Moshi 12:57 AM 4 Weeks Ago
Seriously,
I've seen and been through them all and majority can only offer the
fact they have 'free furni'. The hype with these retros seem really big
but I see the same idea being repeated.
I'm just curious on what the community has to say, I for one say they're
all the same just different management and population. (The most I've
seen online on a retro is 120 so ya)
What exactly makes a Retro 'different'?
How is your hotel different from the 44834938274 ones out there?
inb4wehaveproffesionalstaff
Late3 01:16 AM 4 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by Moshi:
The most I've seen online on a retro is 120 so ya
If 120 was the most, you wouldn't have some little kid trying to get rich.
Look around some topsites.
Moshi 01:18 AM 4 Weeks Ago
I have dear.
Late3 01:24 AM 4 Weeks Ago
You sure? There's more than 120.
And since 2007 the retro comms has sort of died off, we lost all the
good developers, and owners of hotels just care about money. So nothing
really makes a retro different these days.
zJordan 01:28 AM 4 Weeks Ago
Developers
leave, it takes a while for new ones to come... You are saying that we
have no active developers? We do, Sierra is on the verge of being
released, Crowley is looking good, Grizzly is pretty nice... what else.
Anyway in my opinion retros are separated by their Community Managers or
whatever, events and such, big hotels that have in excess of 1000+ are
boring, events are to crowded, The golden average user count for me is
about 500 - 800, not to cluttered, and still enough things to do.
That's not to say big hotels are bad, I would just prefer to run and
play an hotel with about 500 - 800. Retros have grown so big from the
biggest having about 300 users to some Spanish retros reaching 2000 and
more.
Riley H 01:30 AM 4 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by Moshi:
I have dear.
I've seen user counts peaking into the 1000's. And to answer your
question: people generally only play retros in the hopes of becoming a
staff member. So the majority of people will play the one they think
they've got the best shot at.
Matthew 03:06 AM 4 Weeks Ago
Not
sure where you get your facts and figures from but I've seen hotels in
the English community getting an excess of 2000 online. And in the
foreign community more so. I think I recall seeing a Brazilian hotel
with 5000 online (crazzy.com.br or something). Whilst I can sort of see
where you're coming from with the "They're all the same" but that is
also false. Not every hotel is the same. You also have contradicted
yourself:
Originally Posted by :
I for one say they're all the same just different management and population
It's the differing management which make
different decisions about the way the hotel is run and managed which makes the hotel...
different.
Think about what you're typing before you post. An example I can give
is Habplus VS Fresh. They are both run differently, both are managed and
ran by a staff team with differing ideas from each other. The
communities are also very much different, so is the way the hotels are
ran, the CMS, the emulator etc.. etc..
A Lot of the startup hotels are the same (RevCMS/Phoenix). The owners
are too noob and can't handle or comprehend on how to run a hotel or the
technical requirements that come with it. So it turns into a hotel for
friends ran on a $20 VPS that probably gets hammered with attacks from
the occasional skid. Then they give up, move on and possibly start
again. A few trickle through and actually get members but this comes
from hard work. Something the Habbo community is notorious at
not doing.
This is a bit like saying all Minecraft servers are the same because
they're using bukkit. Anywho your lack to look in depth or do actual
research on the current state on the habbo retro community shows that
you're making an assumption and have no idea as to what you're talking
about.
Obviously the retro community is doing something right. Since the amount
of retros and their online counts is more than habbo itself. Do more
research before making assumptions. My assumption is you're a butthurt
hotel owner who owned a RevCMS hotel and couldn't make it past #50 on
thehabbos. Or you're from DevBest.
Muscab 05:36 AM 4 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by Matthew:
Not
sure where you get your facts and figures from but I've seen hotels in
the English community getting an excess of 2000 online. And in the
foreign community more so. I think I recall seeing a Brazilian hotel
with 5000 online (crazzy.com.br or something). Whilst I can sort of see
where you're coming from with the "They're all the same" but that is
also false. Not every hotel is the same. You also have contradicted
yourself:
It's the differing management which make different decisions about the way the hotel is run and managed which makes the hotel... different.
Think about what you're typing before you post. An example I can give
is Habplus VS Fresh. They are both run differently, both are managed and
ran by a staff team with differing ideas from each other. The
communities are also very much different, so is the way the hotels are
ran, the CMS, the emulator etc.. etc..
A Lot of the startup hotels are the same (RevCMS/Phoenix). The owners
are too noob and can't handle or comprehend on how to run a hotel or the
technical requirements that come with it. So it turns into a hotel for
friends ran on a $20 VPS that probably gets hammered with attacks from
the occasional skid. Then they give up, move on and possibly start
again. A few trickle through and actually get members but this comes
from hard work. Something the Habbo community is notorious at not doing.
