Guild Wars 2

I guess this is a suggestion, but if this is the correct place to put it. I think new players/accounts should have a temporary icon on their nameplates to make it easier to identify people who may need help. I know a few MMOs do this (usually it’s a little sprout icon), but I don’t know if it is something planned here, maybe for that mentor mastery (which I am super looking forward to!), or is the mentor mastery badge would be sufficient. Just a thought though.

I don’t think this is a very good idea to be honest- I think it would have more of a negative effect than a positive one.

It would be easier to single out new players, troll them and harass them. Moreover, many new players are familiar with MMOs already and don’t necessarily need babysitting or spoon-feeding.

I’m always an advocate of helping people who ask for it. Like you kinda mentioned already, with the mentor system, it will be easier for new players (or old ones!) to approach another person for help… shouldn’t necessarily be the other way around.

I’m surprised they don’t already have it. I mean anet already has AP on display (friendlist) (which does show the rough /age of an account already) :v

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I don’t think this is a very good idea to be honest- I think it would have more of a negative effect than a positive one.

It would be easier to single out new players, troll them and harass them. Moreover, many new players are familiar with MMOs already and don’t necessarily need babysitting or spoon-feeding.

I’m always an advocate of helping people who ask for it. Like you kinda mentioned already, with the mentor system, it will be easier for new players (or old ones!) to approach another person for help… shouldn’t necessarily be the other way around.

The trolling and harassing people I don’t see as the main problem with this, but, rather the metaphorical ‘target on the back’ of these players for gold sellers, scammers, and hackers/phishers. I do agree it’s a bad idea even though it seems innocent and full of good intention. I know we have systems in place to thwart these nasty practices, I’d rather not give them any concessions. Surely, Anet has already considered this idea and came to the same conclusions.

Personally, I think they just need to implement a sort of tutorial for the social aspects of the game to give new accounts a bit more confidence in asking for and receiving help in the first place (guilds and the ‘Rep’ feature for instance. I’ve had people who’ve joined my guild after asking for a bit of advice. Turned out they had left their first guild b/c “nobody would ever respond to them or help them”. They weren’t Telling the guild they had just joined and no care was taken for the officer/etc to explain it to them. They were on the verge of quitting after just a few days b/c they felt alone.

Sorry this got long-winded and for my tangent.

I can understand your good intention op. But the scammers will and trolls will be more in benefit to this suggested system. But as Tman said its probably better to have a tutorial on the UI and chat system. Honestly speaking I didn’t know I could make custom chat boxes till 8 months ago XD I have been playing since the start