Hey everyone,
I assume you are all familiar with the main problem, the mentor system has:
Mentors are rarely mentors to help other players (which is their intended purpose)
The reason for this, let's face it, is the fact that the mentor status is not viewed as a position of responsibility, but as an achievement. One of the main reasons for this in my opinion is, that the mentor status is displayed with a golden crown.
You can deny it all you want, but the majority of people who aim for that status see a golden crown as a seal of approval, that they're some kind of good player or something and that it entitles them to call themselves "experienced player", to prove that they know, what they're talking about, when in a discussion. A crown is the symbol of a king, not the symbol of a teacher and because of this, a crown is an inappropriate symbol for a mentor. It's mainly a psychological thing, that people feel, when they see a crown.
I've also come up with a band-aid solution for this, which might fix this problem by a large margin: Change the icon to something neutral, not too appealing.
An idea for example might be glasses with a wood pointer/the corresponding icon for the mentoring part.
I've even made example pictures for this:
General Mentor:
PvE Mentor:
Trade Mentor:
PvP Mentor:
Now I 100% know, that SE will not use these icons I've made, of course, but these are only to show, how it could look like.
The golden crown on the other hand could become an exclusive icon for FC leaders and that's it.
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I assume you are all familiar with the main problem, the mentor system has:
Mentors are rarely mentors to help other players (which is their intended purpose)
The reason for this, let's face it, is the fact that the mentor status is not viewed as a position of responsibility, but as an achievement. One of the main reasons for this in my opinion is, that the mentor status is displayed with a golden crown.
You can deny it all you want, but the majority of people who aim for that status see a golden crown as a seal of approval, that they're some kind of good player or something and that it entitles them to call themselves "experienced player", to prove that they know, what they're talking about, when in a discussion. A crown is the symbol of a king, not the symbol of a teacher and because of this, a crown is an inappropriate symbol for a mentor. It's mainly a psychological thing, that people feel, when they see a crown.
I've also come up with a band-aid solution for this, which might fix this problem by a large margin: Change the icon to something neutral, not too appealing.
An idea for example might be glasses with a wood pointer/the corresponding icon for the mentoring part.
I've even made example pictures for this:
General Mentor:
PvE Mentor:
Trade Mentor:
PvP Mentor:
Now I 100% know, that SE will not use these icons I've made, of course, but these are only to show, how it could look like.
The golden crown on the other hand could become an exclusive icon for FC leaders and that's it.
Continue reading...