Quote Originally Posted by Shori View Post
When the requirements for mentors were changed it then reset their 'burger king crown' but wasn't exactly hard to complete the newer requirements. Changing or raising them again wont solve the issue.
Neither will having a report function or negative-feedback feature since it would be abused and not every sprout can be taught.
And with the suggestion earlier of having a renewal requirement such as running mentor roulette - again its not hard to do this. From my experience at least mentor roulette is no different to any other trial/dungeon/guildhest roulette as alot of the 'sprouts' are actually just alts.
A positive-feedback feature though could be something to add. Similar to the player commendations, players could tick a mentor as being helpful. Maybe 1000 'ticks' gets you a title or glamorable-crown.

One thing I want to note here though is that just having mentor status doesnt mean it should stop being fun for us. I was guilted this morning for trying to buy a personal housing plot just because i was a mentor and therefore i should be leaving it for a sprout? Thats just not cool bro.
The idea behind a constant renewal process would be that Mentors have to opt in to keep being a mentor. There are plenty of "mentors" who ignore mentor roulette entirely, as there's no requirement to do it at all. It's not a perfect idea, but it is easy to implement, and it would make many mentor icons disappear, because of most "mentors" having no desire to do that roulette.

A mentor comm system would be kind of cool, but the fact that comms can be withheld or given for any reason has the idea fall short. Guide people to success? Well, they didn't feel like they needed it, so no mentor comm for you. Guide people to success? Well, you're not a hot cat girl in a bikini, so no mentor comm for you. Guide people to success? Well, everyone perceived the other mentor in the group as having done more for the actual success of the fight, so they gave their mentor comms to them instead, in spite of them actually being inactive for half the fight.

It'd likely cause more drama than its worth, with mentors flocking to tell people about how they did everything right, and told everyone the hows and whys of handling the mechanics. Only for them to not get any mentor ticks, again and again and again.

Plus this would leave anyone after the crown to spam the easiest content you could get mentor ticks in, just to get them. Things like guildhests. Bam, grind a thousand guildhests, ope, there's your "helpful" mentor title.