Just picked up Elite on sale from steam, haven't played since probably 6-7 years ago when I had a console. I'm absolutely addicted, glad to find some updated content on it too!!! Most the videos are from several years ago, which is sort of inspiring in itself.. This community seems like one of the most... unified?? in most the games that I play at least.. 07 Commanders
I just wanted to tell you - you are the damn BEST Elite Dangerous UA-camr. Keep it up, keep your chin high and we're here for you as much as you're here for us :)
The timing of this video is impeccable; I've slowly worked on my Fed rank, but as you've rightly said the old methods are jank now. Only 40 secs in, so better keep going o7.
I'd like to confirm, this is working quite good. I got from rank 4 to rank 10 in around a week of casual playing and made ~850mil credits using a shieldless Python with FSD booster. Fly safe CMDRs!
Something that might be interesting for some people: the two stations mentioned in the video are also two stations that are used for wing mining missions and sharing in the PTN. There is a guide on their discord which focusses on making credits (and requires you to have at least 1bil credits before starting) but sharing missions is probably quite a lot faster if you have the credits and are willing to jump into calls with strangers 😄
You bet they do... I spent a lot donating to get the cutter and the same for the vette; cut down the grind significantly. If you got money to burn, systems at war or with a tanked economy have a lot of donation quests.
To all the people commenting about Ceos-Sothis and the other "old runs" it's worth noting that elite dangerous is a dynamic game and the situations change. Ceos-Sothis USED to be great, but they have only 1 federal faction now and few high rep rewards, so you can still grind fed rep there but it is much slower. I stubbornly persisted with the Ceos-Sothis route until past lieutenant before going to Sol and doing these supply runs there - the change of location broke the monotony but also my progress rate speeded up about 3x - i was keeping count! :). Still a grind but feels much better to see proper results.
I don't know if this still works, but I got my Corvette years ago by simply transporting data between SOTHIS and CEOS. Safe and easy. If a little time-consuming, of course, it's Elite! ;)
A note: If the rank up mission isnt one you want just close and reopen the mission board. This still works in the latest version of the game. Rank up missions are the only types of missions that change on every board recycle. A lot of folks think this doesn't work because the old "board flipping" doesn't work anymore, but I can confirm as of the latest patch on 2024/05/28 this absolutely still works.
This was very useful, i did a bit of the grind a few years ago but quit because of burn out. Thanks to this vid i got the last 3 ranks real quick this week and now i have the one ship i've wanted since the start.
o7 Dituri. I tried your Type 9 Heavy build but even in Solo I get deleted by pirates it is not a safe setup as linked in your coriolis builds. If you got a suggestion that can actually fly into the system without being destroyed within 30 seconds please let me know :S
To be honest, the T9 is always like this. A bigger shield/more boosters and hit points helps, but the only thing that’ll consistently work is mastering the SCO and supercruise assist techniques so you don’t give pirates time, or mastering interdiction avoidance. It’s fairly possible in the t9, surprisingly enough. Sorry it’s not going well, hope you find a successful solution 🫡
@@DiturisElite Oh thank you for the response and I apologize for the initial comment, in hindsight it sounds a bit harsh. It is going okay now, this turns out to be 100% a skill issue on my part and not a fault of your guides at all! The solution I went for is lower the overall capacity and slap on some stronger shields and multi cannon turrets and frankly anything under a Krait MK2 gets a significant beating while the shields hold. I would like to add that I absolutely love your videos, I am a newer player and the other (older) guides one finds online are dauntingly efficient and do not sound like fun. o7
These stations also offer donation missions that often include commodities found in nearby systems, however, donation mission goods arent marked in the market UI so you have to remember them. It is also a good practice to keep stacking missions and complete them in batches (ones calling for high tech commodities, others calling for mining commodities) since there are 2 nearby systems, in opposite directions, that sell those. Lastly, if you already have a cutter - shields are really optional. Any time interdiction happens just submit, immediately boost away and jump into supercruise (cutter cant be mass locked and with modded engines outruns any npc with ease)
I unlocked the Corvette before I unlocked the Cutter. I feel had I unlocked the Cutter first I would have had an easier time unlocking the Corvette. I love both of them SO MUCH!!
Yeah, the cutter is super handy here. After recording footage in the T-9 (as that’s what a viewer is likely to be using), I swapped straight into the cutter. The massive speed and extra shield strength is soooo nice. I also kinda enjoy the irony of pandering to the fed’s every whim while flexing Gutamaya’s finest. It’s hard not to love the big ships 🥲🫡
Brooo felt! I unlocked both with combat missions, because pew pew… I unlocked my trading cutter in a week… as opposed to the endless weeks I spent on the other one!
