Fox Gaden
Immortal Guides
Learning Alliance
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Posted - 2015.08.31 13:05:00 -
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Immortal Guides was founded in August 31 2013.
For two years we have been recruiting new players and helping to improve their new player experience (NPE) by answering their questions, providing advice, and encouraging them to squad up with some of the Vets on staff who can show them how much more fun and less painful it is to run with a well run squad.
Immortal Guides was setup as part of the Learning Coalition which centers around a chat channel, also called Learning Coalition, which allows players from many Corps to help with the New Player Experience. Basically, new players of any Corp are encouraged to joint he channel and ask questions, and Vets join the channel to help out and answer questions. It has been highly successful, because Vets don't have to leave top PC corps to help out, and because my EVE character regularly visits 47 or the 48 DUST systems (sorry Atai) and invites new players to the Learning Coalition chat channel.
Recently I also created the Learning Alliance, which serves two mandates.
1) Allowing training Corps to work together and share resources.
2) Help small Corps grow into larger more powerful Corps that might be accepted into one of the established Alliances.
One of the founding principles of Immortal Guides, and by extension the Learning Alliance is an open door policy. Most players who join Immortal Guides will move on (graduate) to more competitive Corps when they feel they are ready. Most Corporations in the Learning Alliance will leave to join PC Alliances when they feel they are ready. It is all about giving them a leg up when they are shaky and new, so they grow strong and move on to the next stage. They are welcome to stay as long as they want, and a casual player or corp might decide to stay indefinitely, but those who go don't have to burn their bridges on the way out. Those bridges are still solidly in place, and Immortal Guides and the Learning Alliance receive solid support from former members in the top PC Corps and Alliances.
Now a Vacation Destination:
Over the last year or so Immortal Guides has taken on another interesting role as well. We have become a popular vacation destination for burned out old Vets. In Immortal Guides you have no more responsibility than you choose to take on. Any contribution you make is happily received and appreciated. And most importantly, the enthusiasm of new players discovering the game for the first time tends to ware off on you. It causes you to see the game in a new light, and often makes it fun again when it has started to just feel like work. And with our open Door policy you can just stay a day, a month, or stick around for a year. You can leave whenever you want. You can come back whenever you feel like it.
Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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