ATTN: ALL!!! Taldren Community Awards!!! - V2 NOW AVAILABLE!

[Furyofaseraph]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

If I could have a moment of your time, I would like to inform you of a project i just stared. I feel that very little has been done to honour those who have contributed much to the community. I was inspired, and so I have created these; Various commendations to be awarded to people so that they and the community know that they are a benevolent titan among men.

So that people are aware of your deeds, please, if you are awarded a medal, place THE RIBBON into your signature, the medal is for your own personal site.

Now, for the list of awards, and their descriptions.

Several people have PMed me asking for commendations for them from me. Look, im not really the person whos handing them out, i just make them. I know all of you have contributed many things to the community - but please dont list qualifications.

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE COMMENDATIONS GALLERY.  http://gallery106414.fotopic.net/
feel free to link to the images there, im just too lazy to copy of the images to the thread.

FORUM AWARDS

Bronze Medal of Good Will
Given to those who have been shown to be good standing with the community.
Procedure
 -   A member who has +25 Karma, regardless of negative karma earns this award.
 -   For every +25 Karma they have, they may take this award again.

Purple Medal of Recognition
Given to those who once were members of the Dominion of Modelers. This award can only be given once.
Procedure
 -   Any member who once was a member of the Dominion of Modelers may take this award.

Silver Medal of Recognition
Awarded to those who have, by some event, contributed a large amount to the community, but doesn?t warrant a Mithril Medal of Honor.
Procedure
 -   A moderator may award this commendation to a member
 -   A member may nominate a member. 4 additional nominations are then required.

Mithril Medal of Honor
Awarded to those who have contributed far above a call to the community. Use Sparingly.
Procedure
 -   A moderator may nominate a member. 1 nomination from another moderator, or 4 from members are then required.
 -   A member may nominate a member. 7 additional nominations are then required.

Utopia Cluster
Awarded to those who go above the call of duty and moderate a public site.
Procedure
 -   Any member who moderates a public archive site (sfc3files.com, SFU, etc.) may take this award.
 -   This can be awarded multiple times if they moderate more than one public archive site.

Blue Shield
Awarded to those have gone above the call of duty and hosted another member?s works.
Procedure
 -   Any member who is hosting 100mb of another person?s works (not including their own) may take this award.
 -   This cluster is awarded for each 100mb of another person?s works they host.

Medal of Wisdom
Awarded to those who give their time to be a moderator of the forums
Procedure
 -   Any moderator of the Dynaverse forum may take this award.

Exodus award
A member who has left the forum for a long duration, or is now longer a part of the community, and to honour his contributions may be awarded this.
Procedure
 -   A moderator may award this commendations to a member.
 -   A member may nominate a member. 3 additional nominations are then required.

CREATIVE AWARDS

Mercury Star
Awarded to those who have given their time to the community to script missions.
Procedure
 -   A member who has 10 missions released to the public earns this award.
 -   For every 10 missions released, they earn this medal once again

Steel Cross
Awarded to those who have been deemed an excellent mission scriptwriter.
Procedure
 -   A Moderator may award this to a member.
 -   A member may nominate a member. 3 additional nominations are then required.

Brass Cross
Awarded to those who have gone above the call of the status quo by adding to the community in the way of models in the way of kitbashes.
Procedure
 -   A member who has 30 kitbashes released to the public earns this award.
 -   For every 30 kitbashes released, they earn this medal once again.

Challenger Award
Awarded to those who are capable and willing to teach others the skills to become effective modelers, texture-makers, and modders.
Procedure
 -   A member who has created and released 5 tutorials receives this award
 -   For every 5 tutorials released, they earn this medal once again.

Order of Chris Jones
Awarded to those who have created and released a public mod of any of the SFC games.
Procedure
 -   A member who has created and released 1 mod receives this award
 -   For every 3rd mod released here after, they earn this medal once again.
 -   (so a person would get it at 1, 3, 6, 9, etc.)

Copper Cross
Awarded to those who have gone above the call of the status quo by adding to the community in the way of models in the way of conversions.
Procedure
 -   A member who has 30 conversions released to the public earns this award.
 -   For every 30 conversions released, they earn this medal once again.

