Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
I've seen evidence that these questions shouldn't be answered by people with fewer than 1500 commendations. Trade mentors do not usually have 1500 commendations and in my experience, a lot of them don't know the answers to a lot of battle questions themselves so what they do is quote The Balance or what they googled. This results in them giving level 90 optimized rotation advice to a sprout wanting help with their Sastasha rotation. Someone with a large amount of experience of the game does not need to consult The Balance and Google for their answers all the time.
But, I don't think that 1500 commendations makes that differentiation. I'm a trade mentor and am always answering battle questions because... well... I have played all of the jobs at a decent level and can answer questions about it because I enjoy learning things. It's usually the battle mentors I see that are talking about level 90 rotations, lining up burst windows, using pots/materia, and ability drift to a sprout and I just roll my eyes. Bringing up trade mentors is good though, because most of them know nothing about the crafting system and just use macros for everything. Even people with a large amount of experience in the game still has gaps in their knowledge and even someone who has only been playing for a year can have a lot of knowledge about a particular subject.

I agree that it's a great channel for being social. I don't personally want a global chat because that would be chaotic, but ones with the a limited capacity like the novice network and a specific theme like job-based chats would be good. Linkshells only have 1/5th the capacity and it counts people who are offline.
Having the option would be nice though; Sure, a ton of people would likely not join, but it'd be nice to have a group of similar people to talk to. I imagine it wouldn't be too different from NN.