Problem: The Mentor requirements cater to players who have no business being Mentors.

[IndigoHawk]

I don't see the problem. No one needs a crown to help people. If you want a crown, work for it. SE wants mentors to have a wide variety of experience, which seems pretty reasonable for a system with unmonitored approval. So work towards the crown or don't.

Also, making outrageous and rude assumptions about people who have the crown makes it seem like the OP doesn't have the right attitude or enough experience to be an official mentor yet, so maybe the system is working fine.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I don't see the problem. No one needs a crown to help people. If you want a crown, work for it. SE wants mentors to have a wide variety of experience, which seems pretty reasonable for a system with unmonitored approval. So work towards the crown or don't.

Also, making outrageous and rude assumptions about people who have the crown makes it seem like the OP doesn't have the right attitude or enough experience to be an official mentor yet, so maybe the system is working fine.

The problem is, achievements don't make a mentor, a person does. You can have 99999 achievements and be the worst teacher ever.

"Git guud"." when someone wants to learn to play. "Look at my achievements d00d."

Making mentors based on achievements was a failure to begin with, because over-achievers and teachers are quite different kinds of people.



Its like going to an athlete with 100 medals asking him to teach someone, he may be a very good athlete, but how good is he as a teacher? How does that make sense? It doesn't. Bad designed system, IMO.

They should of just stuck to Everquest's simple mentor system.