Just the other day I read a story from the late Gilgal in the Arelium Library.
It was about some fun competition he had with Mowgli in seeing who could help a
new level 1 char reach lvl 10 first.

Course back then in the early 90's lvl 20 was the highest level a mortal
could attain and to make a long story short, Gilgal won over the course of a
few hrs. Henceforth the recipient of his good deed always addressed him as
"Dad".

In light of this I propose the wizzes create a quest called "Sugar
Daddy" where the goal is to take a newb and aid him in reaching
lowbie/midbie status within a set period of time. Furthermore I suggest that
this task should not be limited to one cycle but have an ultimate goal of
completing multiple repetitions. At which point the player will be awarded with
some suffeli reward like a wish scroll, wiz item, tps for another full boon,
etc.

I believe that this is our only chance of injecting new life into the
dwindling player base. We must help ourselves by recruiting new ppl and/or
aiding current players in getting a leg up to higher lvl characters which are
more fun to play and therefore increase the odds of that persons mud career
being an extended one.

Naturally there is plenty of room for unethical practices here but Im sure
the powers that be can spell things out in detail and take great pleasure in
resetting the offenders "Sugar Daddy" counter to zero.