I ran a mentor character on EC in Perdan for quite a long time. To do it properly takes a LOT of work. It's very frustrating putting all that work into it, and seeing the players quit, leave, ignore you, or just simply disappear. I'm not sure if the addition of the Mentor/Student channel really helped. The channel wasn't truly a full two-way channel. Students could send to all Mentors, and Mentors could send to all students. But in order to work best, it needed the ability for both mentors and students to send messages to all Mentors *and* Students, and to have that be the default. Get a true working channel going.
Also, I wonder if a true continent-wide mentor/student channel might work. It would take some doing in order to prevent unsavory players from abusing it and exploiting the newbies for spying purposes. But it would definitely expand the available pool of mentors to help students.
