The following is the Points awarded for various activities, and the points needed for each promotion. Please remember rank is entirely fictional, and is presented as a way to recognize members for their level of commitment and participation.

Minimum 6 months time in grade, expect a year.

Points are accrued and ‘spent’ at each rank, removing the total needed to promote.

Accruing Promotion Points:

• Online (meeting) Chats – 2 per meeting (cap 6 per month, need not be all Chapter level) 
• In-person casual meet ups – 1 per meet up, (cap 2 per month)
• Active and constructive discussion in business poll or topic – 2-4 per topic
• Play in approved Battle Born role play games – 1 point per 2 hours game play
  • Plan/Game Master/lead approved game sessions – 10 points per 4 hours game play
• Attending convention (give some brief info/report about it) – 5
  • Participate/volunteer in convention – 10
• Attend SFI/SFMC event – 5
  • Participate/volunteer in SFI/SFMC event – 10
• Attend other Approved Away Mission – 5
  • Plan/participate/volunteer for Away Mission – 10
• Recruit member – 3 – 5 
  • 5 will be awarded for a new/renewed primary membership to SFI. 
  • Subsequent members on a family membership will be 3 points (maxing out at 5 members and 17 points).
  • Likewise, adding to an existing family membership will be 3 points.
• Academy courses – 2-5 (cap 20 points per calendar year [Jan -Dec])
  • OTS, OCC, flag officer courses, and any top level course (-300, etc.) – 5 points
  • All other fictional courses – 2 points
  • All other development (real world SFA, NCO, Officer dev, etc.) courses – 3 points
• Written article for Battle Born Blog/Fleet Channels/Cry Havoc/CQ 
  • 5 points per article written for Battle Born Blog
  • Additional 2 points if the article is used by Fleet Channels or Cry Havoc!
  • Additional 3 points if the article is used by the CQ/other international publication
    • 5 Points per article written directly for a specific article (staff articles do not count)
• Volunteer Hours/Community Service (cap 60 points per calendar year):
  • 1 point for every 2 hours if not obviously participating as a member of SFI
  • 1 point for every hour if obviously participating as a member of SFI
• Staff work (all staff should have OTS done at a minimum)
  • Battle Born staff – Staff do not qualify for points based on meeting attendance or discussions – that is expected. Instead they get 5 points per month for duties assigned. 
  • External staff/positions – 5 points per month (assuming meetings and product output). 
• Command Staff will assign other points as appropriate for various accomplishments.

Points needed (and spent) per rank:

Enlisted	Warrant Officer	Officer
CRR/PVT – — CRA/PFC – 25 CRM/LCPL – 30 PO3/CPL – 40 PO2/SGT – 50 PO1/SSGT – 55 CPO/GSGT – 60 SCPO/MSGT – 70 MCPO/SGM – 80	WO – * 55 CWO2 – 60 CWO3 – 65 CWO4 – 70 CWO5 – 80	ENS/2Lt – — LT(JG)/1LT – 35 LT/MCPT- 50 (need OTS) LTCMDR/MAJ – 60 CMDR/LTC – 70 (need OCC)

*Warrant is in lieu of SSGT, changing tracks from Enlisted

OTS HIGHLY recommended for all members – it’s just an intro into SFI and how the organization works. Good info for all.