Goonhub
06-29-2016, 11:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-29-2016, 11:42 AM by Noah Buttes. Edited 1 time in total.)
(06-29-2016, 08:32 AM)Gannets Wrote: Give it to mentors imho. They hit the standard for "not a shitty player." Locking it behind HoS seems a little silly considering the two roles are so different. Also, admins will presumably still be able to mute vox when players are bad with it.
Locking it behind HoS does seem silly, but so does automatically granting it to all mentors. I'm sure there's quite a few mentors who don't even play AI and who probably won't be persuaded by this change to start playing it.
On the flipside, an AI player who's good enough and responsible enough to merit vox privileges would also most likely be a good mentor, since the qualities behind an effective AI (knowledgeable regarding relatively complex mechanics, helpful, sociable) are similar to those for a mentor, only significantly more specialized.
If I had to make an analogy, it'd be to the medical field. Mentors are general practitioners, Heads of Security are trauma surgeons, and vox players would be neurosurgeons or endocrinologists.
They all went to med school, but two of them went on to take different specializations.