Empire ranking missions - please, please sort these out FD

[Jon Jaymes]

From rhe Empire rank progression thread, there seems to be 1 common theme - a 10 minute timer to supply the wanted commodity. This effectively makes these missions impossible except by sheer random chance that you have the commodity in your hold. There is no time given to source the commodity and return.

I doubt this is the case with the Federal missions as I have seen ppl on these forums claiming a rank of Midshipman i.e. the 3rd rank level but no-one has mentioned getting above Outsider with the Empire. These Midshipmen would seem to be genuine as the name of this rank would not be obvious, since it is obsolete in the Royal Navy afaik.

This cannot be the intended way these missions should work, so please sort them out and give people a chance to get ranks in the Imperial military. The way it worked in Frontier and FFE was so much better!

Thank you,
Jon Jaymes

 

[Torgamatic]

About the same for fed. Had to supply non-lethal weapons to station in times ranging from 11min. to one at 34. (made that one) Had found out where nearest port was that supplied and bee-lined that mission. After that next 2 ranks had over 3 hrs to complete. 4th requires combat , with Imperal sympathizer, in an anaconda (I think), tried in cobra, cant get it to even spawn at USS. So bugged? or wont in that small of a ship. (no idea)