They'll have forgotten.
i hope so, i almost killed my self to get the Elite rank so i can join there
Yeh I can imagine the volume of CZs you had to do must have been brutal. That rank goes up by far the slowest I've seen any rank go up (Triple elite myself and Combat rank goes up way faster, despite being the slowest before).
CQC has never worked for this either - though that one does have its own Shinrarta-lite permit available at approximately Champion rank
We must be missing some exploit there.
Heh no. It doesn't go up at all (or at least so slowly, it's impercetable) unless you kill CZ targets. Fdev forgot to add experience points for killing anyone. Elite combat rank goes up regardless of what you blow up in your ship. All targets count towards it.
Actually you said nothing which conflicts with my statement.
I'd find it hard to contradict a vague guess. I didn't say "no" because I thought you were wrong because I can't prove that. I said no because that's not the cause of the issue.
If you can't rank fast does not means that "there's an exploit", just play and figure out what's the most efficient way
because you need a real Elite rank, Combat (space) trading or exploration, or a founders permit.
According to ingame logic, he has one.
Thanks for the question - It just made me aware of Mercenary Ranking - I hadn't noticed that until you asked about it - Doh !
Well, that's what the Wiki says, but the wiki is out of date, i hope they add it later
Mercenary Elite rank is not the same and will not give you access, unless FDEV said it would. Merc and commanders is notthe same as far as I understood it, but I could be wrong.
Well they should remove them from the CMDR screen in the RHS panel then. They either should mean something ingame, or not. To me, they are all there so that, whatever the CMDR is interested in, they can achieve Elite. If its all on foot stuff, so be it. They are, legitimately, Elite.
