Talk:RS-wide merits

This needs to be given serious attention and thought. I really agree with the basic premise after seeing how well Beginner's Path has worked over the past year, but then seemingly flopped afterwards. I think it should be possible to achieve a promotion up to Captain, perhaps even Major, based on "rank points" alone. Many, many things need to happen in order for this to be successful, but the rewards will far outweigh the efforts in my opinion. I will begin working on this when I have time. Licah 19:49, 17 July 2007 (EDT)

One specific course I had in mind for the OTS was a graduate course which would basically be an "advanced BP", which would handle some BP issues more in depth and other issues as well. I didn't think of it, but having the 1LT and CPT ranks as reward for the completition would be a nice incentive for newer members to take the course. Possible name eg. "Officer Trainee Path".

One note here on our rank system: lower ranks are in our system (according to Bylaws) tied to squad level activity. Tying the low ranks to RS general issues means in my opinion that we will need to introduce more ranks (or 'modify' current ones) to have squad level ranks. DaLe 17:16, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

Nomenclature

"Member Pathway" is, I think, not the name we want to use; "Beginner's Path" is accurate because everyone can perform the same tasks on the Path regardless of their destination in the RS, but the concept here is more of a list of activities from which one can select and earn points for. We need a name for both the concept and the specific points to be earned. "Merits" could be used but likely has associations for RSers and has been rather overused; most RSers now feel that they are not "worth" much. Yet a revamped merit system is really what we are after. We could call the points accrued "cash", but that evokes the idea of spending it on something; Character Points, FCHG, Command Points, this concept has been advanced many times in many places. An idea that came to mind: How about RS Crests? I like it.

For now I will move this page to "RS-wide merits", for that is really what we are discussing. (The already existing "RS merits" are purely for inter-club multiplayer games.) But perhaps we will eventually refer to the merits as "crests" or some other such item. Licah 19:59, 17 July 2007 (EDT)

additional work

There's more proposals/templates/examples etc. at User talk:Michael Raven. Licah 19:20, 31 July 2007 (EDT)

"other rewards"

Perhaps an honorable mention in the RS-Wide narrative? <See my SP activity forums post for original thought> Joshua Hawkins 08:22, 3 August 2007 (EDT)

Questions/Concerns

Ok, having read this I was to clear up some things that can be a bit confusing to idiots like myself.

1. Active/historical missions. How is this going to be classified? The current mission on the killboard is the active and everything else previous is historical? or the current killboard mission, and the one prior are active.. etc etc ?

2. Reviewing missions. Who are we reporting this to? Where will the reviews go? As of this writing we do not currently have any system setup for this. Though I thought the Mission database that Heavy was working on might have one, is this still true? If so will there be a way to prevent "unfriendly" reviews from being added to the database, if indeed we are going to add them. Which brings up another question, if someone gives a review what do we do with it?

3. I believe "make one mission" should be in with the academy courses, since we're going to have a mission building program (I Hope)

4. command merits the salary thought. Who will review this so the CO/XO/SO/whoever get their merits? How will they be determined? If a higher ranking officer in the chain of command reviews them, how can we keep personal bias out from affecting performance? (Don't tell me it doesn't happen either :P )

5. What is the defined relationship of fleet specific merits to that of this new RS-Wide merit system? At what point to do we consider enough fleet specific merits to warrent a promotion to the members next level?

6. Who is going to update the RS-Wide merit system? Currently only certain people can award RS-Wide merits. Are these same people going to troll the killboards and award merit points to the people who post mission scores? For the MP games (BF2, JO, etc) We'll have to get a reporting system in place (Or actually make people use the LIC site [or create something similar] :P) That way we can award points that way. Cause I doubt the co is going to be on hand for every match.

7. Can I get a raise?