When crewmembers take LOAs, it is their duty to inform their CO or XO and to declare their LOA using the "Declare an LOA" function of the WeBB. Players doing this will update their status on the rosters (the new column you now see). Some COs also append it to the players character name or one of the other editable fields so that the rest of the crew without a view of the Status column can see that a person is on LOA. The status column will also give you an indication of how active a person is. You can tell if a person is AWOL as you can see the number of days since their last post on the ship. This number is rounded down, (e.g. If a person has not posted for 1 day, 23 hours, 59 minutes, the number shown will be a 1).
The status column, is the one that is to the right of everyone's real name. Now, in a perfect world these should all read 0. As mentioned above, these numbers are the number of whole days since the crewmember last posted. When the number gets into the double digits (somewhere around 14 days) this number changes to show the number of days since the players last login. If you click on this number, you will see some summary information about the players login, and a list of all the players ships. The number shown next to these ships is the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds since they last posted on them. This number does not change to the login number like the previous one does. This can be useful if you're wondering if it's just your ship the person has stopped posting on, or whether they have slowed down in general.
When a player uses the "Declare an LOA" button at the bottom of the main Page after logging in, then LOA will be seen in the status column for that player. If you then click the status to go to the breakdown page, it will give you the reason they put in for the LOA, and the time left until they due to return.
If a character is past the AWOL limit set for the fleet, then as CO or the person assigned to carry out the admin of the roster, you can modify that persons character rank to AWOL using the Modify Character button of the Admin Menu (usage of this button can be found in Lesson 105. Just as an aside, it's nice to e-mail them and follow it up before you just AWOL or delete characters from the roster.
We have now gone through the basic use of the "Administrative" menu. Just the Conclusion to go and you've finished this course.
