Magic Academies?

• What are you suggesting?
  
  I think it'd be a nice touch for the community to interact with characters beyond what are considered guildmates, enemies, mentors, or other wizards, but classmates. I am suggesting we implement FTRP's first IC Magic Academy.

• Courses
  
  There can be several courses students can take, as they can all be of different nature and difficult and offer different rewards. Some courses you must pay for in jewels to attend, while others are free but still offer rewards. The greater the sacrifice, the greater the rewards.
  
  Rewards can be spell slots, jewels, experience (higher level courses), or items. These rewards are offered to both students and teachers. However, they are not guaranteed. Like any school,
  you don't get your reward just by attending the class. Based on individual teacher and student performance will determine if you get your reward or not by the end of the course/thread.
  
  Courses include different things, but completely optional for students and teachers to attend.
  Some may include PvP, some may be more competitive (i.e, who can do this the fastest/most,
  etc)

• Graduation
  
  After students have exceeded B-rank, they will graduate from the Magic Academy. However,
  they return for special courses. They may cost a lot, but in the end, they'll be getting the rewards they want if they perform well. Wizards returning after graduation for more courses will have to sacrifice more with each special course they take.

Papa Aiya wrote:Reading this it just sounds like mentor jobs by a different name while adding costs to it.

Knight of Zero wrote:This sounds like could be really fun, curious though if a course ends after one thread or can it continue on to multiple? Say like a person is trying to learn fire magic and learns in a week due to speed completed.

Ezra Aurence wrote:Even though it was mentioned several times in the suggestion, the purpose of this Academy would be to provide an environment which people whom wish their characters to take on a student/teacher role can. Again, it is different from the mentoring system in the sense that it provides rewards besides jewels and experience, and opportunities for fun events, competitions, and a proper environment for mentoring. If anything, it compliments the mentoring system.
Any job can provide more than just jewels and exp for rewards. And fun events/competitions are things you can make whenever you want if you can find people to join them/pay out of your own pocket for rewards (If it's not a staff made event.) And a 'proper' place for mentoring is generally out in the field/on a job, which is how it is with any kind of mentoring program that deals with something like this.

However, I'd make it so this is treated as an alternate option to ranking up than replacing the mentoring system. Everyone is rewarded but not guaranteed a reward. That being said, the Magic Academy is a step forward into creating plot between characters and more unique ways in developing characters. Staff's solution to this problem has only been "make custom jobs", and here is another solution.
Non-guaranteed rewards makes it something I would never want on the site.
It leads to favoritism and people getting upset. The mentor and job systems are literally covering everything here besides someone just making an actual plot on their own to make one.
It doesn't need to be a system, as it would be redundant.

Rasparov wrote:Any job can provide more than just jewels and exp for rewards. And fun events/competitions are things you can make whenever you want if you can find people to join them/pay out of your own pocket for rewards (If it's not a staff made event.) And a 'proper' place for mentoring is generally out in the field/on a job, which is how it is with any kind of mentoring program that deals with something like this.

Rasparov wrote:Non-guaranteed rewards makes it something I would never want on the site.
It leads to favoritism and people getting upset. The mentor and job systems are literally covering everything here besides someone just making an actual plot on their own to make one.
It doesn't need to be a system, as it would be redundant.

Special Snowflake wrote:So, I can't make this isn't own system or anything like that, but why not hold a pole of how many people want it and a sub forum could be made, and jobs could be created for it. Could be just a fun magic academy storyline/area that has its own little timeline. Could always ask for events held in it, and so forth and could be fun. it can work within the systems we have right now.

A teacher could just be that in character and if people wanted to sign them up as a mentor (because they can have multiple people underneath) they could. Basically, I like the concept, just is it okay if it fits within the systems a bit more?

Special Snowflake wrote:So, I can't make this isn't own system or anything like that, but why not hold a pole of how many people want it and a sub forum could be made, and jobs could be created for it. Could be just a fun magic academy storyline/area that has its own little timeline. Could always ask for events held in it, and so forth and could be fun. it can work within the systems we have right now.

A teacher could just be that in character and if people wanted to sign them up as a mentor (because they can have multiple people underneath) they could. Basically, I like the concept, just is it okay if it fits within the systems a bit more?