[Room Builders] (-Get in here!) Info & Pics

[HOSKO02]

Ok so, I and 74 other lucky Habbos made it into the RoomBuilders comp.

Now as usually happens when any group of Habbos in the hotel are outlined, little is known to the rest of the populace. These people have been given a duty/opportunity to shape the way future quests look and feel, which, given the system of points within the group for rooms successfully used, means that a competitive element has opened up. So far there's no information on prizes, but this leads us into a problem.

This has naturally led to groups working together in secrecy from other groups, or users going solo and submitting tightly guarded/secretive rooms themselves - (although its good to see a majority of groups over people going it alone). This kind of venture will be so much more successful if great builders are brought together, I look forward to seeing the finished myriad of rooms that comes out of it. (The prime concern outside of prizes is proper recognition/accreditation for their builds).

But for the rest of Habbo, there's no news, the meaning of Room Builders is lost on those not members and not in their friendship circles, and the only room with info (powertoo) is 'group members only' access. So it seems, given the zeitgeist that often parallels Habbo these days that the hotel is distanced from users and community is in decline, there's an opportunity here.

Right now, those in the rudimentary power structure look like this:

staff (info/task/selection)>room builders(room ideas, furni usage, game types)>populace(QUEST RELEASE: participants).

Whereas It ought to be more like this:

staff (info/task/selection)>room builders (finished rooms, final layouts) - populace (ideas on furni, types, layouts, challenges suggested, QUEST RELEASE: contributory participants).

I thus propose throwing together an info room for Habbos interested in following news or events surrounding future quizzes or ranges/events on the hotel that aren't group members. This would be a simple, small room, that has a bunch of stickies in (and pad pole) to allow people to suggest ideas or read about (1) how the Habbos were selected, (2) what they've been asked to do (no spoilers obviously) and (3) when the results of this collaboration are expected.

This way the group isn't lost in its own affairs but continues to be a mouthpiece for the community putting good ideas and requests into action, there might be a high demand for telephrase challenges, mazes, teleporter mazes etc. - Which would help improve the popularity of future quests in the hotel. In our mail, it states we're allowed to involve non-room builders in the creation process, this takes that idea to a wider level, especially allowing those who applied but have a wealth of design experience to get their opinions heard too.

FR me in-game if you want to contribute to this room idea,

I've started as we mean to go on by posting what we've seen as builders so far, (redacted some bits that might be meant to be TBA):

Here are the current group members (75):

Here are the two members rooms (powertoo), top is the entrance, bottom is the Winter Garden (through porter):

Hope these are of some interest

UPDATE: Here's the new mail message in full for clarification: [Posted in the wrong thread initially!]


Also, given our new tasks, I'm looking to get non-room builders involved in any of the room themes outlined in the second picture, if you want to help out in skills/stacking/design/ideas/furni/layout, FR me in-game or post in the Helpers room here.


Also, powertoo was lurking in members submissions earlier on today, think they'll likely be revealing the ones that made the grade later in the week, not as late as Monday I hope...

[HOSKO02]

UPDATE: I made a room, couldn't edit the original post, the link is here Pop in to leave your ideas!

[GoldenMerc]

Waits for someone to leak the password... heck +rep for the password leak

[zombies]

one of the passwords was CNY, well that was choi's room..

[Faceless]

That is all quite interesting info. Your rooms are awesome as well. I'm actually looking a little forward to what the room builders inc. will bring along to habbo

[Kyle]

@HOSKO02; So this group is for people to build big pretty rooms for quests? I'm not sure I entirely understand its premise, looks like a way for elitist room design 'experts' to circlejerk about their creative prowess that got them chosen above others to enter competitions that were previously open to all. Maybe that's just what I see, though. Thanks for helping to extend the scheme's berth a little by asking people outside the group for some help, I expect other members aren't quite as likely to do so. Willing to contribute if you need anything !

[Okeanos]

@HOSKO02; So this group is for people to build big pretty rooms for quests? I'm not sure I entirely understand its premise, looks like a way for elitist room design 'experts' to circlejerk about their creative prowess that got them chosen above others to enter competitions that were previously open to all. Maybe that's just what I see, though. Thanks for helping to extend the scheme's berth a little by asking people outside the group for some help, I expect other members aren't quite as likely to do so. Willing to contribute if you need anything !

wut? we arent entering comps? well thats not what i understood it to be.

[Kyle]

wut? we arent entering comps? well thats not what i understood it to be.

There are 70+ members of the group but only 13 rooms are needed. Those who do have their rooms chosen get 'group points' that go towards badges (that those outside of the group do not and likely will never have access to) - Seems like a competition to me, my dear.

[karter]

i went through the rooms of some of the group members and they were like all telephrases and shops and stuff, like did they even visit their rooms before taking them in. good that at least jendro and shayla are in, looking forward to round 2 of this selection

[Abdicators]

Nice to see that not everyone in a group like this suddenly feels like they have status above other Habbo users. You have to remember, that users of Habbo NL have been doing this type of work for a very long time.