@@captainwinters6909 I unlocked the Corvette with a combo of combat and courier missions with a fully eng FDL. It wasn't too terrible and when I took the same strat to unlocking the Cutter it was a BREEZE! I have to admit I use the Cutter way more but the Corvette is absolutely a DOGG with Thargoid combat
@@KingArthurFleck haha I wish I had things fully engineered! I haven’t done the Colonia side of things yet. I went sidewinder, cobra mk3, Keelback, Krait mkII, screwed up and down to sidewinder then back that same route, and onto the big three! Now I just have project ships that I very much enjoy. I definitely heard about the Thargoid vette! I enjoy mini carrier fighting so I might try that at some point!
Well you're doing something wrong, then. I'm doing it right now and it's working fine. Make sure you're allied with the federal factions at the station, many missions won't become available until you reach a certain standing with each individual minor faction. This is how every minor faction in the game works. If you can't take the source and deliver missions, donate to the factions until your rep is high enough.
Awesome tutorials, I was seeing ED videos dwindling down and getting out of date, it’s awesome that you picked up the slack. And you do it well to boot! Now a teeny little request: I just learned very recently that supercharging your FSD on a neutron star or white dwarf requires a fuel scoop. Almost no tutorial says this (the only one that I know of has only 1.3K subscribers). After asking around on Reddit it was clear many people didn’t know, including some who had hundreds of hours on the clock. I guess everyone *assumes* you have a fuel scoop, but I have rocks to carry! There might be a void to fill here if you feel like it. Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Im playing on Xbox. Can anyone advise in what to do if the mining/source and return mission dry up ? Also, after donation missions i seem to get quite a few follow up missions which are chained. If i complete these missions will they update the mission board with more of the mining/source and return?
Good news - being on Xbox should be fine for this method. The mining/source missions restock every 10 mins or so of real time, so you won’t actually ever run out. Still, you might have fewer than you’d like on a run, but this improves with your rank with the fed factions. A chained mission is always good news, so do it if you can/fancy, but it won’t give you more missions
Yeah, it’s kinda annoying. It’s the best I’ve found that still works I’m afraid, everywhere else has lost most of the fed factions. Still, at least you get some coin and trade rank here 🫡
There's also the Canopus-Exphiay route, but it is primarily courier missions and imo, pretty repetitive. Although the station in Canopus is 42,000 Ls away :P
This is a couple years old but Ngalinn to Mainani (not sure on the spelling lol, it’s been awhile) used to be the way to grind imperial rank. Take a small fast ship and run courier missions between the two. A lot of the rank missions are kill quests so something that can fight is a bonus. Going in with a few hundred million will be a big boost. There are usually a lot of donation missions.
@@prisonerofthehighway1059 thanks! I ended up doing just that long ago, though I was thoroughly disappointed these were just courier missions as I have made a type-9 cargo build specifically for this
Love this video. I got my fed corvet recently and it was a pain to get so I wish I had this video. Hopefully you'll have one soon for the empire though. Either way I'm glad others will have a better method than I did
I’m obviously a little biased, but from what I tried before making the video, those methods don’t work anymore. The systems recommended have lost most of their federal factions, so it’s painfully slow. Check the Reddit post linked in the description if you want some specific info 🫡
@@DiturisElite I tried a couple methods including this one and granted I am no veteran in the game but it seemed very efficient and relatively enjoyable (grinding is grinding at the end of the day). So to anyone wondering my opinion at least is that this method is great! Good job on the video
Sol has gold, silver, and cobalt missions, most of the gold and silver are worth 50m and can be shared. No system hopping needed, go to Galileo to get your gold, silver, and Cobalt, with any luck you can make around 200m in a very short time
I am so glad that I finished this grind for Empire and Federation in the past. This was the most boring grind I ever experienced in ED. Never again! Also I found out that you get quite some reputation boost while killing Thargoids in AX combat or surface combat (the faction needs to own the space). So maybe that is an alternative for someone who can take it slow while actually playing the game and earning lots of credits on the side.
