Reviving Internships

[kustomzero]

What's your Minecraft Username?: UrAJinx
What's the title of your suggestion?: Reviving Internships

What's your suggestion?:
KPD and EMS have the internship programs for those who are in college. Yes, the programs haven’t been used that often and I hope the program will become more active again. I’m proposing we bring the internship program to the Government faction and to also revive the program. Why? It will help college students explore their opportunities by being able to experience on site situations and learn about it. With the new education credit system coming into place I would hope reviving the internship programs will bring more motivation to those who are and who aren’t in college. I believe bringing the internship program back will prepare the college students icly and the player oocly to learn what the faction is about and to see if it’s something they’ll enjoy. The only way to figure out you’ll like the faction is by joining it and if you get accepted and don’t like it, it would be wasting a spot for someone else that could’ve potentially enjoyed the spot more.

When it comes to the internship program before a college student can be accepted into it I believe their should be some requirements.

- Have a clean school record. Meaning no detentions, suspensions, or expulsions in the last month prior to the internship application.
- Have 150 education credits.
- Showing an interest related to their field.

Overall, I believe bringing back the internship programs it’ll provide more opportunities and experiences for college students who are still trying to figure out what they want to be after they graduate. I also believe this will bring great roleplay scenarios and character development towards the individuals.

How will this benefit the server and community?:
As mentioned above, reviving the internship programs will bring great opportunities to college students. I also don’t know what happened to the program and it’d be great to see it come back.

 

[SigmaHater]

+1 - I totally agree with Internships coming back and becoming a more active feature again, I think they are wonderful in showcasing the faction and what they experience. It allows for more roleplay opportunities for College Students AND even faction members participating in the Internships.

 

[spacemuffin]

+1

I feel like adding internships to the government faction does open roleplay opportunities and gives college students another option than just KPD and EMS. The only thing I don't know about is 150 credits. I get that internships are a big thing and you really need to be dedicated to want one but I think 150 credits is a bit much considering it already takes 1-2 months or maybe more to get 50 and that's if you log on everyday and take at least 2-3 classes a day. I also think its a bit much because this is a roleplay server and some players may find it really tedious to grind for 4-5 months just to be able to apply for internship to a faction. I think maybe 80-100 would be enough.

 

[kustomzero]

+1

I feel like adding internships to the government faction does open roleplay opportunities and gives college students another option than just KPD and EMS. The only thing I don't know about is 150 credits. I get that internships are a big thing and you really need to be dedicated to want one but I think 150 credits is a bit much considering it already takes 1-2 months or maybe more to get 50 and that's if you log on everyday and take at least 2-3 classes a day. I also think its a bit much because this is a roleplay server and some players may find it really tedious to grind for 4-5 months just to be able to apply for internship to a faction. I think maybe 80-100 would be enough.

I see your point and I would be willing to lower the requirement from 150 to 120 credits. Why? In college most internships aren’t offered until you’re in your third year aka junior year of college. Around that time most juniors will have between 30-60 education credits which builds up 2 years of college coursework. However, since SRP requires 50 education credits to get into college bringing the internship requirement between those segments wouldn’t make sense. Which is why I originally had it at 150 to make it appear more demanding for players to prove they’re dedicated to the education and to show they want that internship. Seeing how this is a roleplay server I can understand that 150 can be too much. I believe lowering it to 120 credits is a reasonable amount.

 

[spacemuffin]

I see your point and I would be willing to lower the requirement from 150 to 120 credits. Why? In college most internships aren’t offered until you’re in your third year aka junior year of college. Around that time most juniors will have between 30-60 education credits which builds up 2 years of college coursework. However, since SRP requires 50 education credits to get into college bringing the internship requirement between those segments wouldn’t make sense. Which is why I originally had it at 150 to make it appear more demanding for players to prove they’re dedicated to the education and to show they want that internship. Seeing how this is a roleplay server I can understand that 150 can be too much. I believe lowering it to 120 credits is a reasonable amount.

I still think that's too high and I get that realistically that most people don't do one until they are in their junior year of college but sometimes you have to sacrifice realism for what is more doable on the server. I really don't think players are going to want to spend months grinding for that amount of credits to have to even apply for an internship when they can just take a few hours to write up an application for the faction. On top of that, not everyone has the time out of the day or schedules to spend an x amount of hours joining classes to get credits.

I want to see what other people say too. Maybe someone will suggest a different approach. I also feel like if people are going to grind that much for an application, that there should be more incentives to keep them going then just getting to apply for an internship for a faction.

