Player Apprenticeships

Player Apprenticeships
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Proposal
I propose that players should be able to give benefits under a new system. 'Apprenticeship'. Already, players can /teach, what apprentiship should allow is for a character not of the same account, to be granted Apprenticeship similar to consent to a player with the Master box in the craft, entertainment, or combat box they want to Master giving them an extra bit of xp boost while in the same party as well as a mentor they can access for immediate /teaching to both save money and learn directly from an experienced player.
Justification
Combat classes have spin groups, but for various crafters and entertainers, this would be the most beneficial. A player who chooses to be a mentor can then take in an apprentice, teaching them the ropes, all while the player gets a bonus to the grind while learning. This would increase community interactivity and knowledge.
Motivation
At first I thought about how long the crafter grind can be, and how unrewarding. I've also seen so many easily answered questions asked in the discord. While this idea isnt inherent to crafters, in essence my motivation for this idea is to improve the knowledge over a complex game easing the bell curve using in-game benefits to playing with your community.
Please converse and grant input to, in essence, the idea of giving players the ability to take on an apprentice and grant them an xp bonus.
Should there be rewards and badges to mentoring?
Would this make the game too easy?
Is it a moot point because this is already how it should be without any incentives?
 
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It's a grand idea, it catches my imagination. Way too short on details though.
First, what does the mentor get out of this? I'd probably do it just because, but eventually, i'd be asking myself that question. I can see what the apprentice gets out of it, but what does the mentor get? In the real world, the mentor used to get a virtual slave for several years. Today the mentor gets paid a ton of money.
How much effort does the mentor have to put into this? Real world, mentoring is usually full time, the mentor does little else. Does the mentor have to be online for the apprentice to get the benefits? Probably they should.
I'm not sure how you do the game mechanics for this to work unless the mentor is an NPC. But I'd love to hear some other people's ideas.
 
So in terms of potential rewards, my personal thoughts would include badges for how many hours the mentor has 'mentored'. These badges could give titles or even grant experienced mentors a larger xp boost to give.

There's more to talk about there, but the details I personally had in mind On how it would function? Up to change by feedback ofcourse: The player mentoring would need to be in party with the Apprentice and within 1km to gain the xp bonus.
The Mentor would have to be online during this, and knowing the player base may even sell their time.

One idea to apply the xp buff and have an apprentice is there are ways to grant buffs in the game and players who unlock a Master box should get access to an Ability to 'Mentor' a party member in that respective tree. In this scenario a Mentor/Apprentice relationship is quick without cool down and easily taken or dropped.
Alternatively, there is the concept of giving a 24 hour timer to mentoring a new character or being Apprenticed under someone else. This, however, while very immersive and investing can lead to griefing so im uncertain on that side of the concept.
In short, I certainly believe in the Mentor getting incentive in this. Badges, Decor, titles, and ofcourse their reputation would naturally be improved in the community. The xp bonus shouldn't be too significant, but could grow as someone mentors for longer.
 
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