Still boring as hell. I wish ranks were achieved by going through some epic story arcs. Becoming an Admiral in the Federation or a King in the Empire by just delivering stuff is a bit ridiculous
I kinda agree, but it would be pretty hard to make and fit in the game. Elite isn’t all that well suited to ‘epic story arcs’ as it stands, although that would be insanely cool 🫡
If you're not in so much of a hurry to grind out rank but do want to rank up. Maybe you just feel like doing missions suck. Find a Federation (or Empire) controlled system near where you can mine and or bounty hunt. Sell your mined goods at that system and you'll build rank and reputation for Federation (or Empire) without doing any missions at all. Maybe you won't get top price for your goods, but you'll still make money while building rank and rep. And also be building your Trade rank as well. Mining will also help you collect those lower level Raw Mats you'll need for engineering. Alternate between mining and bounty hunting and you can build rank for both Federation and Empire at the same time as long as both powers are present near the system you're hunting in. Use a Kill Warrant scanner to get maximum value. Bounty hunting is also a good way to collect Manufactured and Data Mats. Then just check your rank periodically to know when to go looking for a rank up mission.
Damn! That Seemed a lot easier than the way I did it! If I'd spotted this earlier, I would have been a happier space Bunny or something! Ah well I did it the hard way but it's probably still a good way to earn extra credits so ''ll bear it in mind and maybe follow your methods to get some cash! nice straightforward video! Cheers for the info!
I've just found your content; I've played hours of Elite Dangerous, and I've understood nothing of it. Until your channel. Thank you so much & please, please keep doing these videos! I'd love to know more about exploration, trading and such 🙏🏼 I'm going to try mining during my week off next week!
I have been farming federation rank last week and was already applying this exact method, without any outside help :D in my opinion, doing a few delivery quests in between, and buy the stuff for the other missions at the destination. it may change things up a bit during this tiresome grind
Great concise guide for a great method. The only thing I'd add is that escaping interdiction is basically always possible after some practice, even in a type 9, you can win the interdiction minigame, which is far less dangerous than submitting and making a run for it. Depending on what comes after you and your ship, you could die fairly quick. Maybe consider making one for a more combat oriented approach. It's not as efficient, but it's perhaps more fun and there's a lot to know there as well between stacking pirate missions, efficient ways to do them, online tools to help you find good targets for pirate hunting etc.
Too bad you didn't release this guide like a month ago lol. Did it the slow way. But I have it now and it was definitely worth it if you like PvE combat
I unlocked the Corvette quote a while ago, almost exclusively by doing rescues from burning stations, but this was still an informative video. I had no idea you can satisfy mining missions by simply buying the commodities! Great to know!
I'd love to see a video (or videos) on how to get to all the different elite ranks. I'm really struggling with my combat rank for engineering specifically
I got elite in new player area using an anaconda. Tip don't rank up so you don't lose the permit. Go mining in hyades sector dbx d1-112 planet 2 at the painite hotspot and sell in sector to carriers. Don't collect materials as they'll rank you up and you'll be able to return in an a rated anaconda with a NPC pilot, with fighters. Its easy if you head to the conflict zone there or haz res and take on every single elite you come across.
This system was working for me for a while but now i just keep getting absolutely sniped by the same 3 pirates. I genuinely have never been shot down faster then by these guys.
Sounds like 3 guys with small hardpoints lol. I’d switch to solo. I’ma big believer in open play but if you’re on a grind and someone is slowing you down, just take their fun away.
If I remember it took me about 4 hours gameplay from petty officer. Not the quickest process, but as I say it’s a chill process to do in between more exciting stuff. It’s the fastest I can find at the moment, as all the other methods don’t work 🫡
Another corking video. I must admit I ranked up by doing passenger rescue missions when thargoids invaded. It worked well and was more fun. That said, I’ve never been one for ranking up for the sake of getting a ship and so I’ve just played and stumbled across extra ships. Taking a break from anything boring is always the way.
So true! If that was still around I’d so recommend it, it was so fun. Still, this ain’t too bad, and as you say, just take a break if it gets tedious 🫡
I may already have lost hair earning the right to buy a Corvette (Despite being a non-combat CMDR) but thank you, thank you, thank you CMDR Dituri for helping keep my own love for Elite going, and helping others find theirs.
Ceos and so this work well, robigo is federal so those missions give you fed rep as well as credits. I've even done it at the start with a sidewinder, but my fave is doing it in every single ship as I go. I usually go sidewinder, adder, viper mk IV, cobra mk III, dbx, asp x, until I can get a python. The dbx while small does have some good starter capacity and can do robigo within two jumps each way. Asp x as well. The sidewinder takes forever and I always take a fuel scoop. Once you can get there and back without needing to refuel there's no need for a med/big fuel scoop just a 1A is enough as it's only for emergencies and refueling a bit every jump. Ngalin and mainani are a lot easier to do for imperial rank as well.
