Ns Guides - Recruiting?

Chopper_Dave1

<div class="IPBDescription">More = better?</div> NS guides - a wonderful idea, totally. The problem is, I honestly have not seen a single guide online, at any point in the 5 or so months NS has been out. Not to say that you all aren't doing your jobs, because I'm sure you are. Heck, I barely ever see anyone from the forums out when I play NS. But perhaps the NS guide team could recruit more members, so that there can be more on at a time, in more servers?

Let's face it: there are a lot more good, experienced players, many who are very much better than some of the beta testers and other guides (no offense) - many who would love to give back to the community. DO you think there is any possibility that a [GUIDE] recruiting program could be installed, and if there already is one, used? It would really be great if many of the more prominent servers, clan-run and otherwise, had recognized guides regularly playing on them. Everyone on these forums are always complaining about n00bs and how they ruin games - why not give them a chance to help correct the problem?

Of course, a guidetag probably isn't enough at this point anyways. It really would be nice if guides were given some in-game power, be they small (i.e. being able to type in a bright-colored font so that they are mrore noticed, or having different colored names when chatting from most other players) or large (being able to smack a n00b for being stoopid, jk =)). Thoughts?

Speed_2_Dave

[edit] you mentioned what I said, I'm sorry for missing it after reading your post twice, I am having an unpleasant day[/edit]

Fam

The NSGuides organisation is currently lacking a site with which to promote itself and organise internal matters (the site was on readyroom.org). Hopefully this should be remedied soon, which will allow for us to help you and new NS players a lot more.

But is someone who complains about 'n00bs' necessarily someone who could be trusted to always patiently help new players? The NSGuides never said they were talented, but they know how the game works, and they are all very friendly people.

There is also the eternal discussion about how much power people should have on other peoples servers.

Speed_2_Dave

The NSF was supposed to help Newbies out, if I remember correctly. One of the early clans had the rules that its players followed the comm's rules, and comm'd only if they knew how. If they were aliens, they weren't evil, either. I think it was NSF, but that's essentially like a NS-Guide, but instead leads by example. I woulda joined, but I'm too stingy to join a clan.

Fam

NSF was a guild that let anyone in as long as they said they would play nicely.

NSGuides are a team who have all proven their knowledge of NS and its gameplay (and yes, I do believe there is an exam to get in, along with a referral scheme), and who are actively dedicated to helping new people.

Comprox

The rules do say (on the site which is dead, like Fam said), that to get in, one must be referred, and an exam will be given to any applicants. Guides can only be added with server patches, so none will be added until v1.1. By then, I hope we can look into adding more, until we get a site though, not much we can do.

Teufel_Eldritch

I remember seeing NS Guides for the first few days after release but after that.....*shrug*

FireStorm

Hmm yes that's true, the only icon I've seen in the scoreboard was the server admin one... Maybe that's because I'm in europa...