Stalemate

The number of people who participated in discussing this project far outweighs the number of actual volunteers, but that was expected.

Those who signed up to be Mentors, please add the N P C channel to your favorite chat tab: /chan_join "N P C". We'll start talking about promoting this over the course of the next few days.

Final Recap (I think):

• 3 roles defined: Advocates (one for heroes, one for villains), Mentors and Neophytes.
• No official committee or leadership for project. All Mentors and Advocates have the same "weight" within the Mentor Project, although Advocates can assist in resolving issues between Mentors and Neophytes.
• Use a global channel to help coordinate things, and provide another layer to the support network for neophytes. All Mentors will be OP in this channel, named "N P C" (note the spaces). This is the only mandatory criteria in participating in this project, regardless of role.
• Propose optional mentoring partnerships between more experienced player (Mentor) and less experienced player (Neophyte) that are:
  1. Not enforced, but open - Either party can opt to leave at any time if it doesn't work out for whatever reasons. Mentors will have 100% control over how they can assist the newbie in their care, including what time is spent doing so.
  2. The mentor has no duty towards the newbie except to act as guide. As such, he/she could answer questions, help the Neophyte find a supergroup or start one, team up if schedules permit, etc. The Neophyte will be made to understand that the Mentor is not responsible for his/her enjoyment of the game, nor will there be any expectations of PLing, loot, etc.
  3. Mentors will be free to cover areas of CoH gaming they want with the neophytes, in private, using their judgement about the pertinence to neophyte's game style. This should cover questions re: farming and powerlevelling. To avoid un-needed discussions in the global channel we should keep these talks private. We don't want to impose our own likes / dislikes to them, yet they should be free to learn (or at least find out about) about all aspects of the game.
• Graduation ceremonies could occur every 3-4 months for Neophytes. They can then become a Mentor if they like, or move on to other activities.
• Stay in close contact with our server's P.E.R.C. and PVPEC reps, if only to let them know how things are working out in their areas of interest.
• SG will be available for experimentation on base building / SG management. Within any SGs created for/by neophytes, the tier 1 role would be that of the Advocate. Tier 2 reserved for Mentors / graduated Neophytes. All other ranks used for neophytes. Tier names will probably fluctuate due to experimentation. This will be applied to any VGs as well. Coalitions with established SGs / VGs will be considered based on overall reputation and

TLDR version:

1) Join / be invited to N P C global channel
2) Join in a partnership with a mentor ...or not
3) Join a N P C SGs / VGs ...or not
4) For Neophytes: Graduate and move onto becoming a Mentor ...or not



If everyone currently involved, or planning to be, is satisfied (say, more so than dissatisfied), we can proceed with this. I will contact the Mentors who have already signed up and get things rolling in a few days.

Thanks for the great feedback everyone.

Looking forward to working with you in this and improving the overall gaming experience on Protector.

I have added an option I had missed: AE Mission Design.

If you already signed up and want this option added to your profile, please let me know.

Also, the Vet badge question has been adjusted to be a drop-down list instead of a text box. The Question was also changed to be less ambiguous and everyone's information already submitted was adapted to fit.


Sorry for the inconvenience.

Guys, we're discussing something that's already covered here... maybe I need to tweak that recap.


Mentors and Neophytes can:

1) Join / be invited to N P C global channel
2) Join in a partnership with a mentor ...or not
3) Join a N P C SGs / VGs ...or not
4) For Neophytes: Graduate and move onto becoming a Mentor ...or not

The more a player is interested in getting involved, the more options open up (hence, the more complex it can get).


At least, that's how I understood the discussion to have gone so far.

Whatever we're discussing here will not be made available to Neophytes in this form. The method and manner we'll approach them will be very different from the tone of our talks here, and even the interactions between Mentors later on.

Judging the number of further changes, questions asked, and all around interest displayed at this point, Mentorship applications should be flooding my inbox any time now.




B_L_Angel: Those questions were answered on Page 1.

