Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
I want to say it's opt-out for mentors and opt-in for sprouts. As you can decline the invite. If irc when a person 1st gains their mentor status and there's room in the chat they get instantly tossed into it.
Mentor and sprout are opt-in. I have never been in the NN for the years I've been a mentor. Recently I got mentor on another character and wasn't put in NN.

-

My biggest issue is that it's hard for sprouts to find mentors that well... mentor. Vice versa. I would love to find people to mentor without joining NN which as I hear from my friends is largely a global chatroom and not someplace to teach. And preferably without cold approaching people in the overworld who may or may not be alts/aggressive to suggestion.

Another game I played had a mentor system where it paired you with a random newbie who opted into mentorship, and you had a private chat with just you two. You got reward bonuses for playing with them and a little sticker on your profile when they graduated and they rated you well. The newbie could report the mentor for inactivity or abuse (and leave to find a new one), and if you got multiple strikes of newbies leaving you for these reasons you got your mentor status stripped permanently. You could only get it back with an appeal.

I really liked it, and I raised several newbies and made friends with some of them. It's more personal.