best way to get fed rank to midshipman so I can purchase dropship

ratsidecar

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As title, I have spent around 6 hours today taking retrieve rebel transmissions and delivery missions and have only achieved around 25% progress towards the first rank. Is there a faster way to get through the first three ranks so I can get the dropship.

I made the mistake of clearing my save a few weeks ago, I first started playing the game when it came out and the ranks came pretty easy, now everything seems to take much much longer to achieve.

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dm0815

dm0815
Go to Sothis, Ceos (systems are next to each other) and do data delivery missions back and forth. If you are in Ceos I wouldn't take missions that take you to Sothis Mining as that takes too long to reach.
 
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insanephoton

insanephoton
Donation missions help a lot but obviously cost credits. If you have Horizons, I'd recommend Planetary Scan missions as they also have some of the best payouts for non passenger missions. Bounty hunting or selling exploration data also can help but are arguably slower than what you are already doing, even so don't forget to cash them in as every little helps. Good spots for missions are Sothis and Ceos, with lots of one jump jobs allowing you to stack missions from the Fed faction ( you can also do a lot to getting the Sirius permit too), or Tun is another good place with several Fed factions.

Unfortunately the ranks take a lot more effort now.
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Niu Hsing is a great fringe system for working on Federation rank. Made Rear Admiral out there.
Most fringe systems are good for ranking, as they contain few factions and fewer destinations.
Sol is also good for working rank, as it's all Federation.
 

evanevery

evanevery
OK... So I used to reply to all of these with a bunch of details...

The best way to rank up in Imperial/Federation Navy is to SEARCH THE FORUMS!

This has been asked a thousand times before. How about spending 30 seconds to do a little research yourself?
 

metascrawl

metascrawl
The night before last I went from 5% to 90% of the way from Midshipman to Petty Officer in about 6 hours. It was all from passenger missions - passenger transport missions offer a large rep increase more often than not. Sightseeing missions can too, but it's not as common.

Although I was grinding rep rather than credits, and was therefore taking low-paying missions at times, I still made over 50 mil from this too. Most missions came from the Fed-aligned faction that I'm allied with at my home station, but if I saw any at the destination stations I took those too. I used a Dolphin, Asp and DBX, depending on the cabin sizes and classes called for. Did my last 10% today, ranked up, and my DBX is now chillin' in Galileo, Sol.
 
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Saxon Kili

Saxon Kili
evanevery said:
OK... So I used to reply to all of these with a bunch of details...

The best way to rank up in Imperial/Federation Navy is to SEARCH THE FORUMS!

This has been asked a thousand times before. How about spending 30 seconds to do a little research yourself?
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RAWWWR! :)
 

sylance

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IndigoWyrd said:
Niu Hsing is a great fringe system for working on Federation rank. Made Rear Admiral out there.
Most fringe systems are good for ranking, as they contain few factions and fewer destinations.
Sol is also good for working rank, as it's all Federation.
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I was doing Niu Hsing and was making great progress but since the update the stations have changed... I didn't check but I dont' think they're in Boom state anymore. I just know most contacts had zero missions available. I'm looking for a new system to grind rank. I'm curious about the Sol comment... I tried that once and found it slow going. Was I doing something wrong?
 

ratsidecar

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Niu Hsing seems to be working out, usually 5 or so charity missions with the controlling faction, which lead to a follow on mission of delivering 2 units of something around 80ly away for lots of credits which generally pays for the donations and leaves extra left over
 

CMDR Mayhem

CMDR Mayhem
As said already, Donation missions are the easiest, quickest way. As long as you have a little bit of credits.
The trick(possible exploit) is hopping between open, private & solo, looking for a 25,000credit(cheapest) donation mission from a Fed backer.
 

Surprised Brony

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When Niu Hsing isn't in boom, use Chakpa and Ochosi to rank up. There are many fed factions in those so be sure to check all their states.

Got my Corvette there yesterday.
 

ratsidecar

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This is insane, 12 hours gameplay and only half way through recruit. And of that 12 hours half of it has been spent reading forums and doing other things while the "game" runs away in the background. It really has turned into a grindfest mmo style thing nowadays.

At least when it came out, although the game was much more basic compared to now things were achievable for the average player or person with a life/family/job and they could feel like they were making progress. Now its in the realm of hardcore fanboi or someone with 40+ hours a week to get anywhere.

And all that effort is just to get access to a rank 3 ship, I feel sorry for the people that want a corvette/cutter or both.

Its no wonder people use exploits aplenty, it seems to be the only way to get anywhere. For those that say, just play the game and things will come to you I have been playing from a clear save for 2 weeks around 2 hours a day and got a vulture for a bit of bountyhunting and running the odd mission and got 6% of the first federal navy rank. Like a lot of people out there I normally only play computer games for 2 hours a week if im lucky due to real life commitments.

Anyway rant mode over.
 
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Bryan K

Bryan K
TGC Brony TO said:
When Niu Hsing isn't in boom, use Chakpa and Ochosi to rank up. There are many fed factions in those so be sure to check all their states.

Got my Corvette there yesterday.
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Thank you for this. All the Fed factions in Niu Hising and Col 285-something just went to None a couple days ago and I was wondering where to go next. Sothis just plain sucks.
 

metascrawl

metascrawl
ratsidecar said:
This is insane, 12 hours gameplay and only half way through recruit. And of that 12 hours half of it has been spent reading forums and doing other things while the "game" runs away in the background. It really has turned into a grindfest mmo style thing nowadays.

At least when it came out, although the game was much more basic compared to now things were achievable for the average player or person with a life/family/job and they could feel like they were making progress. Now its in the realm of hardcore fanboi or someone with 40+ hours a week to get anywhere.

And all that effort is just to get access to a rank 3 ship, I feel sorry for the people that want a corvette/cutter or both.
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It is a grind if it's all you're concentrating on. As I said above, I ground out 85% in one 6 hour session, but I really don't feel like doing that again for the next rank. Certainly not for a while anyway. The first three ranks came to me over time in the course of just playing the game. If I were you I'd set my sights on another ship and get the FDS later on. Plenty of other ships and things to do that aren't so grindy. This is quite hypocritical of me to say though, I always seem to go back to grinding credits when I'm fixated on a particular ship, so I do get it.
 

kofeyh

kofeyh
Spacecat said:
Are you sure you really want it? The FAS and Gunship are better as far as I'm concerned.
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Gunship and FAS require higher ranks. They are also far more expensive. Dropship is considerably cheaper at ~12 mil and has really nice hardpoint placement, and is a much an easier entry into fed ships. Gunship and Dropship are probably the two better options at present; FAS is fast and nimble, but it's not really the hull tank monster it was; both dropship and gunship are far better in the soaking of pain department.

Dropship is also pretty maneuverable now, has way more capacity for hull/ module reinforcement. It's a rumbling little mongrel. Mine has seen a lot of action. ;)
 
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