I'm not going to be the one to do it, it's too much time that I don't have and quite frankly I don't have the willpower for it anymore either
It cannot be done. There are not enough people who are active enough to sustain it. There never were. We tried and like barely enough people replied
Also, there's a wide gap between being friendly and having 9 Hateful Comments violations. I never asked people to be sunshine and rainbows 24/7
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The mentor lobby was also a bad idea. All mentoring should be done in competitive games, the mentee should be ruthlessly beat down by their mentor, and then both of them should go back afterwards and analyze the game together
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If you want to revamp the mentor system (which can and should be done) you'd need to start from scratch and pick mentors who have something to teach, not people who are welcoming and friendly. Of course, I am sure there are players who possess both qualities. I won't name names but when you let some of the people who mentor now mentor, it's really not much of a "mentor" system. It's more of a "Find a friend to introduce you to comp" system, which serves its own purpose, but "mentor" is a misnomer
There isn't/wasn't enough interest for what I wanted to do (I don't want to do it anymore). People become inactive and it just won't work. There aren't enough people who are active enough to maintain a good mentoring lobby dude
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i'm satisfied with my current mentor
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can i get my mentor hat back now
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I still play mean, and if you give me a mentee I'll teach them to win, not to be nice
i think the only good player i've seen is monk, nobody really stands out in games. far too many people let emotions control their actions or are fine with their initial opinion (partly because flipflopping lands them in ). pick any town game of monks and review it- you'll see what i mean. pretty good for learning imo
I find asking a lot of questions helps you understand better what's going on and why people do or think certain things. it's also a great way to get reads and appear towny if you're mafia. it'll help you develop an intuition about the game like more experienced players have. also like many people have said already, observing other players helps a lot too edit: practice playing red heart 'competitive setups' to get familiar and comfortable with them before moving on to gold heart games
The mentor system is more just one on one advice and things now, it's not meant to be a huge thing and if you want some help with things it'll be there for you. That's all it is
I wish it could be more but no one has time to make it anything bigger, also there isn't as much interest in it as I would have hoped for anyways. And without that, it can't be as big as I hoped it once could
Is it a failed project? From what I and other users originally hoped for, yes, but it still serves purpose for some users and we can't take that away from them, and it can be revamped still if more interest/time are garnered
But those are two things that can be pretty hard to find
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I think there is a rough skill cap which is insanely high. it takes a huge amount of games to get that exp
There's one player who is bordering on a skill cap and has the game down to a science, and then they're a couple inactives who play on a similar level. obv they take the game really seriously
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Your stats are far better than most new players already. You probably have the innate skill to do well at competitive setups now. You just need to stop playing fancy pants and you'll get better rapidly
