Military missions

More importantly, why can I not be sent to a warzone to kill lots of ships? I would have thought doing missions for the military (be it Federation or Imperial) would be lots and lots of missions like this? Where, as I say is the excitement? I want to be fighting in wars on the outer edges of populated space, not doing some mundane delivery job or the occasional assassination mission!

Actually, as a matter of fact, I've seen a few "Massacre the blah blah ships in the whatever system" show up occasionally, and the targets are sometimes labeled in conflict zones. Maybe if you go to a few systems that are either at war or civil war, you might find a few of these. As for rank up missions go, they're either courier data, haul cargo, or smuggle cargo from one place to another; so war zone missions might not be a thing until later on... *sigh*
 
Hmm...what happened to Rear Admiral or Admiral? Rear Admiral used to be what qualified for a Federal Corvette, wasn't it?

I believe the common misconception is that these rankings are for the Federal Navy Auxiliary force, not the actual Navy. So these "Navy Ascension Missions" are essentially "off-the-book" missions sanctioned by the Federal Navy and/or a representative of a faction allied with the Federation. Most of them can still be lame and I simply ignore them until one pops up that looks a bit more interesting. Even though your Fed ranking seems to be stuck at 100% of current rank you will still get credit for all qualifying missions you complete and your rankings will advance to the proper level once you had completed the "Ascension Mission" to the next rank, so instead of starting at 1% you will see 5% or 8% depending on how many missions got completed in the meantime.

I do not know if the Empire ranking works the same way yet since I'm still grinding thru the Federation as well (74% Ensign).
 
I was waiting for a naval Ascesnsion mission to Baron. Boom up it pops, great I was thinking kill a general in an Anaconda, run a gauntlet with some data. Nope....deliver two canisters of food. Great....really felt like I had earnt my rank.

Been at 100% a few times and still not seen the ranking mission appear.
Generally, military progression is infantile.
 
Talk about raising the dead, this thread is a year old.:rolleyes:
At first I wanted to create my own thread, but after finding this one, I have decided to use it. At least we can all see, that this thing has not been given proper attention in a long time :)
 
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