Does trading increase your fed rank?

Elprez

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As the title suggests? I am trying to rank up with the feds and an running out of luck chasing the systems that folks say have easy to come by data missions to nearby systems. They are either in lock down or dried up when I get there....I have a cutter that is parked and was wondering if trading increases your rank too or only the missions?

I am at 50% Post Commander now so an fairly close but he increases are hard to come by :)
 
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StiTch

StiTch
Though humourous and in no way relevant, Betteridge still has the answer.

Nope. Not sure how you managed to get to cutter rank and not realise only missions for an appropriately aligned minor faction increase rep...
 

Jason S

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The easiest way to increase fed or empire rank is to stack empire or fed missions and there are some you tube vids to show that.
Trading will do nothing unless it is linked to a mission.
 
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goemon

goemon
StiTch said:
Though humourous and in no way relevant, Betteridge still has the answer.

Nope. Not sure how you managed to get to cutter rank and not realise only missions for an appropriately aligned minor faction increase rep...
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only missions for an appropriately aligned minor faction increase RANK... trading profits as well as exploration data inceases REPutation.
 

StiTch

StiTch
goemon said:
only missions for an appropriately aligned minor faction increase RANK... trading profits as well as exploration data inceases REPutation.
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Sorry, you're correct on terminology, but I forget major faction rep is a thing.

Literally no influence on game.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
Elprez said:
As the title suggests? I am trying to rank up with the feds and an running out of luck chasing the systems that folks say have easy to come by data missions to nearby systems. They are either in lock down or dried up when I get there....I have a cutter that is parked and was wondering if trading increases your rank too or only the missions?
I am at 50% Post Commander now so an fairly close but he increases are hard to come by :)
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Did you know that you can sort star systems by system state in the galaxy map? I am not sure what state it is currently in (I'm at work) but Haller City, Barnard's (don't forget the apostrophe) Star is a large-ship-friendly terrestrial port. Depending on current system state Haller City and it's sister settlements/stations in the Barnard's Star system all send data and cargo delivery missions to three stations, also large-ship-friendly in the system next door, Epsilon Indi. Those stations send cargo & data back to Barnard's Star system. Round and round, stacking 15 - 20 missions per lap. I ran it in an Anaconda, wound up in a Corvette pretty quick, then into an Imperial Cutter using HIP 10716 & Wu Guinagi.
 

StiTch

StiTch
DrewCarnegie said:
Major faction rep influences the speed at which you gain aligned minor faction rep
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If that's even a thing, it's the most pointless idea ever.

Haven't bothered with Empire missions for some time, rep has decayed and I can still get a minor Emp faction rep from standard to Allied within the best part of a few minutes using my iCutter.

They need to develop the whole faction thing at some point.
 
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[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
StiTch said:
If that's even a thing, it's the most pointless idea ever.

Haven't bothered with Empire missions for some time, rep has decayed and I can still get a minor Emp faction rep from standard to Allied within the best part of a few minutes using my iCutter.

They need to develop the whole faction thing at some point.
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It's definitely a thing.
It makes a difference to me flying a Cobra III.
I'm friendly with Feds and Imps. Taking a single delivery mission for a minor faction aligned with either of those will take me from Neutral to Cordial. It'll take 2 or 3 delivery missions to do the same for an independent faction.

Alternatively, if you're selling Exploration data, it'll bring it down from ~6 MCR to ~4.5 MCR.

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I agree it needs development - but it's much better than it was in 2.0 where being Friendly with a major faction automatically made you friendly with an aligned minor faction
 
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StiTch

StiTch
DrewCarnegie said:
It's definitely a thing.
It makes a difference to me flying a Cobra III.
I'm friendly with Feds and Imps. Taking a single delivery mission for a minor faction aligned with either of those will take me from Neutral to Cordial. It'll take 2 or 3 delivery missions to do the same for an independent faction.

Alternatively, if you're selling Exploration data, it'll bring it down from ~6 MCR to ~4.5 MCR.
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It's one of them things where you either do it "the fun way" or "the quick way".

"The fun way" is always just to be natural, but putting any kind of difficulty gauge on this is difficult because you always know you're bypassing the "easy" ways of doing it.

Unfortunately because "the quick way" exists, and I can just use any semi-decent trader to trade rep in over a few minutes, any situation where you're adding length/difficulty for the sake of it...well, can you really put a metric on how difficult that then should be?

Simple way of putting it: faction rep/rank needs an overhaul. When the time is right. And should be more involving instead of allowing me to trade myself to Allied in minutes. Which I don't need the cutter to do -_-
 
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Elprez

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Prasinus said:
Ochosi and Chakpa are in boom at the moment, plenty of data delivery missions.
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Thanks for this tip. A great system to rank up in. Took me a few hours but finally got rear admiral. Now to figure out my hardpoints. I put MC on it and it did ok. Never lost a ring in a high rez. I think I will try pulse lasers out with efficient engineer....
 

Faybs

Faybs
StiTch said:
Though humourous and in no way relevant, Betteridge still has the answer.

Nope. Not sure how you managed to get to cutter rank and not realise only missions for an appropriately aligned minor faction increase rep...
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That is actually incorrect. I've done my share of playing the BGS, and the quickest way to get allied with a local faction is to unload a few cutter-loads of something expensive (it's easy to prove - pay attention next time you take part in a trading CG, you'll see you get rep upgrade messages from the station's ruling faction). Local faction rep will boost your superpower rep, but only up to a point - once you get to allied you stop gaining superpower rep from that faction. So as long as you keep moving you can get your superpower rep as high as you want. It's not as fast as something like Fehu, but I don't think anyone can claim with a straight face those are not exploits.
 
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