Awards

Fleet: Awarded to one member from the entire fleet.
Ship: Awarded to one member per vessel.
Individual: Awarded to all eligible members.

	Awards → History & Process; → List of Award Recipients; → Nomination Panel; → Awards Ceremonies; → Retired Awards;
	Badges → Badges Procedure; → Retired Badges; → Retired Forum Badges;
	Fleet Staff Ranks → Staff Officer Ranks; → Flag Officer Ranks;
	Service Ribbons

Awards are given in recognition of out-of-character (OOC) achievement. Awards are presented during the annual awards ceremony in June.

There are five categories of awards given at three different levels:

IC vs. OOC

The difference between awards, badges, and service ribbons:

awards and badges: Presented for OOC accomplishments by an individual simmer/writer. Awards and badges can be displayed on any and all characters' pages of that simmer/writer.
service ribbons: Presented for IC performed by a specific character. Service ribbons can only be displayed on that specific character's page.

To easily display awards on a bio or service rack, use Template:Ribbons or Template:Ribbons Rack.

To display all of your collected awards and service ribbons in a display case for your bio, use Template:Ribbons Display.