Fed/Empire Rank Progression completely borked since 1.06 ?

[Coar]

Yes, I did ticket it.

Rank progressions seems even more screwy than before 1.06. Or maybe it just became more obvious:

For Federation I am still stuck at Chief Petty Officer and no amount of trading, missions, bounty hunting changes that. I don't get any new missions. I am Allied with the Federation. Nothing new there.

Since last patch, I have access to Vega, Hors and Exbeur permits though, which are the mission rewards for (up to ) Lt. Commander Rank.

Something's very wrong there.

Last night, I started my Empire progression. After 3 Naval Progression quests, but I am still Outsider (no system permit - which seems fine). I seem to remember a more rapid advancement in the beginning from my Federation days.



Is this a widespread issue or am I a unique little snowflake?

 

[Rubellen]

I have the same issues with Empire ranking ... Maybe we should try to keep on doing missions and is the number of missions requiered to gain rep altered?

 

[catanonia]

Try moving systems. When you complete the mission are the reputation markers in the mission summary showing 0% instead of 1%

If so, you have run the system dry (or bug) so move systems. Happened to me in the Empire and spent days trying to work it out until I saw all my missions = 0% result to Empire. Moved to another Empire System and very 1 completed mission was 1% on Empire and the ranking missions came back.

 

[Zhanny]

Yes, I did ticket it.

Rank progressions seems even more screwy than before 1.06. Or maybe it just became more obvious:

For Federation I am still stuck at Chief Petty Officer and no amount of trading, missions, bounty hunting changes that. I don't get any new missions. I am Allied with the Federation. Nothing new there.

Since last patch, I have access to Vega, Hors and Exbeur permits though, which are the mission rewards for (up to ) Lt. Commander Rank.

Something's very wrong there.

Last night, I started my Empire progression. After 3 Naval Progression quests, but I am still Outsider (no system permit - which seems fine). I seem to remember a more rapid advancement in the beginning from my Federation days.



Is this a widespread issue or am I a unique little snowflake?

U are an unique little snowflake with a personality like a soft yummy bear that everyone wants to hug and we love you dearly, but no its a widespread issue

 

[QSL]

I was stuck in chief petty officer too, but after 1.06 I've managed to complete two rank missions, but recieved only 1 rank up to warrent officer and stuck again. Unawailiable mission for sector permit I have and no more rank progression missons. =(

 

[Coar]

U are an unique little snowflake with a personality like a soft yummy bear that everyone wants to hug and we love you dearly, but no its a widespread issue

Awww... I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

What I meant though is that: Do people get systems permits (as of 1.06) while not having the appropriate rank? I know that there have been issues with people stuck at various ranks.

 

[catanonia]

Try moving systems. When you complete the mission are the reputation markers in the mission summary showing 0% instead of 1%

If so, you have run the system dry (or bug) so move systems. Happened to me in the Empire and spent days trying to work it out until I saw all my missions = 0% result to Empire. Moved to another Empire System and very 1 completed mission was 1% on Empire and the ranking missions came back.

Just to repeat. try this, it has been like this for ages

 

[Yokai]

To the OP: nope.

Read the purple link below in my sig block. There is a rhyme and reason to what you are incorrectly perceiving as a "bug".

 

[GibMeister]

Yes, I did ticket it.

Rank progressions seems even more screwy than before 1.06. Or maybe it just became more obvious:

For Federation I am still stuck at Chief Petty Officer and no amount of trading, missions, bounty hunting changes that. I don't get any new missions. I am Allied with the Federation. Nothing new there.

Since last patch, I have access to Vega, Hors and Exbeur permits though, which are the mission rewards for (up to ) Lt. Commander Rank.

Something's very wrong there.

Last night, I started my Empire progression. After 3 Naval Progression quests, but I am still Outsider (no system permit - which seems fine). I seem to remember a more rapid advancement in the beginning from my Federation days.



Is this a widespread issue or am I a unique little snowflake?

