Empire Rank

JughedJones · Jun 2, 2016

Anyone found a good place to get some rank up?

I'm not looking for an exploit, just a system where I can get some good missions, make some decent credits, and chip away at my rank.

Thanks!

afroio · Jun 3, 2016

I found that Cubeo has a lot of data transport missions, which send you off to nearby systems which in turn tend to have a lot of data transport missions. I prefer these types of missions because I can do them in a small, fast ship which was handy this past weekend when the AI was really dangerous. I was maxed out on missions most of the time, so after a while, I'd try to only pick up 100k+ payout missions.

Most of the missions paid out 35k - 65k, but many are 125k+.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Vasious · Jun 3, 2016

Should it be Imperial? Rather than Empire

Federal Navy, Federal Ranks, for the Federation
Imperial Navy, Imperial Ranks, for the Empire

Just as it is the French Navy not the France Navy

Surly_Badger · Jun 3, 2016

JughedJones said:
Anyone found a good place to get some rank up?

I'm not looking for an exploit, just a system where I can get some good missions, make some decent credits, and chip away at my rank.

Thanks!

I did a lot of imperial missions in Fehu.

Basically, the way to rank up is to do missions and you'll make credits and make the universe a better place while you do it.

Ren Garris · Jun 3, 2016

Just run imperial missions, max out each Imp faction at the station. The more they like you, the better the mission.
I did transpo missions mainly. Easy.
Some paid out almost 300K at 40LY.
15 points gained in three days.

I was in Exioce during that time.
I'm now in Dvorsi doing it all over.
You can run Imp and Fed missions here.

Just play and dont sweat the 'grind'.
Put on some truckin music, get slightly saucy and find a little pew pew if you want.

The CMDR count is kinda low here. I normally see two per night.
No D-Baggery yet.

happyfunball · Jun 3, 2016

Before the patch, Cemiess and a handful of nearby systems had all or nearly all Empire aligned minor factions, not sure if they still do after the patch, but it might be worthwhile to check. When I was working on my Imperial Ranks, I would just run missions out of those systems. If there were no good missions available, I'd just do some trading and hit up the other systems' BBs.

Stratigamo · Jun 3, 2016

Sorry for a slight thread hijack, but are there similar good systems for federation ranking?

reg · Jun 3, 2016

Regarding the Empire - I'm using Cemiess - 6 Empire Factions. Ranked up to Allied with all of them and the good systems closest to it:

Coastakal (3 Emp), Vequess (3 Emp), NLTT 7789 (3 Emp) etc

Condovichs and Wongkamala both have 5 Emp factions but are in a state of war, so it can get a bit hairy bulking missions to them.

Running data only missions at the moment until the courier bug is fixed (sent to another sys where you can't hand in the cargo, meaning a fine and stolen goods) and ignoring the extra time 0:00 message bug for data missions.

Doing the low end charity handouts as I've tried all price ranges up to 750,000 with the same 1% results.

Been doing some tests and, probably because I'm at Lord rank, I've only seen a 2% increase happen a couple of times.

On 30% Lord so shouldn't be too long now till I get that Clipper!

reg · Jun 3, 2016

Stratigamo said:
Sorry for a slight thread hijack, but are there similar good systems for federation ranking?

Ranked up to get my Sol pass pre-2.1 but I tied it in with trading rares - so I hit 39 Tauri (Porta) and Altair (Solo) which at that time had 7 Fed factions (close by systems to both for missions.

Then off to Rajukru (Snyder) and HIP 80364 (Stasheff) to sell the rares and buy more - to break any monotony - then back to 39 Tauri. (Only works in an ASP/Cobra 3 with a good FSD that last bit though).

Mr T · Jun 3, 2016

Before the 1.6/2.1 upgrade the quickest way to rank up was to do donation missions. I don't know if that is still the case? Does anyone know if that has changed?

Personally, I'd rather get paid for doing a trade mission even if the rank increase is less.

deckroid · Jun 3, 2016

I know of 2. Gende and Shatrites. Gende has an active CZ and Shatrites has missions as well, and a Crime Sweep really close. On my phone atm or I could get the info...

JughedJones · Jun 3, 2016

Thanks a lot guys. I'll just dink around and do missions. I'm enjoying that playstyle anyway!

happyfunball · Jun 3, 2016

miketuppen said:
Before the 1.6/2.1 upgrade the quickest way to rank up was to do donation missions. I don't know if that is still the case? Does anyone know if that has changed?

Personally, I'd rather get paid for doing a trade mission even if the rank increase is less.

Donation missions cost a lot more at high ranks now for the same increase. What used to be 10k credits can cost 100k now for a fraction of a %.

By the way, here's my old spreadsheet that I used to log my missions when I was leveling up with the Imperial Navy:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A9190BEC6015D832!160&authkey=!ALVXKFYCW2NQOf4&ithint=file,xlsx

The main systems I used were Cemiess and LTT 9810. If you see repeats in "Source System" then that's probably a system with a decent number of Empire factions.

Note about the numbers: they probably don't hold true anymore after the patch, and of course the mission descriptions have changed.

reg · Jun 3, 2016

happyfunball said:
Donation missions cost a lot more at high ranks now for the same increase. What used to be 10k credits can cost 100k now for a fraction of a %.

By the way, here's my old spreadsheet that I used to log my missions when I was leveling up with the Imperial Navy:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A9190BEC6015D832!160&authkey=!ALVXKFYCW2NQOf4&ithint=file,xlsx

The main systems I used were Cemiess and LTT 9810. If you see repeats in "Source System" then that's probably a system with a decent number of Empire factions.

Note about the numbers: they probably don't hold true anymore after the patch, and of course the mission descriptions have changed.

It's totally changed. I've had 1 or 2 donation missions (random amounts) that have got me 2%. There are a huge amount more charity missions than before though. I've donated 4m in them in the last 3 days.

From my research, sadly I've been writing down the mission types/amounts, every mission will give you 1% (randomly 2%) until you get to Lord then it seems to be 0% for one mission up to 1% for the next.

It's been re-done as a scale I think - so from a Rank 5 one mission may get you 50% of a 1% increase and the next will get you 100% and get you that 1% increase.

The changes have ended Rank grinding basically. No probs with that here, I wouldn't be doing it now if I wasn't so close (yet so far).

Personally I'd do something else for a bit until they fix (this weekend I've heard) the bugs in missions - you have 0:00 to get your bonus, deliver to x that doesn't even know you exist.

(I do prefer the new Mission regime btw, just wish the bugs were ironed out and it took quicker to load each time - cache!).