Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
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Adding more rewards and tiers of mentor-ship isn't going to change the attitude/culture of the player base.

I feel there shouldn't be any significant rewards for mentors. I understand that the rewards are there to motivate people and keep them engaged, but in this SE fails to understand their players base, at least those that reside in the NA datacenters. All they've accomplished is to flood the mentor channel with achievement chasing players that wanted a crown next to their name for vanity's sake.

Unless the lesson you want learned is "How to Troll 101", the vast majority of players are not really qualified to mentor anyone. When all the achievements and rewards are removed, all that you have left are those who really want to mentor new players. I don't have a sense of how many players that would be, but I'm guessing that it's on the extremely low side. Which, in my opinion, is why the system fails from the get-go.

The mentor system as it is, is a complete flop. It would be more beneficial if the Mentor Channel consisted of LS and FC leaders and turn it into a place where new players could get introduced to various Free Company's and Linkshells they could join based on their interest and goals. I would find that way more beneficial to me if I was a new player. Instead what we have is a channel where 'veteran' players humblebrag to new players, so that they can shock and awe them.