Novice Network Feedback for SE

[OcieKo]

Been seeing a lot of the same issues myself... Half the time when someone says "so what's everyone up to?" I end up replying "awaiting a question to be answered..." But some possible solutions (most agreed with few new/innovated ones)

1. Opt In/Out Manually for BOTH Mentors & Newbies? Maybe have it require talking to The Smiths to opt in for a few hours at a time. Could also just remove the 30 Day CD for opting out of mentoring and use that so mentors can regulate when they are actually availble to do just that... Teach...
2. #1 should help, but get the ratio to favor new players on my server its general M2-4:N1 kindof need it more like M1:N2-3
3. Remove run completion achievements and add a new commendation system just for new players, with a negative option so new players can filter out bad mentors. Then use it for achievements. Might also be nice to have the reverse so mentors can commendate receptive new players who are trying to learn rather cause players grief.
4. Change the Mentor Roulette drastically... Why is high lvl content even on it? At that point PF/FC should be reasonable sources such as FC/LS/PF. im sorry if it seems callous... But if you managed to get into ishgard you should be past the point of needing help finding help, and thats being generous... Really should be independent enough to know where/how to find help by the time you hit garuda story.
5. Maybe add a Mentoring PF tag so some who ACTIVELY wants to teach higher lebel content can show as such, and/or the opposite 1+ people LOOKING for someone to teach content. But really point #4.

So far on Midgardsormr help comes to those who ask but its usually like 100 Mentors for 15 Newbies... So really it ends up being a large social LS til someone is coaxed into asking for help. Tho ive found toxic newbies to be more common, i think the system is also growing the "do it for me/hold my hand through it all mentality" but still too new to give credence to that.

6. But shrinking down the channel population and making multiple instances of it per server, almost like FC chat as opposed to LS so still /n /b for everyone rather than /n# like LSs. Say 10 Mentors 30 Newbies and have up to 10 instances of it assuming theres enough newbies.

Also god 1k is restricting when typing on a tablet /pant... I agree with person who said original posts need more space... 2.5k maybe for starters.