Newcomer / Intro Different play styles noted: but does it make sense to focus on Federation status

One day, err one month, suppose I'd like to visit SOL, so Federation status it seems is a must.

That said, and accounting for the different ways plays view the game, does it make sense to 1st focus on Federation status?
 
Well like yaffle says noone but you can truely anserw that question but you.. It depends on what you want out of the game, but I suggest you don't off the feds too much before you've fulfilled you goal of visiting the SOL system ;)
but after that has been done you can just go crasy if you like but then again there will be many system where you'll have a harder time trading than if you are friendly to the feds... But it's only you who can deside if it's worth it or not...

Have fun cmdr that's what it is all about after all is said and done... :)
 
it's up to you , if you want a faction ship or permits etc ..as everyone said it comes down to how you want to play the game i myself did bummed about the galaxy for a bit doing rep missions + trading with all factions until i had the money to buy a clipper then ranked up with the Emp's

also doing rare's runs is a good way to rank up with all factions i used this run https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=101211 the only thing you need to watch out for is selling legal drugs in fed space as if you get scanned your lose loads of rep very fast but the loops worth a good 10-20 mil and most of the space ports a part from 2-3 are large pads
 
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I would recommend people do the military ranks quite soon after starting.
If you leave it until you are allied with the major faction, it makes it really hard to monitor your progress with the minor factions. When you are allied with the minor faction, you should move on, but you just can't tell any more
 
The system permits are useful if you want to see Sol or find the Voyager probes.

If you want the Federal Dropship, may dialectical materialism have mercy on your soul, you'll need the Federation rank of Ensign.

Otherwise, going friendly or allied with a minor Federation faction gives you friendly status with all Fed factions. This makes a significant difference in flight, because you can safely ignore all of the green blips on your scanner, which makes it easier to identify threats in supercruise.
 
The system permits are useful if you want to see Sol or find the Voyager probes.

If you want the Federal Dropship, may dialectical materialism have mercy on your soul, you'll need the Federation rank of Ensign.

Otherwise, going friendly or allied with a minor Federation faction gives you friendly status with all Fed factions. This makes a significant difference in flight, because you can safely ignore all of the green blips on your scanner, which makes it easier to identify threats in supercruise.

hi , i'm a bit confused as to why you think that if your friendly / allied your be safer in system's as unhappily that's not true as such as far as i know , as even if your allied etc , you can still be interdicted by cops and also by npc's/ players that have wanted and/or pirates but are part of the faction you allied / friendly with , as i've been attacked/ interdicted loads of times when normal trading / running rares by greens etc and i'm friendly across the galaxy with both the fed's with lieutenant rank
and the emp with viscount rank and also allied/ friendly etc with a load of system faction btw if you have a link showing this as i'd like to read it as we all know the rep system is a little screwed to say the least :)
 
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hi , i'm a bit confused as to why you think that if your friendly / allied your be safer in system's as unhappily that's not true as such as far as i know , as even if your allied etc , you can still be interdicted by cops and also by npc's/ players that have wanted and/or pirates but are part of the faction you allied / friendly with , as i've been attacked/ interdicted loads of times when normal trading / running rares by greens etc and i'm friendly across the galaxy with both the fed's with lieutenant rank
and the emp with viscount rank and also allied/ friendly etc with a load of system faction btw if you have a link showing this as i'd like to read it as we all know the rep system is a little screwed to say the least :)
It was a generalisation drawn from my experience - I've never once been interdicted by a green Federation pirate (I'm friendly with the Federation, despite not even trying to get that status). Naturally, I've been interdicted by military ships in systems with conflict zones, but if they're Feds (and therefore green on the scanner), they've always just wandered off and left me alone. From that experience, I was saying you could ignore all ships marked green on the scanner. Perhaps that's not true. It could be the ships I fly and my combat rating.
 
It was a generalisation drawn from my experience - I've never once been interdicted by a green Federation pirate (I'm friendly with the Federation, despite not even trying to get that status). Naturally, I've been interdicted by military ships in systems with conflict zones, but if they're Feds (and therefore green on the scanner), they've always just wandered off and left me alone. From that experience, I was saying you could ignore all ships marked green on the scanner. Perhaps that's not true. It could be the ships I fly and my combat rating.

Bah to be honest i'd hoped you'd seen something i've missed in the forums somewhere as the rep systems is chaos based at best i feel sometimes :)
 
I had a Sol permit From the start as a kickstarter backer. Still completed some ranking missions for Feds to gain the permit legitimately before I actually went there. Doesn't take very long once you get in with a faction and the ranking missions start appearing. Downside for me is I'm seem to be stuck? All I get now is a mission which I can't accept to go to Sol and progress further because I already have the damn permit! :(
 
I had a Sol permit From the start as a kickstarter backer. Still completed some ranking missions for Feds to gain the permit legitimately before I actually went there. Doesn't take very long once you get in with a faction and the ranking missions start appearing. Downside for me is I'm seem to be stuck? All I get now is a mission which I can't accept to go to Sol and progress further because I already have the damn permit! :(

don't worry about it , your find the same bug on almost all permits it will keep offering you the mission until you rank past the that level in navel ranks to get to the next one

heres a little list of the ranks and also the permits http://lavewiki.com/rank-and-reputation

i'm a Lieunant with the fed's and still get offered the vega mission at every fed station i stop at and will still get offered it until i go up to LT Commander
 
just to depress you they are changing them, when they change the rep and rank mission's , their's a post about it from Michel in this weeks news letter , but hopefully its nice changes that will unlock more missions for are ranks ,
as i believe that the rep/ rank system used at the moment is based on chaos theory :D

but gz's on your rep
 
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One day, err one month, suppose I'd like to visit SOL, so Federation status it seems is a must.

That said, and accounting for the different ways plays view the game, does it make sense to 1st focus on Federation status?


You can get a permit for Sol quite quickly. So if you want it, don't even think about it. Just go for it.
 
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