Updates to Awards

[Da`nal]

As I volunteered to assist with awards, and as a fresh new look was requested for the current awards, I went through all the fleet’s award ribbons and updated them. The ribbons below are either a simple refresh to the existing ribbon, a rebooting of the ribbon to give it that ‘new look’, and even a few new awards for consideration.


LEVEL 1:

– Advancement Ribbon
– Air Medal
– Bronze Star
– Captain's Honor Award
– Character Development Ribbon
– Civilian Contribution Award
– Commissioning Ribbon
– Crew’s Choice Award
– Cupid Award
– Distinguished Newcomer Award
– Distinguished Volunteer
– Doyle Mystery Award
– Duane Writing Award (tweaked 12/2015)
– Friendship Ribbon
– Funny Bone Award
– Good Conduct Ribbon
– Improvement Award
– Longevity Award: 6 Months
– Longevity Award: 1 Year
– Longevity Award: 2 Years
– Longevity Award: 3 Years
– Longevity Award: 4 Years
– Longevity Award: 5 Years
– Longevity Award: 6 Years
– Longevity Award: 7 Years
– Longevity Award: 8 Years
– Longevity Award: 9 Years
– Longevity Award: 10 Years
– Longevity Award: 11 Years
– Longevity Award: 12 Years
– Marksmanship Award
– Mission Development Ribbon
– NPC Award
– Sim Player of the Month
– Purple Heart
– Recruitment Ribbon
– Rivalry Ribbon
– Teamwork Award
– Tour of Duty: Borg (New)
– Tour of Duty: Breen
– Tour of Duty: Cardassian
– Tour of Duty: Deep Space
– Tour of Duty: Dominion
– Tour of Duty: Federation
– Tour of Duty: Ferengi
– Tour of Duty: Fluidic Space (New)
– Tour of Duty: Gorn
– Tour of Duty: Klingon
– Tour of Duty: Kzinti (New)
– Tour of Duty: Mirror Universe (tweaked 12/2015)
– Tour of Duty: Romulan
– Tour of Duty: Tholian
– Tour of Duty: Time (New) (tweaked 12/2015)
– Treknobabble Citation (tweaked 12/2015)
– Unsung Hero Award
– Warrior’s Soul Award

LEVEL 2:

– Academy Ribbon (tweaked 12/2015)
– Academy Ribbon with Honors (tweaked 12/2015)
– Carl Roger Citation for Compassion
– Chancellor Gorkon Peace Award
–Command Academy
– Command Academy with Honors
– Cross of Valor
– Dedication Cross
– Departmental Distinction Award: Command
– Departmental Distinction Award:Marine
– Departmental Distinction Award: Science
– Departmental Distinction Award: Service
– Departmental Distinction Award: Support
– Desert Fox Order of Tactics
– Engineering Developmental Award
– Enigma Ribbon of Excellence
– First Contact
– Flying Cross
– Horatio Nelson Citation
– Humanitarian Award
– Humbolt Award
– Instructor’s Ribbon
– Joint Service Ribbon
– Matt Jefferies Volunteer Award (tweaked 12/2015)
– Medal of Honor
– Medical Discovery Award (tweaked 12/2015)
– Nemesis Award
– Original Thinking Award
– Pour le Merite
– POW Ribbon
– Scientific Discovery
– Skald Award

LEVEL 3:

– Admiral's Choice Award
– Unit of Distinction: Bronze
– Unit of Distinction: Silver
– Unit of Distinction: Gold
– Post of the Month (new)
– Writer of the Month (new)
– CO of the Quarter
– Picard CO of the Year
– Spock XO of the Year (tweaked 12/2015)
– Fleet Player of the Month
– Fleet Player of the Year
– Sim of the Year
– UFP Presidential Unit Citation (New)
– Web Award banner (tweaked 12/2015)
– Web Award Main (tweaked 12/2015)

[caeda]

These look very nice

Couple issues I am personally seeing:

- For the Duane one I'd either consider shortening the ink trail from the quill or extending the white area around it a bit. I think I see that the ink is supposed to bleed off into the green but it is extremely hard to see with the texture of the background so it is more tending to look like it was just a photoshop image of a quill on a white background kind of haphazardly plunked into the middle - which I know definitely isn't the case.

- Academy/Academy Honors looks a bit busy with the emblem in the middle as well as all the departmental colors. I'd either suggest taking out the emblem all together (the departments can stand together to convey the point) or, if you want the emblem, consider shrinking down the department stripes and putting the emblem on a field of one color with the department stripes on either side of it

- The Medical Discovery Award's caduceus is a bit hard to distinguish from the background. Consider darkening the background and lightening the caduceus to provide more contrast. (or vice versa)

- On the Treknobabble Citation, I almost feel the emblem you used is a little too... shiny? when compared to everything else. Maybe explore some other options with it if you aren't completely married to the idea.

- Tour of Duty: Time (New) I'd suggest shrinking down the clock just a tad so it is more in line with the other circular form emblems on the other one (such as the Ferengi or Tholian awards)

- For the Matt Jefferies Volunteer Award I personally prefer the first option, but I'd like to actually see what it would look like with the horizontal black stripe on it like in the second option.

- With the Web awards I prefer the first two options for both instead of the ones with text on them, though perhaps a more simplified web image with text might also work better.

Your Tour of Duty awards are absolutely wonderful. Great job on those! They make me want to trot my characters off to all these places just so I can collect one of each for my profile The Command Academy one is superb too in its simplicity.

Lovely work!