Quote Originally Posted by Galenini View Post
Won't be around to see it, because I am an old mentor who will be weeded out. One that rolls enough alts and has enough memory to remember what it's like to be a fresh and mostly clueless player about FF specific gameplay as well as understanding what's it's like to be a returning player who kinda remembers but basically has to start over. Catching up returning players on changes, helping them figure out quickbars/abilities and how to get themselves back up to speed without negatively impacting PuGs right off the bat, helping new players understand how to think about the game and different classes, as well as answer specific questions, and general "what does this mean" questions, how to socially navigate parts of the game, guiding new crafters in all of it... and often making sure that the questions get answered from THEIR perspective, in context.....

...while setting expectations about what a real (and helpful) community looks like...

... those are all things that I believe mentors are here to do.

Lots of newer mentors do that as well. Because they are closer in experience to all of that.


The older mentors are not necessarily those that are doing hardcore endgame and promoting their rigid expectations about theorycrafting as fact and insisting on exacting rotations so that they are never slowed down by "scrubs".

Sadly, the older mentors that do (previous sentence) are precisely the toxic ones who have met the newer commendations requirements and they will be the larger percentage of those that remain, just from pure number of hours played over 'x' number of years.

Doubt those older mentors that aren't focused on sprouts will be the ones to go.

The other mentors that never help in NN (yes, they might in dungeons, and elsewhere, but we are talking NN), are possibly the ones who joined only for rewards. The only way they would be weeded out is if they have not bothered to run enough PuGs to meet the new requirement (resting on their "laurels" so to speak.)


And the new mentors that are good but have not been a mentor long enough (pure hours at this point), may also end up leaving.

The new system won't necessarily solve the problem and may make it worse.


Quoting a textbook on urban studies (1970's - yes, I'm old enough): "Any intuitive change to a complex system, will inevitably leave that system worse off."
Except it's not a complex system. Not at all. You're basically saying that most good mentors have less commendations than toxic ones. Which makes zero sense.