I'm doing some work on a new speciality sheet for the army and this is where I am at the moment:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppxrr/specs.png


To explain the system from start to finish:

Each trooper starts off on one of 6 new combat trees. These represent fundamentally different approaches on the battlefield and different equipment loadouts.

Each speciality has a set requirement in terms of time (weeks active) and activity (number of storynet posts). For example Trooper Bob has finished the academy and wants to do 1.1: Urban Combat. He must wait 1 month and complete 10 storynet posts before submitting the story requirements, lets say, a single 2k word story. Obviously he can be working on the story in this time and should.


Ancillary/Auxillary skills represent, in real terms, extra training modules anyone can complete. At any time you can choose to work on an Ancillary skill instead of a tier/prestige spec. Ancillary skills will round out the capabilites of your character, you could even just do ancillary skills and in essence create your own unique speciality.

Prestige skills obviously represent the very highest level of training the VE provides and will have very high requirements but will unlock very cool equipment.

Now the way specs are done may well change. Instead of 20 odd stories of mundanity to complete a spec, you will need an activity requirement before submitting your stories. Requirements will increase like Prestige> Tier 2 > Tier 1 > ancillary

For example when you say "I'm working on 1.1 now" you might need to be active for a month and complete 10 storynet posts before you can submit the story requirements.

We'll expect to see a progression in story standard further up the chain too. In the waiting time between submissions you'd be expected to be working on the story and having it beta-read by other army members.

We will be creating a new specs wiki page and also academy pages. Each member will get their own graphical sheet sort of like this:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppxrr/specs/personA.html
(still working on it!)


"I'm a heavy weapons specialist what happens to me"

80% or so of our members seem to be in HVW so they will be split up into the three new weapons specialists. The new 6 trees will hopefully create some diversity. People will be integrated into the new sheets on a case by case basis.

"Why dont you have X spec"

I dont know, PM me the idea and it could well go on the final sheet

"I'd like to help!"

Excellent:

As I won't be doing all the work i'd like to call on everyone in the army to help this project work and be something everyone is happy with. I'll be assembling focus groups who will finalise each spec sheet from a template I use on the wiki (utlising the wiki's history and discussion pages)

you can be a part of multiple focus groups, just tell me which ones on here.


Group 1: Academy specs (Civilian/Stormtrooper)
Bacardi


Group 2: Weapons (3.1,3.2,4.1,4.1,A8)


Group 3: Shocktrooper (1.1,1.2,A5,P3)


Group 4: Medical (2.1,2.2,P2,A15)


Group 5: Sneaky (P1,A1,A9,6.1,6.2)


Group 6: Vehicles (A2,3,4,13)


Group 7: Technical (5.1,5.2,A10,A14)


Group 8: Misc (A 6,7,11,12,15)


I will also need:

People to work on sig banners for the main trees

Ideas for more prestige specs

Any more ideas/comments/questions!

hey, even just a vague "I'd be interested in helping" would do!

Dont depress me with your apathy people!

Cheers Kami, I've got a list of:

Myself
Rogueboy
Bacardi
Sam
Kami
Havock


So far!

Quote:People to work on sig banners for the main trees

Talk to me Monday.

Apologies that other things have taken priority, I promise to get these sorted ASAP

So if your squad has a spec would members of that squad put that in their id line too?

For example being in RAIDERS our spec is [A5] (aka Close Combat) would my ID line be:

[A5] [A13] ?

A13 being for Vehicle Mechanic since I did complete Vehicle Crewman and I better get something for that

Raz if the squad is doing Close Combat, for example, as their spec, they should be involving that somehow in each of their stories. I would say that once someone has been active in the squad and lets say posted 10-20 times (somewhere in that number range) AND they are approved by their SL they should auto get that Aux Spec. Just saying it would be an incentive to stay active in your squad and they will have to be using those skills for the stories to make sense.