New Player Experience: Would you participate in a sort of "Mentor" system?

[Ailos]

I like this idea very much.

But rather than have individual players mentoring, I think it'd be a good idea to make that small cert give squad leaders another option in their squad menu - to list their squad as a mentoring one. Currently, new players get shoved into whatever random squad is available and kinda around the clusterfuck that they get dropped into. But if they instead get placed into one of these mentoring squads, most squad leaders will guide them how to get from the warpgate to the battle, and fill in a lot of important details in the process.

[Hamma]

I would participate in something like this. However, in the FPS Genre usually this sort of thing doesn't work out.

[Assist]

I do my best to help people now, but my voice-chat doesn't work in game all the time for some reason(h8u computers!!!!!!).

I usually offer my help to anyone with questions when I give /orders to change continents or head to a certain base, most of the time I get a few tells from new players. It's a shame, because usually the questions revolve around the basics of the game: Where do I get vehicle ammo? How do I change continents? What is an Amerish? We already own Esamir why are we going there?
It always seems to be rather basic questions that a in-game tutorial could easily take care of.

[Rolfski]

I had a similar, Eve University -like idea months ago: Planetside Military Academy. Combining a training ground for new players with a recruiting ground for outfits.

[Wahooo]

Originally Posted by Rolfski

I had a similar, Eve University -like idea months ago: Planetside Military Academy. Combining a training ground for new players with a recruiting ground for outfits.

That would be a pretty good idea.

they could put them in the sanctua... oh wait.