Leave with the Imperial Cutter
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Uh.... You dont have to "Join" anyone. Its just increasing the rank bar witht that faction until you get to a certain point. And said bar can never go down.
If your thinking of power play then no, thats not a requirement for getting a Cutter.
Hi there Commander,
Think your friend mixed up few things:
1) To be able to buy Imperial Cutter (hell of a beast!) from GUTAMAYA, which is the empire's company producing them, you need to have your standing with Imperial Navy at certain level. Don't remember exactly, but "Duke" or higher rank will do. To do so you need to perform a certain missions for Empire's military. They pop up from time to time if you have a proper standing with local faction that is affiliated with Empire;
2) Your standing with local factions affiliated with the Empire will rise quicker if you're an ally with the Empire itself. Empire/Federation/Alliance are the three Superpowers in Milky Way A.D. 3304. You can become ally with all of them or an enemy to all of them (though your life would be very difficult that way), or an ally to the Empire and enemy to the Feds etc. This all will be determined by many and various actions and choices of yours during your career as a star-pilot;
3) To tighten your bounds with one of the Superpowers (ie. Empire) you can also join one of the Powers in our galaxy (eg. the faction of Arissa Lavigny-Duval which is the empress of the Empire atm), they are the political factions within the Superpowers with their own agenda and interests, you can aid with your another various actions during your career as a pilot. Those actions of yours for the Power you'll be working for are called Powerplay;
4) If at some point you would like to leave the Power you joined previously they might (and probably will) send their agents to hunt you down and punish you for your "desertion". But they will be hunting you only for a week or so and you should be able to fight them off;
5) Your actions against the Empire or local faction that is affiliated with the Empire will reduce your standing with this faction AND your overall standing with the Empire! So please be advised your affiliation with the Superpowers can be constantly changing over time, which will have impact of how many and how frequently you'll be asked to perform a missions for Imperial Navy (or Federal Navy that is);
6) Your standing with the Imperial Navy can't be revoked though, meaning even if you start to act against the Superpower, the Power or local factions affiliated with the Superpower, your rating in Superpower's military will not drop. You'll be having harder times pushing it higher though, as mentioned above;
7) Once you'll get to "Duke" rank in Imperial Navy (it can take some time) and buy yourself one of the best ships out there - the mighty Imperial Cutter - no one will be claiming it from you no matter your past/actual/future political tights and agenda.
Hope this helps Commander and good luck with your millitary contracts!
No pledges required. No commitment is necessary. Just find two systems which produce bunch of data delivery missions and fly circles for a few days. Within first hours you'll get allied with all factions there and they will give you more missions or/and options. Continue till you get "navy" type rank up mission - do it to advance rank. Rinse and repeat until you get the promotion that allows Cutter purchase.
Buy one and leave, no one will care. Military ranks are "honorary" therefore you don't anything to worry about. Now you can take your new Cutter wherever you like and do whatever you wish. The only drawback you may or may not experience is increased scans where in non Empire space. But you won't be chased just because you "played" with Empire and somehow "betrayed".
Just unlock and have fun with it.
Buy one and leave, no one will care. Military ranks are "honorary" therefore you don't anything to worry about. Now you can take your new Cutter wherever you like and do whatever you wish. The only drawback you may or may not experience is increased scans where in non Empire space. But you won't be chased just because you "played" with Empire and somehow "betrayed".
Just unlock and have fun with it.
As long as all you said is valid, it also shows how different players play this game. What you're asking OP to do is just grinding you've wrapped in "unlock" word.
I got mine Duke rank after months and months of casual gameplay while I was preparing myself, learning how to handle a flying fortress the Cutter is.
If the OP will fallow yoir advice, he'll become another noob flying big a s s ship, a subject to laughter for other players watching him having issues with docking, not to mention PvP.
