Grinding ranks

[Icybow73]

I apologize for another thread about this, but I just want more specific answers.

I want to grind fed rank for a corvette(duh). I tried the Sothis/Ceos route, but didn't make much doing data deliveries. I'm doing missions in my DBX, so I should be able to stack a good amount of missions yes? I'm only at cheif petty officer, and I'm getting slow progress.

As for imperial rank, I dont really know where to go to start with, but getting a cutter isnt as important to me as corvette.

Please give specific answers if I'm looking in the wrong place or if I'm doing something wrong.

 

[Faded Glory]

Make sure that the missions you take are for minor factions aligned to the Federation. If they are not specifically aligned (i.e independant) then the missions won't increase your Federation rank.

Find a system or systems that have as many Federally aligned minor factions as possible to increase the amount of missions you can choose from.

It's also worth handing in bounties (or combat bonds) for Federally aligned factions as that will typically increase your superpower rank faster than other activities (because the superpower ranks are considered military ranks...).

 

[War Eagle]

Kremainn, only take from faction rep none of the others.

 

[Craith]

Just don't grind. It will make you bitter about the game, and the rank will feel hollow. Have fun whatever you do, and choose factions of the superpower you want to raise rank. It will take longer, but as long as you have fun ...

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Just don't grind. It will make you bitter about the game, and the rank will feel hollow. Have fun whatever you do, and choose factions of the superpower you want to raise rank. It will take longer, but as long as you have fun ...

What if I want to fly a Gunship and equip 6 beams for the fun of it?

 

[Craith]

If the rest of the game is still fun for you, play it and soon you'll have your gunship, which you may or may not like (hopefully the first).

If the rest of the game is no fun to you the gunship won't change that.

Some people like repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again - as long as they have fun doing it, they are doing it right IMHO. If not, they should do different things.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

If the rest of the game is still fun for you, play it and soon you'll have your gunship, which you may or may not like (hopefully the first).

If the rest of the game is no fun to you the gunship won't change that.

Some people like repeatedly doing the same thing over and over again - as long as they have fun doing it, they are doing it right IMHO. If not, they should do different things.

True - the gunship wont change it now. It might have retained some of my fun if it hadnt been a completely useless month spent running missions with rep going up only in single digit range. When I still played ED.

 

[Factabulous]

True - the gunship wont change it now. It might have retained some of my fun if it hadnt been a completely useless month spent running missions with rep going up only in single digit range. When I still played ED.

So you're saying to take the advice of an ex-player who burned out because they grinded? Interesting.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

So you're saying to take the advice of an ex-player who burned out because they grinded? Interesting.

It's better to cheese it than just trying to unlock by playing is what I'm saying.

 

[Nadreck]

I recently ranked-up to Rear Admiral at Ceos/Sothis. But not doing data deliveries, I soon realised that would take too long. There are good cargo delivery missions, I used a 600t capacity Cutter and did a circuit: the 4 Large-pad stations in Ceos (including the planetary one) and the two in Sothis (ignoring the distant planetary), taking only cargo and data missions offered by "Federation Unite".

Data deliveries do work for Imperial rank, on the Ngalinn route, where you can often stack the maximum of 20 in one direction (Imperial factions only).

 

[GraphiteGB]

The best rank up for rep missions are currently not in the game any longer when stations stopped getting attacked... they ended the missions...
Escape pod and passenger missions from burning stations for rep rewards are currently disabled in the game these were very short range missions...
Also you can pay your way to rank up still. Charity missions give you rank instead of money for collect items and they give you rank instead of money... and then there are the direct you give them money Charity missions were you get rank boost for money...

There is a hard fixed number of missions you can take even if you find a good fed system the game locks it to 20 missions, the escape pod missions by passed this because you collected the pods first and then selected missions and they auto completed..

 

[Craith]

It's better to cheese it than just trying to unlock by playing is what I'm saying.

Well, I got my Corvette without grinding ... and I still have fun playing. I did grind for money for 2 days back in the days in my Type 6 to get to the Asp, nearly stopped playing. Instead I stopped grinding, got my Asp a bit later but enjoyed the journey.

Elite is a game about the journey - and only you choose which way you want to go.

 

[War Eagle]

Already earned the rank for the Vette back in July now working on the Cutter. I don't mind grinding for ranks- it's what I like so far, but engineering not so much.

 

[House0fDerp]

Well, I got my Corvette without grinding ... and I still have fun playing. I did grind for money for 2 days back in the days in my Type 6 to get to the Asp, nearly stopped playing. Instead I stopped grinding, got my Asp a bit later but enjoyed the journey.

Elite is a game about the journey - and only you choose which way you want to go.

If I played then when I was grinding like I do now I still wouldn't have my corvette.

I don't really touch the mission system unless I have to or a war gets dropped in my home system.

 

[Jaffz]

Just don't grind. It will make you bitter about the game, and the rank will feel hollow. Have fun whatever you do, and choose factions of the superpower you want to raise rank. It will take longer, but as long as you have fun ...

Is this a wind up? Why do people have to post this in every thread? Bore off and stop telling him he's playing it wrong

op: for imperial rank go to Aditi and run data missions between the two stations in that system to the planetary base in the next one (can't remeeber the name), use the money you make for donations and buy your way up the ranks

 

[Icybow73]

Just don't grind. It will make you bitter about the game, and the rank will feel hollow. Have fun whatever you do, and choose factions of the superpower you want to raise rank. It will take longer, but as long as you have fun ...

I want to have fun in a corvette

I recently ranked-up to Rear Admiral at Ceos/Sothis. But not doing data deliveries, I soon realised that would take too long. There are good cargo delivery missions

I thought about doing that in my annie

 

[Florenus]

Is this a wind up? Why do people have to post this in every thread? Bore off and stop telling him he's playing it wrong

People post it in every thread, because this is good advice.
When someone starts running marathon like it's a sprint, then it's good to caution him.

 

[Jaffz]

People post it in every thread, because this is good advice.
When someone starts running marathon like it's a sprint, then it's good to caution him.

A greater player descends from mount knowledge, to tell us how to play properly

Or maybe we could just give the OP the advice he's asking for without the lecture

 

[Florenus]

A greater player descends from mount knowledge, to tell us how to play properly

Or maybe we could just give the OP the advice he's asking for without the lecture

I suspect your vast knowledge of "grinding" helped you enjoy the game?
Because, I assume, you like, play and enjoy the game?

OP can do what he wants. But he should be cautioned > people who "grind" eventually complain. People, who don't grind tend to enjoy the game.

 

[House0fDerp]

I suspect your vast knowledge of "grinding" helped you enjoy the game?
Because, I assume, you like, play and enjoy the game?

OP can do what he wants. But he should be cautioned > people who "grind" eventually complain. People, who don't grind tend to enjoy the game.

Not aimed at me, but generally I do, though that doesn't mean I don't think it could be improved or that, from experience, your advice holds true in all cases.

Also, people who don't grind seem to have this issue with turning things into a dichotomy, where you either complain or enjoy the game, but to no degree can you do both. I can love combat and hate surface prospecting. It didn't make prospecting for engineer unlocks any better no matter how spread out. Better to not need to revisit it if it's not fun in any dosage, right?