ah, i know those "bad" disciples
the worst experiences i ever had happened with disciples asking for a mentor in PA (just the matter that they know what a mentor is, and that something like mentors exists should make you suspicious already, remember, we speak about newbies, who shouldn't know THAT much)
well, maybe i should start the easiest example
once a newbie aproached me, opening a private chat (!), asking for a mentor (!) and if i could take him on a tp run (!!!!), and made a team (funny team rules, it was back in the days when equal existed, means, all team members got a share, even if the didn't shoot at all, and therefore had no cost to kill anything, but still got some loot; lets say, advanced begging even without the need the ask)
and wanted me to kill the mobs on the way ofc
well, i guess she didn't expect how well i can avoid mobs, didn't shoot once, and didn't use my sword, so not loot at all to share
so, pretty disappointing for her we arrived in billys without any loot at all, and finally the question i waited for the whole time came:"Will i get some free stuff?", "No, ofc not", and i was kicked
this is a pretty great example for disciples i call "mentor hoppers"
they go to PA, take a mentor, ask for gifts, and if they get it, they kick the mentor and search the next fool, if they don't get a gift, they do the same
next example, with a funny (for me) ending
i had a disciple once, who asked if i could mentor the brother
ofc i said, we met in phoenix, and as soon he had me as mentor, he wanted a tp run to twin (see any pattern?)
as soon we arrived he kicked me, well, i could stop here, but to the funny ending i told him something like "with this attidude you will quit in 2 weeks")
exactly 14 days later i pmd his brother, asking how my ex disciple was
well, he was killed in pvp3 and lost his stuff and quitted (would be happy if i could predict the lottery numbers that way)
third and second worst one
asked in PA too for mentorship
well, tp run to atlas haven around 1 hour 20 min, then i went hunting, since she wanted to sweat
when i reached my hunting ground i got a pm from her, she was stuck at the nice outpost south of argus, so i left everthing, rescued her (overall about 1 hour 30 min, to argus, to her, back with her)
went hunting again, and got kicked
i pmd her and asked her why
answer was a bit surprising, she (quote) "found a mentor who is kind" to her
fourth and worst one
i once had a disciple i brought to phoenix
he told me his profession will be "beggar" and justified it because some religious groups do kinda the same
well, i tried to convince him rather to sweat, and he started to insulting me with something like "all germans are Na..."
especially example 3 made me rather furious that day
i still become a bit angry again when i think back
i have to say, i didn't have any like that lately, maybe just luck
and those were the worst examples as well for bad ones
of course, i have like 8 ppl around 70-96% whom i haven't seen for months
unlikely they gonna grad i guess
and just one actually told me he plays another game now, the others i don't have any idea about
generally, i would understand if you come to me say like "Alice, this game is nothing for me, i gonna quit"
alright, can't say much against it
ofc it sucks if that would be a higher % person close to graduation, but i would understand it
also from the sweater point of view "Alice, sweating sucks, I don't want to deposit either, i gonna quit"
accepted and understandable
but the simple vanishing into thin air I don't like
the fun thing
from all the disciples i had, and that were 270 or so i guess
(btw 51 graduaters, actually a quite good rate from what i hear)
just _4_ persons had the balls to actually tell me they would quit
1 of those even coming back (!) and graduating (!!)