[Opinion] The Current State of the Novice Network

[MihaelB]

There needs to be a stricter requirement to be a mentor, period. Any brain dead person can grind Ifrit normal 1000 times which a lot of these people do.
A requirement of say those 1000 dungeons need to be 400 expert level dungeons would be sufficient enough. At least then they might've learned something hopefully in those 400 dungeons.

The number of mentors who are horrible at this game I've encountered exceed the 100 count and just add to the stereotype and stigma of the status.

[Serilda]

A requirement of say those 1000 dungeons need to be 400 expert level dungeons would be sufficient enough. At least then they might've learned something hopefully in those 400 dungeons.

It's not like the expert dungeons are actually hard, or like being able to raid (if you raised the requirement further) teaches people basic social skills.

This is a Balmung problem, I'm afraid. The only silver lining is that with the server being so overcrowded, there probably aren't that many real novices for it to scare off - at least those who aren't deliberately aiming for the Balmung community. Here's a typical day in the Yojimbo novice network translated into English for comparison.

<Sprout 1> Thanks for the party!
<Mentor 1> Hey Sprout, did you mean to type that to your party?
<Sprout 1> Yes! How do I do that?
<Mentor 2> Just use the bubble next to the chat area to change channels
<Mentor 1> Yep or type /p
<Sprout 1> Great! Thanks
<Sprout 2> I always get it wrong too
<Sprout 3> Thanks for the party!
*repeat*

Seriously though I think the best fix is to add an opt-in global chat channel for all of the drama queens to hang out in for casual chat. That will make the NN less appealing, since they apparently need a greater audience than a LS can provide and are just using the NN for that.

[Natashio]

There needs to be a stricter requirement to be a mentor, period. Any brain dead person can grind Ifrit normal 1000 times which a lot of these people do.
A requirement of say those 1000 dungeons need to be 400 expert level dungeons would be sufficient enough. At least then they might've learned something hopefully in those 400 dungeons.

The number of mentors who are horrible at this game I've encountered exceed the 100 count and just add to the stereotype and stigma of the status.

They can increase the gates all they want. That's not going to fix players' social ineptitude.

[VanilleFang]

Ifrit normal 1000 times which a lot of these people do

Who has time to do that? I've been playing on and off for a while now and I'm still barely over 700 dungeons (I'm at 990 comms though o_O).

[MihaelB]

Who has time to do that? I've been playing on and off for a while now and I'm still barely over 700 dungeons (I'm at 990 comms though o_O).

A lot of the people who did the Nexus stage pretty much grinded Ifrit/Satasha/Brayflox and other stupid fights repeatedly. The easiest route is commonly favored in the large majority of the community despite how stupid it sounds on paper. Grinding 20k-30k lore on the i240 anima relic step would've taken over 100 ARF/Hard runs assuming you do more than the daily roulette.

Point is: People do have time.