I dont want to cast aspersions, but the 'fixes' were just hack jobs, I am still Chief Petty Officer and stuck here, got same issue I have always had, every Fed system i go to I see the same Federation Mission but it is unobtainable as I already have the Permit to PLX 695, yeh after 1.0 I now have about 8 permits to everywhere probably when I had 2 before. But I still cant do anything....
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You know what annoys me.. its that FDEV say they are players of the game.....I dont think so! If they were they would know exactly what the issues are without us moaning here all the time!
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To add to it, last night I had to play SOLO as I couldnt dock at my stations in Open - Request Denied! continually, there were a few real players around, never seen any in my sector before last night...??? Is this because something has been bodged? Have they put everyone in the same instance?
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I don't know, this game is a single player game that has been hacked to play multi very badly! I was in a good mood until this patch, I am starting to get the feeling that 95% of the FDEV team are working on major parts of the game and the girl/guy in customer helpdesk is fixing things....
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Another thing, I dont give a fig whether we have fancy clouds and lights on the dark side of planets I want the gameplay to work as intended, these superficial additions do nothing for me whilst there are broken bits everywhere.

 

[Coar]

Just to repeat. try this, it has been like this for ages

I did. I actually rose from Friendly to Allied with Fed by doing missions, roaming. Rank always stays the same (Chief Petty Officer).

To the OP: nope.

Read the purple link below in my sig block. There is a rhyme and reason to what you are incorrectly perceiving as a "bug".

Thanks! That was an interesting read. But I am not sure it explains all of it.

1.) One Progression Mission = 1 Rank does not work for me. 3 Naval Progression missions = Still Outsider.
2.) I rose from being Neutral with Federation and Rank Chief Petty Officer to Allied with Federation and Chief Petty Officer in the last 3 weeks. The RNG is either really REALLY unhappy with me or something is stuck there.
3.) Patch 1.06 awarded me with all Federation system permits up to Lt. Cmdr despite me never getting the invitation missions nor the appropriate rank.

How is that explained?

I have a theory:

I remember doing back to back progression quests with the Federation (same quest) at Chief Petty Officer. Now I did 3 Naval Progression quests (same quest: personal weapons) at Outsider. Maybe redoing the rank-appropriate progression missions somehow gets you stuck at that rank?

 

[Yokai]

I did. I actually rose from Friendly to Allied with Fed by doing missions, roaming. Rank always stays the same (Chief Petty Officer).



Thanks! That was an interesting read. But I am not sure it explains all of it.

1.) One Progression Mission = 1 Rank does not work for me. 3 Naval Progression missions = Still Outsider.
2.) I rose from being Neutral with Federation and Rank Chief Petty Officer to Allied with Federation and Chief Petty Officer in the last 3 weeks. The RNG is either really REALLY unhappy with me or something is stuck there.
3.) Patch 1.06 awarded me with all Federation system permits up to Lt. Cmdr despite me never getting the invitation missions nor the appropriate rank.

How is that explained?

I have a theory:

I remember doing back to back progression quests with the Federation (same quest) at Chief Petty Officer. Now I did 3 Naval Progression quests (same quest: personal weapons) at Outsider. Maybe redoing the rank-appropriate progression missions somehow gets you stuck at that rank?

Wow. That does indeed sound like a bug. Perhaps amend your support ticket to point at this thread too, for more context for whomever in FD Support finally looks at the ticket?

 

[rote1]

I dont want to cast aspersions, but the 'fixes' were just hack jobs, I am still Chief Petty Officer and stuck here, got same issue I have always had, every Fed system i go to I see the same Federation Mission but it is unobtainable as I already have the Permit to PLX 695, yeh after 1.0 I now have about 8 permits to everywhere probably when I had 2 before. But I still cant do anything....
.
You know what annoys me.. its that FDEV say they are players of the game.....I dont think so! If they were they would know exactly what the issues are without us moaning here all the time!
.
To add to it, last night I had to play SOLO as I couldnt dock at my stations in Open - Request Denied! continually, there were a few real players around, never seen any in my sector before last night...??? Is this because something has been bodged? Have they put everyone in the same instance?
.
I don't know, this game is a single player game that has been hacked to play multi very badly! I was in a good mood until this patch, I am starting to get the feeling that 95% of the FDEV team are working on major parts of the game and the girl/guy in customer helpdesk is fixing things....
.
Another thing, I dont give a fig whether we have fancy clouds and lights on the dark side of planets I want the gameplay to work as intended, these superficial additions do nothing for me whilst there are broken bits everywhere.

