Create a Military-Style Rank Structure

[Revpolar]

Paygrade, Rank Name
E-1 Recruit
E-2 Private
E-3 Private First Class
E-4 Sergeant

It should be:
Paygrade, Rank Name
E-1 Recruit
E-2 Private
E-3 Private First Class
E-4 Specialist
E-5 Sergeant
E-6 Staff Sergeant
E-7 Sergeant First Class
E-8 Master Sergeant, or First Sergeant
E-9 Sergeant Major, or Command Sergeant Major.
And theres only one of these:
Sergeant Major of The Army

Officers are different. And you could apply those to your staff members.
O-1 Second Lt.
o-2 Fist Lt.
o-3 Captain
0-4 Major
O-5 Lt. Colonol
O-6 Colonal
O-7 General (There are several more. all different general ranks but Id just stop here for a rank hack)

Lets say you have visiting admin and mods from other sites. You could give those foriegn ranks.
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I did do this at one time with the regular old rank structure in VB. I also used an awards system with military awards.

[Nick King]

I posted the tutorial for a canadian and forgot when I converted those ranks back to US Army.

I reccomend Yet Another Awards System hack. Be sure to put a table around the ribbons at a certain width. It forces the ribbons to display a certain number per row. My ribbons are 33 px wide so I have a table width of about 105 px. Only three fit per row, then they are pushed to a new line. IE doesn't like to follow that restriction though. I guess IE never learned about <table width="105">

Here's my rank structure BTW. I customized Warrant Officers a bit. MPs can edit and delete posts only. They are regular users that just keep that watchful eye. WO's are my true moderators.

[nasser71]

can i make this work without the user group just using the post count

like if the user have 3500+ post he get a rank and if he have 4500+ he get another rank
just using plain post count not user group

[mholtum]

Seems like alot of work went into this. Did you realize that it is built into vb?

[Nick King]

The ranks are based on post count BUT I learned that all the coding is unneccessary

Make the usergroups as normal, and simply add a rank to each usergroup with a minimum post set to 0. I feel so stupid for not realizing that.

[Nick King]

UPDATE!!!!!

Read the first post again!

No, I don't like to read the wholre thread before jumping to conclusions.. Sorry. I forgot I already solved this problem. But yeah, that's for anyone if they want it.

[D2S05]

It would be nice to use this structure with the reputation tool, a user gains reputation and instead of gaining a little green square, he would gain a military rank image. That would be awesome.