faction experience

skill points

-So the most important question, how can I increase my faction experience/skill points?

-I assume every type of action doesnt give the same amount of experience. Which one gives the most?

-Do I get punished by only doing one type of activity to accumulate experience?

-Does naval progression has anything to do with major faction reputation?

-Why didnt we know this earlier?

Take home message:

Naval progression is not proportional to your reputation, as long as you stay higher than Neutral. To gain higher ranks you need to do work for the minor factions affiliated with Federation or Empire to accumulate faction experience/skill points. Theoretically any activity that makes money will also increase your experience, but currently there might be bugs affecting BH and trading, so missions are still the way to go, charity missions being better.

Suggestion to FDevs:

Given the progression between ranks is stretched longer, sometimes we couldn't help but wonder if something is bugged. Ideally a progress bar like what has been introduced for the Elite ranks would be the most clear, but it may "break immersion" for some players.

Stern Winter suggested a very good idea that I feel strikes a perfect balance here

. When we achieve certain "milestone" in our contribution to a certain major faction (maybe for every skill point earned), we receive a message in the Comms panel saying something like, "Your Federal leaning hasn't gone unnoticed. We appreciate your contribution to the Federation. Keep up the good work and you will be promoted soon". In this way, even without a visual progress bar, players can still get a feedback that they are on track towards their goal, or even count their milestones, if they wish, to get an idea about how far they are away from the next rank.

Proposed model: