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I am looking for someone that can bridge certains gaps for us as we migrate to Civi.

First off, a quick one to get to know each other:

Our "Membership Types" needs a custom field: "Number of Representatives". This would be an integer, and would be fixed for each membership type.

For example: Silver  Membership - 2 Representatives
                     Gold Membership - 4 Representatives
                      X Membership - X Representatives.

We will be tying this info to event registration logic later, but  I figure we might as well get friendly with our neighborhood CiviCRM developers before crunch-time

I currently have 8 or so membership types, each with their own custom data group, and single, solitary custom field "Representatives".  After getting comfortable with the API I started exploring Civi's tables and realized that this way (a custom group per type), is a pretty "messy" way to start things off.

I do absolutely defer to your greater experience though.

I am going to have to depend on this field information to tag members as representatives and to define prices when these members register for an event... Is there anyone around that might know how to handle these requirements?

Our members are organizations.
There are different levels of membership.
The higher the membership level, the more "representatives" you get.
Employees of the organization are allowed to register for our events, free, up to the number of representatives in their membership class.

If I am an employee of a "gold member", I can register up to 4 people free of charge, and past that, regular fees come into play.

The "number of reps" field is static for each membership type, so nobody would be filling it in.