Lack of events?

[FlyingJesus]

Lack of events isn't really an old issue, you misunderstood what I said there.

Lack of events isn't a recent problem.

Silly me.


On the subject of prizes, I still don't understand why there is no funding at all for events staff. That's one of the huge things holding people back from wanting to host because it's a constant operating loss without any real benefit, and this is something that's been addressed before without any response too despite being a pretty major detriment to the department. Suggestions of more lottery/grabber events have been made and ignored even though that would help alleviate problems with funding and lack of events, and any suggestions that supposedly have been accepted haven't shown at all, benefits or no

[Inseriousity.]

Oops my bad although the next sentence should've cleared that up.

I imagine the AGM change ruined any progress there. A prize fund was introduced when I was AGM but as it was a new thing it needed a bit more tinkering to make it into an effective system. I believe it's been disbanded (although I could be wrong) as Alex and Martin had to put their own money into it to make it work which naturally isn't very sufficient. The purpose of the grabber was that it would be used outside the lottery and that all managers could use it to collect funds. This didn't really work. However, I believe Jade's room is actually much more suited as there is space for a regular event then 3 different grabbers so it could become a regular thing in the events timetable for an events organiser to use that room while Jade and managers work on the grabber. It would be very easy to put this in place and that way, they can bring back the events prize fund and make it an effective and sustainable system.

Speaking of lottery, I counted and it made a 10c loss last month even though it's not that difficult to fill it. You can use the above to advertise the lottery too.

[Yupt]

why don't habbox have regional events staff. correct me if I'm wrong, but other fansites have almost sub-departments within their events team for different areas of the world, UK, USA, AU for example which means that they can host right throughout the day. Is this not a better system than just having "events staff".

[Empired]

i always feel quite intimidated nowadays in habbox events, i find i get ignored if i say stuff because not many people know who i am. dno might just be me tho lol :S

I reckon this is the main problem here.

I hate attending Habbox Events because basically the only people in there are the "ev3nts crew" and they just chat to the host so they don't pay attention, meaning the game can't get played properly. I know EOs are supposed to go into other events to get the room popular, but it's really annoying when you can't attract the host's attention because they're too busy messing about in front of their friends. I hate to say there has been more than one occasion where the host has tried to impress their friends by being horrible to the newest Habbos in the room. How in twelve types of instant soup are we supposed to attract new members when we are literally making them leave our rooms in embarrassment?

I know HxHD isn't perfect, but at least we don't intimidate other people to the point of them not wanting to come in the room anymore..

[AgnesIO]

Can a mod merge my posts if the double post thing don't work.

I imagine the AGM change ruined any progress there. A prize fund was introduced when I was AGM but as it was a new thing it needed a bit more tinkering to make it into an effective system. I believe it's been disbanded (although I could be wrong) as Alex and Martin had to put their own money into it to make it work which naturally isn't very sufficient. The purpose of the grabber was that it would be used outside the lottery and that all managers could use it to collect funds. This didn't really work. However, I believe Jade's room is actually much more suited as there is space for a regular event then 3 different grabbers so it could become a regular thing in the events timetable for an events organiser to use that room while Jade and managers work on the grabber. It would be very easy to put this in place and that way, they can bring back the events prize fund and make it an effective and sustainable system.

Speaking of lottery, I counted and it made a 10c loss last month even though it's not that difficult to fill it. You can use the above to advertise the lottery too.

How on earth does a lottery make a loss?

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[Grig]

why don't habbox have regional events staff. correct me if I'm wrong, but other fansites have almost sub-departments within their events team for different areas of the world, UK, USA, AU for example which means that they can host right throughout the day. Is this not a better system than just having "events staff".

Because they can't get any, they are struggling to get any UK events people, yet alone internationals. Tbh, and I'm not being biased, HxL is the only department that has regional staff and tries to bring in international members. On last count, we had about 16 international DJs, excluding myself and a Head DJ. This is good though because many get settled at Habbox and then join events and staff, like HE-Joshua just did as an example of the top of my head.

But really, we should corporate between departments to get international times boosted, because it should be the work of everyone together doing so, particularly for community departments like events and radio. Like stuff like a radio show and a cool big event co-hosted together is stuff that can do that.

Yet, and this is a qualm of mine, events management get angry at a DJ doing a small event for their show EVEN THOUGH they have only one event per day and that event they did linked to the show was not even clashing with any event. Mind you this was during Australian primetime in the UK early mornings, when there aren't ever any events on anyway. You want promotion? You don't come in rooms and start shouting at our DJs for attempting to do an event, that was linked to the radio. It goes against sense and the good of Habbox to do so, because it simply results to nothing on at those times at all. Not only that, but to say they should do the events department for doing a single event linked to the radio also makes no sense.

[Inseriousity.]

How on earth does a lottery make a loss?

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The main lotto is fixed at 100c so 100 tickets need to be sold for it to break even. Only 90 tickets were sold last month. This sounds like a challenge but it really isn't and it never made a loss when I was running it - even sold out several times. When I was competitions manager, I found that people weren't disinterested in ever entering competitions, they just needed a little push and it's the exact same with lottery tickets. They want to buy them but they're not likely to go out of their way to ask to buy them, you need to ask them and they will get snapped up. I also noticed that Jade didn't sell a single ticket so it's perhaps not surprising that managers are also starting to slack. It's a shame because it really is a great way to raise funds for competitions, room designs for quests, events etc. The grabber and lottery combined could then be used to create a sustainable system to fund the events organisers' prizes.

[Lewis]

Last event I went to, the host ignored what I said continuously until it had come to the point I had to spam him with bubbles to get an answer. It was a good reason I needed to talk to him, can't remember what it was for. And I haven't really played an event since, perhaps been in the event room though.

And that wouldn't be the first time it's happened to me. Especially if the host is talking to his / her friends...

[HE-Joshua]

Last event I went to, the host ignored what I said continuously until it had come to the point I had to spam him with bubbles to get an answer. It was a good reason I needed to talk to him, can't remember what it was for. And I haven't really played an event since, perhaps been in the event room though.

And that wouldn't be the first time it's happened to me. Especially if the host is talking to his / her friends...

I tend to agree with that - Grinds my gears.

[Kardan]

The main lotto is fixed at 100c so 100 tickets need to be sold for it to break even. Only 90 tickets were sold last month. This sounds like a challenge but it really isn't and it never made a loss when I was running it - even sold out several times. When I was competitions manager, I found that people weren't disinterested in ever entering competitions, they just needed a little push and it's the exact same with lottery tickets. They want to buy them but they're not likely to go out of their way to ask to buy them, you need to ask them and they will get snapped up. I also noticed that Jade didn't sell a single ticket so it's perhaps not surprising that managers are also starting to slack. It's a shame because it really is a great way to raise funds for competitions, room designs for quests, events etc. The grabber and lottery combined could then be used to create a sustainable system to fund the events organisers' prizes.

I always thought the lottery was just the combined total of all ticket sales?