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Newcomer / Intro Federal Navy missions
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They seem to be like red buses: none for ages, then loads at once! Had the same: was Knight in the Empire for ages then in the space of a day (evening), went to Lord, then Baron and now have my Clipper
Best thing is to keep doing the missions in the bulletin board, and they will soon show up.
Best thing is to keep doing the missions in the bulletin board, and they will soon show up.
Like the previous poster said. A bit more detail - Navy missions, both Federal and Empire, are triggered after you reach certain level of reputation with the major faction. Major faction reputation is a function of minor affiliated factions' reputations. Work for a bunch of minor Federal factions and those Navy missions will start popping up.
I did my first mission to get to recruit and then levelled up as far as midshipman by flying normal missions for fed factions. When I reached midshipman fed rank advancement missions appeared again. I did one and got an immediate promotion to petty officer.... So keep doing missions for fed friendly factions until another advancement mission appears and you'll rank up as you go
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I opened a ticket a while back about being "stuck" at Warrant Officer for a very long time. This is what FD support said:
| 03/04/2015 5:10 pm |
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| Hi John, Thanks for getting in contact with us about this. I can see on your account that your Federation points are at 14.9454. When you get higher than 12 you get to rank Warrant Officer. When you get higher than 17 you get to the next rank Ensign. Higher than 23.5 you get to Lieutenant, and so on. I remember that this can be rather frustrating when you cant pick up a rank progression mission. The issue with the unavailable mission due to a permit is something the Development team are aware of and I believe has been fixed in a recent update. I'd advise doing a combat zone or resource extraction site to get a bunch of combat vouchers or bounties for the Federation and this will give you the extra boost needed to get to the next rank. Let me know if you are still having issues with this and I'll check your skill points then and see what they're at. I hope this helps and have a happy Easter! Fly safe, Frontier Developments Elite: Dangerous Support Team |
Good info here. Thanks guys!
Do missions for federal factions at different federal stations to improve local rep. For best results, move around a number of systems.
Hey Guys,
just a tip moving around to different systems is not goign to solve it, if you want to progress you have to leave your bubble and do other missions I have grinded over a hundred hours in mission and found the best way to get promoted is to change the type of mission you are doing. for example if you are always doing drop these resources off here and deliver this message here missions. it will seem as if it is taking forever you have to swith it up bt doing some illegal mission, pirate killing mission, general mission and then you will see the mission pop up indicating, "federal dispatch" rank progression missions I hope this helps. I seen alot of threads on it so I finally decided to respond to one.
Hey Guys,
just a tip moving around to different systems is not goign to solve it, if you want to progress you have to leave your bubble and do other missions I have grinded over a hundred hours in mission and found the best way to get promoted is to change the type of mission you are doing. for example if you are always doing drop these resources off here and deliver this message here missions. it will seem as if it is taking forever you have to swith it up bt doing some illegal mission, pirate killing mission, general mission and then you will see the mission pop up indicating, "federal dispatch" rank progression missions I hope this helps. I seen alot of threads on it so I finally decided to respond to one.
I am in a situation where I am allied with Fed and have cadet status (1 mission I believe) but didn't bother try get any higher for ages. I still have this 'allied' status but rank progression missions always appear in unavailable. As a result I have been doing as many delivery type missions for fed factions to try to solve this, as well as fighting in warzones and bounty hunting, but (around five or six fed systems) but to no avail. I did try as you suggested, doing a more risky mission (which I mistakenly thought was a pirate killing mission), the kill two bounty hunter mission but this backfired and after killing several fer de lance's and vultures in the required system to no avail, as well as trying going to that system as 'wanted' (took a single pot shot at a clean ship in fed space) to try to attract the bounty hunters, I was forced to abandon and take the counter offer. Fortunately this abandonement does not seem to have affected my status too much, but I've been doing minor missions for days and it's getting quite frustrating and time consuming (several days now).
I have given up doing the big assassination missions because I understand they are bugged, and I don't want to risk the rep from failing them if I take up a bugged one (I've previously done over twenty of these missions for various factions and on the bright side, only 3 or 4 were evidently bugged - target vanishes - but not that I'm trying to get back in the fed good books, I'm avoiding them just in case).
Having said that, I haven't especially don't anything particularly anti-fed and my states still says 'allied', so I'm starting to wonder if the unobtainable rank progression missions will ever become attainable for me again?
Any light on this matter, or on how, or whether, it's a good idea to take the 'kill bounty hunter missions', as these are sometimes fed v fed, is much appreciated!
Is there a way we can see out points in game?
No sure if this is a bug.
I have attained the rank of Midshipman with the Federation. I get a Federal Invitation from the bulletin board to visit SOL, Reward SOL system permit. Thought this is good. Went to Sol, docked at 3 - 4 stations, flue around a bit. The note said I will receive a communique from a senior staff officer for a meeting. No one contacted me, I did get the permit as soon as I got to SOL. But now the same "Federal Invitation" task is in the unobtainable section of the bulletin board as I have the permit. My concern is I haven't completed the mission and it may stop further progression in the Federal ranks. Anyone else had this happen?
I have attained the rank of Midshipman with the Federation. I get a Federal Invitation from the bulletin board to visit SOL, Reward SOL system permit. Thought this is good. Went to Sol, docked at 3 - 4 stations, flue around a bit. The note said I will receive a communique from a senior staff officer for a meeting. No one contacted me, I did get the permit as soon as I got to SOL. But now the same "Federal Invitation" task is in the unobtainable section of the bulletin board as I have the permit. My concern is I haven't completed the mission and it may stop further progression in the Federal ranks. Anyone else had this happen?
OK thanks for the reply. I didn't like to think that any progression in rank could be held up though an incomplete mission. Cheers
I assume they are fixing missions in general in 1.3 ... I hope they hurry up
I stay away from the assassination missions as well. They used to work for me, but now they're just impossible to complete (for me). I really hope 1.3 Powerplay fixes the messy missions system and ranking system through and through. Currently I don't what the hell I'm doing concerning rank. Raising my rank was a goal of mine, but it's been on hiatus for months.
From what other people (who have successfully ranked up) tell me, as long as you trade and turn in bounty vouchers, exploration data, and combat bonds in the territory of the Federation or Empire, you gain rank points. Do this with some Bulletin Board missions, and you'll rise like a star. It isn't that I doubt those people who give that advice- it just feels like things aren't working as intended for me (and a few others) for whatever reason. There's even been a couple of times someone asked how to gain rank, I'd give them the same answers others gave me, and that person would rank up soon following that advice. Irony is sweet, no?
Same here.
Yeah failing missions will set you back. Don't fail missions