Mentoring (was: Re: [Discuss] Re: Reducing the red tape)

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 3 Jun 2007 at 15:45, Samuel Knowlton wrote:

> I think this is a fine idea, with one tweak.
> 
> Anybody should be able to be a mentor just by essentially flicking on a 
> "mentor" flag. It shouldn't be its own class. Since you already can't stop 
> people from being a mentor (inalienable rights), and since mentoring is 90% 
> OOC anyway, it shouldn't have anything to do with your IC persona.

I suppose I'll be the first to step up and say that I don't care for this idea.

Each class in BattleMaster gives advantages and disadvantages. The 
disadvantages of the Mentor class are that you have to spend time teaching 
new people how to play the game, and that you also don't get any of the 
special abilities that other non-Knight classes get. This is balanced by the gain 
of Mentor Points you can use to gain prestige, fame, gold, etc.

If we let anyone become a mentor, then we are adding extra benefits to all 
classes, with no added restrictions.

The result would be that you will probably get a LOT of available mentors in a 
realm. Rather than picking from two or three mentors, you'll have new players 
picking from 30 or 40 mentors. A profusion of choices is not necessarily a good 
thing.

This will also serve to dilute the available pool of mentor points. With so many 
available mentors for the same number of students, it will take a much longer 
time for the mentors to amass mentor points.


-- 
Rob

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