Please do something about mentor roulette instant-leaves

[Moshimoshikami]

Pushing a button every 30s while watching Netflix is easy.

True :-(

I guess reporting and kicking that player is the last resort. If the player does that too often he may get SE's attention and get divine punishment.

[BillyKaplan]

I guess reporting and kicking that player is the last resort. If the player does that too often he may get SE's attention and get divine punishment

It could be someone with disabilities. Someone with some RL thing, but they still prefer to contribute by pushing that button rather than afk. Someone lagging. You toot your own horn at being helpful, but you're blind to the circumstances of other people, holding them to your standard, and you're too ban/report happy. Good luck proving they were doing this sort of thing intentionally to shirk their duties. Even if someone did say why they're slow-responding, you have no way of knowing if they're telling the truth of are watching Netflix. SE will continue erring on the side of caution - if you can't prove someone was acting this way intentionally, you have no case. And you won't be able to prove it.

[Moshimoshikami]

Not meant as an attack, but when you say you're only helping with difficult duties when you're bored that means that you're rather doing anything else aswell most of the times - its still nice of you to help, but its worth noticing that to me at least.

I help when I am bored, but it also happens when I am not if someone asks me. I don't know what is worth in adding words in my statement.

For the raid part, thanks for the tip but I know that. I was with my friends when I killed Nael and Bahamut.

Another potential improvement would be to split the mentor roulette so the mentor is sure to find something is ready to do.

As a conclusion I like the idea of rewarding the time experienced players spend with less experienced players. Even if I don't exactly know how yet.

But honestly, thanks for you reactions though, this was interesting.

Bye and maybe see you ingame one day.

[TarynH]

How do you propose they fix this? A penalty already exists.

Disable abandon duty for 30 minutes when entering as a mentor. Then (even if it's horrible) they'll be invested in the duty for 30 minutes. So they might as well finish it.

[Aramina]

Disable abandon duty for 30 minutes when entering as a mentor. Then (even if it's horrible) they'll be invested in the duty for 30 minutes. So they might as well finish it.

Nah, they will just force d/c.

edit: Basically it boils down to: You can not force people to do something they don't want to do, so coming up with new ideas to do that is destined to fail. If you want people to stay in content then the reward for it has to be great enough for them to want to stick it out even if it is not something they are particularly fond of doing.

Is that right or fair? I don't know, but unfortunately it's how it is.

[TarynH]

Nah, they will just force d/c.

Make it so if they force d/c they can't log on for 24 hours. And if that fails... shark tanks!

[Aramina]

Make it so if they force d/c they can't log on for 24 hours. And if that fails... shark tanks!

Oh no! Not the sharks!

[TarynH]

Oh no! Not the sharks!

And if all else fails... send in the Death Star.

[BillyKaplan]

Make it so if they force d/c they can't log on for 24 hours.

We have now upgraded to banning people for 24 hours for having internet connectivity problems. Amazing.

edit: I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't

[TarynH]

We have now upgraded to banning people for 24 hours for having internet connectivity problems. Amazing.

And ban them for life if they don't understand sarcasm on forums!