Guide / Tutorial Yokai's guide to rank progression (reputation) and working around the seeming bugs

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Been playing for 2 months, mainly trading but I am competent, after 220 kills, and I now have 480 kills, so am expecting to rank up soon. I am a Broker in trading with 60 million profit and just a scout in exploration.

I saw that FD where going to release the new federal ship and I wanted to try it so I looked at Yokai's guide and decided to increase my federation standing in preparation of the new ship release. I also took note of the community goal in Yembo and decided to use that as a start point with Brani as the supplier of metals for the project.

Brani is a system I was already trading in and after increasing my Federal rank after Sol I struck out on more advancement missions, The last 2 I had where the kill missions to get me to Chief Petty Officer. So I filled up on Palladium last week and went to Yembo and signed up to do the community goal.

The next thing was to increase minor faction rep in Yembo, but also in Brani at Akiyama market and Barsanti enterprise as neither of these stations are green yet. This list is what my rep was 6 days ago, it is still the same today!

Brani

Union of Brani Green Party Federation Allied 15 missions
Brani Creative Interstellar Federation Allied 10 missions
Allied Brani First Independent Neutral 60 missions
Brani Blue Syndicate Independent Neutral 15 missions
Brani Federal Holdings Independent Neutral 75 missions

The blue arrows only increased 1 reputation bar by about 5% in the 6 days I have been doing this, even though after every hand in the results of my help produced blue arrows every time. The station in Yembo is now friendly after the trading but the 20 or so missions done don't seem to increase rep anywhere.

Seems like a waste of time but others have progressed in their ranking so I must be making a basic mistake somewhere, maybe I need to get the extra 40/50 kills to increase my combat rank before I see any reputation changes, or perhaps it will allow the next rank progression to pop up. Incidentally I have had 1-4 unacceptable missions to go to PLX 695, because I already have the permit.

Any thoughts on the reputations not moving at all? I mean almost 200 missions in 4 stations and only 1 faction had a slight increase in rep and I was alredy allied with them anyway.
 
I had been Imperial Lord for almost two weeks, and wanted to get to Baron so i could get that sweet Clipper. So i used a couple of hours today only doing missions in other systems than my trade route and "home" base, as Yokai's guide tell, and it worked, i got my Navel Ascension mission and my Baron Rank. So thank you for the guide Yokai!!!!
 
Like pichon64, I'm experiencing something similar. I'm a Baron in the Empire, with a Clipper. I'm allied to the MAJOR Empire faction and every MINOR Empire-allied sub-faction I've come across. Is this a bug and if not, where do I go to find Empire sub-factions with a non-allied status?

Hi! Finally I get to Earl. I just kept doing missions for an Allied minor faction and after a while they gave me the final mission.
 
I can't but help wonder if the mechanism is more convoluted than it seems.

I got to Viscount in the Empire while only being friendly (though a lot of allied subfactions).

I'm now ally with the Federation (and a huge number of subfactions 15+) and I still cannot get any naval ascension missions beyond Petty Officer. I've been relying on trading almost exclusively though. It would seem to me that doing missions adds something beyond faction that possibly triggers the naval ascension opportunity missions... I'll try doing a ton of missions and see if that might get me "unstuck"
 
Conflict zones, even without a mission on hand, are very useful for provoking the ranking missions.
 
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Conflict zones, even without a mission on hand, are very useful for provoking the ranking missions.

How so ?

Edit : popped into the game after a few month without playing, and here was the mission to get to Ensign. Neat.
 
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Thanks Yokai and Ydiss, very interesting now that this seems to be working it's motivation to work for missions!
You refreshed the game for me :)
Update:
26 Feb - 1st minor faction Friendly @ 12 missions (major faction Neutral)
01 Mar - 1st minor faction Allied @ 28 missions (major faction Neutral)
11 Mar - 2nd minor faction Friendly @ 12 missions (major faction Neutral)
14 Mar - 2nd minor faction Friendly @ 28 missions (major faction Neutral)
14 Mar - 3rd minor factio Friendly @ 2 missions !!
 
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I've got to Allied in Federation by mostly trading, and still need to complete missions in order to get rank progressions. Also, it seems that only ~150k elite annie/dropship assasinations really matter.
 
I have flipped over 30 planets to allied with the feds since getting warrant officer and still no new navel mission so that I can progress from Warrant Officer. Any idea how many more I need?
 
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I got to the point where i can see arrows up for minor factions, but no arrows for major faction. Does it mean i hit 100% for major faction?
 
Yokai you need to add combat rating to the equation. I had allied rank with the federation and still no mission. It was not until I flipped my combat rating to competent that the next mission showed up practically straight away.
 
Yokai, just wanted to thank you for this, and to share my folly... skimmed through the OP the first time I was having issues ranking up and completely missed the section on stalling out rep with the major faction due to only increasing rep with one minor faction :eek:

About to head deeper into Empire space and rep up with more minor factions, and hope I get some Empire Navy missions soon.

Thanks again!
 
Now this COULD be a total coincidence, but the moment I got combat rank of Master the Empire mission from Baron to Viscount came up.
 
Yokai if you see this...your thoughts?

I followed the guide and below the results but the last one is weird!
26 Feb - 1st minor faction Friendly @ 12 missions (major faction Neutral)
01 Mar - 1st minor faction Allied @ 28 missions (major faction Neutral)
11 Mar - 2nd minor faction Friendly @ 12 missions (major faction Neutral)
14 Mar - 2nd minor faction Friendly @ 28 missions (major faction Neutral)
14 Mar - 3rd minor faction Friendly @ 2 missions !!

This 3rd faction is in a system where they don't have stations and have only 5.9% influence

Any ideas? was it a bug?
 
I'm a lord, allied to every single imperial faction I can find in the galaxy, and I haven't seen any imperial up arrows in ages, but independent minor factions give me up arrows near instantly if I turn in one of their bounties.
Any advice or should I just persist in aggressively trying to woo the empire like a would-be Casanova who doesn't know when to quit?
 
I have never seen a naval mission. And i mean never.
I am friendly with Alliance and allied with the Feds and the Empire. No matter what i do or where i go i can't seem to find a mission.
At this point i don't know if i am doing something wrong or my game is bugged or what.

Anybody has any idea what i should be doing? Any help would be appreciated.
 
I've got a question. If I'm allied with Empire, can I get any "more" allied with them? Does the hidden rep still function and you keep gaining rep "within" allied status and if so could it be the reason that I need to do more missions for allied minor empire factions to get "more allied" with Empire as a whole to get next rank progression mission? A week ago I think I was doing a lot of combat zone fighting for Empire and I think It was during that time that Knight mission appeared for me. I did it, gotten the rank and got the mission for Lord rank after that. Did that one too (99% sure I did) but I didn't get the Lord rank. Anyway - since then I'm stuck at knight and not sure if some bug occurred or what.
 
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