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883 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes ago

An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

An idea to discuss to get new players established better.

The MvM format seems like a bust in my opinion. I'd like to see an option where well ranked players are able to act as a "Personal Mentor" (PM) to a new player (or players) for 1-2 real games, in which the PM is NOT playing. Such a PM would get full visibility of the new player's game position as if he/she were logged in as the new player, but as a read-only view. New player would have somebody to whom they could ask questions directly and who would be able to see the new players' orders with extra clarity. After the first 1-2 games the privilege is dropped and the PM could be assigned another new player, a bit like a revolving door of newbies assigned to the PM.

I feel like I could probably handle 4-5 new players simultaneously in such a setup pretty comfortably. The experience for the new player would be miles better than the current MvM coaching they get (which is barely any). As a Mentor I could provide much better feedback to a smaller group of new players as opposed to the initial group in an MvM game, especially since I don't have to play turns in their games.

Thoughts?

883 days, 7 hours, 50 minutes ago

griffin

RE: An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

I like this idea and would PM some new players.

883 days, 7 hours, 49 minutes ago

griffin

RE: An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

New players could rate PMs to help weed out the poor performing PMs and reward the good ones.

883 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes ago

RE: An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

@Marklein: That would make things much easier. When I was a Mentor I noticed a player wasn't converting supplies to MCs, but was relatively hard to notice and figure out in the current system compared to what you are proposing.

Having another Sector of ships and planets to manage is also a bit discouraging itself (not to mention they banned my Race from being Mentor).

Also a few people have used the current Mentor system to just earn easy Achievement Points and Campaign Resources and totally ignored their Midshipman... which is worse than the AI Mentor since at least you get Big Beefers auto-posted messages.

883 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes ago

purebloodprince

RE: An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

I also like the idea of personal mentorship. I would take a couple of newbies to teach something :)

How to make this happen?

883 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes ago

RE: An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

im newbie can you teach me

883 days, 5 hours, 0 minutes ago

RE: An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

@Pichemua: Well for starters, don't take on an 8th Sector! Unless you have loads of free time, you could 'burn-out', especially if you do well, your Turns can end up consuming hours upon hours.

If you are already chewing through a lot of time, probably best to get time saving scripts like the Idle Visualizer and Planetary Management Plugin (v3.1).

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/6442-planets-nu-idle-object-visualizer-plugin
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/6127-planets-nu-planetary-management-plugin

883 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes ago

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@Marklein: I agree that a new mentorship game format is needed. This is why I suggested 2vs2 blitz format. Games are short, and allow for quick generation of team games, with 1 mentor and 1 newbie able to co-operate and teach.

There's a uservoice suggestion to create this format, if you'd like to vote for it. (I encourage everyone else to do so, too!) :)
https://planets.uservoice.com/forums/136520-general/suggestions/13922139-create-official-2v2-blitz-format

882 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes ago

qinic

RE: An idea to discuss to get new players established better. ...

2v2 blitz I like in any case not just for mentoring :)

This personal mentoring sounds good, not sure how practical it is though, as I find it takes a while to get your bearings when you jump into a game as a replacement to get a finer problems addressed, but I do think that you spot a lot of strategic (as in building strategy) and economical mistakes straight off the bat so at least you could give them a better chance by advising in detail there.