I'm not talking about single hop missions. I spend about 10 minutes to get half dozen missions to 1 or 2 hop destinations. I go to the first station at 1 hop in 5 minutes. I usually limit missions to 2000LS destinations. From that 1st station, I pick up half dozen missions to the same set of destinations. At the 2nd destination 1 stop away, I take half dozen missions to the same destinations. And so on. Before long, I'm completing several missions at each single hop with some missions that eventually take me back to the original station so that I don't incur a wasted return trip without missions to complete at the beginning station. In short, take missions withhold a short radius from a central system. Pick the right central system where the surrounding systems have stations close to the star and you can get a good momentum going, especially if one or more of the factions are giving donation missions, like Taribes was doing.
How did you guys do it?
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I'm not talking about single hop missions. I spend about 10 minutes to get half dozen missions to 1 or 2 hop destinations. I go to the first station at 1 hop in 5 minutes. I usually limit missions to 2000LS destinations. From that 1st station, I pick up half dozen missions to the same set of destinations. At the 2nd destination 1 stop away, I take half dozen missions to the same destinations. And so on. Before long, I'm completing several missions at each single hop with some missions that eventually take me back to the original station so that I don't incur a wasted return trip without missions to complete at the beginning station. In short, take missions withhold a short radius from a central system. Pick the right central system where the surrounding systems have stations close to the star and you can get a good momentum going, especially if one or more of the factions are giving donation missions, like Taribes was doing.
Interesting method. I've had a hard time finding half a dozen missions to a single destination though. Most of the time there's only one, two, maybe three (especially specifically for Federation, since we're talking about ranking up, are you taking from all factions even the ones that don't add rank?). But I'll keep an out for this. Thanks for the tip.
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Thanks for all the advice guys. Currently 90% post captain so im almost there. 55 ursae majoris worked like a charm!
Err... why does your quote have my name on it?
Yeah, same. If running missions in the Tun cluster, then Aktzin and Moros are the ones to avoid. On the other hand, Taranis (love that tiny system with its little outpost) and Alrai are great as they only have a single destination, so all courier/hauling goes to the one place.
Either I slipped up when messing with multiquote (as I had replied to a post of yours earlier in the thread), or the forum derped. It's fixed now.
It's a pain, honestly, I haven't yet figured out how to keep multiquote from re-pasting multi-quoted posts I've already replied to when I visit the page a day later and decide to use multiquote again...short of going through message chains to make sure I de-select multiquote on those posts - like I said, a pain.
Either you're trying to trigger folks like me here, or you're an awful kidder. I can't tell which! (If you are actually playing 8 hours a day - which is an incredible feat - and it still takes you 6 months to do *anything*, you are doing everything horribly wrong.)
Thats how some of the grind in this game works if you dont "cheat" by switching game modes to reload bulletin boards.
I donated a few hundred million and ran data deliveries to grind my Fed rank for the Corvette.
For my Cutter I was stacking 20 surface scan missions at Quince prior to 2.3.
If you're not finding the exploit to mitigate the grind, then you're not doing it right; Grinding is repetitive and boring - I beg anyone to argue otherwise.
For my Cutter I was stacking 20 surface scan missions at Quince prior to 2.3.
If you're not finding the exploit to mitigate the grind, then you're not doing it right; Grinding is repetitive and boring - I beg anyone to argue otherwise.
Not true, I did the majority of my Empire ranking at various systems throughout the bubble without ever board-switching (which doesn't work anymore anyway, they fixed that), though some of it was while I was also doing other things. I think it might have taken me a couple weeks, rather than a few days, to finish ranking up to Cutter rank that way if I hadn't gone to Wu Guinagi & HIP 10716 instead.
A couple weeks is a far cry from 6 months.
Similar thing here.
I honestly didn't even notice that I was ranking-up in the Imperial navy.
I signed up to get an iCourier and then, over a period of a couple of months, I just did Imp' missions whenever I was in Imp' space and took whatever naval-rank missions showed up.
It was only when I got to Earl that I realised I must be getting close to the "pay off" and went down to Fehu to get my Cutter.
You've mentioned this a couple of times, and I would like to know what you mean. You can still get 20 missions (data to the same destination, specifically) by cycling the board at a single location, but it takes a lot more cycles than it did before 2.3.
I have 1.5 ranks to go, and if I keep spending credits like it's a job on Donations, I might not be able to buy it the way I would want to buy it, which is not the stock version.
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You can cycle the board once, but that's it until the next 10-minute-tick refresh comes along. One of the devs explained it somewhere, I saw it through browsing elitedevtracker.com.
And you could try *not* doing only donation missions? Just a thought!
Nope. Never mode switched, never will, still got a Cutter and more money than I can spend. The game works just fine without needing to cheat.
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Where's the fun in *playing* the game, when instead you could spend hours logging out and in again while posting on the forums that it's boring.