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Thanks for your post, Erik, I have started a conversation in staff area regarding our current awards scheme. It works well as is, but maybe a face lift is needed after 6 years of it running. Throwing merch at everything isn't the answer, we don't run a merch shop as JRS do or at least did, that was also open to dishonesty and people lost their 501st membership over it for profiteering. As Glen mentioned above, our system works well and has daily interaction. Let's not forget we don't troop for merch, that isn't the basis of the 501st, it's a nice to have and yes a perk of membership. On another note regarding size of Det based on approved members and costumes as per posts in the FB page, we don't have the luxury of a cheap entry level costume that can expand into 3 or 4 approvals. So arguments about another detachment being larger will always fall flat. If there were an Off duty Stormtrooper soft costume, maybe that landscape would look a little different, but we don't so it is what it is. Can you imagine this, lol <blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="HUlg17D"><a href="https://imgur.com/HUlg17D">View post on imgur.com</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> https://i.imgur.com/HUlg17D.jp

Hi Luis, Could you please add a photo of your helmet neck Trim, showing the inside section and shape ? Thank you. Almost there! Reference

It definitely helps encourage people to trip for certain groups. I'll admit that I dodn't *need* to troop for swag, but having even just a patch or rocker to commemorate m one's 50th or 100th troop in armor would be a nice incentive. Without trying to sound trite, JRS does more for less. Certainly it's true that a TIE costume can be used for for several other costumes, but they rewards members for doing those troops. It's sounds like ACD and Pathfinders might be considering similar tacks to encourage membership and trooping. I've known some members who will choose TI over TK so they can get closer to some wings It's certainly harder to put together TK armor, but my argument is that the division does less to recognize hard charging troopers who have to take more time to get into and out of costume every time they troop, can't (easily) sit down or take restroom breaks, etc. Getting recognition, for example, Expert Infantry and Centurion is nice with respect to attention to detail and screen accuracy, but personally (and perhaps to others) it's not as important as representing the Legion, doing troops, and being a Bad Guy Doing Good. Based on past FISD swag, somebody could put together a Centurion costume, get a gold rocker for their patch vest and then troop in it once. Beyond forum recognition, FISD has never produced swag to recognize troopers who have busted their posteriors in the field. If such swag was tied into to current forum recognition program, it could encourage more forum participation AND more trooping. Obviously, qualified troopers would be paying for their swag once the qualified, and runs could be established on a regular basis to reduce our eliminate out-of-pocket expenses for whoever is coordinating the run. Currently, recognition on the FISD forms only extends to the forums. Unless I print out a digital badge and attach it to a ribbon. Sincerest apologies if that sounded salty.

FISD has the Field Exercise Awards, the program added after years of nagging, (sorry former DL's, don't know how many times it was suggested). We have seen more interaction on the forum from members with many updating their troop logs, posting milestones as well as new troop logs posted every week. Ever wanted a way to show off your troops in white armor? Well here's your chance! We're rolling out a new award system to encourage and reward our members who take the time to post up their field training exercises and keep a troop log. As you attend events and post logs, you'll earn these shiny profile badges: Simply start (or update!) your troop log, keep the running total in the title, and post (at least!) a date and name for the official 501st event where you wore your TK! Troop log title examples: Actually just looking at your profile and I don't see a troop log from you? (although I may have missed it) You post a link to your troop log into this thread when you reach specific milestones, you are then issued an award. This is also added to the monthly newsletter The other thing that brings members back to the forum is merch, add a new merch item and see the requesting forum 501st/TK access post explode Adding a physical item for a milestone would mean someone has to front the cost and be out of pocket until they are all used, as well something would need to be worked out if there where staff changes, would someone have to be paid out?, there is also the setup fee and organise shipping.

Didn't know if there was a better forum to post this, but some troopers who saw my post on Facebook wanted to port the post here. Original post on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/www.whitearmor.net/posts/1658877511410535/ The train of thought started when I was talking to some garrison members post-trop and them talking about how JRS has certificates of recognition, and also physical items like silver and gold wings, for trooping milestones, i.e. the number of times they've trooped in a JRS costume(25 / 50/ 100 times, etc.). I'm wondering if implementing something like this would help with numbers. JRS has pushed FISD into 2nd place overall for most approved costumes, and although it's not a popularity contest, I've noticed at least in my area that it's been harder to get TKs together without concerted effort. FISD already has recognition for costume accuracy tiers, but having recognition for troops done would incentivize getting troopers ack into white armor. Arguably, suiting up in most (if not all) FISD costumes is harder than JRS costumes, but the only recognition we get is for costume accuracy, and maybe some forum swag, but that's about it. Some members thought we should continue the discussion here. Please feel free to leave your thoughts. If this topic has come up in the past, I apologize.

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Hi everyone! I’m Aaron, based in NYC. Last year, a friend introduced me to the Rebel Legion’s Echo Base, and I had the chance to join a few co-troops with the Empire City Garrison. It was a great experience and really lit the fire to get more involved. Ever since I was a kid, when I saw The Empire Strikes Back in theaters, the Snow Trooper has been my favorite. Right now, I’m in the planning stages for a few builds: Snow Trooper, a ISB Officer (Non Saga), and a generic Jedi for Saber Guild. Eventually I want to build a TK but that's likely going to be my fourth build. Excited to be here and to start learning from all of you as I take my first steps into a larger world!

Congratulations trooper and welcome to Expert Infantry and the EI Honor Gallery

I've always put this down to hard armour is not exactly comfortable. I've seen a lot of people build a TK troop an amount of time and now are only seen in an ID or a TI. The idea of something for the trooping awards is not a new idea, There was a staff discussion, I think last year, but it sort of fizzled out and we re-focused on more important tasks, The issue of stock is a big one, we are not in a position to be able to sit on any stock as some one will have to be out of pocket. The other option is to do low volume runs which isn't ideal either, Then there's things like "how many are you allowed", you don't really want an unlimited count on these. Also, believe it or not, FISD isn't a merch heavy detachment and never really has been. We probably have done a little more over the last year or so than in the past, but from what I understand we are not the highest volume producer. Either way, there is now a staff thread and we will consider it again.

@TKSpartan does this suffice? I kind of glued the ends a little to each other lol. I got trim from Trooperbay who has been recommended by many.

I tried signing up there at first, but got a database error. I've reached out to the admins, so hopefully it'll get fixed quickly. But since I'm going to be building my TK piece by piece I joined here as well. Thanks!

Thank you!

You may not receive a reply as that particular member has not been on this forum since 2016 Imperial Officers fall under ID. Each costume has a 2 letter prefix, when you are approved with a particular costume the ID prefix changes but you still keep your TKID: legion membership number, mine is 85421, Stormtrooper TK85421, Imperial Officer ID85421, Bikerscout TB85421 and so on. A list of costume prefixes here: https://databank.501st.com/databank/Costuming:CRLbyname And a list of detachments and their costumes https://databank.501st.com/databank/Costuming:CRLbydetachment

Welcome aboard Aaron, glad to have come across to the Dark side, we have cookies lol. You will find plenty of help here to make your TK dreams come true.

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Hello and welcome aboard, a great resource for everything TK related For everything Snowtrooper head here https://www.blizzardforce.com/forum/ Good luck with the research and hope to see a TK build from you soon