April 23, 2007
APPLICANT
When you join our organisation, you are considered as an applicant. After one month of membership, you will be promoted to official member of our organisation, if all goes well and you are accepted by our people. This usually just means that we watch if you behave well and are nice person =). We dont allways remember to upgrade your status to member, so if you have been forgotten, just shout to any of the officers and they will promote you. Sidenote: Usually all your alts in org are applicants, if you dont have needs for higher rank to alts.
UNIT MEMBER
First basic rank as an official member of regulators =).
UNIT LEADER
When you have been long time in org and considered to be helpfull and nice to other people, you will be promoted to unit leader status.
UNIT COMMANDER
This is the first rank that can recruit new people to organisation. Thats why this rank needs the trust of our officers, before you can become one. You need to be helpfull member of the community, and your assets are valued highly in org.
SQUAD COMMANDER
This is the first rank that can make/destroy buildings in city. As you can understand from the previous phrase, you cant give that responsibility to every other member who joins and asks for it. This is also the rank you need that you can lower cloak in city for alien attacks. Thats why this rank is kinda problematic, since you can same time destroy buildings. This rank is given after 5 months (usually can be much more) in org, and considered essential asset to the org. All officers and president must approve decicion of promoting someone to squad commander.
GENERAL
2nd highest rank in org. Presidents little helpers, who maintain and keep track on basic duties in org. They also keep the discipline in org in control and can represent org in differend situations and meetings. General rank isnt given if not having very good basic information of the game itself, organisation and having long experience in org without stains in history. Generals usually make decicions about bigger raids and tower sites also with president. If you have any problems at all with anything ingame or ouside game, you can allways rely to them in those cases.
PRESIDENT
Leader of the organisation. Keeps the org "in track" and draws the common lines which the org will head to. Has the final word in any decicion in org, and tries to be the final "solver" in bigger disagreements and decicions. Towersite planning, war-efforts and behaviour, relationships with alliance orgs will be dealt by pres. Headman of the org and represents the image of the whole org with his behaviour. (alltough some weekends this behaviour can be somewhat fuzzy =P)
Then some toughts about the ranks in general from me. These toughts dont represent all officers/ppl and their opinions in Regulators, but are my toughts and how i base my decicions of giving ranks.
How do i get higher rank ? Who decides it ?
Ranks are given by officers. You usually cant get rank by just asking that "could i have unit comm plx ??". The rank comes with time and is based on your behaviour and helpfullness in the game. We never force people to use their time on helping others or force people to attend any certain raid, but of course if we see you helping new people by answering questions, organizing raids and so on, you can be sure that you will be rewarded at some point. What goes around, comes around. I usually mainly do the promotions, after i discuss from them with other officers. But there isnt any certain rule who gets upgrades and when. Its more about what do you show that is worth of rewarding ingame, and how people see you as an member of our organisation.
Of course, you can ask me any time about your rank if you feel that you have been forgotten or you have any questions related to it. Ill answer as good as i can. We have 50+ players who play game atm, cant allways remember who has which rank =). Many times people can be applicants for 2 months because the promotion gets forgotten. But the usual line is that if you havent got promotion to some rank, the reason for it might be in yourself =). And like i stated in the beginning, all cant be unit comms/squad comms/gens or president. And as we are very old organisation with many old and respected players still ingame, you cant expect to get to general status in 3 weeks =).
And lastly i would like to say that the ranks arent everythin in the game. They are not like pvp titles that you can show off to others. Ranks are gotten by the respect from other people, and all should try to remember that from time to time. Respect and be nice to other people, and you will be treated nicely too and usually get rewarded sooner or later. And remember to respect your officers and their orders(which are quite rare in our org tbh =) ).
Phew. I think that was it. Ill edit my post as neccessarily, i hope that our officials look at this too and express their opinions. If you have anything to comment on or want to ask any questions, post here or post me ingame. Ill try to answer them then =).
