Proposal: Service Groups

Add the following rules to the Ruleset:

Service Groups:

There are different service groups on the Caine. Service Groups are virtually isomorphic insofar as they all exist to ensure that all ship duties are adequately performed. In the Ruleset the term Group can be substituted for Service Group. Create a field in the GNDT labeled 'Service Group'.

There are two different types of Service Groups, Standard and Omega.

Each Service Group may have up to four Crewmembers in it. A Service Group may never have more than four members.

If a Service Group has 0 members it is Defunct and removed from the Service Group field from the GNDT, unless that Group is the Omega Group, which can be Defunct but is not to be removed from the GNDT in this case.

To determine the number of Service Groups, divide the total number of Crewmembers by four. The quotient in the division is the number of Standard Groups, and the remainder on division is the size of the Omega group, a special taskforce.

On Day 4 the Caine has 17 Crewmembers. There are 4 Standard Service Groups and the Omega Group has 1 member.

On Day 9 the Caine has 10 Crewmembers. There are 2 Standard Service Groups and the Omega Group has 2 members.

On Day 11 the Caine has 15 Crewmembers. There are 3 Stanard Service Groups and the Omega Group has 3 members.

On Day 15 the Caine has 28 Crewmembers. There are 7 Standard Service Groups and the Omega Group has 0 members, and so is defunct, but is not removed as an option in this case.

Service Groups take the name of the Greek letters of the alphabet. Any administrator must add Service Groups to the GNDT if there are more players than can be assigned to Groups, and must remove a Standard Group from the GNDT if it is Defunct (except the Omega Group, which remains in the field even if the number of Crewmembers is divisible by four). The Omega Group is to be added as an option to the GNDT automatically.

No Standard Group may be named Omega.

A Crewmember who does not have a Service Group may join one by changing the Group membership field in the GNDT.

Changing Groups:

Any Crewmember in the Omega Group may join a Standard Group, provided that the Standard Group in question has less than four members. A Crewmember in a Standard Group cannot join the Omega Group, but can instead switch Standard Groups with another Crewmember if that Crewmember consents. In the case of such a transfer, an entry must be added to the main page indicating the change, and the other Crewmember must note consent in writing as a comment on that entry. The change of Groups will then be noted in the GNDT.

A Crewmember may only transfer from one Service Group to another once per day.

Append the following line the Definitions:

The term Group can be substituted for Service Group.

Failed: self-kill.
Failed by Kevan, 7th of April at 11:16.