Shrike Fletcher wrote:In short, I think your question raises a few others:
Is your intent to encourage non-coms to make things so your garb and camp look nice and your events have cool prizes? Or just to improve their skill level in general?
Do you know what the non-coms are already doing in your realm, and therefore what is important for you to recognize?
Have some already done work that should give them rank or will you be starting with a clean slate?
I want to encourage people to start doing non-com things such as cooking, garb or weapon making. We have a few non-coms that come to practice and just hang out and I felt bad that they had nothing to do all the time and I did not want them to think they were not a part of the community as well. There are a few people who would start of with a rank or two in non-com due to the amount of work they have done to help others in the realm get their garb up and such.
As far as leadership is concerned we require ranks in either fighter or archery to attain higher officer ranks. As you can see this leaves out any non-com form being an officer which is wrong and it unintentionally alienates some of our members.
In the beginning I thought I was going to make non-com skills just sewing but that blocks out a ton of other useful skills. Now I am attempting to make the non-com skill more broad and all encompassing.
This is obviously a rough draft but this is the basic layout of what the ranks would be. I am unsure exactly how to word this to allow all forms of non-com but I am more worried about the difficulty of getting to rank 6. It should be challenging and rank 6 should be the hardest thing to do. I mostly based it off of our current ranks for fighter to make something equivalent but I have no idea how hard it is to do these things so a little insight would be useful as to helping keep everything balanced. Here is a link to where the fighter ranks can be found:
http://theswordcoast.com/FighterRanks.htmlRank 1
Create a simple project to help promote the realm
-Examples include garb for yourself or someone else, food at an event or practice, foam smithing for yourself or someone else.
Rank 2
Create a project for someone other than yourself
Rank 3
Must create a project for yourself or another person
-Example: Garb, Cooking, Weapons, etc
Must create a project for yourself or another person that is different from the first project
-Example: If a tabard was made for the first requirement then the applicant can not make garb for this requirement.
Rank 4
Must compete in a non-com tournament or competition (I am unsure how many competitions there are out there for non-coms but this is one of the requirements for fighters that we have)
Must create 2 projects that demonstrates advance understanding of their discipline. Both can be of the same discipline or of differing ones.
Rank 5
Must place in a non-com tournament
Must create 2 projects for yourself or others that demonstrate an advance knowledge of their discipline.
Rank 6
Must place first in a non-com tournament
Must create a project for yourself or others that demonstrates a mastery of their skills.