Love to hear thoughts on these ideas...

1) I think it would be a good idea to get a list going of coaches who would be willing to mentor new guys.  No need to be even a good coach, just a coach who would be willing to dole out basic info on the game and mentor a coach for the first few seasons until he knows what he is doing.  Getting a list out in the forums would be a good way to have the new guys get a mentor and enjoy the game more and stick around etc.  Should we start a list/do you want to be on the list?

2) As of right now, there is no coaches guide up in the main forum.  zhawk's old guide has to be somewhere, but new guys aren't going to be able to find.  With this new engine, it is probably time for a new guide.  I know when I started z's and OR's (now mostly deleted) guides helped me a ton and without them I would have been completely lost.  I feel for the new guys starting out right now because it must be hard for them to find some real info on how to play this game.  Should a new guide be written?

Posted by tkimble on 11/16/2010 7:32:00 PM (view original):
Love to hear thoughts on these ideas...

1) I think it would be a good idea to get a list going of coaches who would be willing to mentor new guys.  No need to be even a good coach, just a coach who would be willing to dole out basic info on the game and mentor a coach for the first few seasons until he knows what he is doing.  Getting a list out in the forums would be a good way to have the new guys get a mentor and enjoy the game more and stick around etc.  Should we start a list/do you want to be on the list?

2) As of right now, there is no coaches guide up in the main forum.  zhawk's old guide has to be somewhere, but new guys aren't going to be able to find.  With this new engine, it is probably time for a new guide.  I know when I started z's and OR's (now mostly deleted) guides helped me a ton and without them I would have been completely lost.  I feel for the new guys starting out right now because it must be hard for them to find some real info on how to play this game.  Should a new guide be written?

I've suggested #1 several times and always gotten a basic - "maybe in a little while" type answer, even though it wouldn't take much effort at all to develop something like the HBD mentoring program.

I dont understand why zhawks guide isnt there.  hd is going down hill

Is there a need for either of these?  I feel like there is, but I'm just trying to see if other people feel the same way I do.

100% needed IMO.  New guys can get frustrated really fast.  I mentored a few when I was more active, and I pointed a ton of people to OR's thread.

I would say yes.  I found forum info like OR's recruiting thread very helpful when I started playing and the ability to completely blow up recruiting is a lot higher now with potential and FSS costs in D3.

Its a huge help and a i mentor alot of guys.  Im nto great but im open minded.  The fact those threads were unpinned is crap

Posted by acn24 on 11/16/2010 8:37:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tkimble on 11/16/2010 7:32:00 PM (view original):
Love to hear thoughts on these ideas...

1) I think it would be a good idea to get a list going of coaches who would be willing to mentor new guys.  No need to be even a good coach, just a coach who would be willing to dole out basic info on the game and mentor a coach for the first few seasons until he knows what he is doing.  Getting a list out in the forums would be a good way to have the new guys get a mentor and enjoy the game more and stick around etc.  Should we start a list/do you want to be on the list?

2) As of right now, there is no coaches guide up in the main forum.  zhawk's old guide has to be somewhere, but new guys aren't going to be able to find.  With this new engine, it is probably time for a new guide.  I know when I started z's and OR's (now mostly deleted) guides helped me a ton and without them I would have been completely lost.  I feel for the new guys starting out right now because it must be hard for them to find some real info on how to play this game.  Should a new guide be written?

I've suggested #1 several times and always gotten a basic - "maybe in a little while" type answer, even though it wouldn't take much effort at all to develop something like the HBD mentoring program.

Yep, I've been making the same suggestion dating back to Admin and got the polite brushoff.

Is this something we could set up ourselves? Maybe get them to pin a list at the top of the forum with coaches who are willing to be a mentor ... that way any new coach who checks out the forum has a ready-made list of guys he knows would be willing to help.

I think it may be possible the only problem is whomever starts it has to update the list so it doesnt get dated.  Why was zhawks guide removed anyways?

brip, it's not gone.  It's in the critical news forum.

Posted by dahsdebater on 11/17/2010 1:19:00 AM (view original):
brip, it's not gone.  It's in the critical news forum.

good to know i didnt know we had that forum

I'm been a mentor in HBD, the list was started by a site user (tecwrg) and not by admin.  He put up a thread asking for interested mentors and then maintained the list himself until admin pinned it.  If you start it up, it will happen, just put out a call for volunteers, and maybe set them up by divisions.  I would be happy to mentor new DII people, I pretty much know what I am doing there, but it's been so long since I played DIII that I am pretty rusty for that level of play, and I have never had a DI team, so I would be not much help for that.  But the mentor idea is awesome, I have been able to mentor quite a few owners in HBD, and as a result I have been able to get some great new blood into the game.  Big thumbs up for this idea.

Love the idea!

Some of those older threads were HUGE helps getting going in this game for me. You can learn a lot just by observing some of the better players, but, of course, it takes a season or two to identify who those people are and that's going to be longer than the attention span of some when they're paying money for a product. Those guides and previous chats helped immensely in probably speeding my learning curve up a season or two, but I don't know how many engine variants ago those were written now and what parts are/aren't accurate any longer.

I'd be happy to sign up as a mentor for D3. 90% of my experience is at D3, and I'd love to help more new coaches have a good experience their first couple of seasons, so we can see D3 fill up more.