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[sex]

To be honest, the whole international side of Habbox is a joke and is not taken seriously, apart starting to at HabboxLive in recent weeks, where we were seeing an increase in international DJs and listeners. The rest is all backwards and no one even cares to fix it.

To prove my point, let's go back to 208 or 9 when Bomb-Head was Events Manager. You had a rank called International Events Organizer and there were applications exclusively for internationals, much like there are on HabboxLive. Now, nothing? International events are a joke and no one even attempts to make it better. I was DJing earlier on today at 2 am UK time, was at an event and barely anyone was there. Apart from a few regulars and staff who were mostly either in the host or VIP areas.

Forum has an international presence now with at least an international mod, which is great, but would be good if not everything occurs during prime time. Would be great that the forum did not die overnight UK time and there was stuff happening.

Personally, all community departments, particularly events and competitions should work together to push each other during international times, because I remember in the past, I think this was around 2 years ago, HabboxLive had a large number of international staff. Yet, the other departments did not bother to help out in international times at all and would just take benefit from one department at least trying.

I can go on about other issues, but find this one to be a problem at Habbox, where things are even going backwards, not forwards with ints.

I suggested introducing a international management to events because Habbox dies at night time but the reply from events management was "i stay up to 4am some nights so its not really needed" which is a joke. You need international people managing international things. Habbox had a much better international department before the merge with HabboxWorld etc, yet now...nothing lol..


I think it was@Bolt660; who mentioned that "habbo activity is decreasing, i don't think that can be used as an excuse when the two other big fansites manage to fill their rooms constantly with people wanting to play their events.

Also do management of events even Habbo much? I'm being asked daily in my Jungle Run or being added by event hosts, head events hosts or just other staff from different fansites asking do i want to become an events host. Even when i go to shops and if i buy a large amount of furni people have asked me would i be interested in hosting events at HFFM or THISHABBO, all i see for Habbox is "go check habbo.com/jobs for info! "

[-:Undertaker:-]

Fair enough in regards to the first part of the post, just my personal preference

Secondly, it's got nothing to do with your History articles, they're great It's more the wiki pages for individual rares

E.g: http://habboxwiki.com/Silver_Dragon_Lamp

Ah thanks.

And I see, yes I can see your point there. Really those pages shouldn't include any values (it'd be ridiculous to expect them to be updated manually even if we had 100 staff working on it) and should only include release dates/background information.

[Kardan]

I don't understand why Events Organisers find it so difficult. If I had the furniture, I'd come up with some great events, a lot better than the usual 'Don't roll a 6, Don't get a carrot, First to hit the wall loses!'

And I appreciate this 'Retro' event thing the events department is holding, looks great on paper, until you realise that most of the events are the same old stuff, just without the wired games (Telephrase is awful anyway ) and with normal queues

Also, all the Winter/Summer events that go on, are just the same events with wintery/summery names 'Don't hit the Christmas Wall!'

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I've always felt like doing a sort of OFSTED report, but with the Events Department. Going in undercover, assessing each EO, giving them feedback on improving etc.

I guess you'd say something like 'Within the next 2 weeks you will be assessed secretly, the worst 10% of you get fired'.

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Ah thanks.

And I see, yes I can see your point there. Really those pages shouldn't include any values (it'd be ridiculous to expect them to be updated manually even if we had 100 staff working on it) and should only include release dates/background information.

Totally agree, unless you got some code that automatically takes the prices from Habbox.com (A bit like the RuneScape wiki does for items). But I imagine that would be a lot of effort for something already provided on Habbox.com

Thing is now, you've just gone and got another 100+ pages to update to remove all the prices now

[Mr-Trainor]

I thought those rare values on the Wiki pages did update automatically? I'll go have a look at some of them.

[Kardan]

I thought those rare values on the Wiki pages did update automatically? I'll go have a look at some of them.

If they do, then pages should probably stop saying 'The price as of 25/11/12 is X credits'

[Mr-Trainor]

All the ones I just checked have th same value as Habbox, I'm pretty sure it updates automatically .

