Hello! As the title implies, I want to work on building my Imp rank as I do passenger missions. I know that this isn't the most effective way to build rank, but I want to do passenger missions atm and have built up a lot of fed rank doing them over time and want to switch over to an Empire system for the same thing. Currently, I'm stationed at Rhea, and my primary station is Ito Orbital. I'm allied with every faction there except for one (it's a drug empire) and each minor faction is associated with the federation.
The reason Rhea is so good for me is that it seems to have lots of one-jump missions going to the same place, with short in-system travel times. I know in the past the money was at Wohler Horizons in LQ Hydrae from Rhea, but recently I found that the shorter in-system flights pay about as well. Also, every faction is fed-aligned with the exception of one, so I don't have to worry that a mission I'm doing isn't slowly building my rep.
The thing is, everywhere I've tried going to for a similar setup in Imperial space has led to disappointment. I started at Cubeo, after I read some old forum posts that said it was a good spot for it, but it had two problems: Number one was that only 2 minor factions there actually were imperial, so I wouldn't be building rank there by doing jobs. The other was that not only were the missions all going to different places ( I understand that this will change once I can see more missions because I'm not allied yet, but that isn't the main problem), but they were all about 100k ls away from their star, and paid far less than the jobs at Rhea that were also neutral and going to a place far closer than these. Every system I've tried so far has had some or all of these problems. I don't care TOO much about the payment, but it dropped from a few million per bulk mission to around 30k per bulk mission, and about 600k-1million per vip to around 100k per vip, which is pretty hefty.
I should mention that I'm flying a Beluga, so I need a large landing pad.
Sorry for this mess of a post, just trying to find a good temporary home.
The reason Rhea is so good for me is that it seems to have lots of one-jump missions going to the same place, with short in-system travel times. I know in the past the money was at Wohler Horizons in LQ Hydrae from Rhea, but recently I found that the shorter in-system flights pay about as well. Also, every faction is fed-aligned with the exception of one, so I don't have to worry that a mission I'm doing isn't slowly building my rep.
The thing is, everywhere I've tried going to for a similar setup in Imperial space has led to disappointment. I started at Cubeo, after I read some old forum posts that said it was a good spot for it, but it had two problems: Number one was that only 2 minor factions there actually were imperial, so I wouldn't be building rank there by doing jobs. The other was that not only were the missions all going to different places ( I understand that this will change once I can see more missions because I'm not allied yet, but that isn't the main problem), but they were all about 100k ls away from their star, and paid far less than the jobs at Rhea that were also neutral and going to a place far closer than these. Every system I've tried so far has had some or all of these problems. I don't care TOO much about the payment, but it dropped from a few million per bulk mission to around 30k per bulk mission, and about 600k-1million per vip to around 100k per vip, which is pretty hefty.
I should mention that I'm flying a Beluga, so I need a large landing pad.
Sorry for this mess of a post, just trying to find a good temporary home.
