New Member Awards

[Calum0812]

They will be yold that, they have more chance of sticking around if they have a week of vip, its non transferrable its worth a shot tbh! @Phil;

Phil is on limited activity so there may not be a reply very quickly

There are already a lot of opportunities to gain VIP through methods that are more fun than just signing up - events, comps etc

[GoldenMerc]

give too much to the new members means the old members go...

[Yawn]

if they get vip straight away they wont know wat its like to not have it and wont feel the benefit

maybe after like...2 or 3 wks but not straight away

[GommeInc]

Benefits of being a Habbox VIP

• Access to an exclusive VIP Forum
• A coloured name of your choice from the selection
• A custom user title
• To be able to change your Forum user name
• An avatar of 150 pixels by 150 pixels
• A signature maximum sizelimit of 700 pixels by 300 pixels (W x H)
• A profile picture of 250 pixels x 250 pixels
• A PM storage capacity of 800 messages
• Ability to see who gave you reputation
• Option to make yourself invisible
• Be able to close your own threads

I can't see how new members would really know how to do half of these in a week and some of them really depend on your activity (seeing who repped you, VIP forum, forum name changing, user title and PM capacity).

Where do new members tend to come from? You could start with that and expand it.

[FlyingJesus]

Yeah maybe the events staff could-

oh never mind

[Kyle]

Reward the VIP after a certain amount of posts or being a member for 1wk, not Automatically. Current system offers 2wks VIP for posting 100 times and considering we have members here that have not yet reached the thousand mark after being here for years perhaps that is somethig that needs to be revised. I would say 20-50 posts within a 2 week period for a 1-2 week subscription of VIP is a far trade and will give people a taster of VIP features and make them want to unlock more perhaps. All of this is certainly somethig that should be considered to be integrated into the achievement system -- if that's happening. And no goldenmerc giving VIP to new users has no effect on older ones as they are already established members, post regardless of reward (as shown by very few older members cashing in their tokens among other things) and - I would hope- would welcome any opportunity to increase ad retain the user base.


~~from phone

[Mr-Trainor]

I personally think it could backfire and push away the new and/or some old users, for reasons already mentioned e.g. new members getting used to the VIP features and thinking they're normal. I think what @Kyle; has suggested is a lot more reasonable - 100 posts is definitely a lot, I would personally consider having it as low as 25. And lower the subscription to 1 week if you have too.

[Inseriousity.]

People won't stick about because they have VIP, if people sign up then rarely post then they obviously don't like the content or discussions on the forum. Not because they have a non bold blue username.

Actually as comps manager, I recall that people do tend to stick around if they have VIP, it makes them feel like they've got a commitment not to waste it although it's true that it may be the winning that is the bigger factor so whether it'd work right at the beginning is debatable.

[Lewis]

Benefits of being a Habbox VIP

• Access to an exclusive VIP Forum
• A coloured name of your choice from the selection
• A custom user title
• To be able to change your Forum user name
• An avatar of 150 pixels by 150 pixels
• A signature maximum sizelimit of 700 pixels by 300 pixels (W x H)
• A profile picture of 250 pixels x 250 pixels
• A PM storage capacity of 800 messages
• Ability to see who gave you reputation
• Option to make yourself invisible
• Be able to close your own threads

I can't see how new members would really know how to do half of these in a week and some of them really depend on your activity (seeing who repped you, VIP forum, forum name changing, user title and PM capacity).

Where do new members tend to come from? You could start with that and expand it.

To be honest, when I first joined the forum, I didn't even know how to make a thread never mind all of that.

[FlyingJesus]

Are there any genuine negatives to this? They'd only get the VIP if they bother to ask for it, so it only affects those who are willing to give us an actual try rather than the multitudes who make accounts and never use them, and it would definitely be a good welcome to those few who let's face it we need to keep around if we can