Platinum Cross
Awarded to those who have gone above the call of the status quo by adding to the community in the ways of original models. This does NOT include kitbashes and conversions, but does include original models of official, original, or ships designed by others..
Procedure
 -   A member who has 20 models released to the public before they earn this award.
 -   For every 20 models released, they earn this medal once again.

Gold Cross
For releasing a kitbash of high quality, a member may receive this.
Procedure
 -   This award should be awarded for pieces of work.
 -   A moderator may award this commendation to a member
 -   A member may nominate a member. 3 additional nominations are then required.

Titanium Cross
For releasing a model of exceptional quality, a member may receive this. Use sparingly.
Procedure
 -   This award should be awarded for pieces of work.
 -   A moderator may award this commendation to a member.
 -   A member may nominate a member. 4 additional nominations are then required.

Silver Cross
For releasing a model of high quality (yet does not warrant a Titanium Cross), a member may receive this.
Procedure
 -   This award should be awarded for pieces of work.
 -   A moderator may award this commendation to a member.
 -   A member may nominate a member. 3 additional nominations are then required.

Thompson Crescent
For showing extreme creative or artistic talent in regard to drawings or renders, a member may be awarded this.
Procedure
 -   This award should be awarded for pieces of work.
 -   A moderator may award this commendation to a member
 -   A member may nominate a member. 3 additional nominations are then required.

Asimov award of Literature
A member may be awarded this for a fan-fiction released on Dynaverse.net is above average quality.
Procedure
 -   This award should be awarded for pieces of work.
 -   A moderator may award this commendations to a member
 -   A member may nominate a member. 2 additional nominations are then required.

DYNAVERSE AWARDS

Azure Victory Award
Given to those who have proven themselves time and time again in combat.
Procedure
 -   Those who have 20 pvp kills on a server may take this award
 -   This award is given per 20 pvp kills.

Order of Mother Theresa
Given to those who have served as an administrator for major server.
Procedure
 -   Any member who has administrated for a major server may take this award.

Order of Clemency
Given to those who have served as an administrator for a minor server.
Procedure
 -   Any member who has administrated for a minor server may take this award.

[Dizzy]

those are cool Ribbons. I'll take one of each please.

[Furyofaseraph]

Heh, you have to earn 'em, just as everyone else.

The only one you can award yourself are the ones related to Karma.

EDIT

if anyone else has any ideas for awards, let me know

Could a moderator pin this up?

[Furyofaseraph]

Thank you mods.

[Rogue]

What... no Harry Mudd award for being annoying and critical without just cause? A forum sore?

Just kidding.

[S33K100]

A fantabulously marvelous idea Fury, if only for the fact that now people will be extra nice or productive in the hopes of getting a nice shiny ribbon in their sig, in the end we all want a badge announcing to the world how great we are, though I can see some people getting stupidly over-crowded sigs.

[S33K100]

Yeah you could name it for that chick in TNG, the one who designed the Galaxy class, Geordi fell in love with her hologram. Brahms I think her name was.

[manitoba1073]

also dont forget the misc race commendations also.   

[Furyofaseraph]

I ran out of colors, lol.

[Mackie]

what do i get?   

[S33K100]

I think kitbasher and texturer are dead certs fr u Mackie

[Mackie]

well I suppose i deserve Blue nebula and Shelley awards O_o

blue nebula
-hosted 1gb worth of stuff (half of my server space) , atheorhaven, i_mudd, theducttapewonder, darkdrones conversions... I pay the server out from my own pocket and im a low waged lumberjack

shelley
-go figure 

[Furyofaseraph]

Well, indeed you do deserve them.

[Fallen_Warrior]

Damn good idea for the first nominations from me i wish to nominate Mackie, Manitoba, Fury of a Seraph for the Sisko, Blue Nebula and the Shelley awards
DarkDrone, Azel and Sandman for the Darwin award and i will have to think about the rest

[Furyofaseraph]

Not to sound rude, but can you specify deeds to merit them?

