Novice Network limitation needs an update

[Valence]

The only time I've seen the NN completely oversaturated for sprouts was during the WoW exodus, where it was impossible to invite more than half of the new players at any given time.

As an active mentor in those channels, I am also strongly opposed to splitting them into multiple instances. One of the biggest boons of NN for a lot of new players is to find a social venue for them to find friends, talk with people, etc. If whenever they connect they don't have the guarantee to find their friends and the community they're having fun within, it's going to detract extremely badly from the benefits the game gains from this system and it shouldn't be underestimated (else if you want a dead channel with only a couple of questions from time to time, go visit JP worlds and see how dreadful NN is there). If one has to really increase the amounts, then go over the 10 bits limit (512) and crank it up to 1024 or something, but I don't think it's really mandatory right now.

Edit: I saw you mentioned "in times of big activity", which is less of a problem but... what would decide this? I fear it would last unnecessarily long for little reason, seeing how long the map instancing lasts itself at patch releases (until next patch usually)...

nah most mentors as it stands now really arent useful and just use it as their personal chat or when they feel like they are on a power trip.

Honestly... Remove any form of moderation that mentors have over the novice network. Just have it as a global chat, with an overall player cap with multiple channels to accommodate for the player cap.

Novice Network should never have been a thing, should've been a global chat from the beginning, nothing more, nothing less.

I'm not opposed to global chats, but no. If your NN sucks, it's sad for new players. Ours is great and works well.