How do you assign a retainer a JOB?

What I mean is to give them a job, like machinist. I haven't seen the option that allows it

Can't yet.
They said they were going to add that capability later, though...don't remember how much later.

Wait for patch 3.2

Hail Urthdigger. While browsing I came across your reply which lead me to the player badges within the avatars. Would you be so kind as to inform me of their meaning & significance. :)

Well I'm not Urthdigger, but I can answer your question.
It's simply based off the number of posts that you've made.

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Originally Posted by Cassiopio

Hail Urthdigger. While browsing I came across your reply which lead me to the player badges within the avatars. Would you be so kind as to inform me of their meaning & significance. :)

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Don't pledge your allegiance yet; this is not (yet) confirmed for 3.2.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Well I'm not Urthdigger, but I can answer your question.
It's simply based off the number of posts that you've made.

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I see. What's the significance of the yellow & white badges & red & blue ribbons?

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Originally Posted by Canadane

It's simply based off the number of posts that you've made.

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I thought the number of "likes" we've given and received also figured into it somehow. (I'm not really sure, though.)

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Originally Posted by Cassiopio

I see. What's the significance of the yellow & white badges & red & blue ribbons?

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Judging by the names of the images, it seems that a gold medal / red ribbon is worth five of the silver medals / blue ribbons, though I'm not too sure just how much posting activity each "post rank" refers to.

Did some digging on the forums and found this: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...55#post2469555

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Originally Posted by Errors

Here are all the images for the post ranks:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank1.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank1.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank2.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank2.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank3.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank3.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank4.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank4.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank5.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank5.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank6.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank6.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank7.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank7.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank8.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank8.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank9.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i.../postrank9.gif
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...postrank10.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...postrank10.gif

And this is a special one where they combine post rank images to add on to the chain:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/images/misc/kin.gif http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/images/misc/kin.gif

Edit: compiled a quick spreadsheet by checking random threads, and recording all the posts counts and their ranking images. This is what I've come up with so far (it's not definite but gets the basic range):

postrank1gi.f = 1-9 posts
postrank2.gif = 10-19 posts
postrank3.gif = 20-29 posts
postrank4.gif = 30-49 posts
postrank5.gif = 50-99 posts
postrank6.gif = 100-249 posts
postrank7.gif = 250-499 posts
postrank8.gif = 500-999 posts
postrank9.gif = 1000-1999 posts
postrank10.gif = 2000+ posts

As for the kin.gifs not sure, the max it appears you can have of them is 4.
So 4 kin + postrank10 (2 gold medals) = 6 gold medals

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Wow worldofneil ! Talk about a question answered. Great job! I'm archiving it for my personal records. Btw, this forum is as great as the game! :D