Mentoring

Within two short days of starting the game, i found myself a pretty awesome mentor. He's from the UK and generally is on until about 3am his time, 10pm my time. so even though he is in a differen time-zone, we still are on always at the same time.

I agree with almost all of the posts here about getting a mentor, same time zone, same language, same life style ect ect....

I would also add in same playing style, This could be especially important for a non depositor / tight budget depositor looking for the best way to play without having to take out a second mortgage just to cover you till graduation, let alone for any time after and this doesnt stop at just pointing your students to here and saying "go on, knock yourself out and make peds".
It goes further than that as far as I am concerned and point my students to a whole plethora of sites that help with the game, ranging from youtube to entropedia and beyond (after all, any student should have a reading list )
I have only had one person graduate so far, have one player log on every now and then, and one that I think could graduate really quickly, especially if she keeps earning the amounts she is doing on here, some days she earns more than i do in a week..... <SIGH!!!!> But it also means that she doesnt need to depo and more importantly is having fun.... And that is one thing that I expect all my students to be having....

On  a side note.... I do suggest to newbies to get a mentor fairly quickly, definitely within a week or two of starting if they can find someone they are comfortable with. After all they can always leave and you should be able to tell fairly quickly if you get on well with your mentor or not within a few sessions and within that time the mentor should have at least shown you some valuable resources for the game at the very least. So while you may lose the short time with your first mentor it wouldnt have been a totally wasted experience.

I for one do not give my students a great deal financially as I personally cannot afford it, but I do give them time out from me playing to help themm and in some ways this is more valuable than giving them a wad of peds and saying there ya go, class dismissed, kill things....

Like you say it is expensive but  those crafting skills will come in handy, especially the bp comprehension unlock.

Edited by Anarchist - 26 Nov 2013 at 9:04pm

MayBe wrote: Since the introduction of Arkadia, the disciples that were born on Ark would receive an Adjusted Musca armor (and red jeep ofc) as graduation gift. This happened no matter on which planet you graduated. However, this was bugged lately, so since 19-11-2013 it has officially been changed: Now everyone, regardless on which planet you are born, will receive the armor from the planet you are graduating on. So if you are graduating on Arkadia you receive the Musca, while on Calypso and all other planets, you receive the Pixie. Note also, that this is already valid in the planet's space; so if you are in space, but inside the Arkadian 'quarter', you will receive the Musca too. The Musca has a better overall balanced protection. However, the total protection remains the same as the Pixie. Biggest difference is the dramatically different look, though that is a matter of taste.

Thanks for this nice hint, so i think, i'll go for the Musca if i ever graduate, looks much more cooler than the Pixie.

Haha, as I said I would not want to anything from my mentor.

Back to the topic though. You can do your mentorship relatively fast if you have the peds. An ingame friend of mine, and also a regular ep tasker(one who does tasks :P) completed his mentorship in under a month. Mine took me about two months, although 75% of it was done via hunting.

Anarchist wrote: And the worth. Adj. Musca is around  140 -150 ped where the adj. Pixie is around 90 peds(full TT with no tiers). Better to get the Musca in my opinion. Can always sell it and buy Pixie if you really want it. I tried to graduate from the Arkadia space station but it did not work. Had to go planet side to complete my mentorship.

Can I ask when you did graduate? They only changed 'officially' the 19th, so before that there still may have been 'buggyness'?