No longer works unfortunately. All the old favourites (ceos, sothis, ochosi etc) have barely any federal factions now, hence me saying ‘all the old methods don’t seem to work’ at the beginning of the video. Check out the original Reddit post for the method if you want some more info 🫡
I unlocked Federal Corvette and Imperial Cutter during the same 7 days i was earning 5 bils for my Fleet Carrier doing nothing but Transport missions in Boom systems. Cheers and O7.
@@DiturisElite Not my first day in this game. I began with 35 mil and a Python and 7 days later I had my Fleet Carrier and both Imperial and Federal ranks I stated previously. It was a blast.
Hey Dituri, i used the Ceo courier mission method worked good for me and didn't require any cargo space. It was a bit dragged out and i dont know which one would be faster but it still another working method imo.
Glad it worked! When did you do that? When I was unlocking this myself (last week) it was painfully slow, since most of the federal factions are gone. Again, happy it worked for you!
@DiturisElite its probably been 3 months or so now maybe 4. There was only one federal faction while I was doing it. But they were present at all the stations so the missions stacked.
Thank you for yet another awesome video - I was fielding a question from a new player about the Anaconda just last week, so I'll direct them to your video ! =] One thing I'm really struggling with is the SCO drive - I keep blowing-up my ship by using it, so I'm obviously doing something wrong. Since you're *awesome* at explaining things, do you think you might be able to do a video on what it is, and how to use (and not use) it ? I'd love to see that =D
You're not meant to keep it boosted indefinitely. You use it to get out of planetary/solar gravity wells when leaving stations, usually a 3-4 second burst. You can also use it to help get you to planets/stations located far away from the arrival star. Don't let your ship overheat too much, so use it in bursts.
@@OGmujrim Ah right so that's where I'm going wrong - perhaps it's a keybind or something 'coz I couldn't seem to find any way to turn it off once it had started going absolutely crazy and basically melting my ship LOL. Thanks ! =]
@@Cmdr_Amethyst on keyboard, the bind is tab, same as boost in normal space, and it's a toggle. Meaning you hit tab to start it , and hit it again to turn it off. Fly dangerously cmdr o7
@@OGmujrim Thank you soooooooo much - I think I must just have been panic-punching my keyboard as the temperature kept rising LOL, I'm such a n00b. I shall give it a go when I get back home - I have an Anaconda that I picked up that has one in it basically by accident, and I'd engineered it before I realised so I yeeted it into storage in favour of the classic as it blew up - I'll dust it off 'n give it another go =D Thank youuuuuuuuuu o7 o/
Both have issues sadly, in my recent experience. Nearly all the fed factions are gone from ceos/sothis (as well as the other famous systems) and damaged stations are becoming less common now, probably dying out soon. The method in the video is likely to stay working, and to my knowledge is almost as good as they used to be. Sad, but things move on! 🫡
@@DiturisElite There is still FEDs in Ceos/Sothis which still yields missions, and probably easier to do then the trading which requires huge micro management, and probably slow. And currently there are many damaged stations due to the war, and easy to find them. Yes, it is not always viable, but most of the time it is, and giving alternatives is always good, as not everybody plays the same.
Currently Ceos/Sothis has only 1 federation faction and is mainly data courier missions offering only 2 star reputation rewards. This is fine until rank 5 or 6 but after Ensign you barely get 1% per mission and struggle to get a full 20 missions (fed faction) even if you hit all the stations. At Lieutenant and up the slow increase becomes even more painful. Walley Bei is going much quicker for me, also Sol and it's 4 stations work well for this. If nothing else it is nice to get a change of scenery :). Tysm Dituri, great video, concise and clear, cheers.
Oh I just unlocked the corvette about a week ago. I wonder what is the estimated time to unlock the corvette using your method. I was grinding from cadet to rear admiral for 6 days with 3-5 hours of playtime, all i did was assassinate and killing some pirates of lalande 18115. The mission provider is in saktsak and the station is bursch enterprise. The mission target usually spawns close to the star and the sco really helps me to interdict mission target. The downside is sometimes the mission is updated that the target isn't there and you have to meet the intel in another system.