Wow, we can clearly see you are not in a good mood anymore.
Other than that I pretty much don't agree with anything you said.
So seeing players is now a bug, huh? weird...

 

[Anton_]

I've managed to get to Count and to Lt Cmdr, both while operating out of the same Federation and then Empire star systems. I was stuck at Ensign and then later at Baron for ages, and then suddenly got bumped up 2 ranks in quick succession in both Allegiances. I'm now hammering Empire tasks to try to get to Earl and then I'll go back to Federation to work on Post Cmdr.

 

[GibMeister]

Wow, we can clearly see you are not in a good mood anymore.
Other than that I pretty much don't agree with anything you said.
So seeing players is now a bug, huh? weird...

Well if you dont agree that there is still an unfixed bug with the federation Missions explain why?
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Seeing players, when I have never seen any in my system before but after 1.06, the minute i login there are at least 6 I saw docking at a remote Outpost and more probably because i couldnt dock, I was sat there for ages until i got fed up and went to SOLO. Perhaps it was coincidence.... perhaps it was because they had issues with the servers yesterday (which they did) and put more people on the same instance?
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Just because you dont like what I say doesnt mean its not correct... you're making me mad again ;-0 Whats your commander name, I'm coming for you! ;-)

 

[rote1]

Well if you dont agree that there is still an unfixed bug with the federation Missions explain why?
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Seeing players, when I have never seen any in my system before but after 1.06, the minute i login there are at least 6 I saw docking at a remote Outpost and more probably because i couldnt dock, I was sat there for ages until i got fed up and went to SOLO. Perhaps it was coincidence.... perhaps it was because they had issues with the servers yesterday (which they did) and put more people on the same instance?
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Just because you dont like what I say doesnt mean its not correct... you're making me mad again ;-0 Whats your commander name, I'm coming for you! ;-)

Hehe, don't let your feelings cloud your eyes - my name is right in my sig
I am not saying what you are writing is incorrect, simply that I don't agree.
Isn't it nice that you are suddenly seeing players in open?
Though not being able to land is kinda dumb, I am sure that will be fixes soon, some sort of landing queue is probably coming.

 

[Coar]

Wow. That does indeed sound like a bug. Perhaps amend your support ticket to point at this thread too, for more context for whomever in FD Support finally looks at the ticket?

Good idea. Just did that.

 

[Kubicide]

Well, rank progression is working fine for me in 1.06. Was able to rank up last night and also get more missions to progress. Perhaps the bug is related to the save some how.

Note there seems to be a bug or something that limits how quickly you can progress but it's been here since gamma. This occurs when you complete a mission and get a rank increase and if you try to complete more rank missions that same night then you won't necessarily see an increase even though they appear to be (different) rank missions. These would often trigger a permit but no more ranks. Coming back and doing the same mission a day or so later was fine and you would get the new rank. At least this is what I've seen.

Only thing to suggest is make sure you're doing all the right tasks to make the rank mission offers appear. There's a pattern of tasks that needs to be done to make the rank missions appear - at least that's what I've seen in getting to Lt Cmdr (and also in becoming Allied with a faction).

 

[Coar]

Interesting. What "pattern of tasks" is that?

 

[mosh_er]

Try moving systems. When you complete the mission are the reputation markers in the mission summary showing 0% instead of 1%

If so, you have run the system dry (or bug) so move systems. Happened to me in the Empire and spent days trying to work it out until I saw all my missions = 0% result to Empire. Moved to another Empire System and very 1 completed mission was 1% on Empire and the ranking missions came back.

Yip that was my experience as well. I went from system to system becoming friendly with as many of the main factions as possible by doing their missions. This seemed to do the trick. Got to baron, now have a nice imperial clipper for trading in instead of the awful T7 brick.

 

[Kubicide]

Re: Coar

Donations and missions only for the main faction and sector sub-factions both. Think the donation missions have a real strong impact.

Also believe there's a connection with rep. And with rep there appears to be something in having to become allied with "xx" many or at least allied to all in same faction within a star system to help expedite advancement. Exploration sales also seem to have a big impact.

At least this has been my experience so far!