Mentors...please!

[Packetdancer]

(Curse you, forum post length limit! I apologize in advance for breaking this into three posts to appease the captive Voidsent that apparently power this forum software. I am, as I believe I have noted earlier, capable of getting a bit wordy.)

There are two main problems with this:

1) Players often don't give commendations at the end of an instance because they can't be bothered. Giving more options would probably result in even more people not bothering with the system;

If you keep the options to a minimum (say, four types of comm at most) I honestly don't think it would appreciably reduce the number of people using comms from what we have now. Especially since I think giving you the five-minutes-after-duty-ends grace period to comm someone would make more people use it (where right now many just go "augh everyone's leaving forget it"), so I suspect the two would come close to balancing out.

That said, either (or both!) of us might easily be wrong here; the unknown factor in any change to a system's balance is always the end-user, and this particular design relies particularly heavily on the end-user!