(03-26-2015, 05:39 PM)Melkire Wrote: *Great ideas*
I really agree with Melkire's ideas here, keep it simple and assessable with no long term commitments implied.
I do think that it will be very important to keep basic information about each mentor up to date.
1) Like others have mentioned only a brief character description is needed, but it should include their full in game name at least.
2) Availability is very important. As others have stated, offering to wide of an availability window is actually not very helpful. -For example, I am available every week night but generally spend some of them leveling my alt or crafting. If I were to list my availability as "Weeknights after 10pm PST" and some newcomer waited up for me three nights in a row, while I was somewhere else, it would only be discouraging.-
Maybe instead of listing everyone's full schedule of availability, we could suggest that potential RP mentors set aside one or two 'time slots' per week for the purpose of outreach RP, and then make every possible effort to be at their chosen location IC at those times.
3) This brings me to point three. In order to function properly, mentors would need to be responsible about updating their posts and someone would need to occasionally give it a look over and prune out any retired mentors.
I guess my biggest point is that if it is not functional and/or fails to produce reliable results, newbies will just give up on it.