Fair enough, sounds like a good time. I took about 4 hours total gameplay going from chief petty officer, but a fair amount of that was spent working out how it should be done, so following this guide should be a little quicker. All depends on preference and priorities 🫡
@@DiturisElite yeah i think your method is quicker considering i have to find the targets too, in the other hand i wanted to rank up my combat that's why i play bounty hunting missions. Keep up making good content cmdr, it's quite hard to find elite's guide in 2024. o7
@@DiturisElite Oh and i just realized i am using your method to unlock guardian fsd booster!!! I am currently in the moon and collecting the guardian materials but i got kicked out of the game because of maintenance 😅. Once again thank you for the guide 👍
Rescuing people from burning stations during the Nine Martyrs attacks in 3307 was a great way to quickly rise through the ranks with both Federal and Imperial navies.
Been playing ED for 2 years and have yet to unlock the Corvette lol. Been to focused on the Thargoid war. But I’ll definitely use this guide. I only have one Fed rank higher till Rear Admiral
Ye, I hear ceos used to be great. I tried it before I found this method though and just doesn’t seem to work anymore, nearly all the fed factions are gone. Still, if some can get it work that’s great. Thanks mate 🫡
Doesn’t work anymore unfortunately. It used to be great (I unlocked my cutter with it), but all the systems that everyone raves about for the federals (ochosi, ceos etc) just don’t have enough federal factions anymore. Checkout the Reddit post in description if ya fancy 🫡
Just picked up Elite on sale from steam, haven't played since probably 6-7 years ago when I had a console. I'm absolutely addicted, glad to find some updated content on it too!!! Most the videos are from several years ago, which is sort of inspiring in itself.. This community seems like one of the most... unified?? in most the games that I play at least.. 07 Commanders
Likewise! The Album Deltron 3030 is great to listen to while you play lol
@@J-yx9vs "upgrade your grey matter cause one day it may matter"
Me with several neurons lost and a Corvette already on the Hangar: "Well, better late than never!"
Was thinking the same thing LUL
I just wanted to tell you - you are the damn BEST Elite Dangerous UA-camr. Keep it up, keep your chin high and we're here for you as much as you're here for us :)
The timing of this video is impeccable; I've slowly worked on my Fed rank, but as you've rightly said the old methods are jank now. Only 40 secs in, so better keep going o7.
I'd like to confirm, this is working quite good. I got from rank 4 to rank 10 in around a week of casual playing and made ~850mil credits using a shieldless Python with FSD booster.
Fly safe CMDRs!
Something that might be interesting for some people: the two stations mentioned in the video are also two stations that are used for wing mining missions and sharing in the PTN. There is a guide on their discord which focusses on making credits (and requires you to have at least 1bil credits before starting) but sharing missions is probably quite a lot faster if you have the credits and are willing to jump into calls with strangers 😄
So donation missions do upgrade Fed rank... I'm sitting on 9bn cr so I dont care about giving a few mil away... lol
You bet they do... I spent a lot donating to get the cutter and the same for the vette; cut down the grind significantly. If you got money to burn, systems at war or with a tanked economy have a lot of donation quests.
To all the people commenting about Ceos-Sothis and the other "old runs" it's worth noting that elite dangerous is a dynamic game and the situations change. Ceos-Sothis USED to be great, but they have only 1 federal faction now and few high rep rewards, so you can still grind fed rep there but it is much slower.
I stubbornly persisted with the Ceos-Sothis route until past lieutenant before going to Sol and doing these supply runs there - the change of location broke the monotony but also my progress rate speeded up about 3x - i was keeping count! :).
Still a grind but feels much better to see proper results.
Back when I made my fortune, it was a quaint little system called Qi Yomishii and Njulngan. It was even a massacre mission farm. I miss them.
I don't know if this still works, but I got my Corvette years ago by simply transporting data between SOTHIS and CEOS. Safe and easy. If a little time-consuming, of course, it's Elite! ;)
Yeah, broken now unfortunately ☹️🫡
A note: If the rank up mission isnt one you want just close and reopen the mission board.
This still works in the latest version of the game. Rank up missions are the only types of missions that change on every board recycle. A lot of folks think this doesn't work because the old "board flipping" doesn't work anymore, but I can confirm as of the latest patch on 2024/05/28 this absolutely still works.
Yep, did this myself off screen! Couldn’t fit it in the script organically, but I hope people work it out 🫡
Good old board flipping. I miss those.
