A Mentor System

This sound like the mentor syste This sound like the mentor system,We had in Final Fantasy XI online, People were allow to become mentor at a set-level ( if I recall right,it was around level 20 or higher ) As for the reward, I have to agree with musashidon There shouldn't be a reward system, since Player will fine a way to either break the system for whatever “reward' that was set,


I.e In a game I used to play, There was a mentor system that given you a reward for x amount of players you help in week,this was highly broken to the point the Game Company tried and tired to fixed it via Patches, Hot fix etc but were all render useless since a new way will be found and the same problem will reappear,and the system was disable due to this

I don't think a few hundred GC seals would hurt anyone, but I'd agree either way, since a true mentor helps newbies because s/he enjoys it and not for tangible rewards.

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

I don't think a few hundred GC seals would hurt anyone, but I'd agree either way, since a true mentor helps newbies because s/he enjoys it and not for tangible rewards.

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Or something akin to commendations.

Oh I'd love to mentor a new player! Just to be able to help them out with something would be great.

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Originally Posted by ErikkShadowmoon

This sound like the mentor syste This sound like the mentor system,We had in Final Fantasy XI online, People were allow to become mentor at a set-level ( if I recall right,it was around level 20 or higher ) As for the reward, I have to agree with musashidon There shouldn't be a reward system, since Player will fine a way to either break the system for whatever “reward' that was set.

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That's exactly where the idea originated and as you pointed out, yes there would be no rewards or achievements associated with this. This isn't meant to be a feature to be farmed by people for the sake of getting rewards, but rather a system implemented so that people that want to help new players can be identified by them. If anything, wearing the little token next to your name should be reward enough (and even that would be up to the development team to add or dismiss if they wanted).

This should give those 1337 players that clear all content on monday something to do!

Reminds of EQ. :3

mentoring as a system only really works when there's a level system...sadly this game type is pretty quick and easy leveling.

The echo system is realistically the game's mentoring system. Aka keep trying and you're get somewhere.

The problem with the FFXI version was it was never actually used how it was meant to, and was just something players set beside their names to inflate their own egos - few, if any, of the many players I met in FFXI who had the 'mentor' icon even knew the meaning of the word.

Although such a system might have some benefit to encouraging players to help new people in ARR, really, I don't see why we need something like that to do that anyway - as current players we should do it regardless - we see a new person needing help, we help them. It's as simple as that.

It's an ideal I've tried to uphold ever since I first started playing in FFXI, that because of all the help people gave me when I started, I made a commitment to myself that when I 'came of age' in the game I would do everything I could to return the favour and help out any new person I found who needed it. And I've carried that ideal into FFXIV as well. :)

As the line in Answers says, "Look to those who walked before, to lead those who walk after." ;)

I'd be all for it if we could specify what sort of mentor we wanted to be. I wouldn't want to be bombarded with questions about combat or dungeons that I know nothing about but I'd love to help aspiring crafters and gatherers, whereas I imagine many people would be the same but vice versa combat oriented. Aside from that little potential issue, it sounds great ^_^