Hell of a graft to Deadly

lovely lovely · Jul 14, 2015

Have FD moved the goal posts for ranking up? Just hit deadly and there's some large numbers in kills now. Pretty sure there's a thread around showing approximate number of kills per rank and remember seeing around 8000 was Elite.

------------Dangerous--------------------Deadly------------------- Difference
Bounty 1,830 (41,378,274)-----4,134 (91,943,104)------2,304 Kills (50,564,830 cr)
Bonds 1,142 (15,767,667)-----2,572 (59,957.667)------1,430 Kills (44,190,000 cr)

Cant be looking at another 4000+ Bounties and 2500+ kills for Elite now is it?
Gonna need a new keyboard and mouse if so

SongMinKi · Jul 14, 2015

lovely lovely said:
Have FD moved the goal posts for ranking up? Just hit deadly and there's some large numbers in kills now. Pretty sure there's a thread around showing approximate number of kills per rank and remember seeing around 8000 was Elite.

------------Dangerous--------------------Deadly------------------- Difference
Bounty 1,830 (41,378,274)-----4,134 (91,943,104)------2,304 Kills (50,564,830 cr)
Bonds 1,142 (15,767,667)-----2,572 (59,957.667)------1,430 Kills (44,190,000 cr)

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Cant be looking at another 4000+ Bounties and 2500+ kills for Elite now is it?
Gonna need a new keyboard and mouse if so

the transition from deadly to elite is waaay more tedious. tore my hair out nearly

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looks like this basically. i hit elite a short while ago hm, looks like my assassination count glitched out LOL

Senex VII · Jul 14, 2015

Congrats! Please remember that you're interested in the quality of your kills not merely the quantity. Quality = the rank of your opponent. For example, if you now make another 4000 kills of opponents who are entirely Mostly Harmless , don't expect to make much progress!

Elan · Jul 14, 2015

Not to mention that any kills you rack up for power play do not show on your stats panel

spullara · Jul 14, 2015

I reached Deadly a couple of days ago. I stopped killing ships the moment I went over the mark. The next day went to a CZ and only killed Elite ships. It took exactly 20 ships to go from 0% to 1%. I don't think the size of the ship matters but here it is: 5 pythons, 4 vultures, 1 anaconda, 3 cobras, 4 eagles, 2 asps, 1 viper. It matters very much what rank of ship that you kill. I may try just killing Deadly ships next to see how many of them that it takes. Deadly -> Elite = minimum 2000 kills.

Carro · Jul 14, 2015

spullara said:
I reached Deadly a couple of days ago. I stopped killing ships the moment I went over the mark. The next day went to a CZ and only killed Elite ships. It took exactly 20 ships to go from 0% to 1%. I don't think the size of the ship matters but here it is: 5 pythons, 4 vultures, 1 anaconda, 3 cobras, 4 eagles, 2 asps, 1 viper. It matters very much what rank of ship that you kill. I may try just killing Deadly ships next to see how many of them that it takes. Deadly -> Elite = minimum 2000 kills.

Size of ship doesn't matter as long as they are at least Dangerous. Count on around an average of 30 kills per % going from Deadly to Elite.

Shanaeri · Jul 14, 2015

If I remember rightly it was approximately double the number of kills at deadly or above to get to elite from Deadly as it was to get from dangerous to deadly.

lovely lovely · Jul 14, 2015

Cor blimey, hats off to all of you there - that's some effort indeed.
Yeah, tried to focus on just dangerous and above the last couple of weeks especially with the around 400 kills in CZ that were all mostly harmless after the 1.3 patch hit. Just cant resist that eagle that wanders in front - well it only takes a capacitor to strip it and rip it after all

Tell you what though - mission rewards shoot up some!!!

Roguey · Jul 14, 2015

spullara said:
It matters very much what rank of ship that you kill.

Indeed, when the RES points were bugged (with all harmless), my combat rank didnt move at all. However when you bugged it the otherway - so all ships were Elite, then the rank went flying up. No matter if it was an Anaconda or a Sidewinder.

Guidebot · Jul 14, 2015

It is indeed a hard grind. I'm at 10% Deadly (90% until Elite). I spend most of my time killing but I think I'm probably lucky to get 1-2% an hour of killing. This is against targets of all ranks but mostly Master+, in HIRESs and CZs.

I don't really have a problem with it tbh. It should be a damn hard thing to get to that involves a lot of effort and time; that's what the badge means after all.

Macros Black · Jul 14, 2015

Guidebot said:
It is indeed a hard grind. I'm at 10% Deadly (90% until Elite). I spend most of my time killing but I think I'm probably lucky to get 1-2% an hour of killing. This is against targets of all ranks but mostly Master+, in HIRESs and CZs.

I don't really have a problem with it tbh. It should be a damn hard thing to get to that involves a lot of effort and time; that's what the badge means after all.

1-2% per hour sounds about right, spent the last few weeks getting to Elite in High Intensity CZ's, shooting at all the red thingy's.