Downgraded mentor... or is it?

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Hear me out, what if we gave MP’s access to utilise the SEA’s lockers. Considering they should have already grasped the basics of each role, they should be experienced enough to teach new people. The role is also one of the most free RP role in game and they have alot of free time on their hands.

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No

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Hell no.

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This made me chuckle.

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There’s nothing in the SEA’s locker that i think an MP would need to help teach a private.

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Please no. On highpop when there are actually a lot of PVTs, MP is too busy to do do SEA’s work. On low to mid pop they can do it even without his gear.

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Acid Goop type beat

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oh yeah now that you mention it SEA’s locker don’t actually have much in it. mb. Shit idea, scrap this!!

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… Yeah no. The quality of MPs varies wildly.

Additionally you really don’t need anything to teach new privates. And teaching anyone else is more an OOC thing. Sure MPs have the time, but most probably won’t bother, nor actually teach well.

Surprisingly that’s why there’s an Application and standard if you want to making teaching new people your whole shtick.

Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to teach anyone but RFN Privates when there’s no one else around to.

EDIT: Like the only teaching aid that’s really helpful to have around is the Medical Dummy. In which case just bug the CMO.

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Maybe. I say we give them paintballs that drip orange so that if a marine gets in trouble they can just shoot them and find their trail like predators. This way they can practice for the natural progression from MP → Predator.

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i already get to deal with 15 marines jumping my ass because I arrested their metabuddy on the Alamo

I don’t need to be stuck with the expectation of teaching PVTs unless I apply for that

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An MP main is the last type of human being I want teaching our newest generation of players

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As a CMP main I will give my two cents on why it is an bad idea.

We sometimes do teach pvts only to make sure they do not cause any trouble on the almayer we give the bare basics of being an rifleman knowing they will likely cause minor mistakes groundside.
Hereby MPs have an different outlook then a SEA as we cannot always fully focus on training someone in the case something does happen. When we are needed we got to stop the training and go to situation we are called for or deal with an other matter. This cause short and unfinished training or just having to pawn off the private to someone else.

Also Mp mains now the basics yes but there is a difference in regard to mp who just started and those who have been here for a long time. Some mps are just like privates but have played 5 rounds and just unlocked it or you have mps who have more then 2k hours in the game. I do not think I need to explain why this difference is important.

For these reasons I feel like that is not something you should force an mp to do.

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so. the only thing that SEA “has” to teach that MPs dont is… LOOC overhead text. And if you’re teaching a new player, you can admin help and they’ll give it to you. (i got it a couple times before I was mentor in this exact scenario teaching as ASO or MP)

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Please god no

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Hell nawh

Basically anyone can teach a PVT if the proper authority is missing in the form of overhead LOOC granted by staff members, and personally, i wouldn’t trust an MP to teach a new PVT, as they’re usually busy with enforcing ML, while SEA doesnt need to do that.

Theres also nothing useful in the SEAs office that would necessarily “help” MPs teach privates

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Yeah no.

I think i first played MP when i had like…30hrs? Total. SEAs get training gear because SEAs are also mentors. (Unless they are wl because they are a maintainer which im honestly not too fond of. ) Thats people who have made an actual application and other players have verified they are skilled enough to teach others not just the actual button presses but how to do it well. A random MP lacks that.

I do think ASO,XO,CO should be able to open the medical dummy locker though.

Amount of times someone asks me to do it as XO and i have to explain only the CMO or sea can, and im sure someone in medical is skilled enough to train that new nurse using it.

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Just apply for mentor

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