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Discussion Topic: Smaller Ships vs. Larger Ships

Posted Feb. 18, 2020, 7:12 p.m. by Vice Admiral Daniel Lerner (Personnel Director) (Daniel Lerner)

Discussion Topic: Smaller Ships vs. Larger Ships

As you can see from the tie-breakers, small ships will generally have more likelihood in receiving a new member over a larger ship. (As an aside, a recent criticism I’ve received is that the PDept favours larger ships over smaller ships, but I really don’t see how the procedures allow for that.)

There’s certainly some pros vs. cons about this.

The criticisms that have come up are:

(1) Often larger ships are the healthier ships. While I’m not convinced this is the general case, there’s certainly something to be said that some smaller ships are small because they have more retention problems then other ships. I can say that there are some small ships we give new members to over and over again, with lots of turnover.

(2) Larger ships expose the new member to more posts, more members, and more RPG-ing.

So is there a right answer to this question? I don’t think we should remove the full department rule. But the first tie-breaker is fewest JOs in the department, and the third tie-breaker is fewest crew members all together. Is that the right balance?

Again, I would like to hear what others think before we think about changing this.

Daniel Lerner
Personnel Director


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