Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
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It's not so much that I think traning should be mandatory, but if there's a push to simplify and make the game easier for people who refuse to learn then what they should probably be doing is hand-holding the players who are struggling so that the players who aren't don't suffer for it. I learned pretty much everything in the game off my own back, either by reading tooltips, playing and practicing, or rushing off to google or youtube to answer whatever question I might've had and because I had the initiative to do it, it shouldn't be beyond the scope of anyone else to do the same and yet here we are.
One thing I will say about mentors though is that our Burger King crowns are a meme for a reason. Becoming a mentor doesn't really require an awful lot of skill or knowledge about the game, and it seems like the vast majority of mentors - at least on my server/datacenter - only signed up so they can use NN as a general chat and have little to no interest in helping new players. Not that this is particularly bad because as a mentor, I've noticed that a lot of new players have little to no interest in listening to mentors. So now we're got a dynamic where the new players aren't learning, aren't taking steps to learn and the people who are responsible for teaching them are sick of wasting their time, so it seems to me like the best way of breaking the dynamic is the game grabbing new players by the scruff of the neck and dragging them kicking and screaming into a tutorial.