The South Pacific Special Forces (SPSF) are the armed forces of the Coalition of the South Pacific.
Mission
The SPSF strives to defend our region, to serve our interests abroad, and to protect innocent regions from attack. We take to the battlefield to combat invader forces and prevent them from illegitimately seizing regions by force.
If you’re interested in joining us in this mission, we encourage you to apply today. We’re always eager to welcome new recruits!
Leadership
The SPSF is led by the Minister of Defense and other members of the Admiralty.
Minister of Defense: @banexet
Admirals: @ConcreteSlab
Wardroom
Admirals: @ConcreteSlab
Captains: @flowerpetal, @HumanSanity
Lieutenants: @Banexet, @Vrigny
Joining the Special Forces
Military Code
The Military Code establishes the rules and regulations of the SPSF. Per Article 3(3), no new members will be accepted who are currently a member of another military and members will not be permitted to be members of both the SPSF and another military, unless they were a member of that military prior to November 1 2022.
Tidal Force Information
The Tidal Force forms the auxiliary branch of the Special Forces.
Tidal Force Coordinator: @Klysevia (Eshialand)
Data Portal
The Data Portal lists the operations conducted by the Special Forces each day and provides a range of summary statistics.
Rank Requirements
The rank requirements detail the requirements established by the Admiralty to achieve each rank of the Special Forces.
Cadet
Objective criteria:
- Applied for and been accepted into the military
Subjective criteria:
- None.
Ensign
Objective criteria:
- Demonstrate basic understanding of update mechanics
- Understand that regions update in a set order
- Identify when a nation or region has updated during update
- Prepare multiple nations for use during a single update
- Demonstrate basic familiarity with in-update skills
- Switch World Assembly membership from one nation to another within 15 seconds during an update
- Move a nation based on a trigger (within 3 seconds)
- Move a nation and endorse another nation based on a trigger (within 8 seconds)
- Identify nations admitting to the World Assembly in a given region
- Manage adding nations to and removing nations from the dossier
- Follow a nation into a region (within 3s)
- Follow a nation into a region and endorse the existing Delegate there (within 8 seconds)
- Familiarity with regional controls
- Detagging a region
- Participate in 5 updates within the past 3 months
Subjective criteria:
- Demonstrate understanding of responsibilities and privileges of SPSF membership
- Demonstrate ability to follow arbitrary orders phrased in battlefield-typical terms
Lieutenant
Objective criteria:
- Demonstrate basic familiarity with triggering:
- Consistently set defender-controlled trigger nations within 30% of the intended time
- Consistently call trigger nations within 3 seconds of actual update time
- Demonstrate basic understanding of influence mechanics:
- Understand how influence is gained or lost in regions with a Governor
- Calculate the influence costs of banjections, ejections, bans, regional passwords, and frontier transitions
- Use the activity feed to identify stealth raids, sleeper movements, and other irregular happenings
- Participate in 20 updates within the past 6 months
Subjective criteria:
- Demonstrate an understanding of current update time
- Demonstrate the ability to lead smaller operations using battlefield-typical terms
- Demonstrate the ability for clear and level-headed communicate with other military officers regarding operational cooperation
Captain
Objective criteria:
- Demonstrate greater familiarity with triggering:
- Consistently set defender-controlled trigger nations within 20% of the intended time
- Consistently set a trigger off another nation within 30% of the intended time
- Consistently call trigger nations within 2 seconds of actual update time
- Understand the mechanics of update bending
- Demonstrate greater understanding of influence mechanics:
- Understand how influence is gained or lost in all regions
- Collect and analyze influence data from a region to model projected influence changes over time
- Demonstrate the ability to ban and eject nations moving into a region during update (within 3 seconds per nation)
- Be familiar with liberation strategies (sieges, attrition runs, fake puppetmaster)
- Be familiar with region occupation and griefing strategies (flash password, refounds, fortify)
- Be familiar with stealth strategies (instant jump points, false flags, sleepers)
- Participate in 40 updates within the past 12 months
Subjective criteria:
- Demonstrate the ability to craft a battle plan for any arbitrary set of planned operations in one update
- Demonstrate the ability to quickly adapt to fast-changing circumstances in the heat of battle
- Demonstrate knowledge of various strategies, and an ability to draw upon that knowledge to craft a plan for a large scale operation
- Demonstrate the ability for clearly and level-headed cooperation with affected native residents for incoming and ongoing raids