So I've been participating in the CG at Wolf 406, and I've done enough so that the station turned green. I checked my rank with the fed/empire/alliance, and noticed I am still neutral with all 3. I've done several other CG as well as rare trade runs, and have gotten other stations to turn green. I assumed that participating in a CG for the empire would allow me to rank up with the empire? Is the only way to rank up to do those random missions at each station
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Green should mean you are friendly, but you might be right on the edge of the number of points necessary. It may tick over with the next mission. Any random mission for a minor faction will count towards major faction progress, until you hit allied status with the minor - then move on to another minor faction. CG should count, as you are actually dealing with a minor faction.
So once a station turns green, move on to the next? And the more green stations of a major faction, then you will rank up with that major faction? Did I get this correctly?
There are specific missions on the bulletin board to rank up with Empire/Federation (and permits). Alliance ones give permits.
What happens is that after dealing with the controlling minor faction in a station for a while you will see them turn green, and the local, minor faction should be "friendly" then. However, this doesn't necessarily mean their parent "major" faction is also friendly. Eventually you will become friendly with sufficient minor factions who support them that the major faction will tip over to being friendly.
As far as I'm aware, once you become allied with a minor faction its influence on the rep you have with the major faction plateaus, so you need to move on to other minor factions and raise them to allied status as well in order to tip the major over into allied status.
if you have the time & patience .. then fastest way to improve reputation with one of the Big 3 is doing food donations @ a system that has several minor factions present
a good example of an Alliance system would be Zaonce , where I believe there are 4 Alliance minor factions
food donation is inexpensive .. gains you rep with the minor faction you did the mission for .. gains you rep with all the other minor factions present in the system.
( I used Zaonce for example purposes only )
if you are selling Cartographic data .. Selling it in a system with several minor factions will also boost reputation with all of them although the biggest gain will be with the One controlling the Starport
2 or 3 million in data should see you friendly with the controlling faction .. if you like exploration it's worth trying / testing somewhere you are currently Neutral with
( I never understood why people dump all cart data in one place , when you can use it to improve your reputation in many )
when bounty hunting Avoid killing any ships of the minor factions (Alliance/Federation/Empire) ... it hurts your rep with them
I look to bounty hunt in system/RES that has only one Minor faction of the Major Faction I want rep increase with & 2 or 3 independents/non aligned + pirate faction
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as previous poster already said , soon as you get Allied with minor faction controlling a system Move on to another Star
a good example of an Alliance system would be Zaonce , where I believe there are 4 Alliance minor factions
food donation is inexpensive .. gains you rep with the minor faction you did the mission for .. gains you rep with all the other minor factions present in the system.
( I used Zaonce for example purposes only )
if you are selling Cartographic data .. Selling it in a system with several minor factions will also boost reputation with all of them although the biggest gain will be with the One controlling the Starport
2 or 3 million in data should see you friendly with the controlling faction .. if you like exploration it's worth trying / testing somewhere you are currently Neutral with
( I never understood why people dump all cart data in one place , when you can use it to improve your reputation in many )
when bounty hunting Avoid killing any ships of the minor factions (Alliance/Federation/Empire) ... it hurts your rep with them
I look to bounty hunt in system/RES that has only one Minor faction of the Major Faction I want rep increase with & 2 or 3 independents/non aligned + pirate faction
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as previous poster already said , soon as you get Allied with minor faction controlling a system Move on to another Star
That's true - there are missions that specifically say you receive rep, but all general dealings of any kind with a station will contribute to rep with its controlling faction by default. For example, if you return from deep space exploration with a heap of data and sell it at a station where you have no influence after a certain amount of sales the controlling minor faction will turn friendly. The same goes for trading - after a certain amount of trading between stations each one will turn friendly towards you.
The missions allow you to pick up local rep by working for an opposing local faction as well as the controlling faction - eg Say there are 4 minor factions present at a station - two imperial, one independent and one federation, and one of the imperial factions is in control. All your general dealings will raise rep with the controlling faction, and so will their specific missions, particularly the rep missions. But you can also take missions for the other imperial minor faction and gain rep with them and the Empire. In some cases this may affect your standing with the controlling faction, but generally not too much.
The critical thing if you are working on rep is to make sure you only ever work for stations associated with the major faction you want to influence - even at the expense of making less than the best money on trades. Also never take missions for any factions that are opposed to the major faction - it will reduce your rep.
exception being Food donations .. take them from anyone .. they increase your Rep with the faction you do it for. & increase your Rep with all other factions present in the system.
( works a treat if you go hostile with a faction & want to salvage your rep & cannot get missions from them .. doing food Donation missions for the other factions in the system soon gets everyone smiling at you again )
( works a treat if you go hostile with a faction & want to salvage your rep & cannot get missions from them .. doing food Donation missions for the other factions in the system soon gets everyone smiling at you again )
As others have said do missions for local factions aligned with whoever you rank up with, but once you are allied with the local factions you will need to move on to get more naval rank progression missions.
Here's a good guide for this stuff
http://gameunder.tumblr.com/post/116...gression-guide
and this tells you a bit more about each mission
http://www.fenris.co.uk/elite/federal-ranks/
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Didn't know that, +rep
Here's a good guide for this stuff
http://gameunder.tumblr.com/post/116...gression-guide
and this tells you a bit more about each mission
http://www.fenris.co.uk/elite/federal-ranks/
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Didn't know that, +rep