying that they are great in terms of connecting with the community. From what i've seen, they go out of their way and are always enthusiastic throughout their events. However, this should be standard in all of our events

[FlyingJesus]

If people are so disinterested that they leave just because the prize isn't a throne then obviously the event being hosted is pretty boring

[Matt]

Events such as Isolation, Black Hole, The Sims etc are popular events, however they can't be the only events hosted as we do want variation. I'd say it's mainly to do with the individual themselves and wanting a prize that's above your standard few creds.

I'm not saying this happens all the time and that the reason people leave is based 100% on the quantity of the prize, but It's something I've seen and does affect the turnout of players.

[FlyingJesus]

Variation's great but not having crap events that no-one goes to is better, and if we're only gonna have 3 events a day then they might as well be decent ones and not something that hosts see as a chore then as soon as the hour's up go do something else

[akeel$]

2 events that's just bad you know what. you need more event hosts which can be active and host a lot of events without being told. when i was an events host i was actually warned not to do any events because i was overdoing it even though there was like five slots open lol :/ how is that overdoing it? nobody's hosting the fansite is dead and i'm told by a member of staff not to constantly host - it wasn't even booked but whatever that was kinda the reason i resigned just hate towards me i've done nothing wrong lol but anyway now the situation is more weighed i've noticed since comity has came (yes a single events host can make so much difference) he has changed the fansite for the better and made it active again tbh x

[Chippiewill]

It looks a bit **** when you have a single EO running six events in a row at 4am.

[Matt]

Variation's great but not having crap events that no-one goes to is better, and if we're only gonna have 3 events a day then they might as well be decent ones and not something that hosts see as a chore then as soon as the hour's up go do something else

And if an event has already been hosted that same day, we ask staff to change it to encourage that variation. We can't 100% control the events being hosted. If a host books an event that hasn't already been hosted on that day, we approve it and add it to the panel. Whether or not that event is classed fun or not is a different issue, up to the host and out of our hands completely. I think it depends on a number of things, like how much wired/furni the host has, how much time they have to set up the room and so on.

2 events that's just bad you know what. you need more event hosts which can be active and host a lot of events without being told. when i was an events host i was actually warned not to do any events because i was overdoing it even though there was like five slots open lol :/ how is that overdoing it? nobody's hosting the fansite is dead and i'm told by a member of staff not to constantly host - it wasn't even booked but whatever that was kinda the reason i resigned just hate towards me i've done nothing wrong lol but anyway now the situation is more weighed i've noticed since comity has came (yes a single events host can make so much difference) he has changed the fansite for the better and made it active again tbh x

I'm not entirely sure why a member of staff would be telling you not to host as you need to host in order to pass your trial? I'd say on average, 5 slots is a pretty safe number of events to be hosted at the moment. If you had hosted 10+ events in only a few days, then yeah I'd understand someone telling you not to host so frequently as you need to make sure you have enough prizes etc. In terms of the hate you received, I said before that you never brought it to our attention therefore we couldn't do anything to help you. I'm sure we'd have dealt with it appropriately if you had have made us aware. The old minimum concerning the two events wasn't bad as I'm sure we had a lot more staff back then and it worked out well. The more staff you have, the more events being hosted which meant the minimum only needed to be at 2 events to see a full-ish calendar.

"you need more event hosts which can be active and host a lot of events without being told." We've known this for months and months and trust me, if it was that easy to find staff like that, we'd not be having this conversation now. We have been low on staff numbers for a long time now and finding staff that are dedicated, host a wide range of events and are active in the community is not as easy as it used to. Something we are having to work round for now. Applications have been open for an extremely long time (and not been closed for months and months) and apart from advertising in our rooms and in official Habbox rooms, it's luck of the draw on whether or not we get good applicants or not.

It looks a bit **** when you have a single EO running six events in a row at 4am.

It's better than having 0 Events being hosted from midnight until midday isn't it? I'd have said that having a panel that's empty during the early hours is a lot worse than a single host hosting for 6 hours straight. We can only admire their work as the current situation in events relies on people like that.

[akeel$]

At the moment things are pretty organized hopefully we will be back on track by the UK summer holidays. HXSS and everything will all be very exciting. Yeah well, let's all try our best as a community to make this work then.