It doesn't work. You'd have to kill about 100,000 or more pirates to get to Elite because the ranks of the pirates in the low RES don't give enough progess points. - if any at all.
Question on AFK play
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Someone else also said that after you get to a certain rank, low levels stop counting towards the next rank. So that's good to know. I think I'm at Master which I'm not sure is high enough to trigger that effect? I have a T-10 though not engineered, it's on the todo list as think it would be a good way for me to earn some credits whilst recording my records, as I need to focus on that but still would allow me to jump in and out when I can, so it wouldn't be a totally AFK build either, I don't see me leaving it overnight or anything. Not that I'm bothered about those who do or anything.
Let the ship defend itself and harvest mats, or fly the SLF. All in all it's quite fun!
For AFK, you need the shields maxed out with engineering and Guardian shield boosters. and you need long-range lasers. My T10 has 8000MJ thermal resistance, and I still have to help it out sometimes. An unengineered T10 with no Guardian stuff would be 750Mj and there would be no fast charge between attacks. it would be better to fight the pirates actively in a tanked up Python, which you could leave for maybe a couple of minutes between attacks.
Your gain in combat rank depends on the difference between your rank and the rank of the ship you kill. The higher your own rank, the less points you get. You can see it in the table in the attched link. Basically, when you get to Deadly, you can't get any more points from a low RES, and even when Dangerous, your progress would be very slow.
Combat
Combat is an archetypal pilot career recognized by the Pilots Federation. Combat encompasses multiple sub-roles, such as Assassin, Bounty Hunter, Mercenary, and Pirate. Increasing Combat rank requires destroying other ships, and defeating pilots with higher Combat ranks rewards a greater amount...
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I haven't unlocked the Guardian Shield Boosters yet, I will have to look to see what I have left over from unlocking other Guardian stuff to see what I need to do that. I've been meaning to check out the Guardian ruins again, this will give me a good reason to go back there. I do have a decently engineered Python thoughFor AFK, you need the shields maxed out with engineering and Guardian shield boosters. and you need long-range lasers. My T10 has 8000MJ thermal resistance, and I still have to help it out sometimes. An unengineered T10 with no Guardian stuff would be 750Mj and there would be no fast charge between attacks. it would be better to fight the pirates actively in a tanked up Python, which you could leave for maybe a couple of minutes between attacks.
Your gain in combat rank depends on the difference between your rank and the rank of the ship you kill. The higher your own rank, the less points you get. You can see it in the table in the attched link. Basically, when you get to Deadly, you can't get any more points from a low RES, and even when Dangerous, your progress would be very slow.
Combat
Combat is an archetypal pilot career recognized by the Pilots Federation. Combat encompasses multiple sub-roles, such as Assassin, Bounty Hunter, Mercenary, and Pirate. Increasing Combat rank requires destroying other ships, and defeating pilots with higher Combat ranks rewards a greater amount...
, for a while it was my go to ship for combat with engineered Multicannons etc.. They're now on my Gunship which is a lot of fun with full on multicannon dakka. Thanks for the links and help. o7
T'is a great credit earner!