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<blockquote data-quote="Estrominal" data-source="post: 383148" data-attributes="member: 70814"><p>This is going to be a long post lol, but the story gives my opinion on a good retro. I remember the first retro I found out about was through the same family friends who introduced me to Habbo. It ended up getting shut down by Sulake which sucked. It was Yabbo hotel if anyone knows it, owner was this guy named Blue. (Also this co-owner guy named Nevada but for the whole 2 years I was there I literally never saw him speak in chat other than announcing something like an event, complete opposite of the other owner)</p><p></p><p>Though some things that made it completely amazing to 10-12 year old me(And I'm sure current me would love it too):</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The staff were super nice. I was good friends with all them along with the family friends I talked about.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The staff always hosted good games. Not just hosting it because they have to, they genuine loved hosting and wanted to host. A staff member who was exceptionally good with wired created many wired games that retros never seen before and made the scene very competitive around the hotel. Even Admins would make those roller races and around a 100 people would show up. Another great part was that they were mostly original games(Or at least ones I've never played before), usually every week or so a staff member or someone would think up of a clever original game and it would be a hit all around the hotel. And of course they'd still have the classics around like melting carpets and such.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Someone mentioned being a friendly owner, well the owner was over the top on Yabbo. This hotel constantly had holiday events(there was even an olympics), and in this one ninja maze with rollers etc, staff members including the owners would be at the finishing room to grant prizes and congratulate winners. I was one of the first people to finish and sat there and had a good 2 hour long conversation with the owner. I was just a kid so I bet I bored him to death and made really silly comments, but he genuinely enjoyed speaking with a player of his hotel and cared for everyone there. He added me when the event was over and we still spoke occasionally via PM, he wouldn't mind me asking anything but he was usually too busy for anything other than a concern/question, which I understood. Also understand that not only the owner was like this, I had every single staff member on my friends list (Except a few like that co-owner mentioned above) and hung out with them from time to time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A good economy. Being the richest on the hotel was really competitive. Betting was probably what I spent a third of my time doing and it was honestly so much fun. How the staff made the economy was literally perfect imo. You would start off with 5k credits and it was based around goldbars, but rares would go in this order: Rare - Super - Ultra. Rares were stuff vips could purchase in their shop like parasols etc. Supers were stuff like thrones, icm machines, dragons, dinos, typos, etc. Now ultras were the super rare stuff, some of them being furni with only like 30 on the entire hotel etc, these were usually given out at huge events like those holiday events so their value would diminish over time as more got out. A throne was like 200 gbs and ultras got pretty high up, some in the thousands.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And the last thing I'm going to mention: A good community. Everyone there was extremely nice just like the staff. Of course there would be the usual trolls and such but it was such an amazing community and the only time we'd start something would just be trash talk in the competitive scene. It was that type of community where even if there was so many players, you could get to know all of them seeing them in events/casinos and such. (I'll just leave in here that Yabbo was on r63 which I personally love way more for it's layout and how simple it was. I'm a noob with retros though, don't even know what a CMS is, nor any idea how retros work in general)</li> </ul><p>Well that's how I enjoyed my first and best retro. It was absolutely great and would love to be back on there, much better than the retros now. On retros like habboon the events just feel forced and the community isn't there like I felt it on Yabbo. Oh well, most good things come to an end.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Estrominal, post: 383148, member: 70814"] This is going to be a long post lol, but the story gives my opinion on a good retro. I remember the first retro I found out about was through the same family friends who introduced me to Habbo. It ended up getting shut down by Sulake which sucked. It was Yabbo hotel if anyone knows it, owner was this guy named Blue. (Also this co-owner guy named Nevada but for the whole 2 years I was there I literally never saw him speak in chat other than announcing something like an event, complete opposite of the other owner) Though some things that made it completely amazing to 10-12 year old me(And I'm sure current me would love it too): [LIST] [*]The staff were super nice. I was good friends with all them along with the family friends I talked about. [*]The staff always hosted good games. Not just hosting it because they have to, they genuine loved hosting and wanted to host. A staff member who was exceptionally good with wired created many wired games that retros never seen before and made the scene very competitive around the hotel. Even Admins would make those roller races and around a 100 people would show up. Another great part was that they were mostly original games(Or at least ones I've never played before), usually every week or so a staff member or someone would think up of a clever original game and it would be a hit all around the hotel. And of course they'd still have the classics around like melting carpets and such. [*]Someone mentioned being a friendly owner, well the owner was over the top on Yabbo. This hotel constantly had holiday events(there was even an olympics), and in this one ninja maze with rollers etc, staff members including the owners would be at the finishing room to grant prizes and congratulate winners. I was one of the first people to finish and sat there and had a good 2 hour long conversation with the owner. I was just a kid so I bet I bored him to death and made really silly comments, but he genuinely enjoyed speaking with a player of his hotel and cared for everyone there. He added me when the event was over and we still spoke occasionally via PM, he wouldn't mind me asking anything but he was usually too busy for anything other than a concern/question, which I understood. Also understand that not only the owner was like this, I had every single staff member on my friends list (Except a few like that co-owner mentioned above) and hung out with them from time to time. [*]A good economy. Being the richest on the hotel was really competitive. Betting was probably what I spent a third of my time doing and it was honestly so much fun. How the staff made the economy was literally perfect imo. You would start off with 5k credits and it was based around goldbars, but rares would go in this order: Rare - Super - Ultra. Rares were stuff vips could purchase in their shop like parasols etc. Supers were stuff like thrones, icm machines, dragons, dinos, typos, etc. Now ultras were the super rare stuff, some of them being furni with only like 30 on the entire hotel etc, these were usually given out at huge events like those holiday events so their value would diminish over time as more got out. A throne was like 200 gbs and ultras got pretty high up, some in the thousands. [*]And the last thing I'm going to mention: A good community. Everyone there was extremely nice just like the staff. Of course there would be the usual trolls and such but it was such an amazing community and the only time we'd start something would just be trash talk in the competitive scene. It was that type of community where even if there was so many players, you could get to know all of them seeing them in events/casinos and such. (I'll just leave in here that Yabbo was on r63 which I personally love way more for it's layout and how simple it was. I'm a noob with retros though, don't even know what a CMS is, nor any idea how retros work in general) [/LIST] Well that's how I enjoyed my first and best retro. It was absolutely great and would love to be back on there, much better than the retros now. On retros like habboon the events just feel forced and the community isn't there like I felt it on Yabbo. Oh well, most good things come to an end. [/QUOTE]
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