[Fallen_Warrior]

Okie
Mackie, Manitoba, Fury of a Seraph  for the Sisko (contributes a pretty healthy amount to the community)

Mackie, Manitoba and Nightsoft for Blue nebula (above the line of duty and hosted a large amount of other people's works) (manitoba originaly owned the site that i now own and hosted my work)

Fury, Mackie, Manitoba for the Shelly (perform exceptionally in the ways of Kitbashing models)

DarkDrone, Azel and Sandman for the Darwin (created a race or era to the point of it being accepted as practically canon or near canon) For their work on the Pre TOS era work

ModelsPlease and Klingon Fanatic for the Thompson Ribbon (who texture ships and stations to an exceptional degree)

[Sandman3D]

Thanx F_W and FoaS!!

[Mackie]

thanks im somewhat more sober now... ill try to reach 50-55 ships next week

[Julin Eurthyr]

On the racial awards, are the RMs and A/RMs free to grab them?  If so, how long are they authorized to "wear" it, as long as they're active, or is it a permanent thing?

Oh, I'd nominate Brezgonne for the Tholian award, due to the sheer number of models he's made for them.  If it's possible, he needs clusters to represent his Tholian representation since the days of SFC 1...

[Furyofaseraph]

Oh come on, it should be a perminent thing.

As far as clusters, well i havent gotten around to that - its a lot of ribbons to make.

[Villa64 NCC-64D]

Here's an idea for an addition

Campaign ribbons for participating in individual dyna campaign.

Might be one for say...KCW would be next.

Just a thought.

Villa

[Furyofaseraph]

I do not really follow Dynaverse events, but if i can be briefed id be more than willing to make some.

I think i am going to have to reduce them in size, say to half of what they are, or for some people, they are gonna take up a whole page.

[Darth Chandley]

Nice idea.... Good for people to get recognition where warranted.... 

Has Rick Knox got anything yet........ And dont forget Breg's single handed "Tholianism".........

[Brezgonne]

Am I the only one who feels old having had a pre-release account on the SFC1 Interplay boards?

[Julin Eurthyr]

Hey, I ain't that much younger than you here...

[Darth Chandley]

It looks like I'm older than the pair of you......... I had a sobering thought the other day regarding age... I just got the Star Wars DVD set and realised that I'm older now than my MOTHER was when I first saw it....... 

[Julin Eurthyr]

Fury:

As a representative (though not the only representative) from the D2 side of things:

1.  Am I supposed to tell the D2 RMs and A/RMs to go ahead and grab their appropriate racial ribbons?
2.  I'd be careful about drawing up ribbons for campaign participation, unless we get a system like Battleclinic has over here.  If campaign ribbons were handed out to cover as many campaigns as possible, including past campaigns participated in, many people would have 20-40+ ribbons just in campaign awards.

And on the clusters thing, your citations are worded generically enough that it becomes very difficult, if not impossible, to earn a second ribbon of the same class.  How many times can you go above and beyond the call of duty in a class you've already gone above and beyond in?  The only reason I called for Clusters in Brezgonne's case is because he's been doing the Tholian thing on SFC boards longer than SFC's been in existance.  For a race that hasn't been officially included in any SFC game yet.

I do realize that you can get doubled up from racial awards (RM for a race then a second citation for having gone above and beyond for that race).  In a worst case scenerio, you can just design a cluster device or 2, and the recipients are responsible to paste the cluster(s) into place on their own ribbons.

[Julin Eurthyr]

It looks like I'm older than the pair of you......... I had a sobering thought the other day regarding age... I just got the Star Wars DVD set and realised that I'm older now than my MOTHER was when I first saw it....... 

Brez isn't talking sheer Physical age, cause there's a lot of people here physically older than us, and I think there's even one or 2 that can hit mine and Brez's combined age.

We're talking age as in how long we've been following SFC.  Brez has been around since the SFC 1 boards first opened, and I think I've been around since the spring after the game got released...

With a copyright date of 1999, that means many of the people following SFC since the beginning have been here close to (if not longer than) 5 years now... 

[Furyofaseraph]

lets see, i joined the forum about 3 months after SFC1 came out, i think.

[FPF-SCM_TraceyG_XC]

Some Dynaverse awards would definitely be welcome. I suggest the following categories:

- Dynaverse server admin award, in recognition of significant contributions in either running or designing a dynaverse campaign (usually done by a team these days)

- Forum administrator award, in recognition of running forums and/or managing fleet commu