Thanks Senti for the suggestions (and sorry it's taken me a little while to get back to you).<br/><br/>I think that's a really good idea (that the crew could learn new skills during their downtime). How about this.. each player gets 3 points to award for others' posts of their choice during each 'mission'. The current mission will end when the ship arrives back on Mariner's gate. For every 3 points that each player receives/is awarded (from the other players), they get to add one skill to their sheet in the 'I'm really skilled at this' section.<br/><br/>So at any time during the course of the game, you could say 'that was awesome' and award a point to another player. I'll create a post in the game info thread - keeping track of who has how many points, and how many each player has been awarded. When you have received 3, you can add the new skill 'between missions' which may or may not actually be a downtime. Even after a player has given out their 3 points to award, there's nothing to stop you complimenting each other on your posts and telling each other how good they are. Because they are.<br/><br/>I'm giving out contacts anyway, at least where they're directly related to the story, but if you wanted to create a particular kind of contact that doesn't figure directly into the story then you could definitely do that with 3 points instead.<br/><br/>Thanks Senti. So what do you all think?<br/>