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Grinnygog

Grinnygog
Hello.
I've advanced to Baron 100% in Empire, so have been looking for the quest that will allow me to advance to Viscount.
I found an Imperial Navy Strike Contract to kill 8 smugglers belonging to the Cartel of Alacagui, which I think is the correct quest for advancement. I've killed a number of "wanted" NPCs in the Alacagui system that have been flagged as "mission target", but I'm not seeing anything in my transaction log that would indicate that the kills are counting towards quest completion. Each time I check the transaction after a kill it still says that I have to eliminate 8 smugglers. Am I doing something wrong? Does anyone have some advice on this puzzle please? Any help will be gratefully received. Thanks.
 

Codger

Codger
It sounds like you are doing the right things, if the ships say Mission Target on them. I’ve occasionally had a ship not count if it was part of a wing — only one ship would count. But that’s a known bug.

I’d submit a ticket and see what Frontier support says.
 

Grinnygog

Grinnygog
Greybeard_LXI said:
Do you have another kill mission? Maybe the mission targets are for the other one.
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I did initially find a quest to kill 24 smugglers in the Alacagui system, but the recommended combat level was Elite (which I'm nowhere near yet). So when I saw the quest to kill 8 smugglers, with only Mostly Harmless combat rank recommended, I deleted the former quest. Both quests were Imperial Navy ones, so I thought I'd take the easy option for just 8 smugglers. Maybe that could be the issue?
 

d8veh

d8veh
I never waste my time with those missions. they're always problematic. instead, ignore them and wait for a courier one. They're much more straight-forward and no risk.
 
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Grinnygog

Grinnygog
Picked up a courier job and did it in just a few minutes. Received my reward and have been promoted to Viscount, with 14% already towards the next promotion! Thanks for the help. Rep. given to those who helped.
 
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Mano d'Oro

Mano d'Oro
Any mission with 'Navy' or 'Naval' in the title is a rank-up mission; as D8veh says above the courier missions are easiest/quickest, along with cargo transport. Though I do recall doing an Imperial Navy Black Box retrieval mission which was fun... picking them up (only 2 of them, it was fairly low-ranking) as fast as possible and bailing before the 'Conda and two ViperIII's which dropped in could catch me! :)
 

Grinnygog

Grinnygog
An update on this:-
It seems that the smugglers that I did eliminate were counting towards the quest completion. I had kept the quest in my transaction log, then decided to go after some other smugglers. I eliminated one more and lo and behold I got a "quest complete" notification. So, even though you can't see the smuggler count decreasing in the log, each eliminated smuggler still counts.
 
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