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)