Hello Everyone!
I leveled up from Baron to Duke under 2 weeks while im enjoyed the game very much.
I give you my experience about leveling up in empire rank:
- if possible take only mission from empire -> to empire faction missions, this count the most, if only the giver faction is empire you can count half results
- only positive result missions count toward ranking -> if you deliver something what causing economic boom decrease, then its does not count anything at all
- the best places where i taken long range missions is Cubeo and Xi Wanga. Cubeo have more charity missions, Xi Wanga give more high rank count missions
- im done some Fehu long range missions, hauling, shadow deliveries but after 95ly its does not count much more toward ranking % than Cubeo or Xi Wanga missions
- the best missions are "Classified data transportation", "secret cargo deliveries"
- im done this entire in my smuggler build ASP explorer with 64T cargo space, so i dont do assassination missions at all
- DONT take courier missions, no matter whats the payment, whats the faction, its count toward ranking the least, just a waste of time
- from my experience the missions give 1% average to 20ly range, i got 3% average from 40-72ly range, and 4%-5% sometimes from 72-102LY doing "classified data and secret cargo deliveries" missions
- Cubeo have charity missions for food, meds - you can get it from "Chelomey Orbital" or near aggriculture system "Lambda-1 Tucanae - Jones Dock"
- Cubeo sometime give charity missions for "Basic Meds or Food Catridges", you can buy it from the stations directly
My method is get stack up some charity missions for food, meds, then take 1-2 secret cargo deliveries and 1-2 classified data trans. missions, then go out do the classified data missions first, then secret cargo missions, on backway i stopped at Lambda-1 Tucanae system to get the foods for charity, then head back and turn in all charity.
Yesterday morning im at Marquis 25% after some hour gametime im at Marquis 80%, today just breeze through the last remaining 20% to Duke.
Enjoy this nice game!