 

[kustomzero]

I still think that's too high and I get that realistically that most people don't do one until they are in their junior year of college but sometimes you have to sacrifice realism for what is more doable on the server. I really don't think players are going to want to spend months grinding for that amount of credits to have to even apply for an internship when they can just take a few hours to write up an application for the faction.

Sure someone could apply for the faction within a few hours. But I’m talking about internships that I haven’t seen being offered in probably 2+ years. They suddenly disappeared and went silent. The internship program is meant for college students to experience and shadow their peers of what they do in a daily work basis. It’s supposed to showcase the students what they expect from them and what they fulfill throughout their daily work schedule. It’s also why it’ll bring more roleplay and character development for the college community. There aren’t a lot of opportunities for the college students except for taking exams and progressing through degrees. The degrees really have no purpose right now except showing you progress through college and got older. Which is why we can put the degrees to use and the hard work they put in to achieve this and to use it with the internship- which is when the education credits come into place. I understand your point of sacrificing realism for a roleplay server- however I still believe that amount of credits is reasonable.

 

[spacemuffin]

Sure someone could apply for the faction within a few hours. But I’m talking about internships that I haven’t seen being offered in probably 2+ years. They suddenly disappeared and went silent. The internship program is meant for college students to experience and shadow their peers of what they do in a daily work basis. It’s supposed to showcase the students what they expect from them and what they fulfill throughout their daily work schedule. It’s also why it’ll bring more roleplay and character development for the college community. There aren’t a lot of opportunities for the college students except for taking exams and progressing through degrees. The degrees really have no purpose right now except showing you progress through college and got older. Which is why we can put the degrees to use and the hard work they put in to achieved to use it with the internship- which is when the education credits come into place. I understand your point of sacrificing realism for a roleplay server- however I still believe that amount of credits is reasonable.

I don't see any issues with there being other ways that students can use their degrees and showing their hard work. In general I think using credits in this way is kind of cool but people don't like grinding for things. Grinding is boring especially when doing it for months on end and what if they don't get accepted into the internship program? They just wasted hours and hours of grinding for credits only to get denied when they could've spent that time writing an application. Now what are they supposed to do with those credits?

120 is too high in my opinion. I think 80-100 is more reasonable. This is also because you may have players that grind for college, which is a big achievement in itself, and then have to grind for maybe about 3 months just to get to 150. Again, grinding gets really tedious after a while and its going to demotivate players from doing it or its going to burn them out half way through.

 

[kustomzero]

Grinding is boring especially when doing it for months on end and what if they don't get accepted into the internship program? They just wasted hours and hours of grinding for credits only to get denied when they could've spent that time writing an application. Now what are they supposed to do with those credits?

Progress through college. If you haven’t heard theres a possibility that there going to be adding the education credits later down the line for progressing through college B > M. Possibly even PhD however the PhD requires a project to be presented to the SLT. Either way you’d be grinding for credits to achieve one of those things. And not every student has to do this- it’s not required. If they don’t want to get an internship then there is no issue about it. For those who are willing to get an experience with a faction on a college level experience then people will do it if they really want it.

 

[spacemuffin]

Progress through college. If you haven’t heard theres a possibility that there going to be adding the education credits later down the line for progressing through college B > M. Possibly even PhD however the PhD requires a project to be presented to the SLT. Either way you’d be grinding for credits to achieve one of those things. And not every student has to do this- it’s not required. If they don’t want to get an internship then there is no issue about it. For those who are willing to get an experience with a faction on college level then people will do it if they really want it.

I stand by my opinion, 120-150 is too much for right now. I haven't heard about the credits for college progression and maybe that will ease the grinding and incentivize players to go for internships.
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And not every student has to do this- it’s not required.

I know not every student has to but it'd still be a lot and tedious for those that do want to.

 

[kustomzero]

120 is too high in my opinion. I think 80-100 is more reasonable. This is also because you may have players that grind for college, which is a big achievement in itself, and then have to grind for maybe about 3 months just to get to 150. Again, grinding gets really tedious after a while and its going to demotivate players from doing it or its going to burn them out half way through.

Grinding does get boring and tedious and if a person gets burnt out or demotivated then they can take a break. No one is being told you must grind classes 24/7 to get to college. In fact, I believe after those who do get into college will actually be very motivated to join classes. Why? Because college classes offer a larger variety of courses in many fields that bring all sorts of interests across the college community. I mean put it this way, in the real world we’re always going after something. For an example, going after a college degree in the real world you may see it as a four year program to get your degree. But you’re also grinding for that degree or whatever you may be after and just don’t realize it.

 

[DarkEclipic]

This is already a thing that City tab factions are planning and hoping it will come soon. it will only be for College tagged players