REGULATIONS & PROMOTIONS

REGULATIONS 1. Read all the posts carefully. It may involve your character or provide information that your character can - or needs - to use. If a superior officer gives an order that involves you or your department, assume that you you or your department has been notified 'off screen'. 2. Follow the chain of command. If you are uncertain about something, ask your Department Chief. If the Department Chief is uncertain about something, he will ask the First Officer. If the First Officer is uncertain, he will ask the Captain. This is to be followed at all times. The only exception to this procedure is if an officer higher up in the chain asks you about something. Eg. if the Captain asks an Ensign about any problems they might be having, it's ok to bypass the chain of command and speak directly with the Captain. 3. If you haven't been ordered to do something outside your normal duties, don't do it. Get your superior's permission first if you want to do it. 4. The Captain will enforce procedures on the USS Scorpion. This means that your character will be held responsible for their actions. From now on, everything that is written in character may very well be reacted to, and will have consequences for your character, good or bad. Along with promotions, there will be demotions if necessary. Extreme cases will result in extreme measures. Eg. reassignment off the ship (create a new character) or court martial, etc. Likewise, 'battlefield promotions' of rank or position will occur if the situation warrants it. Special Note: good role-playing of your character can include involvement in disciplinary actions. 5. Experience carries on to new characters. If your character leaves the ship or dies as part of your role-playing, your new character starts off with the experience points that the previous character gained during play. 6. Chat rooms are a great tool for joint posts. You can visit the Rebellion Chat Room here: http://www.startrek-rebellion.com/chat/ The chats that you have can be 'in character', and the results can be your posts. You can copy the conversations / posts you are having into Notepad or email and edit then send to the mailing list. It's also a great means of getting to know the other players. The chat channel #Scorpion is available, along with the channels for other ships within Star Trek: Rebellion. 7. Each player must fulfill their posting requirements, which are: All players must post at least once per week. Every player must be a member of the USS Scorpion forum and visit it often and regularly. Out-of-game discussions will be held here. PROMOTIONS Promotions are handled on a point system. Each time you post or contribute to a story line you get points. Each week these points are totalled and added to your total and this will be posted on the list as well as on a page at the site which will be updated weekly. Below is a list of how many points are rewarded for various actions and a list of ranks and how many points are required to be promoted to those ranks. For example when a Lt. (JG) reached 800 points he/she will be promoted to full Lt. It should be noted that a post must be of around 200 words or more to qualify for ranking points. Naval Rank Promoted When Reaching Marine Rank 1st Year Cadet 25 1st Year Cadet 2nd Year Cadet 50 2nd Year Cadet 3rd Year Cadet 100 3rd Year Cadet 4th Year Cadet 200 4th Year Cadet Ensign 400 2nd Lt. Lt. Junior Grade 800 1st Lt. Lt. 1600 Marine Captain Lt. Commander 3200 Major (needs SF approval) Commander (needs Starfleet approval) 6400 Lt. Col. (needs Starfleet approval) Warrant Officer 100 Warrant Officer CWO 1st Class 200 CWO 1st Class CWO 2nd Class 400 CWO 2nd Class CWO 3rd Class 800 CWO 3rd Class Enlisted Ranks Enlisted Ranks Master Chief Petty Officer 2250 Sergeant Major Senior Chief Petty Officer 1350 Master Sergeant Chief Petty Officer 900 Gunnery Sergeant Petty Officer 1st Class 450 Staff Sergeant Petty Officer 2nd Class 300 Sergeant Petty Officer 3rd Class 150 Corporal Crewman 100 Lance Corporal Crewman Apprentice 50 Private 1st Class Crewman Recruit 25 Private The following is a rough outline of how points are awarded. The CO may award extra points at his discretion for outstanding posts. Type of Post Points Having to do with the Main Story line 5 Long and detailed 10 Duty Log (doing your job but not involved in the main story line) or a sub-plot line 5 Personal Logs or general posts 5 Joint Post bonus (each person) 5 Contributing Ideas to the Story line 5 Contributing a Story Line 15 Recruiting a New Player 10 Creating an NPC (complete with detailed bio) 5 Contributing Material to the Web Site (per instance) 5 Bonus points for creativity (at the CO's discretion) 5-20

For each week that a character has not made a single post, it will receive a minus point (eg. -1). When the minus points reaches -4, that character will either become an NPC, be transferred or killed off, and the player will be removed from the mailing list. If a character has minus points, each week of posts will give a positive point. Eg. if the character is on -3 points, then 2 weeks of regular postings will reduce it to -1, and so on.

This will be one of the incentives to post (the others being experience points towards promotions, as well as the enjoyment of playing your character). If anyone fails to post after 4 subsequent weeks, it will be assumed (and acted upon) that the player does not wish to play any more.

The only exceptions will be written requests for a Leave Of Absence (LOA). This will give you positive points equal to the number of weeks you have requested a LOA. Once they are gone, it will go into the minus points unless postings are made or an extended LOA is requested.