Okay. I really hope someone isn't typing up a thread about this at the same time I am, but it's been four hours and there's no thread about it yet so here I am. I feel kind of bad, because I know the staff is just trying to give us more trinkets and make us happy and here I am, about to shit all over it. But I am. Here goes.

This is terrible???????? Of the two people on my skype list who play on Subeta, neither of them are in the habit of going to the dance floor after dances. It's a useless thing. I, also, never go to the dance floor. I have to assume most people don't. I have to assume most people let their invites pool up, then mash down their f5 and refresh until there are no more invites. After all, trinkets are the goal.

Can it not be shoved in anywhere else? On the accept/deny page? On the payout page? Even an actual random event, either on the events tab (Like the dancing buff running out) or just randomly on the site (Like ... the ... rain bear ... )

If you look through the comments on the news post, majority of them are confused (Is it battle coliseum?? What do I do?? How do I get this??), so not only is a really sort of weird feature, but it's also worded poorly in the announcement.

idk man maybe it's just me but this seems really ... sort of ... dumb.

I never went to the dancefloor before this either but it's not a big deal? Now I just accept the dances one at the time, even if they are piled up, and check the dancefloor link every time. Yes the dancefloor was useless. Now that there is an event/chance to get trinkets/achievement it's no longer that useless and just not a big deal to me. o.o

Yeah, I don't go to the dance floor normally either, but I don't mind doing it for a couple of achievements (my current dance partner and I actually look pretty cute together on the dance floor).

I haven't seen it yet so I'm wondering if you can get it by refreshing one dance or if you have to go to the dance floor every time

I've been wondering if you can refresh a single dance or if it's assigned to a specific id as well.

I mean, granted, I don't know a whole lot about servers and everything, but wouldn't it be easier for the site if we DIDN'T direct everyone to a page with six random avatars to load on it?

It was not that big a deal to go to the one extra step. It is nice to see all the HAs, even the ones you aren't dancing with. I mean someone had to draw that ballroom...why not make a way for everyone to see it? Besides, you can go back to refreshing after getting the achievements if you choose!

[edit] I am not 100% but I am pretty sure that you cannot refresh on the ballroom floor. I think that just shows you new background dancers. It doesn't do anything else.

Check the dance floor link everytime? With event lag?

No thanks.

I don't go to the ballroom either, so yeah this seems kind of pointless to me too, but what can ya do? I just want the bug fixed most of all, I was excited because I got it after 4 hours and thennn.. blank page. I feel really bad for those that have gone and accepted dances and went to the dance floor and got this multiple times. So yeah, I'm just not accepting dances until this is fixed.

Also wish we knew exactly how it's triggered if it's a random dance or if we can refresh the page as well. I'm hoping it's the latter, but betting it's the former.

Some of us can't even do anything because its glitching.

The dance floor has been pointless for years but there needs to be something done to actually... prompt people better to look into this than a random event. :I

I went to the dance floor a lot when we had the 2013 Plot, but really other than that there's just not a lot going on for it.

I'm not in the habit of going to the dancefloor either, but it is kind of nice that it has a purpose for once.

The only thing I'm really bothered about is that it's luck-based and there are achievements for essentially getting lucky (I wouldn't be bothered if there wasn't also a time limit, but there is). Like, I've been on Subeta pretty much all day and only been challenged once (which would be fine if it was just a possibility to win trinkets and not an achievement), plus the duel itself is luck-based (I think?) so whether you win or lose is up to chance. So even if I get challenged once or twice a day from now until the end of Masquerade I could just lose every single time and never get the other achievement.

ughhhh I just want to be able to actually get achievements and not have it left up to the Random Number God :c

Basically its adding another step to something that is already boring. No thanks.

honestly i'd probably actually bother with this if there were an event generated with a link to the dance that boudewijn is trying to butt in on; i don't want to check every single dance individually. that sounds time consuming and boring and makes me not want to bother with it.

It took me about a couple of hours to get both of the challenges completed. I know not everyone has the time to dance, but given that we've got two weeks' worth of dancing, I think the rate isn't that bad.

And now that I have both challenges done I can go back to not checking the ballroom. But I probably still will, knowing that he gives out token bags sometimes.

I really like that there's a new little thing to do related to a really pretty component of Masq that's kind of gotten pushed aside, and while it would be extra awesome to tie it into an event or a plot point, I'm okay with this. Two new achievements and a chance at extra tokens? Sweet!

Also, I like that nobody's absolutely required to take this step. It's entirely optional.

I do wish the news would have been a little better worded, too, though. It is confusing and even though I've been to the ballroom in the past I totally forgot how it works and had to go find the answer myself. I'm a fan of more clear guidelines in the future, too.

i finally got challenged and it just brought me to a blank page very good event 👍

Honestly, I... don't really understand why the ballroom and trinket pages are separate? Is there any reason why they can't be combined into one page?

Like, I love the extra trinkets, thank you for that! But I feel like this could be worked on.

I could be wrong, but I want to say maybe site-loading issues? It's a lot of graphic to load, and the year they introduced the ballroom there was also insane lag and site-breakage during the event. I want to say I remember it being all one link back in the day, and it was then split out because of lag, but I could be remembering wrongly.

Yeah, I thought lag might be it, but if we have to load the ballroom anyway... I'd rather wait for one page to load. IDK, I think they could be combined, maybe less HA's in the background to make it load faster.

I'm wondering that myself now that we've got more snazzy new servers than we did then. This year seems to be pretty nicely free of 504 errors and such. I wouldn't mind it either if it took us right to the ballroom, that would be pretty convenient.

I don't understand why the ballroom links need to be unique to every dance. Isn't that wasting a fuckload of server space?