Need some help understanding how to progress with Federation

[Shadowed]

I got to admiral purely through donation mission stacking via mode switching in TUN.

If you have a spare 300 million credits, you can get to admiral in a day or two. What needs to happen is every time you swap modes, there will hopefully be four 1 million credit donations every time.

Fun level: 1/10

 

[tafkabb]

I went to NLTT 21440 and allied myself with all the Fed factions (five, I think). I got them all in boom, did endless missions for all of them and made a fair bit of money doing it. Not as fast as board hopping for donation missions, but far more fun.
There are two binary earth-likes there with a station around each, I flew between them picking up missions rather than board hopping/flipping.
I actually enjoyed grinding unlocking the Corvette

 

[CMDR Poet Starwind]

If you're inclined to do trading, find a terraforming system and haul biowaste missions for Fed factions. Stacking those can be quite lucrative, and gain you rank quickly, or at least fund donations. And courier missions help a lot too.

 

[kknd4eva]

Hi all, if I don't have enough rank with the 'skill' (e.g. Trading, Combat etc) to do the Navy mission that I've found, am I out of luck? And just have to grind more skill in those areas before I can do the Navy mission to further my Fed rank? I found a Navy mission for trading, but my Trade rank of 'Merchant' wasn't enough :/

 

[CptXabaras]

Hi all, if I don't have enough rank with the 'skill' (e.g. Trading, Combat etc) to do the Navy mission that I've found, am I out of luck? And just have to grind more skill in those areas before I can do the Navy mission to further my Fed rank? I found a Navy mission for trading, but my Trade rank of 'Merchant' wasn't enough :/

As far as i know rank restriction has been removed from the game (?). Rank might appear in red, if exceed your current one, but that should not prevent you from accepting the mission. Check if the proposed mission has some reward in terms of material or commodity and if you have enough cargo/data/material space available.