RS-wide merits

Please scroll to the bottom for Giz's proposal of RS-wide merits.

Activities

A listing of possible activities.

Item	Merits	Description
X-Wing, TIE Fighter, XvT, XWA
Complete one mission	?	In mission database
Review five missions	?	In mission database
Make one mission	?-??	For mission database; more points given according to complexity of engine; more points given according to quality and complexity of mission
Bonus for making a complete tour (?-?? missions)	??-??	For mission database; more points given according to length of tour, complexity of engine (+ quality of tour?)
XvT, XWA, JA, JO, JK
1v1 match	?, ?, ?, ?	Points as follows: interclub win is most, interclub loss = intraclub win, intraclub loss is least.
2v2+ match	?, ?, ?, ?	Points as in 1v1, but (1.5x?) more.
Co-op match	?	From mission database; same points as listed above, +1 for multiplayer.
Roleplaying
Participate in a sim session	?
Participate in a complete campaign	?
GM a campaign	?-??	Points assigned according to campaign quality, complexity, length (voted on by participants? How to assign points fairly?)
Academy
Complete a course	?-??	Points according to difficulty of course
Create a course	?-??	Points according to quality and complexity of course
Instruct a course	?	Flat rate of x points per month according to complexity of course, plus number of graduates * y
Command
CO of a unit	?-?? per month	Like a salary, perhaps? Predetermined rate upon appointment, with possibility for raising or lowering?
XO of a unit	?-?? per month	See above. Set by unit CO, but cannot exceed 75% of the CO's "salary".
SO of a unit	?-?? per month	See above. Set by unit CO, but cannot exceed 50% of the CO's "salary".

Rewards

Merits	Reward	Other requirements
???	Promotion to 1LT	"core" RS academy test, three different activities
???	Promotion to CPT	one week since 1Lt, "core", leadership test or advanced RS test?, five different activities, specific reqs (5 forum posts, 3 IRC appearances, things like that)
???	Promotion to MAJ	two weeks since Capt, three recommendations from CMDR+, all CPT reqs, 5 academy courses (incl. one "difficult"), more?
??	Bronze Star	(for uniform; up to 5)
??	Silver Star	Requires 5 Bronze Stars
??	Gold Star	Requires 5 Silver Stars
??	Crystal Star	Requires 5 Gold Stars

Proposal (by Giz)

Currently being worked on is the Beginner's Path, in which a system for tracking a new member's initial activities (or at least those that will encourage future activity and/or are required to progress into RS by graduating from an academy) and awarding points; what do points mean? prizes! or in this case, being promoted to the junior ranks availalble to a new member.

I propose this system be extended; the functionality will already be there, so the initial work in some respects will already be done.

What do I mean by extended? Well, simply put, link all the newly proposed systems (Academy courses, Missions system and Mission building) as well as current activity systems (ITOD participation, M-player participation, Competition (external and internal) participation) to the Beginner's Path system.

For every mission reported on in the Mission system, for every ITOD flown etc. automatically award a member pre-determined rankPointsâ„¢ (working title :P).

Allow command staff to award rankPoints™ manually (although the amount can still be pre-determined if desired) for other activities such as website design/construction/muchosMaintenance™, aggressive recruitment, running a bunch of ABG sims, being an active CO at some level (lower than those awarding the points obviously) etc.

Additionally a ranking of those who attained the most rankPointsâ„¢ per week or month could be posted on the site, with those attaining considerabley more than they usually do being noted in NLs and SotRS (that is assuming it goes back to it's usual format :s).

Allow individuals to view thier own and command staff to view those members under them's rankPointsâ„¢ total. While the number would not be a deffinitive statement on when people should be promoted and/or receive medals, it can be used as a fairly accurate gauge; indeed, people's attitudes are certainly something to consider, with those who are anti-social, those who are obesessed with attaining rankPointsâ„¢ over all else (i.e. quality of work, stepping on people's toes etc.) being held back intentionally and told as much/why.

Every time someone is promoted these rankPointsâ„¢ can be either cashed in, or left to continue growing (an analogy between it and experience point systems in RPG games might be geeky, but accurate, you can have either or in both cases) - clarification: that's an either/or decision to be made for the system's design, should it be implemented.

Summary:

It's gone 5am here, so hopefully all of that makes sense :P.. anyways, such a system, I believe, will give members an insentive to participate, clear recognition of what they've done, ensure that members are not passed over for promotion and give a centeral core of 'activity rating' that can be extended upon and is more accurate than what we currently have.