Once the initial promotion has gone through, and the N P C channel gets populated, we can set up times where Neophytes can ask for personal Mentors - and so on.

Updated Recap:

• 3 roles defined: Advocates (one for heroes, one for villains), Mentors and Neophytes.
• No official committee or leadership. All Mentors and Advocates have the same "weight" within the Mentor Project, although Advocates can assist in resolving issues between Mentors and Neophytes.
• Use a global channel to help coordinate things, and provide another layer to the support network for neophytes. All Mentors will be OP in this channel, named "N P C" (note the spaces).
• Stay in close contact with our server's P.E.R.C. and PVPEC reps, if only to let them know how things are working out in their areas of interest.
• SG will be available for experimentation on base building / SG management. Within any SGs created for/by neophytes, the tier 1 role would be that of the Advocate. Tier 2 reserved for Mentors / graduated Neophytes. All other ranks used for neophytes. Tier names will probably fluctuate due to experimentation. This will be applied to any VGs as well.
• Propose optional mentoring partnerships between more experienced player (Mentor) and less experienced player (Neophyte) that are:
  1. Not enforced, but open - Either party can opt to leave at any time if it doesn't work out for whatever reasons. Mentors will have 100% control over how they can assist the newbie in their care, including what time is spent doing so.
  2. The mentor has no duty towards the newbie except to act as guide. As such, he/she could answer questions, help the Neophyte find a supergroup or start one, team up if schedules permit, etc. The Neophyte will be made to understand that the Mentor is not responsible for his/her enjoyment of the game, nor will there be any expectations of PLing, loot, etc.
  3. Mentors will be free to cover areas of CoH gaming they want with the neophytes, in private, using their judgement about the pertinence to neophyte's game style. This should cover questions re: farming and powerlevelling. To avoid un-needed discussions in the global channel we should keep these talks private. We don't want to impose our own likes / dislikes to them, yet they should be free to learn (or at least find out about) about all aspects of the game.
• Allow Neophytes to "graduate" and in turn be offered a role as mentor after their contract has ended.
• Graduation ceremonies will occur every 3-4 months for Neophytes. They can then become a Mentor as well, or move on to other activities.

I've cleaned it up for comrehension, and shortened it.

I've added this to the Protector Vigilance MOTD.

New Player Council it is.

Oh, TRON... definitely.

Got a few more:


Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Wargames
Cat's Eye
Orca
Jaws
The Thing
Time Bandits
Young Guns (1-2)
The Last Starfighter
Muppets Christmas Carol
Halloween
Hellraiser
Conan
Godzilla (all of 'em)
Rambo
Rocky

Duel
Damnation Allley
Soylent Green
West World
Blade Runner*
Outland
Logan's Run
Sniper
Shattered
Alien
Terminator
Amazon Women on the Moon
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
... more to come later maybe.





* I kid you not, I must have seen this one about 100 times now, in any of the 5 versions available.

The last details for Protector's Mentor Project are getting worked on in the original thread.

This one is for those interested in participating as mentors.

http://tinyurl.com/mentorproject


Note that mentors can change their level of involvement, or stop altogether, at any time.





Thanks again to StormVyxen for that Google Docs Form template.

Many happy returns!

All right, I'll be going with a last acronym suggestion for this, with multiple definitions:

NPC

• Novice Partnership Club
• New Player Council
• Newbie Patronage Committee
• Neophyte Processing Center

I liked 3N, but... I dunno. NPC is kinda catchy, and close to what was used before.

If there are no other suggestions by Monday Nov. 16 I'll go with New Player Council.

I had no idea this form was available / required until just now...

Since the thread got stickied it kinda hovered under the radar for me after I'd originally mentioned my interest in participating.

All signed up!



PS - I am sooooo stealing your Google Docs Form idea for my next projects that might require such a thing.

Interesting sidenote: I don't think we cited any of the "top 100 quotes" as determined by the AFI.

Don't click before posting your own, or unless you don't mind being influenced by reading this.

Funds transferred to Paypal account.

6-8 days waiting period..... GAAAH!