Mentors...please!

[Packetdancer]

Anyway, we all know they're not going to change the commendation system, just like they're not going to change how the blacklist works. Also, they won't remove the current rewards based on the number of mentor roulettes completed, as that would be a major slap in the face to those that have been working on it for the last 2 years. So might as well stop thinking of those as viable solutions.

I mean, I don't seriously expect a player-written system design—much less a first draft written in a 1am fit of insomnia—would actually be seriously considered by SquareEnix as-is, even assuming a dev noticed it in the first place; that's not the sort of thing that happens often. (And I'm pretty sure I used up any "player gets to influence the design for parts of the game" points for the rest of my life on changes to the add-on API back in the WildStar beta anyway.)

But if we assume that even if the devs listen to player suggestion the commendation system can't change, that the rewards are all set in stone and cannot change, that players are incapable of actually recognizing good mentors to begin with (your point 2) and wouldn't bother with awarding any recognition even if they did (your point 1), and that the people who become mentors might be jerks under a system that doesn't take behavior into account (the gist of this thread)... I feel there's not really a lot of options for where you can go with that?

If all folks want to do is vent about the perceived issues of the mentor system to blow off steam, I suppose that's not unreasonable! But then why even pretend to discuss ways the mentor system could be improved?

[Wildsprite]

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Thank you for splitting up your reply to Lastelli into 3 posts. it made it much easier to read.