[Razman23]

I dont really care what rank I am but I do some hiring/firing of crew just to make it intersting.

I use SHIII Commander and GW on my version.

Here is the list of the experience points each crewman are allowed as maximum points. They can get more points by playing them but these are the cutoff numbers before a seaman promotes to a Warrant Officer and such. However this doesnt happen as SHII Commander and SHII doesnt allow you to promote a crew man to another class level.

Officers - 500
Warrant Officers - 300
Regular seaman - 100

So here is what I do before I launch SHIII.

I open up Commander and go to the crew management dialog box under the 'Actions' link. I go through all my crew members and see who needs to be promoted. I use the 'experience' numbers to tell me who to promote. If seaman 'so and so' has 43/20 experience, I promote him one grade. I then crank up SHIII and go straight to the crews listing. I look for any crew memeber who has more points than what is listed above and dismiss him. I then enlist a new crew member with 0 renown. This goes for ALL crew members. This way, I have a rotating crew with differnt experience levels like I believe what would happen in RL.

This is just another way I micromanage my sub using SHIII, GW, and SHIII Commander.