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General How do Ranks work?

"Chiefs serve as officers-in-charge of Coast Guard Stations and recruiting offices, command or serve as engineering petty officers on smaller cutters, and act as department heads on larger cutters."
 
Trying to figure out the best way to handle what each Rank means. This is what I've come up with.

0 - Basic Understanding
1 - Amateur
2 - Professional
3 - Doctorate
4 - Specialist
5 - "OMG!! You're so awesome!" level.

I'm really surprised this isn't covered in the books. Unless I've missed it somewhere.

Does this look right to you? How would you change it?
For CT/MT, it's explicit that level 1 is employable and 3 is doctorate, so your framework's wrong...
0 starting to amateur
1 Employable, probably union passed apprentice (see crew requirements in Bk2/RM)
2
3 doctorate (see Medical skill in Bk1/PM and crew requirements in Bk2/RM)
4

Note that level 1 is almost certainly a QWS -- Qualified Watch Stander -- in their department. And, based upon the rules and their setting implications, a pilot-1 is allowed to operate a ship massing hundreds of tonnes, in spacelanes, in commercial service. And might even be the captain, as well.
 
There is a considerable difference between a doctorate and a medical degree...

A medical doctor (medic 3) has a medical degree, a doctorate is someone with a PhD or its equivalent.

To qualify as a medical doctor I require medic 3 and Edu 9.

0 - trainee, apprentice, needs supervision and training but knows the basics
1 - knows the basics+, no longer needs supervision, can qualify for job
2 - expert, can supervise others
3 - specialist in a field, can supervise and instruct
4 - paragon, the best you can get.
 
There is a considerable difference between a doctorate and a medical degree...

A medical doctor (medic 3) has a medical degree, a doctorate is someone with a PhD or its equivalent.

To qualify as a medical doctor I require medic 3 and Edu 9.

0 - trainee, apprentice, needs supervision and training but knows the basics
1 - knows the basics+, no longer needs supervision, can qualify for job
2 - expert, can supervise others
3 - specialist in a field, can supervise and instruct
4 - paragon, the best you can get.
CT S4 has DaVinci as Mechanical-6, so there is paragon and then there is legend.

The really rarest of the rare is someone with Skill-3 to 6 and an Instruction skill to match. Sensei is the lord of the realm for players who crave the power of skills.

IMTU the Sensei of a skill domain never trains for mere money. It’s always perform a favor/quest/personal/prove worthiness ‘cost’.
 
There is a considerable difference between a doctorate and a medical degree...
Perhaps in the UK.... But not in the US.
It's exactly the same academic level and,academic uniform in the US - An MD is a doctoral degree. As is a DDS (Doctor of Dental Science), DO (Doctor of Osteopathy - in most states in the US eligible to license for general medicing). Even the DC (Doctor of Chiropractic) is a doctoral degree.

Several non-medical fields in the US offer direct Bachelor to Doctoral Degree, skippong the Master's as a separate degree. Law is the most common. A few music programs. a few education degrees in School Administration...
 
Perhaps, but I don't think I'd let him near my Jeep. I'll take a trained Mechanical-2.
Da Vinci can fix your jeep; though first, he deconstructs it.

Then tries to continuously improve it.

I'd let him near your jeep - I'd love to see what he would do with it as he took it apart to figure out how it worked, and then see what crazy fix he would come up with to make it work again . . . :)

(Notice the emphasis on the word "your" as opposed to "my" in the above statement. ;) )
 
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