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This is a suggestion that came from a thread in BB Global about why our user base is stagnant at around 50k users. http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/write.aspx?ac...
New users find the game slow and often confusing - maybe this means they aren't the type for BuzzerBeater of maybe it means they just need some help in order to get hooked.

The suggestion is to set up a system that would provide a 'guide' for new users when they sign up based on country and language. Users could sign up to be a guide if they are approved by a GM and would be automatically assigned to a few users who would be given their username as a place to go if they had specific questions or did not understand certain aspects of the game or if they're feeling bored with BuzzerBeater. I think that this would help the userbase grow and stay enlarged.

Last edited by Chekreyes at 5/8/2012 10:17:11 PM

Good Idea

Please stay on topic of BuzzerBeater guides/mentors.

Please stay on topic of BuzzerBeater guides/mentors.

Was Pini saying that it wont work because the old teams have too many advantages and wont share them, just look at Espania division I?

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In Australia we had a formal mentoring system that was very successful for a number of seasons but it was run through Buzzerbeater stats because the information needs to be secret and now that site is dead. It is too hard to do well onsite because you need to be able to discuss the players in detail and most don't want their rivals to see.

Last edited by yodabig at 5/10/2012 12:38:26 AM

I was thinking this would be more of a one on one mentoring through bbmail... no need for anyone else to see what you are talking about.

Canada has one too, but the amount of new users that check the national forums is a very small percentage of he actual amount of new users and whatg Chekreyes is suggesting is that a system is put in place where a list of managers for every country(varying depending on size of country) who are willing to show new managers the ropes for a couple weeks or so before sending them off on their own is created. They would need to be approved by GMs to avoid any inexperienced/bad/trolls to be on the list. Maybe even give them a prefix title like Men-bballin or something. Then they receive automated BBmails when a new user is approved meaning that they are assigned to this new user as that new users mentor and they go off and BBmail that new user and begin the mentoring process. Showing them key threads, sowing them the manager checklist and even answering FAQs. Helping them with the initial stages of their teams and such. It could definitely keep more users interested as they will be guided through the initial overwhelming stage that is the beginning of BB.

Okay thats fair, isn't there an initial BBmail sent from a local game master? Could we include the mentors link in there and let them know that if they have ANY questions or are looking for a mentor, that'd be the place to go?