Flight Sim Merger

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This is an overview of the proposed changes to the flight sim fleets. This is not definitive yet.

Basic Outline

Naming of the fleet

We're tossing around names for the new fleet, this is what we have so far.

  • Legacy Fleet
  • Insurrection Battle Fleet
  • Crusader Strike Fleet
  • RS Strike Fleet
  • Gaurdian Fleet
  • Storm Fleet
  • Crusader Battle Group
  • Stalwart Battle Group
  • Vigilance Strike Fleet


These might be too close to existing RS groups, try to avoid using if possible.

  • RSFD (Rebel Squadrons Flying Division)
  • Alliance Battle Fleet


We need more ideas...

Organization

  • Move the Fleets together into one new fleet
  • Move the training squads into the Academy wing
  • Move Misc squads, like ITOD team, internet, etc into the auxiliary wing
  • Pilots will have to decide which squad they want to be in. We'll keep the history of the old fleets alive somehow though. :)
  • Pilots will report their missions to their Squads yahoo group as well (As usual, so CO's can judge activity, no matter what game they fly)
  • Fleet CS (CO, XO, and SO) Will be made owners of said yahoo groups (Wing and squads) so as to facilitate ease of command changes, as well as backup email system. Those groups will be kept up to date monthly. Wing CO's will also be owners of their squads yahoo groups.
  • See below for template of the fleet. New names of wings will be needed, up to squad CO's if squad names should change.

Academy

  • All academy squads will be moved into the new academy wing.
  • I don't believe there should be a wing CO, but if needed, the Fleet CS will appoint one
  • Training officers will be the people with the most amount of time to dedicate to cadets. This is a priority. We NEED someone to dedicate to cadets.
  • Once a cadet has graduated from one game school, find out if he is interested in other games, and transfer him to another gaming school (Say 1st incubator, to XUG Beta).
  • Once the cadet has passed all the schools he wishes to be in, the instructor emails the Training CO. Training CO then promotes as needed, and places the cadet in a squad (Squad who needs the most players preferably, if not it'll be up to the squads to who wants them)
  • the Fleet CS, and new Squad CS MUST be emailed when a cadet is ready to be placed in a squad, this way we have a running track, and we can make notes on a newsletter formally welcoming them. Plus it gives the squad CO a heads up.

Competitions/story line

  • Finish Tours, once merged grab new story line and run with it.
  • "Round robin" story line. Each game takes a turn on making a mission that pushes the story line through to the next month. This way the story is personalized by the game and those that fly it. Example, Mission 1 Xwing, Mission 2 Tie, Mission 3 XvT, Mission 4 XWA, Mission 5 Xwing, etc etc. up to CS who gets what and when, but everyone will have a chance to run the story.
  • "Off months" Will have the "subplots" of the storyline. This way pilots are flying every month regardless of which game they want to fly.
  • There will be 4 missions released every month (As it is now) This way pilots have a choice to fly the "storyline" mission, or the other "subplot" missions
  • we need to come up with grand story lines, So someone who has a lot of knowledge/creativity in the SW universe would be essential.
  • If you can envision a grand tale, then we'll go for it. I would suggest starting to come up with ideas now, so when we do merge, we can pick a start date and go with it.
  • See Common ITOD for more details.
  • Make sure that the "off-month" missions recieve the same amount of detail and construction as the main story mission.
  • Also, don't let it be the same thing over and over "main mission"-kills things, "sub-missions"- reconn. Mix it up a bit.

Narratives

  • Create a forum page just for narratives
  • Post members narratives there
  • Have members post a "run on Narrative" that will work off of what someone else posted
  • Use "run on narrative" as part of the next main fleet wide story
  • Maybe give extra merit or two for posting in the "run on narrative"
  • See Common ITOD for more details.

LIC (League of Interpersonal Competition)

  • XWA, and XvT are the only two multiplayer games, do what we can to promote this.
  • Try to get a larger group out there, face other "clans and groups" and beat them. The more you beat them the more they might want to join a better group

Merits

  • New Merit system below. See chart.
  • There will be no merit point cap.
  • Current merits will be frozen.
  • Everyone starts out from zero.
  • Merits will increase in the new fleet system, leaving the old system and totals alone.

Kill board

  • Kill boards remain the same. CO, XO and SO should have the ability to update scores.
  • PBF still must use Standard Scoring table. Others might need their own scoring. Check before posting. (Unless it's your game, and you know how to spot cheaters, then go ahead)

Medals

  • Combine medals.
  • Top Gun, design 4 medals for the 4 games.
  • Do we make silver and bronze medals for 2nd and 3rd place? Might be nice
  • Medal Examples
  • MRM Combined into one medal. Decide again to create new, or modify one.
  • Find all the medals and decide if we keep them or make new ones.
  • Medal chart below for the popular medals, I'm sure I missed some. We'll keep the LIC medals the same.
  • See Rebel Squadrons Medal System discussion.

