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.
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.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 rankand 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.
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!![]()
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?