Empire Rank Progression working for anyone yet?

Zephyr

Zephyr
Just wondering. Sitting at Friendly with Empire and Allied with a bunch of sub-factions, and still have yet to see a single progression mission for the Empire. Anyone get a rank yet? If so, what are the ranks called?

Edit: Thanks for the help guys! Look for Imperial high-tech dictatorships. They sell combat stabilizers and offer progression missions! The first rank is "Outsider"! No luck finding any more missions though even though I visited dozens of similar systems :/ I'm starting to think that it was just a fluke.

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Here is what we know currently thanks to one of our posters: Cartu and Priva seem to be excellent systems for ranking up.

Panzer said:
it's there.

I just got as far as Lord in that region. Thing is - I had friendly global-empire reputation beforehand and each mission is rank-specfic. It'll do you no good to pick two such jobs, as they both cause a promotion from and to a specific rank.

1st rank is outsider - do to it, one needs to know where to get specific goods and bring them to the issuing base in TEN MINUTES. It's barely enough.
2nd rank is serf - similar delivery job of food or medicines, but with THREE HOURS timer.
3rd rank is master - as above, a devliery of 2-3 items of food/meds with a generous two-hour timer.
4th rank is squire - that one involved the assassination of the waiting dame or a federation-ish general. never tried the dame, but the general popped up in the second uss I investigated. At the time I had two such missions running and the second general spawned in similar circumstances, but the reward didn't promote me.
5th rank is knight - much more time-consuming, as it uses the mercenary pirate-hunter template apparently. I was supposed to kill 4 pirate ships. The mission counter only registers kills in uss encounters - a pirate can be recognized by his investigation of your cargo hold and having wanted status. I also had two such missions running paralel, the first reward was indeed a promotion to knight, while the second - got me nothing. Proving the suspicion I had.
6th rank is lord - the most silly and simple ever - picked it up in SOCH and it wanted me to bring 3t of combat stabilizers - which were incidentally sold on-base.
7th rank is baron - to do it, I was supposed to haul 2 grain (cargo rpovided by employer) from Flammarion base in VELLIEP to Ikeya plant in the same system. Flammarion base owner neutral, empire friendly.

I'll stop ranking now up with the Empire now... I can't imagine anything sounding more badass than BARON PANZER.
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The 8th rank is viscount, and the mission is a standard data delivery mission.
The 9th rank is count, and the mission is another assassination mission.
The 10th rank is Earl, and the mission is hunting pirates.
 
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Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
I have not had luck with that myself, but I haven't played in a couple of versions unfortunately. :) I was hoping that it would be working by now.
 

OziBattla

OziBattla
I havent even manage to get an increase to Freindly for the Empire yet and I did over 100+ missions and allied with 1 faction and friendly with three other Empire friendly faction. Gotta by bugged but your the first I've seen even progress to Friendly, any tips? I have to be doing something wrong for me not to be friendly
 

Zephyr

Zephyr
OziBattla said:
I havent even manage to get an increase to Freindly for the Empire yet and I did over 100+ missions and allied with 1 faction and friendly with three other Empire friendly faction. Gotta by bugged but your the first I've seen even progress to Friendly, any tips? I have to be doing something wrong for me not to be friendly
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I tried to distribute my reputation. I'm not sure if you get a benefit grinding much with factions you are already allied with. So I'm allied with probably 5-7 sub-factions. I found a couple of systems that were only really adjacent to a single occupied system with a single station. This means virtually all the missions were for that one station allowing me to do 4-6 missions at the same time, which really speeds things up. Do easy donation missions if available. That's all the advice I can give!
 

Vasious

Vasious
I have seen one mission wanting combat stabilizer, but it was redded out as the time limit left was 5 minutes
 

MikeB

MikeB
Friendly with one faction (Empire Consulate), still neutral with the Empire and all other Empire factions. This no doubt is largely due to my trade, bounty hunting gains zero rep at present.
 

Zephyr

Zephyr
Vasious said:
I have seen one mission wanting combat stabilizer, but it was redded out as the time limit left was 5 minutes
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Where was that out of curiosity? I'm tempted to find a station that gives out one of these incredibly rare missions with a cargo-hold full of combat stabilizers and just accept them as I get them. That is, if I can find a single station in the known universe that sells combat stabilizers.
 

Hexcaliber

Hexcaliber
While I am not working on Empire rank I have started raising my federation rank, I started it off by handing in 5 of the Federation rank missions, then I was given the rank of novice and have since somehow advanced to the rank of recruit. I am only recognised as neutral by the Federation, although I am friendly to some factions within it.
 
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Zephyr

Zephyr
Hexcaliber said:
While I am not working on Empire rank I have started raising my federation rank, I started it off by handing in 5 of the Federation rank missions, then I was given the rank of novice and have since somehow advanced to the rank of recruit. I am only recognised as neutral by the Federation, although I am friendly to some factions within it.
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I know the federation missions seem to be working. The issue is, Empire ones are virtually non-existent.
 

Vasious

Vasious
Zephyr said:
Where was that out of curiosity? I'm tempted to find a station that gives out one of these incredibly rare missions with a cargo-hold full of combat stabilizers and just accept them as I get them. That is, if I can find a single station in the known universe that sells combat stabilizers.
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High Tech Dictatorships in the empire are a good place to look as they aren't usually illegal when there is a dictator calling the shots, very little is
 

MrGambler

MrGambler
Vasious said:
High Tech Dictatorships in the empire are a good place to look as they aren't usually illegal when there is a dictator calling the shots, very little is
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I've noticed a few high tech systems in the Empire give out getting 7 palladium missions for 170kish, costs 90 k to buy and the ports are usually one system over that you buy them from :D

Amassed over 600k with that one until they stopped for a while ;)
 

Zephyr

Zephyr
Vasious said:
High Tech Dictatorships in the empire are a good place to look as they aren't usually illegal when there is a dictator calling the shots, very little is
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Nice tip! I was looking for Anarchies, but that's a much better idea.

Edit: Amazing tip! Found one that sold combat stabilizers and had a progression mission. I'm officially rank "Outsider" woo!
 
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Vasious

Vasious
Zephyr said:
Nice tip! I was looking for Anarchies, but that's a much better idea.

Edit: Amazing tip! Found one that sold combat stabilizers and had a progression mission. I'm officially rank "Outsider" woo!
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Congratulations Mr Outsider (Doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Mr Midshipman)
 
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