I'm not a rude guy, but what I had quoted that he said was all wrong, I'm sure hes a cool guy but the German community is nothing like the English community so it had to be corrected. You don't get users because of the features and that's a fact.Originally Posted by ovflowd
I'm just kidding my friend ;)
Is because every idea thread after a time start discussions :c
A Hotel with free rares and free everything is boring (I mean a hotel where all the rares and ultras are cheap and you don't need to win them or save up for them.) I have had hotels with a ridiculous amount of unique CMS features, and there were still no users. Advertisements rarely earn you any money, that's a fact. Why should VIP be free? Otherwise, it's not VIP, so that's stupid. I usually make the features that are more for fun free, and I sell the features that can be annoying like mimic.
They stay on a certain hotel because their friends are there. We're talking about people who are around 12 years old, they want to build Habbo houses and start a Habbo family and roleplay the shit out of a hotel. They want a big big catalog to build their houses and just live their Habbo lives in there. We also have the people who are around 16-18 years old who occasionally go to the hotel they used to be on when they were younger, because their old clique still hangs their. These are mostly the hotels who have a huge amount of players.
No matter what any of you say, the community is dead ans there is no way to revive it, its the sad truth but its down hill at this point.
Err... Stability isn't always the question;
I know that I have had this running for 5 days (in these 5 days, it has peaked at 10).
I'm guessing people would like something fun to have to do, preferably unique events or something in that direction.
So you're saying your hotel is stable because it has been running for a number of days ? No, that doesn't test it's stability. Also I love how you added yourself as a developer in the PlusEmu credits... What exactly did you do to the Emu to push Sledmore down and make yourself a Dev?Err... Stability isn't always the question;
I know that I have had this running for 5 days (in these 5 days, it has peaked at 10).
I'm guessing people would like something fun to have to do, preferably unique events or something in that direction.
I have added myself as the active developer on my hotel, since I've added a couple of features which has not been made publicly available yet, such as forums and whatnot.
This is not what this debate is for, so keep on topic.
To all of you who thinks I stole credits; no, that is not the purpose of the crediting. It's either developer or I could've written "maintainer", which sounds best, eh? I have no intention to steal Sledmore's credits, which I have not done. He made the base and I built upon it, which makes me the current active developer of my copy of the emulator.
Yep.
Quote The Social Network
Without money the site can't function. Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominos go, don't you get that? I am not going back to the Caribbean Night at AEPi!
Zap Hotel has thousands of users, we just pushed events 24/7. My secret was hiring mods from every time zone to ensure a mod was always on. It was a rule that all mods were also to do events every hour or so. We also had some unique events, and what not. Filling up a event room with the bulk of the hotels users is quite a feat. Just respect your community. We banned non-English users, but it still worked out.
Yeah, you helped. However I already had 1,000 users active per-day with 10,000 unique hits a day before you became an owner on Zap.
My ideology was to not sell a thing for real money, and to make everything considered "purchasable" on hotels available for free for winning special staff events. We had an active radio team which even I was on, which made the users feel closer to the staff team and the owner which actually means a lot to them for some reason.
We held events for every holiday occasion of the year, Valentines Proms, Easter Maze Events, Halloween Raves, Christmas Events, and we themed the entire hotel around them. Not only that, but we held "Tea Partys" which was when all the staff got in a Skype call and we broadcast it over the radio and basically we would just talk smack and make the users laugh which seemed to gain us a lot of popularity as well.
We held things we liked to call mosh pits, which was when we got several hundred users mashed up into 1 room dancing and the more users we could get in the room, the more prizes we would give out as well as giving out a unique badge for those who participated.
And yes, we banned players who didn't speak English. My reasoning behind it is because other languages piss english users off because the entire reason they joined was because it is part of the english community. There are retros for most countries, foreigners can go away to there.
I'm yet to see a hotel that does the same as we used to.
What happened to Zap ?
It closed due to multiple cease and desists.
I remember being in some of the mosh pits, you would also hand out badges for every moshpit and had times where there was a rare hidden in a catalog section and users had to search for it.
This thread will not end. We need only agree the fact that the world is changing. And the guilty is ours. Action <> Reaction.
The community is in this state because our acts.
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