Newcomer / Intro Federation ranking. Please help

GærneGribben · Jul 16, 2016

I'm now Rear Admiral. I took courier missions in TIANO.

Kyr One · Jul 16, 2016

Congrats!

Now you just have to raise 300M cr to actually buy and outfit the Corvette you grinded away your life to get permission to buy.

weakspleen · Jul 16, 2016

D.G.Cerberus said:
Try Tun.....used to be good for charity missions at least - not been back there since 2.1 though.....

I've been there 3 times in the past week. Hardly any credit donation missions. There were a handful of equipment or material donation missions on one of those visits. There are a ton of data delivery missions, but they are spread out in regards to distance and systems (took 2 missions to Moros... the stations are over 200,000 ls away from system entry point), it seems more effective to use Ceos/Sothis for data deliveries to gain rep.
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I've been spending time between Ceos/Sothis for data delivery/biowaste missions, Tun data and boom deliveries, and some RES / Nav beacon bounty hunting and data deliveries in my home system. Got a tricked out Vulture for home system fun!! That thing is awesome.

DarthFett75 · Sep 3, 2016

So, in conclusion, FD wants us to exploit the mission boards by mode swapping and not actually play the game proper? This blows my mind. There has to be something that FD sees about this that I don't...or anyone else apparently.

BigBANGtheory [VR] · Sep 3, 2016

I think they panicked when they saw what they thought was a long term game objective being achieved by too many and they capped the reputation rewards until they figure it out.

Chris Simon · Sep 3, 2016

DarthFett75 said:
So, in conclusion, FD wants us to exploit the mission boards by mode swapping and not actually play the game proper? This blows my mind. There has to be something that FD sees about this that I don't...or anyone else apparently.

No, they don't want us to exploit the mission boards reset on mode-switch. But there's not much they could do about it. The other option would be hard-code the missions so once you took all the missions, there would be nothing until next refresh, even if you left instance and returned back.
So it all boils down to whether you want to use exploits or you don't.

Codger · Sep 3, 2016

Here's how I did it. Not super fast but it worked.

[video=youtube_share;hS4AttJhcLI]https://youtu.be/hS4AttJhcLI[/video]

pipo zelvelder · Sep 3, 2016

kyr one said:
(After you establish at least cordial rep) CEOS and Sothis Mining are also great for making serious space bucks. Many multi-million credit missions are offered for long-haul (~400 LY) trips or even short hauls if you can smuggle successfully. In my Asp Explorer outfitted with 96 tons of cargo space, by cherry-picking at least 2X reward to cargo ratios, I can make 25+ million in about an hour.

A bit on the exaggerating side: If you also count the cherrypicking time etc. you won't come near the 25+ million an hour real play time, but you can make a few millions there. Seen it, been there and there was never ever anything over a few million for a long haul