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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Falcon_D » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:22 am

Trying to rank up in 17 Draconis. Just got the Naval rank mission. Go to a system and pick up salvage. 10 mins in and still no WSS or Salvageable Wreckage. Second time I got a ranking mission from 17 Draconis like this and 2nd time it seems bugged.

Heading to another Fed system to get the rank mission that I can complete.

Heading to Taribes, based on some previous advice. :)

Thanks Commanders.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Xorog » Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:49 am

Falcon_D wrote:Trying to rank up in 17 Draconis. Just got the Naval rank mission. Go to a system and pick up salvage. 10 mins in and still no WSS or Salvageable Wreckage. Second time I got a ranking mission from 17 Draconis like this and 2nd time it seems bugged.

Heading to another Fed system to get the rank mission that I can complete.

Heading to Taribes, based on some previous advice. :)

Thanks Commanders.


Although I think 17 Draconis is the best system to gain ranks, you could try LTT 911 or Tun.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby JustSomeGuy » Tue Jan 12, 2016 12:53 pm

Falcon_D wrote:Trying to rank up in 17 Draconis. Just got the Naval rank mission. Go to a system and pick up salvage. 10 mins in and still no WSS or Salvageable Wreckage. Second time I got a ranking mission from 17 Draconis like this and 2nd time it seems bugged.

Heading to another Fed system to get the rank mission that I can complete.

Heading to Taribes, based on some previous advice. :)

Thanks Commanders.

No filters on? ;)
Anyway, the spawn rate of signal sources around Draconis seemed lower than elsewhere, but I never needed to look for 10 minutes. One way to find one was just point the nose back to Draconis system and just supercruise slowly. If you go fast those signal sources just flash by and are gone.

But yeah, it's not that far away from the bubble so whatever works best.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Falcon_D » Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:41 pm

Thanks for the tips Xorog and JustSomeGuy.
Trying Taribes now. Seems good.
Just noticed something. Awhile back I read somewhere on the official forums that the higher paying the mission the better the increment in ranking. And that charity missions were actually the slowest but easiest way to rank up. But now that we finally have that rank progression bar I noticed that charity missions are actually the best way to rank up. They seem to give more percentage in ranking than delivery missions.
I ran 2 good delivery (200k each) and 1 package delivery (about 5k) and got 1% increase. Did 2 charity missions and got 1% increase. Currently Ensign, ranking up to next level.

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Schmobius » Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:55 pm

Black Rose wrote:I went to Tamar and worked on Empire ranking. When I started I was 72% into Squire for the Empire. I did 3 charity missions, 3 deliver data, 1 smuggling run and 3 cargo runs and got to 98%, Then I ran fortifications to HIP 16607 and then went on a killing spree in Karudji where my current bounty is a tad over 200,000. If I reactivate all of my dormant bounties I am worth about 1,000,000 :P


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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Xorog » Tue Jan 12, 2016 4:14 pm

Falcon_D wrote:Thanks for the tips Xorog and JustSomeGuy.
Trying Taribes now. Seems good.
Just noticed something. Awhile back I read somewhere on the official forums that the higher paying the mission the better the increment in ranking. And that charity missions were actually the slowest but easiest way to rank up. But now that we finally have that rank progression bar I noticed that charity missions are actually the best way to rank up. They seem to give more percentage in ranking than delivery missions.
I ran 2 good delivery (200k each) and 1 package delivery (about 5k) and got 1% increase. Did 2 charity missions and got 1% increase. Currently Ensign, ranking up to next level.

Have fun, fly safe. o7


You're welcome, CMDR! Always glad to help!

The higher the payout, the bigger the progression - I am unsure about this. Did some cargo delivery missions (3, each about 2M CR - no smuggling) raised my progression about 3%. 4 charity missions did the same (about 40k CR and 20T of Agri-Meds). For the cargo delivery, I needed about 20 minutes, for the charity missions less then 5 minutes.

The payout of the missions has greatly increased and cargo delivery missions for example also raise your trading rank. But FD changed the rank up progress, so you need more missions to rank up. At least we have a progress bar now. ;)

For the empire, the ranking is a bit more "grindish" then for the federation. There is no 17 Draconis / Tun / LTT 911 - there is only Cubeo (which is totally pirate infested in open, btw) and I didnt encountered more then 2 or three donation missions at once.

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby charlie2alpha » Tue Jan 12, 2016 4:52 pm

Did few things the past couple of days, got the Master rank in Combat and progressed towards the Elite trading rank, currently Tycoon and 18%. Meanwhile I bought the 8A power plant for my anaconda and tweaked it's weapons a bit but I think I totally made it worse. I ended up having too much spare energy lol!
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Schmobius » Tue Jan 12, 2016 6:01 pm

charlie2alpha wrote:Did few things the past couple of days, got the Master rank in Combat and progressed towards the Elite trading rank, currently Tycoon and 18%. Meanwhile I bought the 8A power plant for my anaconda and tweaked it's weapons a bit but I think I totally made it worse. I ended up having too much spare energy lol!


Nothing wrong with spare energy, but you may want to go smaller to lose some weight and improve jump range.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby charlie2alpha » Tue Jan 12, 2016 6:12 pm

Well, I could if I wanted it to be a pure trade conda. Which will probably happen in the future when I get some other toy to play with but not yet. What I'll probably do is to install some heavier weapons since with my current setup the power distributor is not even drained when I put 4 pips on the weapons.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Schmobius » Tue Jan 12, 2016 6:29 pm

Going to go full-turretted beam laser DiscoConda? :D
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