Help Understanding 'Rank' and how you can increase it

[Houdini Harden]

Hey all,

So I have been doing missions for the Empire with a friend, we are both the lowest ranks. I know the missions are for the empires minor faction as it has the symbol on the right hand side of the job board, so I know its not that. We have been doing mission non stop for the last couple of days now so as to get access to some of the ships. Our issue is that we are doing all these missions and he is at 77% 'Rank' and im not much further!?! We have done lots of missions and the Rank percentage its giving us for turning them in is just terrible, 2%, 1% ect ect.... Im just wondering if we are doing something wrong? Should we not be ranking up quite quickly, seeing that we are both unranked? I mean doing missions for these kinds of percentages is going to mean we are going to have to do a ridiculous amount of missions to get to rank 1 let alone rank 12-13-14 or whatever it goes to!?!? And if we are getting 1-2% at no rank what is it going to be like at level 3-4-5 and beyond!?!?!?

Can someone please help me understand how and what I should be looking for when taking missions? And what effects the 'Rank' percentage increase when you turn a mission in? When you take a mission it states the Reputation gain and Influence gain but not rank? What relates to what?

Someone PLEASE PLEASE help me! :S

 

[Shadowed]

Go to Cubeo's Roskam station on the surface. Keep quitting solo/group/open mode to main menu and accept all missions related to Metcalf Keep. Repeat this until you have at least 20 of them. Accumulating 20+ missions is the longest step, but you can watch a movie while doing it.

Go there, blow up the power plants, scan the thing on the roof (you can do this from the ground). Repeat. Takes a bit to figure out how to kill things in the correct order. I snipe all targets with 2 pa's but pretty much all kinetics work well. Even beams/bursts.

I'm making about 5 mil cr on each return and about 10-15% for my rank (Baron) each time.
Killing the power plant and running the scan take about 3 minutes after practice. I only kill about 4 sentries at a time before heading back. Kinetic weapons work really well against base defense.

It is pretty boring, and quitting back to main menu gets old fast. Ranking up sucks on this game. The other alternative is to go to Weaver station and using the quit exploit to do donations exclusively. Even more boring and becomes expensive in the long term.

 

[Macy]

Rep increases rank. Take missions with medium or high rep.