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How did you learn to get better...

Maruiki
about 9 years

...at epicmafia? I'm still a somewhat of a new player, and I'm not that good at the game. How did you learn to get better?

alexicon
about 9 years
nah it's not really like that, they'll eventually play orange if they want to and keep learning lol. this isn't so legit it's like a lot of luck.
Giga13
about 9 years
I doubt anything's gonna happen because nobody good enough to teach higher level mentoring really cares about it anymore but good luck, for real

If you can get good players to mentor advanced level stuff then great job because that's something that I don't even think we can do in our dreams at this point
moon
about 9 years
lol making Orly a mentor...
deletedabout 9 years
I think there is a substantial demographic of dedicated and interested red heart players who never move on because they're told they shouldn't bother
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Grim says

I'm pretty sure I could get Abe, Vash, and Boatman to do it. IDK about the rest


i will 100% mentor if in exchange sonseray gets a position of power on epicmafia
alexicon
about 9 years
Mentoring is dumb. you learn thru experience.
deletedabout 9 years
I'd rather be mentored by Bacde than the current mentors
Giga13
about 9 years
Did anyone notice that players were generally better before the program even existed

If there was no program it'd be the same as it is now if not only microscopically worse
Felons
about 9 years

flex says

Nah. Mentoring literally doesn't work because this isn't a text-book game where every games will be the same. Every games will be different and no one can teach you how to play for every specific moments - only experience can do that. There's only so much someone can tell you.


Pretty sure that's the case with like.. Everything that is taught in the real world.

Yet teachers, instructors and mentors still exist lol
alexicon
about 9 years
wrong account w/e
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Abe is way too busy to even answer skype
Giga13
about 9 years

Grim says

I dunno, maybe people aren't interested in mentoring because it's currently a joke, not because they aren't interested in doing it


No, I'm pretty sure it's either the latter or both
alexicon
about 9 years
<------ best mentor
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I'm pretty sure I could get Abe, Vash, and Boatman to do it. IDK about the rest
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SweetBreeze says


Flex says

Nah. Mentoring literally doesn't work because this isn't a text-book game where every games will be the same. Every games will be different and no one can teach you how to play for every specific moments - only experience can do that. There's only so much someone can tell you.


mentoring could work if it was only to get new players onto their feet with basic techniques and what-to-dos and what-not-to-dos, but I do see your point.


That's fair enough but what-to¬-to-dos and have a lot of factors behind them (setups, current situation in the game, etc..). There's only so much a mentor can tell you to help you in these situation and honestly there aren't a lot of "basic" things to know about this game other than acronyms / when-to¬-to-CC and probably other simple things that I'm forgetting which anyone could learn without a mentor if they just played more and were willing to learn on their own (which is more fun anyways).
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Do you know how many times I've played a red heart game and been asked where they can learn to get better, or if the mentor program is still active and worth investing in? If I hadn't seen interest, I wouldn't have posted anything about it in this thread except for telling Giga he f'd it up


Maybe people who don't play the game shouldn't make assumptions about it
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Flex says

Nah. Mentoring literally doesn't work because this isn't a text-book game where every games will be the same. Every games will be different and no one can teach you how to play for every specific moments - only experience can do that. There's only so much someone can tell you.


only if you "mentor" as it is now, it shouldn't be done that way. people who actually want to get better can easily by asking for an analysis of a hand-picked game they lost
deletedabout 9 years
Your list:

Anthony and Connor: ok
Abe and Matthew: too busy with school to bother
Vash and Gira: probably wouldn't take it seriously / wouldn't care for it
The rest: eh I wouldn't be too crazy about being mentored by them but they're good I suppose
deletedabout 9 years
If you suffocate the competitive game by fostering and catering to fancy pants and sandbox players and refuse to invest even a blip of effort into revitalizing interest, of course no one will care.
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Flex says

Nah. Mentoring literally doesn't work because this isn't a text-book game where every games will be the same. Every games will be different and no one can teach you how to play for every specific moments - only experience can do that. There's only so much someone can tell you.


mentoring could work if it was only to get new players onto their feet with basic techniques and what-to-dos and what-not-to-dos, but I do see your point.
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It would work and people do care, just not the mods.
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Fidelis says

It doesn't work because no one cares now.


sums up the past 4 pages
deletedabout 9 years
Nah. Mentoring literally doesn't work because this isn't a text-book game where every games will be the same. Every games will be different and no one can teach you how to play for every specific moments - only experience can do that. There's only so much someone can tell you.
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It doesn't work because no one cares now.
deletedabout 9 years
I dunno, maybe people aren't interested in mentoring because it's currently a joke, not because they aren't interested in doing it