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If they do, then pages should probably stop saying 'The price as of 25/11/12 is X credits'

Oh yeah I think I saw that before on one of the pages, like within the text at the top. Definitely shouldn't be like that if the automatic value is at the bottom - unless they just wanted to add history of the value .

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http://habboxwiki.com/Dragon_Egg

"Currently, the value of this item is decreasing and is now worth 193 Credits on Habbox."

I wonder if the 'decreasing' part updates. I'm assuming it does but idk.

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http://habboxwiki.com/Cherry_Tree

"The Cherry Tree has also stayed popular even after the Catalogue and is currently selling for approximately 150 Credits."

Things like this definitely shouldn't be on the wiki - it's actually now selling at around 400c :L.

[Kardan]

All the ones I just checked have th same value as Habbox, I'm pretty sure it updates automatically .

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Oh yeah I think I saw that before on one of the pages, like within the text at the top. Definitely shouldn't be like that if the automatic value is at the bottom - unless they just wanted to add history of the value .

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http://habboxwiki.com/Dragon_Egg

"Currently, the value of this item is decreasing and is now worth 193 Credits on Habbox."

I wonder if the 'decreasing' part updates. I'm assuming it does but idk.

It probably does, based on that green/red arrow. That's good Tried looking for a few pages now that include the date and can't find any, so there's only a few Wrong for me to assume that it applied to all pages

[Chippiewill]

The value is included automatically, nothing else.

[lawrawrrr]

Mostly the fact that it's not a constant workload so there's no real way of evaluating staff performance properly. Also there are plenty of people around the forum who do graphics on request without being staff - I did a HxHD advertisement sig for a staff member recently because there were no graphic staff on at the time and it didn't seem worth waiting for the request to be processed, allocated, submitted, checked, and then released when the person requesting it knew I could get it over and done with in 10 minutes. It's a department that needs at most 1 member of staff to manage requests in a proper request forum or something, and the rest can involve *+*DUN DUN DUN*+* the community

Staff performance review or constant workload ≠ not needing a deparment.

By 'employing' staff who can make graphics on request, the manager and forum management can ensure that they have a constant stream of graphics. If management were to just post in the graphic request forums then a) their secret events or plans would be out before they necessarily want them to and b) there's no guarantee they'd be done.

Requests aren't "processed, allocated, submitted, checked, and then released", managers just post and one of us get on with it. Whilst it may take longer than the 10 minutes, often graphics are asked for in advance and aren't just odd signatures or stuff, that's what the graphic request forum is for - graphic designers may still use that but our top priority is to do the official habbox graphics.

It's really simple, you can't rely on the community for such an integral department as graphics. Maybe for odd forum signatures, but HELL not the rest. If all managers posted in public all the graphics they wanted there would basically be no element of surprise!

[Kardan]

Staff performance review or constant workload ≠ not needing a deparment.

By 'employing' staff who can make graphics on request, the manager and forum management can ensure that they have a constant stream of graphics. If management were to just post in the graphic request forums then a) their secret events or plans would be out before they necessarily want them to and b) there's no guarantee they'd be done.

Requests aren't "processed, allocated, submitted, checked, and then released", managers just post and one of us get on with it. Whilst it may take longer than the 10 minutes, often graphics are asked for in advance and aren't just odd signatures or stuff, that's what the graphic request forum is for - graphic designers may still use that but our top priority is to do the official habbox graphics.

It's really simple, you can't rely on the community for such an integral department as graphics. Maybe for odd forum signatures, but HELL not the rest. If all managers posted in public all the graphics they wanted there would basically be no element of surprise!

All of this doesn't stop the fact that graphics is the department with the least workload, and essentially the only reason why Graphics isn't merged with Content (Since graphics would just be image content) is that current content staff would have to do graphics, which not all of them would be cool with.

I would literally put the 'Graphics Department' on the same sort of level as the 'Debates Department', essentially one person managing everything.