This is a bit like saying all Minecraft servers are the same because
they're using bukkit. Anywho your lack to look in depth or do actual
research on the current state on the habbo retro community shows that
you're making an assumption and have no idea as to what you're talking
about.
Obviously the retro community is doing something right. Since the amount
of retros and their online counts is more than habbo itself. Do more
research before making assumptions. My assumption is you're a butthurt
hotel owner who owned a RevCMS hotel and couldn't make it past #50 on
thehabbos. Or you're from DevBest.
I couldn't have said it better - Fresh is the sort of hotel that goes
easy on the economy and we don't care much about rares let the kids get
w/e they want and chill, think habplus take it serious thats the only
big difference i can think of right now, not to mention we run diffrent
emulators aswell and are both diffrent versions he is B i'm A.
ησвяαιη 05:57 AM 4 Weeks Ago
It's
not like you can take the entire Habbo game of a flip it upside down to
suit your Retro. Of course they are going to extremely similar in most
ways; the only difference is the Owner, Staff, Catalogue(sometimes) and now the software running it.
As I said before, you can't change everything about Habbo.
SkeetEmUp 06:07 AM 4 Weeks Ago
Hes talking about my hotel guys. Habplus only gets 120 and we all the same. Im sorry to dissapoint.
PRIZM 10:11 AM 4 Weeks Ago
When I ran my hotel it was much different than other retros.
Here's some things I added,
Tags
D0WNF4LL catalogue v10, edited alot, haves all habbo's furnitures.
All posters in the gallery
Brand new site layout
Radio
Support
3 daily respect
Lobby (rooftop café)(With bots which gives drinks)
Infobus park
Respect stats in community
Facebook site
Custom skin colors
All the newest clothes
Custom Habbo.swf
Rideable horses
Custom badges
Marketplace (You can sell everything in there!)
Trax shop
Ecotron
Good economy that makes users play in months!
So ehm.. Bad discussion.. Also Fresh and Habplus reaches 1000+ every day.
Customs makes it different, and offcourse a different system unlike Habbo.
lRetros 04:36 PM 4 Weeks Ago
¿What exactly makes a Retro 'different'?
In my opinion there are two essential things, it doesn't make your Hotel
the most famous of the world with differences, it doesn't make that
you'll have hundreds of people online, but i know for experiencie that
it makes it the most funny:
- The imagination and the desire to do something new and innovative:
the worse thing is that for me all the R63 Hotels are excactly the
same, they normally have different CMS, some are much better than
others, but the principal things are not changed and of course, the
client is always the same with little differences depending of the fame
of the Hotel. In my opinion you need a lot of imagination here, the
point is that you need to make something new, the people is tired to see
always the same system.
- The team: a
good concept of Habbo Team for me is that one who enjoys to manage the
Hotel, who listen always to the people, who is connected everyday and is
worried always about what is happening. The point is that the 99% of
the Hotels has members in the team who are not very seriuos, in my
opinion i prefer to have 2 people in my team (like in my Hotel) than
have 10 people who makes what they want, who are not very serious to
manage and who are not mature and responsible to know what means that
concept.
FullmetalPride 04:45 PM 4 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by
lRetros:
¿What exactly makes a Retro 'different'?
In my opinion there are two essential things, it doesn't make your Hotel
the most famous of the world with differences, it doesn't make that
you'll have hundreds of people online, but i know for experiencie that
it makes it the most funny:
- The imagination and the desire to do something new and innovative:
the worse thing is that for me all the R63 Hotels are excactly the
same, they normally have different CMS, some are much better than
others, but the principal things are not changed and of course, the
client is always the same with little differences depending of the fame
of the Hotel. In my opinion you need a lot of imagination here, the
point is that you need to make something new, the people is tired to see
always the same system.
- The team: a
good concept of Habbo Team for me is that one who enjoys to manage the
Hotel, who listen always to the people, who is connected everyday and is
worried always about what is happening. The point is that the 99% of
the Hotels has members in the team who are not very seriuos, in my
opinion i prefer to have 2 people in my team (like in my Hotel) than
have 10 people who makes what they want, who are not very serious to
manage and who are not mature and responsible to know what means that
concept.
Hotels have bad lower-level management. Hobbas and some terrible mods.
Admins and managers are the only 'good' staff members I see. DJs are
cool too. Then again, I can't hire good staff for shit lol. I made a
good choice on my manager. thats it. I have a radio, fixed emulator, a
styled-up CMS (work in progress, looks terrible at the moment but my
vision for it is nice.)
This is a question that beckons me, though. What makes a hotel more
attractive? It's harder to attract users off other retros, these days,
that's all I know.
Hotels without irritating crappy auto-playing radio would attract me at least...