Doing missions does nothing for your Rank

[toto66]

Trade missions affect you trade rank directly. The payment for mission counts like common trading profit. 1/3 of my trade rank is from smuggling missions.
Combat missions affect you combat rank indirectly, because combat rank is based on quality of kills, not money.
It seems that explorer missions does not affect explorer rank at all.

 

[bajab]

Trade missions affect you trade rank directly. The payment for mission counts like common trading profit. 1/3 of my trade rank is from smuggling missions.
Combat missions affect you combat rank indirectly, because combat rank is based on quality of kills, not money.
It seems that explorer missions does not affect explorer rank at all.

Does that include smuggling missions? or ones where you need to collect something stolen? What about if your are caught and fined?

 

[toto66]

Does that include smuggling missions? or ones where you need to collect something stolen? What about if your are caught and fined?

Smuggle delivery missions affect trade rank.
I never pick pirate (skull) missions (time consuming) and collect missions (low average reward), so I have no idea how they affect anything.

 

[Wolfman]

So where do mining add to ranks?

Selling metals to mining missions increases trade rank. I have just finished an experiment to determine this. I gained 5% of Trade rank purely from the bulletin board mining missions.

 

[M. Grey]

Have to correct it. Missions with an explorer rank requirement won't make you progress in the explorer rank. I delivered many Blackboxes and Chemicals, but still no progress.