Why would you want to leave the Empire? We have cookies and load of people happy to serve them to you at no additional cost
i applaud "just play the game" but if the OP is an explorer it dont really matter how many months or years he/she casually plays the cutter will not come.
Stacking missions between two systems takes a couple of evenings, i would echo shiro, unlock it, buy it, fly it. cant learn how to fly a massive drifty ship without actually flying it.
And what about "blaze your own trail"?
If I wanna eat pizza should I go to Tesco to have one (deep frozen one doesn't count
) or should I visit Pizza Hut? If the OP is aiming for the Cutter, he should take adequate actions towards obtaining one. Still that doesn't mean he should grind.Well, I disagree. Imperial Clipper is a good learning step towards Cutter
If you consider your own trail by grinding, you're free to blaze it
My interpretation of that slogan is to do whatever is fun for me at whatever time and the results/prize will come along. This is the beauty of Elite Dangerous and how it has been designed.
Can you buy a german volkswagon and not be german?
Got to agree with this to a certain extent. I do wonder how much of the complaints about grind are due to people being advised to do things in a grindy way without being advised that it is the grindy way. Nothing wrong with doing things a grindy way, or advising others to do things a grindy way, so long as people are aware that it is the grindy way, and it's not the only way, and they have a choice.
Personally speaking, I followed forum advice when getting rank for the Clipper. It was pretty grindy. I got rank for the Cutter my own way, and for me it was much better, and actually seemed much quicker. Objectively it probably took longer overall, but time flies when you're having fun and all that.
Anyway, my advice to OP - as others have said, you just have to rank with the Empire, not join. The approach you take to that ranking is down to you (within the limits that it has to involve activities which give you reputation with Imperial factions). If you want to grind it out as quickly as possible, go for it, but that period of grinding might not be very enjoyable. If you'd rather enjoy yourself, then do so, but it might take longer. It's up to you what your priorities are. Choose wisely!
The Cutter is a state of mind.
Only thing to remember - never ever fly the Cutter. Only for sitting on the pad & basking. You don't need to fly it when your ship looks that good.
In regards to your last sentence. It does make a difference if while working on Empire Rank you do work for any other major or minor faction. Think of it as moonlighting. Accepting missions, while deliberately working on one Navy or the Other which includes the Alliance. Cause a wee bit of disdain when you do mission for the other(s). It will show up to the right of the Reputaion status bar as a red or blue triangle pointing either up or down. Going from a red pointing down back to a blue pointing up and then none generally take an additional 12 missions for the one one is attempting to rank up with.
Thus doing a mission for the fed and then the empire and then the fed and then the empire will cause one to take considerably longer to reach the next progresive rank. Though one can still do it, it just takes longer. Thus, if one is interested in the Empire for instance, only doing mission issued from Empire aligned brooker's or agents indicated by their water mark will be the fastest. Most will opt for doing other mission becasue on needs the cr's. Once having cr's is not an issue. One can concetrate on either Navy or the Alliance and progress faster.
I'd concur that most player are not aware of or just never pay any attention to or know the purpose of those triangles which can appear to the right of the REP indicator in either blue or red and the difference between which direction they point. Hence the reason one cmdr takes longer or seems to have to do considerably more missions than another to get to the next rank. Those triangles cause on to have to do additional missions.
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If I wanna eat pizza should I go to Tesco to have one (deep frozen one doesn't count
Well, I disagree. Imperial Clipper is a good learning step towards Cutter
clipper is a lil drifty i dont mind flying the clipper.
The Cutter... well i hate that thing, and that's another word of warning to the op, if you do stack missions for best part of a week, get a cutter and hate its flight model :O
Op can do as they please, mission stacking was my route to cutter (dis regarding the magic planet for those in the know) i wouldnt call it a "grind" just doing what was required, (i.e. the same amount of missions) in a condensed time frame to unlock the cutter, i preferred that method to being patient and doing the odd empire mission here and there.
there's no "right" way - do whatever makes you happiest.
