How did you guys do it?
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Why not?
I heard Hillary Clinton is gonna run for President of the Federation. If she is elected then I am sure if you donate enough to the Clinton Foundation, she will make you a rear admiral
The answer is to do so many missions until you truly consider even playing this game anymore. Then make your decision as to whether or not to continue playing much less even just living and wasting your life grinding for a stupid fake video game ship. If you chose to you then grind for an even more sinful amount of time. Doing every donation mission you see. Stacking data runs for possibly weeks if not months as basically a second job. And there will be another breaking point where you can't turn back because of the progress you made. So you will be trapped in a vortex of hatred for the design of the system and the devs that made it and self doubt as to every decision you have ever made to lead you to this point in life. Lesser men than I may also again consider suicide as an option to atone for their Sins of Sloth at this time. If again you decide it is worth it and to continue this life of wasteful sin. Eventually you will one day have the right to purchase the coveted Corvette.
Ranks go up exponentially so it slows down the higher you go. The trick is to keep doing missions, trading and turning in bounty vouchers, but also keep moving around - once you are allied with a faction, your superpower rank will stop going up even if you keep doing missions or whatever for that faction. So you need to go from system to system becoming allied with as many factions as you can.
Edit: or you can cheese missions for a few days and end up hating your life, that works too. But unless you know for a fact you're going to like that ship (as in, you've watched gameplay videos and so on), I wouldn't do it. You'll want those days back and you can't have them.
Edit: or you can cheese missions for a few days and end up hating your life, that works too. But unless you know for a fact you're going to like that ship (as in, you've watched gameplay videos and so on), I wouldn't do it. You'll want those days back and you can't have them.
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17 Draconis was THE place for Fed ranking pre-nerf.
Load up on Massacre missions for the Federation faction pretty much permanently at war there and take home a new Corvette by the weekend.
Those were the days....
Now, we must trudge on, .5% at a time or .25% at a time, over the course of a year, just they way they want it. Because it's what they think "progression" is.
Load up on Massacre missions for the Federation faction pretty much permanently at war there and take home a new Corvette by the weekend.
Those were the days....
Now, we must trudge on, .5% at a time or .25% at a time, over the course of a year, just they way they want it. Because it's what they think "progression" is.
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I think rank-locking those ships as a way to induce scarcity wasn't a great idea to begin with. A cutter or corvette is a starship the size of a city block, in real life it would have a crew of a couple dozen people minimum. Those ships should have been how FDev introduced multicrew, in fact it should not be possible to fly one of them without a few friends on board. That would have been a realistic way to induce scarcity, and a much better incentive than adding extra pips to your power distro.
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If I'm understanding part of what you wrote correctly, well, you are not correct. I can assure you that being Allied with a faction does not stop you from getting Federation Rank from their missions.
To the OP:
There are a few places where this could be done quicker prior to 2.3, but I'm not sure if any of them are still valid. If you are looking to do this in the shortest amount of time, then you want to utilize locations that have data or delivery missions with short runs that preferably go back and forth from the same stations. This is somewhat mind-numbing, and will require mode-switching to get a full set of 20 missions at each stop, but there are a couple of upsides. First, you will become Allied with the Federation-aligned factions very quickly, and if you are able to take some of the cargo missions, your Trade Rank will also go up. Second, once you are Allied, and have a decent Trade Rank, this method of mission running pays very well indeed. So well, in fact, that you will likely earn more than what you need to purchase the ship before you can even buy it (assuming you can do at least one cargo mission that pays 200k+ each way). If you have a Python, you can take several of those missions each way. As a point of reference, I made over 150 million credits while doing the last two ranks for my Cutter. That was after roughly 40 million spent on Donation missions (do these if you can, instant mission completion)
Some locations to try:
Sothis/Ceos
Chakpa/Ochosi
Niu Hsing (might be spelled incorrectly, but it's close)
Barnard's Star (Haller City) - this one isn't to-and-fro, but you can seemingly grab an endless chain of Federation missions from each stop.
Remember, these were pre-2.3. They might all be broken now, or maybe the BGS just needs to spin up a bit before they get back to where they were.
Good luck, and keep your eye on the prize, if you are going to grind this out. I would suggest setting a number of loops (defined as 40 missions, 20 each way) per session that fits with your play schedule, and gives you progress that you consider to be meaningful, while leaving options open to break off and do other things.
If these are broken, and you want to try to find your own, then you need to look for at least two systems that are close together, but are also somewhat remote from anything else. If you find such a setup, they should have missions that primarily run to and from each other.
Edit: One last thing - make sure you buy your Corvette from a Li Yong-Rui system, as it will cost you a lot less. The modules, as well.
Second Edit: Chakpa is currently in lockdown status, so I wouldn't bother flying there just yet. Maybe the next state will be better.
Riôt
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It's possible that the rules have changed since I stopped caring about superpower rank, but that used to be the case. Suited me just fine since I like moving around, every now and then I'd get a rank mission from one of the two navies and move up the totem pole. I only cheesed rank once, when a CG dumped a whole bunch of cash on my lap, and I was already on the rank below the one you need to get a cutter. I spent a few hours in Quince I think and got the remainder of the rank.
Indeed - that 15% discount is a lot of bread when the ship is that expensive
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Believe me, I would drop 200 million credits on Donation missions in a heartbeat if it meant that my own Corvette grind was behind me. Back when it could be done that way, it didn't cost near that much, but I would consider it a fair trade, without a doubt. I can make more money, but I can't recover time.
