Stuck at competent

Darth-Simba · Feb 17, 2015

I have 482 bounties claimed @ 3.8million credits

42 combat bonds @ 170k

0 assassination (Bug) @ 3.7million credits

I should be expert by now or do assassination credits not count towards your rank?

OCD · Feb 17, 2015

Darth-Simba said:
I have 482 bounties claimed @ 3.8million credits

42 combat bonds @ 170k

0 assassination (Bug) @ 3.7million credits

I should be expert by now or do assassination credits not count towards your rank?

I am also wondering about this as im now 780 kills 5.8m total combat income and still competent
all targets I pick are @ competent or above and when poss I go after larger ships

I am also 180m of trading income and still Broker .... many others leveled up @ 135m

I have put a ticket in so will see what happens I seem to have been stacic for a looong time in
these 2 areas (trading and combat)

MrDoe · Feb 17, 2015

I became master in combat yesterday, so i don't think there is a problem in general.
I mainly hunted bounties in the beginning (~1200 kills) and switched to conflict zones recently (~300 kills).

As far as i have read not only the numbers of kills is involved in combat rating, but also the ratings of your opponents.
i.e. if you kill only harmless npcs you will probably need more kills to achieve the next rank.

Ian Skippy · Feb 17, 2015

I had over 800 kills when I became expert. It depends on many different things, so just keep shooting.

Poplin · Feb 17, 2015

I had around 450ish when I became expert, half of that was conflict zone kills though so a higher frequency of high rank targets.

EdzUp · Feb 17, 2015

Didnt they say they were gonna make reputation degrade when not in use, is were logged out?

Heater · Feb 17, 2015

Not sure what triggers this,

As mine just switched to Expert,

544 Bounty's
63 combat bonds
2 assassination missions

OCD · Feb 17, 2015

MrDoe said:
I became master in combat yesterday, so i don't think there is a problem in general.
I mainly hunted bounties in the beginning (~1200 kills) and switched to conflict zones recently (~300 kills).

As far as i have read not only the numbers of kills is involved in combat rating, but also the ratings of your opponents.
i.e. if you kill only harmless npcs you will probably need more kills to achieve the next rank.

agreed thats why i avoid harmless/mostly/novice npc. 90%+ of my kills were at my level or above
i will take your suggestion and head to a warzone next ; ive not done enough of this and it
obv has some bearing on the algorthym
thanks

ChubbyBunneh · Feb 17, 2015

I kill any ship in sight with a bounty, whether they are a harmless hauler or deadly python or whatever. Murdered a few NPC traders when their psycho wingmen attacked me for no reason too.

I got Expert around 600 bounties claimed and Master at 1243. I don't think the combat rating of the guys you blow up affect the equation very much, the vast majority of my kills were mostly harmless to competent range, because those are the most likely to spawn at nav beacons.

zsolesz79 · Feb 17, 2015

Hit expert somewhere near 650+. The quality of the wanted ships do matter!

Vandaahl · Feb 17, 2015

zsolesz79 said:
Hit expert somewhere near 650+. The quality of the wanted ships do matter!

I thought so too. The more Elite you kill the better.

GeneralIdea1964 · Feb 17, 2015

ChubbyBunneh said:
I kill any ship in sight with a bounty, whether they are a harmless hauler or deadly python or whatever. Murdered a few NPC traders when their psycho wingmen attacked me for no reason too.

I got Expert around 600 bounties claimed and Master at 1243. I don't think the combat rating of the guys you blow up affect the equation very much, the vast majority of my kills were mostly harmless to competent range, because those are the most likely to spawn at nav beacons.

This is how the rating has always worked in Elite (any version).
It just matters how many you kill.
But above competent the numbers required increase markedly. For those with a mathematical bent, I seem to recall something about exponential being mentioned.
Expect that Dangerous, Deadly and Elite will take many many kills.

ChubbyBunneh · Feb 17, 2015

zsolesz79 said:
The quality of the wanted ships do matter!

Possibly. But it seems like killing a harmless hauler is still worth more than letting him go in favor of waiting and hoping for a higher ranked criminal to show up.

But whatever. Do what you wish, I'm ranking up at the appropriate numbers: 575 bounties for Expert, 1243 for Master, 134M for Entrepreneur and 384.3M for Tycoon. So it works for me.

There's lots of people doing all this superstitious stuff ignoring mostly harmless ships with bounties and getting to 1700+ kills and still not reaching Master.

OCD · Feb 17, 2015

OCD said:
agreed thats why i avoid harmless/mostly/novice npc. 90%+ of my kills were at my level or above
i will take your suggestion and head to a warzone next ; ive not done enough of this and it
obv has some bearing on the algorthym
thanks

speak of the devil .....
after beefing 1 dangerous conda and an elite python i am finally expert in combat
i suspect the trigger is i have just gone over 6m in combat bounties, it was 2.5 for competent

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ChubbyBunneh said:
Possibly. But it seems like killing a harmless hauler is still worth more than letting him go in favor of waiting and hoping for a higher ranked criminal to show up.

But whatever. Do what you wish, I'm ranking up at the appropriate numbers: 575 bounties for Expert, 1243 for Master, 134M for Entrepreneur and 384.3M for Tycoon. So it works for me.

There's lots of people doing all this superstitious stuff ignoring mostly harmless ships with bounties and getting to 1700+ kills and still not reaching Master.

this is why i logged a ticket about my trading rank .
i also have same attitude as you WANTED=death