Merit chart

MONTHLY MISSION

2 Reporting a Mission completed
1 Reporting a Failed Mission
2 Report with narrative
2 Top Gun
2 Top Squad
1 2nd place Squad

SQUAD/WING MISSION (non-ITOD)

1 Report on squadron/wing mission
1 Narrative on Squad/Wing mission
1 Top Gun on Squad/Wing mission

HISTORICAL MISSION

1 Reporting on an Historical mission (one of the previous missions listed on the cumulative missions page). One can not report on missions one flew when it was the mission of the month. (I propose we change this, 2 points for historical, 1 point if you flew it when it was a mission of the month.. just in case we have pilots that want to go back and try and earn some extra merits)

LEAGUES OF INTERPERSONAL COMPETITION

1 Play one or more match(es) in a LIC Round
1 Win the Gold medal in the Domination League
1 Win the Bravery medal in the Domination League (having the higest number of matches in a DL round)
1 Win the Gold medal in the Starfighter Circuit League
1 Win the Speed medal in the Starfighter Circuit League (having the fastest run in a SCL round)

SUPPORT WING ACTIVITIES

This should be up to the support wing CO/Fleet CS.

3 Making an ITOD mission
1 Testing an ITOD mission
1 Other aid in the ITOD Team, decided by the ITOD Team CO
3 Doing a major update on Fleet web page (fleet/wing/squadron pages)
1 Other aid in the Internet Team, decided by the Internet Team CO

OTHER

n/a Extra merits awarded by the CS as they they find it appropriate.

Merit Ranks

Merit rank/Min Points/Max Points
Recruit		1	10
Rookie		11	20
Pilot		21	30
Officer		31	40
Veteran	        41	50
Ace		51	60
Top ace	        61	70
Sentinel	71	80
Rogue   	81	90
Rebel        	91	100
Knight		101	125
Wraith	        126	150
Defender	151	175
Master  	176	200
Champion	201	299
Warrior	        301	500
Legend   	501	1000

Medal merits

These Merits can be awarded as a bonus for earning the Medals and are not included in the above chart.

Medal of Victory/Gold Wings/Top Gun – 2 points
Mission Report medal – 2 points
Beyond Belief - 2 points

Note: Fleet CS, and Missions builders/testers are not allowed to win the Top Gun (MoV) As of right now, Spokes has also expressed he does not want the MoV (but we give him the top gun merits anyway, because he earned them. So the second place winner will also receive top gun merits and the MoV merits/medal)

Other Thoughts

Scoring/ Reporting

  • X-Wing will still need to use its own scoring system due to the difference between XWDOS and XW95.
  • Setup new squads/wings on Google groups, leaving the old yahoo groups as reference.
  • Google groups have the ability to store files and screenshots when attached in emails. They are alot cleaner looking too.

Fleet Structure

This will change as members come and go to other squads
Wing names will be changed. Squad CO's can decide if they want to change names or not. At least the "history" of the squad will remain.

Note: R2W has 3 squads, with 8 members each. Combine one squad into two, to make regulation 12 member squads, disband one squad. Also, Once members decide which squad they want to remain in, others will be disbanded and condensed. Should a member not choose, and be in two squads, remove him from the squad with the least amount of members. For members without homes,or only in one squad, and their squad is is going to be disbanded place them in a new squad that needs the most help.

[Numbers in parenthesis are empty slots, as it stands with the separation]

Valor Wing (maybe Patriot Wing?)

Hope (maybe retribution Wing?)

Crusader (Maybe Renegade Wing?)

Academy wing

Auxiliary Wing

  • ITOD Team
  • Top Gun School
  • Internet Squad

(maybe name of the other two wings intrepid wing?)

Auxiliary wing -ITOD

  • Make sure we have a dedicated mission building team
  • Make a test to join the ITOD squad(s), we need quality missions.
  • Make sure there are a couple beta testers for all the missions, this way we can 'break' the missions and fix them before they are released.
  • Mission builders and testers cannot win Top Gun medals. No exceptions.
  • Make sure missions aren't the same old ones, try and come up with new plans
  • It's possible to be a mission designer and not fly a mission, ever, unless you wanted to. We need dedicated people making missions

Medals

MRM - Design a new medal, no need to have 4 different ones
Top Gun medals, we'll need 4 of them
MoV/Gold Wings/Top Ace - design a new medal
Silver wings/second place - design a new medal
Bronze wings/third place - design a new medal

Killboard cup/Top Squad (Highest Squad total for ITOD) - might keep/might design new one

Design an image for the BB ribbon, it'll be rare we use this..but I'd like to keep it around just in case :)

Most active squadron (design a new medal)

Medal of activity (70% higher-per mission)

LIC medal

Remain the same, unless someone wants to come up with new medals, but that's a lot more work than needed. I don't think the LIC is going to change.

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