To add to what everyone else said, the fact you can use ANY crown once you get mentor status just boggles my mind.

So, for example, you could find a mentor who unlocked his status via crafting using a PVE crown with no level 60+ combat jobs, which adds onto newbies getting even more confused. It's that silly.

To add onto that, the requirements are so stupidly low, one of those RMT companies even reached mentor status with one of their characters and is currently inviting sprout bots into the Novice Network to spam there as well. This is unacceptable.

We need a mentor purge. And soon.