Newcomer / Intro Missions, Federation Rank, Trader rank

[Brieus]

Does doing source and return and/or deliver goods mission at a Federation owned station increase your Federation rank? Trying to climb above Warrant Officer.
And I'm also up to Tycoon for Trader rank so I'd like to make Elite sometime as well.

 

[the100thmonkey]

Does doing source and return and/or deliver goods mission at a Federation owned station increase your Federation rank?

Yes, but you have to take the marked rank-up mission to actually rank up. Your progress will accumulate in the background if you can't see a rank-up mission.

Trying to climb above Warrant Officer.

Support for the Federation will not be tolerated.

And I'm also up to Tycoon for Trader rank so I'd like to make Elite sometime as well.

Good luck!

 

[aRJay]

It isn’t the owner of the station that is most important but the alignment of the faction offering the mission.

The missions need to be offering Rep rewards and on completion you want to accept the reward with the most pluses after Rep.

When your rank according to your ship panel is 100% look for missions with the chain links icon and something like navy or naval in the title to actually rank up.