[Guide] How to make your Hotel stand out from the croud! [Guide]

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So, you've set up your emulator, you've got your CMS all working.. but you have no users?

One of the most overlooked things when setting up a Retro is ORIGINALITY if you want users then you have to be able to offer something that no other hotel offers. Yes, 100000 credits is great, but its easy to provide so every hotel does it.

So what can you do to make your hotel unique?

Your CMS

• Change your homepage! - Its the first thing new users see. When you see the same homepage 50 times, you get bored of it. Make it your own, change the default picture!
• Change the text. - You dont need to have the same words that Habbo have. Change what each text box is for - mix it up a bit! "HOTEL is a great place for you to make friends and have fun" how boring. Make it personal!
• Go through your CMS from first page to last to make sure you have no spelling mistakes and all pages have the hotel name on.
• Change your layout - this one is a bit more advanced, but change your layout completely. If your not confident in remaking the whole site, change the background, text colour, font. Its all simple to do and makes a massive difference!

Your Hotel

• If you want to create a substantial hotel, dont make the rares instantly available. Keep some back for events and competitions! You want to make people trade as it give your hotel a meaning!
• Add as many customs as you can, even better - make your own! Then they are totally unique.
• Dont start with 1000000 credits, make it 1000 - that should be enough for most users to get started but will require trading and participation in events to buy loads of stuff which makes your community better.
• Make VIP worth having. If you are planning on making VIP a "pay in real money" system, make it worth buying. New clothes and a few rares is boring. Make it give extra commands, access to other areas of the catalog, ability to get more credits every day etc etc.
• Code new features! Dont just wait for a new emulator to come around, make your own new items that will wow the new users and keep them coming back!

Your Staff

If you have ~30 users, dont have 15 moderators! It might be compelling to try and get users by saying "Join my hotel and ill give you moderator!!!!" but in the long run your going to ruin the community as everyone will be staff.

Use the general figure of 5 staff for every 50 users. (so get 1 more moderator every 10 new users that join).

Most importantly make sure your staff are trustworthy! If you have staff causing trouble how can you expect your users to behave?

Thanks for reading. This was just a quick guide on some of the things i feel are overlooked in the community. If you have any other ideas or suggestions feel free to comment below :)

You should really make a hotel, the biggest! I love your HQ tutorials, and all of the best is i have leaned something today xD!
Thanks WJJ

Really nicely made TUT and hopefully we should be having more unique retros. Its Crowd not Croud.

Maybe talk about customs to make hotels unique.

This is exactly right, the points given in this thread are what those small nooby hotels should, or HAVE, to follow!

Great guide!

Thanks for the comments guys :)

Thank you WJJ. :w00t: