Moving Forward with Increasing Registered User Features and Some Unregistered User Restricitons.
<div><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Quick Feature Changes</strong></span>
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<li>From now on, players will only be able to "host" a Power Hour Party if they are registered with the website.</li>
<li>Power Hour Party Hosts now have the ability to set their party as "public." If this is done, their room code will be available to see and join at the <a href="https://www.powerhourproject.com/open-parties">Open Parties</a> page for any user that visits the site.</li>
<li>Your account has a level associated with it. Earn experince by playing a Power Hour to level up!</li>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Hey Power Hour Players!</strong></span></div>
<p>Another week, another update. This week we've fixed a couple hickups that we ran into last weekend with the intention of eventually creating the perfect Power Hour tool of all time. This week though, we are focusing on moving forward with increasing what it really means to be registered with the Power Hour Project. Previously, registration only gave you the ability to create a Power Hour with unique starting times for each track - an important feature, no doubt, but we want to keep moving foward.</p>
<p><strong>From now on, players will only be able to "host" a Power Hour Party if they are registered with the website.</strong> We are moving in this direciton becuase the monitary cost of Power Hour Parties can't be ignored (asynchronous data management through PubNub is not free :) ). We will hope to eventually add more restrictions to hosting parties and divide these restrictions among pay-to-play tiers. Some brainstorming consists of having free account holders be able to host, but have limited number of visitors and limited number of additional options for their Power Hour. Upgrading to a pay-to-play account will give users the ability to increase number of visitors in their Power Hour Party and increase customization settings. This is still all in planning stages, but we hope one day we can move the Power Hour Project in this direction. In the meantime, <strong>there are no restrictions on current registered users hosting Power Hour Parties</strong>.</p>
<p>Power Hour Party Hosts now have the ability to set their party as "public." If this is done, their room code will be available to see and join at the <a href="https://www.powerhourproject.com/open-parties">Open Parties</a> page.</p>
<div><strong><span style="color: #000000;">User Levels</span></strong></div>
<p>It's always been a dream of mine to figure out the best Power Hour Players of all time. This is why we are launching <em>User Levels</em>. You gain experience by hosting a Power Hour Party, playing through a Power Hour, playing through a Power Hour as a guest to a Party, or creating your own Power Hours. Will this be a usesless feature? Who knows. Right now, there is no limit to the level you can achieve. There are no monitary prize for leveling up - but you can feel better about your <em>Power Hour Abilities</em>. We are launching the beginning steps to this feature with future intentions of giving users the ability to use their level as an advantage during the Power Hour. How so? Maybe if you're high enough level you can send a "Waterfall" to the Power Hour group. Basically, the higher the level, the more choices you have to make your friends drink up. Baby steps on this one - but start earning that experience now!</p>
