Question about combat rank

[Han Zulu]

I'm currently at rank Master and just killed a ship with Elite (NPC, not player). I had 33% in rank, and it's still at 33%. I thought killing ranks above you would bump up your rank faster? Like a percent point at least, or do I misunderstand this rank progression?

Second question, what's the faster way to "grind' combat rank. I'd like to get the rank up so open up the Jameson engineer, but it's painstakingly slow. Have to kill 20 ships to get a single percent. What, where, how to speed it up?

 

[Factabulous]

Thargoid scouts.

 

[Arry]

I'm currently at rank Master and just killed a ship with Elite (NPC, not player). I had 33% in rank, and it's still at 33%. I thought killing ranks above you would bump up your rank faster? Like a percent point at least, or do I misunderstand this rank progression?

Second question, what's the faster way to "grind' combat rank. I'd like to get the rank up so open up the Jameson engineer, but it's painstakingly slow. Have to kill 20 ships to get a single percent. What, where, how to speed it up?

There is a points system. Equal rank, 1 point, plus one rank, 2 points, etc etc.. This is probably not the correct points, but you get the idea.

As to moving up the percentages? The higher you go, the more points, between the percentage numbers.

 

[Han Zulu]

Thargoid scouts.

What kind of ship, outfitting, etc would I need for that? And what kind of battle tactics is best?

--edit:

Read up a little from the wiki link. Correct me if I'm wrong:

* Xeno weapons and/or ballistic, laser is pretty much useless, and guardian weapons aren't even mentioned (?)
* Agile ship, mid size, with good shields. So Chieftain maybe?
* Decon limpets
* I assume some analyze scanner is needed

 

[Han Zulu]

There is a points system. Equal rank, 1 point, plus one rank, 2 points, etc etc.. This is probably not the correct points, but you get the idea.

As to moving up the percentages? The higher you go, the more points, between the percentage numbers.

Ah. Ok. So 1 point isn't 1% step. I wonder how many points per %-step for Master.

I've seen the chart on ED Wiki, and supposedly I would get 1.75 points for the kill, so maybe there's 2 points between the percent steps on Master?

 

[xxThe_Dice_manxx]

To give you an idea how it scales check out:
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Combat

Over 2000 elite kills to move from deadly to elite.

Good luck cmdr o7

 

[Han Zulu]

To give you an idea how it scales check out:
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Combat

Over 2000 elite kills to move from deadly to elite.

Good luck cmdr o7

Yeah, I've seen that chart...

But it never clicked for me until you pointed it it. 2000 from Deadly to Elite. For some reason I was reading it as 2000 in total from scratch.

Dang. That's a lotta kills. That's some serious grind. Oh, well. Going on DW2 for 9 months, after that, I'll work on it again.