GameOn365: Hotel Royale

Hotel Royale Site Redesign and Wiki | Posted by Nick on Aug 08 2010 07:28 PM

We've recently redesigned the Hotel Royale Portal and need your feedback! See the new portal here and then let us know what you'd like added or changed here.

The Hotel Royale Wiki is also available for use now. You can use the wiki to find user-submitted information about the hotel or you can write your own or improve/update existing articles.

Hotel Royale Beta Now Open | Posted by Nick on Jul 23 2010 02:25 PM

The wait is finally over and we're happy to say that the Hotel Royale beta is live. This is the first beta using entirely new server-side software. We expect to find many bugs over the next few weeks, and will do our best to fix them as soon as possible. Please report any bugs that you find in the tracker.

Known bugs and issues...

• See the tracker.

What we're working on...

• Redesigning the Hotel Royale Portal.
• Automatic delivery for items that are purchased with forum points.

Enter Hotel

Hotel Royale v9 Development Update | Posted by Nick on Jun 23 2010 06:37 PM

Hotel Royale v9 will require a complete recode of all web services to play the game. Most importantly, we will need to create an API for registration and logging in to make it a seamless experience to log in to the hotel with your forum account. We are also focusing on forum integration this time around. All information appearing on the new Hotel Royale CMS will be pulled directly from the forums - announcements, recent posts, competitions, events, the hotel wiki, rare values, and more. We have not yet decided whether the CMS will have the same skin as the forums or a hotel skin.

Major Changes

• The new version of Hotel Royale will be based out of the forums - you will need to have a forum account before you can register on the hotel. Your forum display name and hotel name will be the same.
• You will not have to re-enter all of your information to register at Hotel Royale. The only thing you may need to reenter is your password.
• Forum points can still be exchanged for hotel items and converted to coins.
• We may automate purchasing hotel items with forum points. (Currently, admins have to manually process all purchases.)
• Each day, users that have less than 3000 coins will be given 500 more coins. (Amounts subject to change.)

Minor Changes

• It will no longer be possible to have multiple accounts with the same email address.
• If your forum account is banned, you will not be able to log in to the hotel account that is associated with it.
• If your hotel account is banned, you will not be able to create another with the same forum account.
• Administrators will have to manually process display name change requests from this point on.

We do not have a release date yet. If you'd like to submit any feedback about our plans, or if you've got an idea you think we should include, you can post it at the Hotel Royale Feedback and Suggestions forum.