I did not intend to sound curt with the response that you quoted, but it looks like it could sound that way. I was just striving for clarity, more than anything. My bad.
Riôt
Grinding rank caused me to stop playing so now I don't bother.
I am doing missions for the FEd rank but I'm not trying to get in fast as it becomes too much of a grind and I know once getting the Corvette it will be like all the other ships you go meh ok now where is mys Asp and Vulture!!!
I am doing missions for the FEd rank but I'm not trying to get in fast as it becomes too much of a grind and I know once getting the Corvette it will be like all the other ships you go meh ok now where is mys Asp and Vulture!!!
That's cool, don't worry about it - I've had worse
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Yep, grind mechanics will be the death of this game. If FDev wants to slow down progression for whatever reason, they're going to have to figure out a way to do it in a way that can't be sped up with grinding, because if that's an option people are going to do it. The only time I'd advise grinding is if you're almost at the point where you'd have gotten something playing normally, might as well do a sprint and get it today rather than tomorrow. But we've all read about people grinding for a week straight to get something, and then being bitter because what they got wasn't worth all the work they put into it. That is definitely doing it wrong.
Yeah, grinding until you want to vomit and then complaining the payoff isn't worth it is weird.
I do think that most tasks in this game constitute a grind though. I mean, Massacre missions are basically just that. To get anything or go anywhere is ostensibly a grind. Especially if you want to go out to Maia to see the Alien stuff... I mean it's a 40minute trip worth of loading screens unless you're in a rather expensive ship.
Things like this need to be addressed somehow, where the gameplay becomes more organic and logical rather than set objectives that are held at the end of a stick made of barbed wire.
I do think that most tasks in this game constitute a grind though. I mean, Massacre missions are basically just that. To get anything or go anywhere is ostensibly a grind. Especially if you want to go out to Maia to see the Alien stuff... I mean it's a 40minute trip worth of loading screens unless you're in a rather expensive ship.
Things like this need to be addressed somehow, where the gameplay becomes more organic and logical rather than set objectives that are held at the end of a stick made of barbed wire.
No you don't. You are just confused. What you actually want is a Beluga.
Did you know the Beluga is in the top 1% of passenger ships out there?
I ranked up with both the Feds & the Empire a couple of months ago, both are similar.
Please bear in mind that I don't do pewpew at all, so my method didn't involve skimmer missions, killing ships or anything like that.
Though as some have said, it was easier to rank up with the Empire.
I looked for two nearby systems in boom state, then just started to do data & cargo delivery missions between these two systems - preferably two systems with two or more stations/outposts/bases. I could visit each one in turn to see if they had these two mission types to the other system. As far as money donations went, I set myself a limit to what my maximum individual mission donation would be (eg 100k) & stuck to it.
The thing to note is that as you gain rep with each station, cordial-friendly-allied, then not only do the value of these missions become greater but the numbers of these missions increase. So once allied with all factions in both your chosen systems then you would easily be picking up your allocated 20 max per each run.
I would be making 1.5-2 mil per run minimum & jumping to the next rank & more rank in less than a days gametime.
It's easy to keep taking all missions & jumping all over Fed space, this just dilutes your ranking improvements & slows your progress down. My way was longer than others due to my dislike of pewpew but setting myself goals (like buying that Corvette) made it less of a grind. Iv tried to up my rankings further with both since, however, Iv got my kitted out 'Vette & Cutter so Iv no goal to achieve & soon move on & do something else!
This was pre 2.3 launch, I don't know how 2.3 has effected MY method of ranking up.
Please bear in mind that I don't do pewpew at all, so my method didn't involve skimmer missions, killing ships or anything like that.
Though as some have said, it was easier to rank up with the Empire.
I looked for two nearby systems in boom state, then just started to do data & cargo delivery missions between these two systems - preferably two systems with two or more stations/outposts/bases. I could visit each one in turn to see if they had these two mission types to the other system. As far as money donations went, I set myself a limit to what my maximum individual mission donation would be (eg 100k) & stuck to it.
The thing to note is that as you gain rep with each station, cordial-friendly-allied, then not only do the value of these missions become greater but the numbers of these missions increase. So once allied with all factions in both your chosen systems then you would easily be picking up your allocated 20 max per each run.
I would be making 1.5-2 mil per run minimum & jumping to the next rank & more rank in less than a days gametime.
It's easy to keep taking all missions & jumping all over Fed space, this just dilutes your ranking improvements & slows your progress down. My way was longer than others due to my dislike of pewpew but setting myself goals (like buying that Corvette) made it less of a grind. Iv tried to up my rankings further with both since, however, Iv got my kitted out 'Vette & Cutter so Iv no goal to achieve & soon move on & do something else!
This was pre 2.3 launch, I don't know how 2.3 has effected MY method of ranking up.
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Honestly can't tell you, other than by doing what suited me at the given time.
I was genuinely surprised I had sufficient rank to unlock the Corvette, so as that was already in the bag, went for a [grind if you insist on using that term] for a Cutter instead.
It hasn't changed the game though, there isn't an end ship - tonight I have mostly been in my very old Asp.
I was genuinely surprised I had sufficient rank to unlock the Corvette, so as that was already in the bag, went for a [grind if you insist on using that term] for a Cutter instead.
It hasn't changed the game though, there isn't an end ship - tonight I have mostly been in my very old Asp.