The mentor system sucks, and here's how I would fix it.

[cicatriz313]

Well here's the rub... you need to recognize the purpose of the roulette (fill long running queues) and then justify how changing it would improve the situation. Removing the mentor part of it fixes nothing so it is pointless to do. So... either different incentives are needed or people need to treat mentors better in order for them to sick around.

You're focusing SOLELY on the roulette which is not the only part of what a mentor is meant to do? Removing mentors as a whole would certainly help the community as people wouldn't see some of the godawful players the keep crowns on now in dungeons and think that's the way to play. It would also kill the cesspool that is a lot of novice networks and give new players less of a view into the culture that is online cliques. Even if this doesn't help the roulette, there are other reasons to get rid of mentors as they pertain to this game, at least more reasons than there are to keep it the same. Lastly I don't know why you keep bringing up people treating mentors badly, if you just want to be a normal player and not be asked for help just take your crown off?

Personally, I think the only people who would run a rewardless roulette would be the people who just want to run it for the sake of running it—kind of like myself and other Mentors who run it for fun/just to help and don’t care about the mount or the monocle thing or whatever.

Point was that the roulette would stay the same, keep the same incentive for people who want to continue toward Astrope. It would have the same goal of helping fill in slots for old content but would just be removed from having anything to do with a mentor system because the mentor system isn't good.