Effects of Donation Missions?

Brrokk

Brrokk
Donation missions are a great way to rank up quickly if you want rank more than credits, but I've been trying to relate their effects to the size of donation.

These missions are usually marked as "rep+++" but come with a huge range of donation amounts; I've seen up to one million credits. However, irrespective of the donation amount, they always seem to increase rank by a very similar amount.

Am I right? Are the small donations just as effective as large ones?
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer
AFAIK they are. It's possible that the mission "value" scales the impact it has on the BGS though, so giving more credits would help more against a bust, more medical commodities would help more with ending an outbreak, …
 

danteuk

danteuk
My experience is this:
Last week I decided I'd like to try the F-Gunship - but it's rank locked - In the two years of playing I've never bothered with ranks apart from to unlock SOL in the early days. I was actually only about 37% Chief Petty Officer and needed to get to Ensign.
So I went to SOL and took all the Fed faction missions for simple quick tasks and any Donation missions - 4 days later and about 6-7 hours of VERY DULL NON-GAME-PLAY I was worse off by about 10M credits ( because the mission payouts for a courier missions were pitiful, even when fully allied ) but I finally made it to Ensign.

No fun was had - nothing interesting happened - no challenges - no sense of achievement - net loss in credits - ( I'm areadly Elite in Trade so no gain there either )

Donation missions are an expensive but quick way to rank up and I really didn't notice any massive difference between 200k or 1M donations.

I'm just really happy that I don't enjoy flying the Anaconda much so have no interest in going bigger and grinding the rank for the Corvette. Also no interest in grinding empire rank for those ships.

The Navy ranks are a complete waste of time, locking ships behind them only serves force people to grind boring uneventful missions and board hoping instead of being out in the black having fun exploring or making profit or enjoying combat etc.

If you liked this rant about the dull ill-conceived time sink that is Navy ranks check out this video by: TheYamiks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCDyeKoCD1s
 
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Ian Skippy

Ian Skippy
Brrokk said:
Donation missions are a great way to rank up quickly if you want rank more than credits, but I've been trying to relate their effects to the size of donation.

These missions are usually marked as "rep+++" but come with a huge range of donation amounts; I've seen up to one million credits. However, irrespective of the donation amount, they always seem to increase rank by a very similar amount.

Am I right? Are the small donations just as effective as large ones?
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I donated a bunch of money this week to a faction in my new home system, it didnt seem to matter much how much I paid. Donations varied between 50k and 1mil. Certainly no 20x difference...
 

daman

daman
they are the best, but prob least value/ cr.

A couple of 50,000 seems to give you the same boost - maybe 3 at most.

I generally aim to collect anything 200k and less, pref 125k and less. find that greater volume of these makes much more difference thana single million.

but thats just anecdotal....
 

Cmdr Ultra

Cmdr Ultra
Rule of thumb - take every donation mission you can afford. I did. Which was everyone I ever saw.

I loved seeing those 1m credit ones because they simply gained you more rank and less grind.

Terrible cost to benefit ratio - no argument there. But money was never the issue.
 

Pumabear8

Pumabear8
Brrokk said:
Donation missions are a great way to rank up quickly if you want rank more than credits, but I've been trying to relate their effects to the size of donation.

These missions are usually marked as "rep+++" but come with a huge range of donation amounts; I've seen up to one million credits. However, irrespective of the donation amount, they always seem to increase rank by a very similar amount.

Am I right? Are the small donations just as effective as large ones?
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Cannot say I've noticed, I've seen donation missions from the same faction, one of 25000 and another of 1000000, I'm a cheapskate, so I choose to donate 25000, and I've been doing that for a while, along with courier missions, I've ranked up quite rabidly.
 

Mr Fad

Mr Fad
On one of the earlier fed ranks at sothis I noticed two 25k donations would increase the rank by 1% so I tried pairs of higher and mixed values and noticed no difference, just 1% :)

I didn't try the 1mil donations as there didn't seem any point so I only ever go for the 25k, 50k and 125k donations unless I'm close to rank or desperate ;)
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
Cmdr Ultra said:
Rule of thumb - take every donation mission you can afford. I did. Which was everyone I ever saw.

I loved seeing those 1m credit ones because they simply gained you more rank and less grind.

Terrible cost to benefit ratio - no argument there. But money was never the issue.
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I've never noticed any difference in rep increase whatever the size of the donation. All missions which gives you Rep+++ should increase it by the same amount. I'm more than happy to be proved wrong, though. I've done a lot of ranking with both Empire and Federation, and there has never been any noticeable difference between any of the missions with the same reputation gain listed.
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
Thanks for the replies. I'm also of the view that the amount makes no difference to the rep. gain, so I'm going to lay off the 1M donations!
 

Hadarmil

Hadarmil
danteuk said:
My experience is this:
Last week I decided I'd like to try the F-Gunship - but it's rank locked - In the two years of playing I've never bothered with ranks apart from to unlock SOL in the early days. I was actually only about 37% Chief Petty Officer and needed to get to Ensign.
So I went to SOL and took all the Fed faction missions for simple quick tasks and any Donation missions - 4 days later and about 6-7 hours of VERY DULL NON-GAME-PLAY I was worse off by about 10M credits ( because the mission payouts for a courier missions were pitiful, even when fully allied ) but I finally made it to Ensign.

No fun was had - nothing interesting happened - no challenges - no sense of achievement - net loss in credits - ( I'm areadly Elite in Trade so no gain there either )

Donation missions are an expensive but quick way to rank up and I really didn't notice any massive difference between 200k or 1M donations.

I'm just really happy that I don't enjoy flying the Anaconda much so have no interest in going bigger and grinding the rank for the Corvette. Also no interest in grinding empire rank for those ships.

The Navy ranks are a complete waste of time, locking ships behind them only serves force people to grind boring uneventful missions and board hoping instead of being out in the black having fun exploring or making profit or enjoying combat etc.

If you liked this rant about the dull ill-conceived time sink that is Navy ranks check out this video by: TheYamiks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCDyeKoCD1s
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They should cut a third of the ranks and make progression faster on the ones that remain.

Or a much better alternative - make ACTUAL navy missions. Participate in raids/ambushes, stealth supply to bases, route enemy capital ships, do ground installation reconnaissance...different missions that give meaning to rank or even heaven forbid be narrative driven.

If Ram Tah can contact you to be the one chosen CMDR(along the other 50k) that can scan the guardian ruins for him, we can have a narrative driven navy career.
 

Achibot

A
Brrokk said:
Thanks for the replies. I'm also of the view that the amount makes no difference to the rep. gain, so I'm going to lay off the 1M donations!
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It does make a difference. More expensive donations get you a little more rep but it's not proportional to multiple smaller missions of the same value. So it's a "cost/value" issue, not a "no difference" issue. That said, 1M donations do represent absolutely terrible value, there is no doubt about that.
 

Coccolino

Coccolino
Hadarmil said:
They should cut a third of the ranks and make progression faster on the ones that remain.

Or a much better alternative - make ACTUAL navy missions. Participate in raids/ambushes, stealth supply to bases, route enemy capital ships, do ground installation reconnaissance...different missions that give meaning to rank or even heaven forbid be narrative driven.

If Ram Tah can contact you to be the one chosen CMDR(along the other 50k) that can scan the guardian ruins for him, we can have a narrative driven navy career.
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DREAMER.
 
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