The Mechanics of the Novice Network Need to be Reworked

[GrandmastrGrant]

What I would like to see in the novice network:

For mentors:

• To make it so you opt-in to join the network instead of it being automatic, to free it from spaces taken up by mentors who happened to get in but don't actually want to use it right now.
• A queue for mentors to get in. Right now, all I can do is go into a new zone periodically and hope I get in.
• A way to leave chat without having to log out or talk to an NPC to remove mentor status altogether, so as to make room for other mentors to join.
• An afk kicker for mentors, at least until the "new shiny thing" novelty wears off and it gets less busy.

For novices:

• To allow sprouts to decline invites.
• An easier, more obvious way for sprouts to leave the novice network, so new people aren't turned off by this chat channel that on some servers is full of mentors chatting about endgame stuff.

Basically, make the Novice Network more like a chat room, I guess.

[Keiichi969]

What I would like to see in the novice network:

For mentors:

• An afk kicker for mentors, at least until the "new shiny thing" novelty wears off and it gets less busy.

This. OMG so much this.

Half the people are only in there because its automatic, Another quarter are AFK at any given time. Please, clean out anyone that is AFK for more than 45 minutes or so.