Suggestion.

[Cedric]

Mandatory IQ test for Mentor flag.

Jesus christ, every gimp with 35 seconds gametime or whatever retarded amount is needed has this flag, most of them being complete morons.

Waiting for airship:
somehomowithmentorflagã?¯ã?‚ã?ªã?Ÿã‚’ã?˜ã?£ã?¨è¦‹ã ?¤ã‚?ã?Ÿã€‚
somehomowithmentorflag>> can i put u on /follow
me>>no, code 12 section 8 paragraph 29: do not /follow cedric
somehomowithmentorflag>> lemme pleas
somehomowithmentorflag>> there is no rule is there
somehomowithmentorflag>> u there?

After I ignored him for a while.

somehomowithmentorflag>> u cant tell if i follow u or not
somehomowithmentorflag>> there is no log for that
somehomowithmentorflag>> nice gloves, hows DS fight?
[im wearing af gloves, shoes, and a shield/mace]
me>> what did the five fingers say to the face
somehomowithmentorflag>> ?
me>> slap
Cedric �＊＊＊＊＊を�シッ�����。

[Sheila]

Yeah at least country ranks, playtime, QUEST FAME too.

Most people want Mentor just for the stupid icon status and have no interest in helping others at all.

[Apoc]

Dude people like that should learn how annoying they seem when asking questions and random stuff like that.

I just use my new lingo if any stuff like that happens to me:


Learn it here (http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/ebonics.htm)

[Hrunting]

Most people want Mentor just for the stupid icon status and have no interest in helping others at all.

Indeed. You can still find plenty of mentor idiots incapable of actually helping you with quality advice. i.e Example mentors: building a 5 mage 1 fighter pt (SMN,WHM,RDM,BLM,BRD,WAR(Taru) at the levels in Valkrum and still arguing "We need a BRD, what we need is a BRD, a BRD will make this alright, don't worry trying to find a BRD", hmmm...SMN,WHM,RDM,BLM,BRD,WAR, totally needs another BRD. The status itself encourages too much homosexuality.

[711rocks]

ebonics haha

[exile2k3]

Originally posted by 711rocks
ebonics haha

hahaha black people speak is teh funny

[Lone Dragon]

...*Eyebrow twitch*

Anyway, I suggest a Mentor Test.

Shouldn't be too hard to come up with some difficult,
yet not wholly cryptic topics in the game to challenge would-be Mentors.
I'd give up my Mentor status right now just to be given the opportunity to earn it.

Hell, maybe we can even have increasingly difficult tests to earn higher lvls of Mentor?

[Tomoh]

It looks as if the M (Mentor) icon has come to stand for Moron.

Pretty funny Cedric. I'll have to use that one on the Japanese:

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JoeBlo:　��？
Tomoh：　�シ
Tomoh�JoeBloを�シッ�����。

[Lone Dragon]

Just so you don't credit Ced for that, it's from 'Chapelle's Show',
the 'Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories' skit.

Rick James said this to Charlie Murphy (Eddie Murphy's brother) in a bar once.
Apparently, they regularly slapped each other upside the head.

The full line is...

Rick James: What did the five fingers say to the face?
Charlie Murphy: ...What?
RJ: "SLAP!" *Slaps him pretty hard*
RJ: Cold-Blooded~
RJ: I'm Rick James, Bitch.

[Oro]

Ced thats funny lol.

I didn't realise there is no requirment for mentor status, not a smart move.

[Cedric]

Originally posted by Lone Dragon
Just so you don't credit Ced for that, it's from 'Chapelle's Show',
the 'Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories' skit.

Rick James said this to Charlie Murphy (Eddie Murphy's brother) in a bar once.
Apparently, they regularly slapped each other upside the head.

The full line is...

Rick James: What did the five fingers say to the face?
Charlie Murphy: ...What?
RJ: "SLAP!" *Slaps him pretty hard*
RJ: Cold-Blooded~
RJ: I'm Rick James, Bitch.

mad niggerish!

[IchibanCrush]

Thank god someone's brought this up.

If were to look at my current level and rank, you would think I'm a newbie. Truth of the matter is, I've been playing since early January (not THAT long of a time, but enough to know half the ends and outs, but I'm no where arrogant enough to say I'm an expert on this game). The reason for the lack of higher levels and Rank 2 is simply the fact that I do most of my exp and missions with my girlfriend; she's a bit slow not because she doesn't know what she's doing, but because she doesn't get nearly as much playtime as most players (she shares a computer/FFXI with her brother, who's on Pandy. We're on Seraph). So, yes, I'm probably months late even getting my frickin' chocobo, but at least I've learned all/most of what most people I've partied with should have already learned before even getting to Rank 5. (That and I'll probably never have money problems for a LONG LONG time, given the amount of time I have free to farm/mine/synth/fish; know of any other rank 2 peeps with four active jobs with almost the best equipment possible for each, and STILL has 100k to boot? Yeah, probably so, but not many.)

