Ranking up with the Empire

[Icpmcp]

So I want to Rank up with the Empire so I can get myself a sweet Imperial Cutter
^{(god that thing looks cool. Not even a golden Conda can beat that).}

Problem is that Tamar seems to only give me 1 Charity mission every two hours or so.

Are there any systems with (tons of) Charity missions for the Empire ?

Any other tips for ranking up fast ?

[Schmobius]

Charity has been nerfed to hell and back in the Empire for some reason, even though there are still a few decent Fed systems like Taribes.

As someone who just completed the rank grind to Duke a day or two ago, here's what I know:

Tamar and Aymifa still give some donations, but not nearly enough to be useful.

Aditi has a lot of Shadow delivery missions and courier missions you can grind rank on, and it's a little closer in than Fehu, and seems to have FAR less pirate and cop harassment than Fehu or Robigo. That is still a looooong grind though.

What worked for me was assaulting Metcalf Keep on Cubeo 3A, and picking up missions on all 3 other star ports on that moon. (And switching modes a lot to refresh the boards.)

Having said that, I think it still took me around 3 weeks of hitting it HARD on the weekends and for a few hours every night after work to go from Baron to Duke. As a bonus, I made over 300 million credits as most missions give you around 100,000-500,000 credits there. I didn't bother with the missions for killing sentries unless it was to kill 1-4 of them, or if I knew I had time for like 4 sorties on the 5-10 kill ones. Barely hit any of these sentry-killer missions that weren't empire-aligned. (Yes, do the other non-empire missions for money while you're there.)

Here is a decent video to show you how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph4rBpYtE64

I went with the same ship and build (since I had already ranked up to Rear Admiral with the feds, buying a gunship was no problem, and cost me about 30 million, fully outfitted to my liking, but hardly A-rated), and I really liked it. About the only thing I did differently than Vindicator Jones here, is that I used ALL the surface ports for missions, and cycled the board through open, Mobius, and Solo at each one to stack them.

Also, I made my assaults in Solo, because I found if another CMDR would wander in nearby after I'd already killed everything, the turrets would respawn WAY ahead of schedule, and blow up my helpless ship on the landing pad while I was trying to get back to it in my SRV. Without that strange early respawn, you have PLENTY of time to go about your business after killing everything.

This was actually a lot of fun to start, but ANYTHING is going to get old after about 3 weeks (3? I started on around the 20th of January. Whatever that works out to.)

I hope this helps!

[Icpmcp]

What worked for me was assaulting Metcalf Keep on Cubeo 3A, and picking up missions on all 3 other star ports on that moon. (And switching modes a lot to refresh the boards.)

I hope this helps!

Problem for me is that I'm sitting on a Laptop(I need the mobility) with a Nvidia GT 750m and that thing wants to commit suicide every time I come close enough to a planet for its higher res textures to load(while in glide mode mostly).

My FPS drop from ~50 to 20-10 and it stays on that until I leave the planet(also changing options doesn't do anything besides the textures looking bad).

Makes me unable to really drive around in an SRV sadly

Got to Master before the mission rework so I probably won't fly the Cutter any time soon.

Thanks for the other tips though(edited them out to reply to this part especially)

[Schmobius]

If it makes you feel better, before last summer, I was playing Skyrim on a laptop with an Nvidia 425m. I was lucky to get 20FPS at low settings!

I built my new gaming rig just for Fallout 4, but since I built it months before that released, I not only had time to bring over Fallout and Skyrim, and see what they looked like on a computer that could handle them, I picked up Elite as well, and haven't looked back.

[Icpmcp]

If it makes you feel better, before last summer, I was playing Skyrim on a laptop with an Nvidia 425m. I was lucky to get 20FPS at low settings!

I built my new gaming rig just for Fallout 4, but since I built it months before that released, I not only had time to bring over Fallout and Skyrim, and see what they looked like on a computer that could handle them, I picked up Elite as well, and haven't looked back.

I'll give it 3 years.

If I don't make it to Duke the hard way^{(waiting for Charity missions. That billion that I have ain't gonna spend itself.)} by then I give up.^{(or buy a new Laptop that can handle this kind of stuff if I have the money by then)}

whats surprising me is that Fallout 4 runs quite well on my system even though my GPU is an older model.
I can play it with nearly constant 30 fps(some small areas like certain arts of the institute have higher fps but its overall rarely lower than 30).
It really surprised me that it runs that well while Landing on planets feels like E:D is running on a toaster powered by a hamster in a hamster wheel.

Welp


Fly safe o7

[Schmobius]

Yeah, Fallout 4 isn't the roughest game on a pc, but I wanted 60fps at ultra settings. That's why I finally built a new pc.

[Loriath]

Isn't the 750M about the same as a straight 650? I have a 650 and manage about 30-40 solid on planets.

[Icpmcp]

Isn't the 750M about the same as a straight 650? I have a 650 and manage about 30-40 solid on planets.

As far as I know it should be but it seems it just doesn't want to.

Maybe the onboard Intel gpu is rendering the screen.

To hell I know.

[Loriath]

Isn't the 750M about the same as a straight 650? I have a 650 and manage about 30-40 solid on planets.

As far as I know it should be but it seems it just doesn't want to.

Maybe the onboard Intel gpu is rendering the screen.

To hell I know.

May be worth using the NVidia Control Panel and making a Profile for Elite to make sure it is running the 750. I have no idea either as I have never really gamed on a Laptop.

[bootsam]

Try Xi Wangar - Waaganici - Tamar

Good luck.