make the HoS app easier/simpler/trial hos rounds

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I still think the only reason people are not applying anymore is because there is not enough incentive to do so.
Like I said you use to also get mentor purple username but nowadays you get no fancy color to flex on everyone with.
And also no one really cares about the armory as much anymore. All the good stuff in there you can just hack to get it.

If people aren't applying for HoS because there's not incentive to do so, I don't think the solution is "giving them a fancy color to flex on everyone with". The reason you should apply for HoS is because you want to play HoS, not because you want to show superiority to others by having a specially colored name.

I 100% agree with you. I think if people wanted to apply for HoS they would have already applied or the people that want to just need to play more.
Im not advocating that I WANT special shit for being HoS. Its just of my opinion that giving HoS more incentive would probably get more people interested in being HoS.
When I applied for HoS I didn't even know I was going to get Mentor or special name color. I just did it cause people told me to apply(and then kept kicking me outta the IRC till I applied for HoS)
Can we have a count of how many HoS apps/approvals from before the mentor/hos split and after it? I can almost guess we had a sharp drop off after they removed the fancy name color.

correlation doesn’t equate causation here, a lot of other things happened such as population drop off, an overall shift in player culture + more content being added. I honestly don’t think anyone really cares about the text. I think it was more so ease of having both of them wrapped into one- it made applying for just HoS particularly arduous. I never applied for mentor; I just got it along with HoS. I don’t think I would have ever done both apps if i needed to- it’s just a lotttt of work