With that said, a LOT of the people we've partied with in the past have already managed to run laps around us. And now some of these people are mentoring. And call me a bitter jerk or a snobbish asshole, but, I can honestly say a lot of these people SHOULD NOT BE MENTORING; they meet NO qualifications to patiently guide newer players, and most of them have no sense of honesty or even common human decency. Hell, half of these idiots _I_ was giving advice to while in party, some of them even earning a nice cushy position on my Blist/Do Not Party With List. I have to question if Lvl 30/Rank 3 is even a high enough standard to even give out the Mentor flag, as anyone with the time can easily get to that rank in a matter of a month or two, if even that long a time. Even I'm not sure I'd feel right giving people advice at that low a rank.

So yes Squeenix, Required Test, PLEASE.

And speaking as a lowbie-level, if I need a mentor's advice, the last person I'm going to ask is a Rank 5 or lower player, because those players are usually the casual player that will quit once they hit Genkai 1 and cry because it's taken them so long for a paper drop.

Sorry to stereotype, and I won't blame anyone for stereotyping me for having the testicular fortitude for saying what I just said, but I won't take it back either.

[John Doe III]

Shittt.....I'm still rank 2 and i've had this game for well over a year D: .....I wanted to get to level 75 with rank 2 but due to Ballista I can't anymore :'(.

[matek]

Make sure you don't MPK others with the Mentor icon on. *grin

[Leon]

Originally posted by Lone Dragon


Anyway, I suggest a Mentor Test.


/logs on to the internet
/logs on to yahoo
/looks for answers for the test
/answers test and reaches Master Mentor lvl while he is still a retard.

:/

[Lone Dragon]

Real fucking constructive, you have an alternative?

How hard is it to rotate?
It doesn't have to be the same questions every single time.

[Synbios]

Originally posted by Lone Dragon
Real fucking constructive, you have an alternative?

How hard is it to rotate?
It doesn't have to be the same questions every single time. Have you done genkai 4? Do you know everyone gets a different set? And do you know that the answers can be found easily? K thx bye.

[Lone Dragon]

Instead of finding holes in my little idea, how about you come up with something better?
What, nothing? ok.

kthxbaiomfgwtffbbqbbllmfaoroflDWI

[Tomoh]

Mentor is SE's way of hopefully helping the new players. I don't consider it to be a mark of anything. Besides, how many here actually ask Mentor for anything? It's fine the way it is.

[Lone Dragon]

Hey, it's just a suggestion. ;]

[Synbios]

Originally posted by Lone Dragon
Instead of finding holes in my little idea, how about you come up with something better?
What, nothing? ok.

kthxbaiomfgwtffbbqbbllmfaoroflDWI Yea, and Square Enix would really listen to your suggestions, cause you're one of the owners of their 1000000 characters, and your opinion and suggestions are important to them, maybe you should stop telling us your suggestions since all we do is to pick and nick on them and email them to Square Enix where your Suggestion email will land up within the other ten thousands of PLZ IMPLEMENT BLEU MAGEZ EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE 0 IDEAZ ON HOW TO MAEK THME WERK and PLZ LET USE PWN OUR ONW CHOKOBOOOo emails and have a chance of being heard. Good luck.

[Lone Dragon]

Sooooo you're saying Ced's post is pointless?

[yuukei]

Originally posted by Lone Dragon
Just so you don't credit Ced for that, it's from 'Chapelle's Show',
the 'Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories' skit.

Rick James said this to Charlie Murphy (Eddie Murphy's brother) in a bar once.
Apparently, they regularly slapped each other upside the head.

The full line is...

Rick James: What did the five fingers say to the face?
Charlie Murphy: ...What?
RJ: "SLAP!" *Slaps him pretty hard*
RJ: Cold-Blooded~
RJ: I'm Rick James, Bitch.

Actually that's a very old joke that was out way before Dave Chapelle was even born.

[Celeras]

Originally posted by yuukei


Actually that's a very old joke that was out way before Dave Chapelle was even born.

Do not attempt to diminish the genius that is Dave Chapelle:rolleyes:

[Apoc]

Why did you /shout your sig in your mog house :sweat:

[Razz]

You quit again? :(

[Celeras]

Originally posted by Razz
You quit again? :(

Did ya even bother to read the sig? I believe the correct term would be 'pwned'.:sweat:

[Cedric]

IT WAS RICK JAMES' JOKE, NOT DAVE CHAPELLE'S.

duh.

[John Doe III]

Originally posted by Celeras


Did ya even bother to read the sig? I believe the correct term would be 'pwned'.:sweat:

It happens to the best of us....:sweat:

[exile2k3]

Originally posted by John Doe III


It happens to the best of us....:sweat:

and to celeras

[Lone Dragon]

Apparently, people don't understand the term 'TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY.'


SKEET SKEET SKEET SKEET

[peacemaker]

I agree that most Mentors are morons. But I must credit SEX for the effort because they did solve a lot of our random /tell problems, I rarely get people /telling me to ask for money anymore and the Low Jeuno shouts have subsided a little bit.

Any request for money, raise, teleport, dezone, help, etc., instead of adding another to the full blacklist, simply tell em to go ask a "Mentor".

I thank the idiots who like to show off their all 1 week of game hours for keeping our logs clean.