Imperial rank of serf. Takin a while

Drelthar · Jul 18, 2015

Just wondering if there is anything specific I'm not doing here, just ran about twenty five missions, across about 7 imperial systems, all for imperial minor factions, 3 differenet imperial minor factions. Is this not enough to get one Imperial rank mission? I just ended up with fed missions on my first day of playing without even knowing what was going on.

Anyone got some advice?

Surly_Badger · Jul 18, 2015

Run 10 or so (maybe more) missions for one faction at one empire station. Avoid rebel factions, just go with imperial values parties. Then when you get your promotion quest, do it, turn it in, then move to another empire station and do missions there.

Kobune · Jul 18, 2015

You need about 32 missions for the Serf rank or 48 if starting from scratch https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=165258

And you don't have to change systems, just keep up with a few more missions there and you should get the rank up soon.

Last but not least, have at least 24 mil free cash.

faytar · Jul 18, 2015

i have run enough missions to get to allied with the empire and still not got one lol plus about 17 mil in bounties

still working on the first navel rank

OnePercent · Jul 18, 2015

faytar said:
i have run enough missions to get to allied with the empire and still not got one lol plus about 17 mil in bounties still working on the first navel rank

only do missions for the same minor faction in a system, It is shown under the mission title, doing any missions at an imperial station can mean you're doing missions for the enemy, which has a sort of 2 steps forward 3 steps back effect.

SongMinKi · Jul 18, 2015

faytar said:
i have run enough missions to get to allied with the empire and still not got one lol plus about 17 mil in bounties still working on the first navel rank

Please, I've turned in over 400M Cr worth of combat bonds and bounties for the empire and im still sitting at Serf. Honestly the current progression system is buggered. Apparently the way to climb the naval ranks is to be a charity philanthropist instead of fighting the empire's enemies along with their navy

Surly_Badger · Jul 18, 2015

SongMinKi said:
Please, I've turned in over 400M Cr worth of combat bonds and bounties for the empire and im still sitting at Serf.

Are you doing it all at one system?
(Maybe combat bonds and bounties don't count for progression) The trick is to get allied status with imperial stations. Which means "more than one" imperial station - you have to move from station to station as you get allied.

Pile_O_Gunz · Jul 18, 2015

Is there a time limit on the deal where we can get the clipper with serf rank ? I suspect I still got a number of missions to go to get from outsider to serf.

Kobune · Jul 18, 2015

Surly_Badger said:
Are you doing it all at one system?
(Maybe combat bonds and bounties don't count for progression) The trick is to get allied status with imperial stations. Which means "more than one" imperial station - you have to move from station to station as you get allied.

Please stop spreading wrong information. You don't have to be allied or move to different stations.

Pile_O_Gunz · Jul 18, 2015

I noticed when I became allied through normal trading I got the first promotion mission. If I continue to trade will I gain rep and unlock the 2nd mission or do I have to do bulletin board missions ? T7 is not really cut out for missions not being able to dock at outposts so I bought a cobra just for the missions if necessary but would rather not fly it.

Udayana · Jul 18, 2015

MidiPrefix said:
Just wondering if there is anything specific I'm not doing here, just ran about twenty five missions, across about 7 imperial systems, all for imperial minor factions, 3 differenet imperial minor factions. Is this not enough to get one Imperial rank mission? I just ended up with fed missions on my first day of playing without even knowing what was going on.

Anyone got some advice?

Interessting. I'm going to monitor your progress on this. By the way, i'm stuck at Lord since gamma

I just want that next rank to finally go for the Clipper .

Heard about that charity mission thing, did a couple of hundred. Still nothing..

OnePercent · Jul 18, 2015

Udayana said:
Interessting. I'm going to monitor your progress on this. By the way, i'm stuck at Lord since gamma I just want that next rank to finally go for the Clipper .

Heard about that charity mission thing, did a couple of hundred. Still nothing..

you know that to get clipper has been changed to serf right?

Udayana · Jul 18, 2015

%OnePercent% said:
you know that to get clipper has been changed to serf right?

What? omg i completely missed that announcement. Thanks for the info. Clipper here i come!!!

Quineloe · Jul 18, 2015

Ranking is currently considered broken by quite a few players. I'd hold off until FD fixes it or declares it the intended grind.

Kobune · Jul 19, 2015

Pile_O_Gunz said:
I noticed when I became allied through normal trading I got the first promotion mission. If I continue to trade will I gain rep and unlock the 2nd mission or do I have to do bulletin board missions ? T7 is not really cut out for missions not being able to dock at outposts so I bought a cobra just for the missions if necessary but would rather not fly it.

Do you remember if you had done any regular missions for Empire minor factions before the ascension opportunity popped up, or you only did trading for Empire?

Drelthar · Jul 19, 2015

Well, just di another ten or so missions for empire alligned factions, still nothing yet!

Pile_O_Gunz · Jul 20, 2015

MidiPrefix said:
Well, just di another ten or so missions for empire alligned factions, still nothing yet!

I did about 5more missions and became allied with 2 more empire factions through trade still no serf opportunity