[Opinion] The Current State of the Novice Network

[SenorPatty]

My short time in NN has taught me that if I want a quick answer to an ingame question, I'm better off googling it.

[Frowny]

My short time in NN has taught me that if I want a quick answer to an ingame question, I'm better off googling it.

To be perfectly honest, 9/10 times when I'm asked something I google it to make sure I'm not misleading someone >.>

[Grimmel]

I know exactly who the OP is referring to and a number of times they have been an extremely difficult person to deal with here on the forums and on Balmung. Not only that but they trash the RP community while claiming to be a lore appropriate RP'er while being named after a character from the children's show My Little Pony.

They are also known to be a narcissistic person. This very same person shouted in Eastern La Noscea to encourage people to kill the bombs during this year's Summer Event. They also encourage other trollish and jerk-headed moves to further get a kick out of it. They are the type of people to get their things done then purposefully try to prevent others from getting the same thing done.

I honestly think what they do is repulsive and should be warranted for an investigation into their own actions because they are at the top of everything that is wrong with the Novice Network.

[alimdia]

I'm just gonna say, for those commenting when they

a) were in the NN before they disabled auto join and made it opt-in, which the majority of people who comment in this kind of threads happen to be
b) were in the NN for a few minutes/hours, saw something bad and automatically assumed that's how it is the whole time

Try to get better informed before commenting, the current situation of the NN in all servers is not the same as what it was before they made it opt-in.

Also I thought by now we all would agree that Balmung is a special case in almost every single topic and anything that happens there rarely applies to other servers. Balmung will always be the only server that almost never gets sprouts unless they decide to pay for transfer, Balmung will always be the only server where even houses and even all apartments are bought up in minutes, Balmung will always be the only server where people complain that they find other players ERPing in their houses.

I'm not saying all novice networks are perfect, but the system is working well in most servers that aren't Balmung or Hyperion.

[Deepified]

I agree with OP on this one, maybe not keep the network strictly on Q&A and discussion, but answering Sprout questions should definitely be the main focus. I'm not personally on Balmung, but I've got a few friends who have been for the longest time (I'm on EU data centers) and they also have concerns regarding the Novice Network, particularly regarding some Mentors' off-topic dominance within them. I've been hearing about people politely asking off-topic posts to stop only to be told to "deal with it," and a lot of questions just being glossed over within the network since people either don't pay attention to it or simply quit it, due solely to spam.

Basically:
It's okay to have some off-topic conversations, but as soon as a legitimate question pops up, it should all stop until that question is dealt with. The network shouldn't be used in a way that spams anyone's chatbox. If someone requests that someone takes it easier with their posts, it should be heard.