Rank and File

Current options, available with smaller-scale work:

• Beginner's Path, for the early stages
• MP matches (X completed)
• Missions Database reports (X completed)
• Wiki work (X amount)
• Fiction (X amount)
• Medals (X number of Y particular subset of medals)
• Forums activity
• Oversee competitions
• Recommendations
• Time in rank
• Leadership positions
• Mission-making
• ABG campaign/sim creation
• Notable suggestions/improvements to RS (news comments, web work, expanding game info on wiki, finding bugs)
• Recruitment (especially successful)
• Cadet training (successful slightly better - CPT min. for instructors?)
• Donations
• Quote voting/submission
• Blogging (Facebook, Myspace ads for RS? Rewards for listing RS on profile pages?)
• IRC activity (tracked by MrBot)

Options available with larger-scale work:

• Academy courses (X number, or a Basics course, or Y number from Z subset of categories) - Best to get this going ASAP, as has been the case for many years, but hard..
• Any other major project involving many people

All should be cumulative, but separate. Possible to have enough IRC activity for FA, but not enough other requirements for MAJ. Each rank should include multiple requirements. Higher ranks should need higher quantities from categories, and more categories.

Activities

All activities will start minimum requirements at 1LT. The requirements are matched with the goal rank (e.g. once 5 Beginner's Path points are obtained, LJG will be achieved).

Beginner's Path

• LJG: 5 pts
• 2LT: 15 pts
• 1LT: 25 pts (completed)
• CPT: 25 pts (completed)

Unavailable once CPT is reached.

Multiplayer matches

These numbers are total matches. Should there be a win requirement?

• 1LT: 10
• CPT: 30
• MAJ: 60
• LCM: 100
• CMDR: 150
• LCL: 250
• COL: 400

Missions Database reports

Bonuses awarded for top place?

• 1LT: 6
• CPT: 15
• MAJ: 30
• LCM: 50
• CMDR: 80
• LCL: 125
• COL: 200

Wiki work

Hard to quantify, and make allowances for previously existing material.

• 1LT: Create personal character wiki article (bio, OOC section about positions, infobox, categories)
• CPT: Personal character article, substantial contribution to a second article (+200 words)
• MAJ: Categorize 50 uncategorized pages/images; substantial contributions to three existing articles (+100 words)
• LCM: Create 5 "Wanted pages" with at least 200 words each
• CMDR: TBD by a superior officer (LO, FC, XO, someone of that sort - maybe create special wiki supervisor?)
• LCL: as CMDR
• COL: as CMDR

Fiction

Currently only two main venues for fiction: mission narratives and Zealot posts. Add Mission Database?

• 1LT:
• CPT:
• MAJ:
• LCM:
• CMDR:
• LCL:
• COL:

Medals

Note: Medals should only be used once, but can be stacked for later. e.g. two Burdine Clusters will qualify for LCM, then later CMDR, but having only one Burdine Cluster will only qualify for LCM and can't be re-used for CMDR.

Note 2: The below guidelines have only used a subset of RS-Wide "Combat" and "Commendation" medals. Division medals should be included, with some method of standardization.

• 1LT: Earn a Merit Commendation and any one other non-BP medal
• CPT: CoV, DoC, or AKC (combat)
• MAJ: AS, IS, or EVC (combat)
• LCM: IS and AKC+, or BC
• CMDR: BC and EVC+
• LCL: KC, or NRMoH, or BC+ and AD+
• COL: KC and AD+

Forums activity

The goal is to encourage communication, but for the purpose of greater community, and avoiding low-thought responses. Communications should have a positive effect and, to avoid irritating posts, not be rewarded for excess.

• 1LT: 10 posts / 3x 100+ words in "on-topic" forum
• CPT: 20 posts / 5 different days / 5x 100+ words "on-topic"
• MAJ: 40 posts / 10 different days / 10x 100+ words "on-topic"
• LCM+: Not available?

Oversee competitions

Starts at Major. Competitions should have a tangible "prize", with the most basic being a Merit Commendation or something similar, and be approved by a superior officer (OO? FC/XO?) The advanced start rank is due to this activity requiring a leadership role from someone who should be familiar with standard RS competitions.

"Same" competition means the same theme: e.g. a Caption Contest is the "same" as all other Caption Contests.

• MAJ: 1 competition with at least 5 entrants
• LCM: 3 same or 2 differing competitions, with at least 5 entrants
• CMDR: 5 same or 3 differing - 8 entrants; at least 1 with main prize CoV
• LCL: 5 same, 3 differing - 10 entrants; 2 with CoV
• COL: 5 total competitions, at least 12 entrants, at least 3 winners, highest prize is above a CoV

Recommendations

These should be obtained from higher-ranking officers to certify that the member is worthy of being elevated to the next rank. While these are potentially political, so are promotions; higher officers may reserve the option of delaying a recommendation until a certain set of criteria is met, and also should notify their own superior officers (including FC/XO?) each time a recommendation is written. FC/XO should not be eligible as writers. The direct promotion system will still exist and officers may use that instead if they prefer. Recommenders may be reused for each rank, but only after the regular time limit and with clear reasoning for their finding the activity sufficient.

The starting rank is open to discussion - it's set to CMDR as that seemed instinctively a good place to Licah.

• CMDR: 1 recommendation from BGN+
• LCL: 2 recommendations from BGN+
• COL: 3 recommendations from BGN+

Time in rank

This is a requirement for all and not another option. Here, the rank/time pairing signifies minimum time in that rank, until the rank below. Some of these are a change from the current bylaws.

• 1LT: 1 week
• CPT: 2 weeks
• MAJ: 2 weeks
• LCM: 2 weeks
• CMDR: 1 month
• LCL: 1 month
• COL: 1 month

Leadership positions

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• 1LT:
• CPT:
• MAJ:
• LCM:
• CMDR:
• LCL:
• COL:

• 1LT:
• CPT:
• MAJ:
• LCM:
• CMDR:
• LCL:
• COL: