How do I rank up with Federation now?
- Thread starter Quester91
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Pray to President Halsey alien friends? I already have the ranks I need, did it before 2.0 if I remember right. Sadly the ranking system is horribly broken.
Do missions for Federation aligned Minor factions?
Maybe?
Maybe?
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I can only speak for levelling up with the Empire, but once you've reached 100%, you may still have to do a few more missions to reach "true" 100%. After that I visited a bunch of outposts which had nothing for me, but when I visited an actual station, there was a mission from the Imperial Navy. It wasn't called Imperial Navy Ascension Mission or anything similar to what it was called prior to 2.1, but once I finished the mission, I did indeed rank up. I'm afraid that's just one rank-up for a different faction, but I hope it helps. Also, I had to free up some cargo space to qualify for the mission as it involved transporting clothing to some planet.
Good luck!
Good luck!
This helps a lot, thank you!
I can confirm this works. Went to Tun (on advice that you can get ranks by donating however in 2 hrs I saw maybe two options to donate) and ran missions. Mainly cargo delivery. Once at the missions destination you can also pick up other, FEd aligned, missions. Seems slower than what was previously done but you can still get them none the less. If you try and stick to one main site you will build rep and so better missions become avail. This also earns you some credits at the same time. Unless there is a better system to pay for ranks now..?
Data delivery is a real easy way to rank up. Just take a HEAP and then go play postman.
Yeah - I think this is right. Rounding can account for it. You could be at 99.89889% and it will report 100% I'm sure. Just keep doing missions and it will come right.
I had a similar problem yesterday but have figured it out and managed to rank up to Warrant Officer today. The naval rank missions are associated with minor factions and have the word "naval" in them but they aren't specifically called ascension or promotion missions any longer. Also, you can only do them if you have enough rep with the specific local faction that issues the mission - you might be Allied with the Federation but you still have to grind to Friendly with the local faction. So your Naval missions are probably all tucked away in the unobtainable section of the mission board.
I found a place where I still have enough rep with the local Feds and was issued a pirate hunting mission. However, the missions definitely are bugged in that the emails I got to tell me that I could obtain promotion and then that I have successfully completed the mission were both blank and had the wrong rank in the titles. Plus once I'd killed the 8 pirates in the nominated system, when I checked on my transactions panel the text for the mission had changed to tell me to go kill 4 pirates in a totally different system with no acknowledgement that I'd met my quota. I just went back to the mission giver and handed it in anyway and it worked OK.
So the process still works, but it's cosmetically broken.
I do have a big gripe with the new mission description in that it no longer tracks your tally of mission kills. I totally lost track of what progress I'd made as mission targets were hardly spawning in the Nav Beacon where I was hiding among the cops to avoid getting stripped and shredded. Loads of wanted smugglers and pirates but no designated mission targets. It took about 90 minutes to complete, I had no idea how many were left to do, and I was a bit punch drunk by the time I got out of there. That was just from dealing with Adders, Cobras, DB Scouts, etc.
I found a place where I still have enough rep with the local Feds and was issued a pirate hunting mission. However, the missions definitely are bugged in that the emails I got to tell me that I could obtain promotion and then that I have successfully completed the mission were both blank and had the wrong rank in the titles. Plus once I'd killed the 8 pirates in the nominated system, when I checked on my transactions panel the text for the mission had changed to tell me to go kill 4 pirates in a totally different system with no acknowledgement that I'd met my quota. I just went back to the mission giver and handed it in anyway and it worked OK.
So the process still works, but it's cosmetically broken.
I do have a big gripe with the new mission description in that it no longer tracks your tally of mission kills. I totally lost track of what progress I'd made as mission targets were hardly spawning in the Nav Beacon where I was hiding among the cops to avoid getting stripped and shredded. Loads of wanted smugglers and pirates but no designated mission targets. It took about 90 minutes to complete, I had no idea how many were left to do, and I was a bit punch drunk by the time I got out of there. That was just from dealing with Adders, Cobras, DB Scouts, etc.
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So ranking does seem to be working as i have seen the "Federal Navy" missions BUT they are very rare (maybe too rare for the lower ranks that im after) & getting the rep with the minor factions can be annoying if they post missions you can't complete (because of the ship type/set up you currently have for example). Not complaining here but it's frustrating spending a number of hours at 100% searching between stations for a rank up mission when it's only the second (or third, depending on if you count no rank as one) rank you're after.
Did they say they tweaked this in the recent patch?
Did they say they tweaked this in the recent patch?