Damn... I wish I knew about this mwthod sooner instead of grinding courier jobs. Both for Feds and Empire.
Still, the ships unlocked were worth it.
This was very useful, i did a bit of the grind a few years ago but quit because of burn out. Thanks to this vid i got the last 3 ranks real quick this week and now i have the one ship i've wanted since the start.
o7 Dituri. I tried your Type 9 Heavy build but even in Solo I get deleted by pirates it is not a safe setup as linked in your coriolis builds. If you got a suggestion that can actually fly into the system without being destroyed within 30 seconds please let me know :S
To be honest, the T9 is always like this. A bigger shield/more boosters and hit points helps, but the only thing that’ll consistently work is mastering the SCO and supercruise assist techniques so you don’t give pirates time, or mastering interdiction avoidance. It’s fairly possible in the t9, surprisingly enough.
Sorry it’s not going well, hope you find a successful solution 🫡
@@DiturisElite Oh thank you for the response and I apologize for the initial comment, in hindsight it sounds a bit harsh. It is going okay now, this turns out to be 100% a skill issue on my part and not a fault of your guides at all! The solution I went for is lower the overall capacity and slap on some stronger shields and multi cannon turrets and frankly anything under a Krait MK2 gets a significant beating while the shields hold. I would like to add that I absolutely love your videos, I am a newer player and the other (older) guides one finds online are dauntingly efficient and do not sound like fun. o7
(the sweaty, jaded commander sees this video) nOO! 😡 This isn't efficient!! You need to do Robigo runs and hate every minute of it like I did!!! 😡😡😭😭
Is it viable to just do bounty hunting/combat zone missions? I really enjoy the combat, but I do want this ship...
These stations also offer donation missions that often include commodities found in nearby systems, however, donation mission goods arent marked in the market UI so you have to remember them. It is also a good practice to keep stacking missions and complete them in batches (ones calling for high tech commodities, others calling for mining commodities) since there are 2 nearby systems, in opposite directions, that sell those. Lastly, if you already have a cutter - shields are really optional. Any time interdiction happens just submit, immediately boost away and jump into supercruise (cutter cant be mass locked and with modded engines outruns any npc with ease)
Put hull reinforcement in the military slot and ram pirates. Your hull is hard enough to take the hit and it's highly amusing.
I unlocked the Corvette before I unlocked the Cutter. I feel had I unlocked the Cutter first I would have had an easier time unlocking the Corvette. I love both of them SO MUCH!!
Yeah, the cutter is super handy here. After recording footage in the T-9 (as that’s what a viewer is likely to be using), I swapped straight into the cutter. The massive speed and extra shield strength is soooo nice. I also kinda enjoy the irony of pandering to the fed’s every whim while flexing Gutamaya’s finest.
It’s hard not to love the big ships 🥲🫡
Brooo felt! I unlocked both with combat missions, because pew pew… I unlocked my trading cutter in a week… as opposed to the endless weeks I spent on the other one!
@@captainwinters6909 I unlocked the Corvette with a combo of combat and courier missions with a fully eng FDL. It wasn't too terrible and when I took the same strat to unlocking the Cutter it was a BREEZE! I have to admit I use the Cutter way more but the Corvette is absolutely a DOGG with Thargoid combat
@@DiturisElite And now we need a large ship unlock for the Alliance, you know, for balance sake!! LOL
@@KingArthurFleck haha I wish I had things fully engineered! I haven’t done the Colonia side of things yet. I went sidewinder, cobra mk3, Keelback, Krait mkII, screwed up and down to sidewinder then back that same route, and onto the big three! Now I just have project ships that I very much enjoy.
I definitely heard about the Thargoid vette! I enjoy mini carrier fighting so I might try that at some point!
pls make a vid for a cutter
Very good info, thank you.
Just went to this system. There were barely any missions i could take at all.
Well you're doing something wrong, then. I'm doing it right now and it's working fine. Make sure you're allied with the federal factions at the station, many missions won't become available until you reach a certain standing with each individual minor faction. This is how every minor faction in the game works. If you can't take the source and deliver missions, donate to the factions until your rep is high enough.
I can't do it "in between". My exploration is already 7 months long and it is 47% complete yet :D. But I have corvette, so no worries :D
Awesome tutorials, I was seeing ED videos dwindling down and getting out of date, it’s awesome that you picked up the slack. And you do it well to boot!
Now a teeny little request: I just learned very recently that supercharging your FSD on a neutron star or white dwarf requires a fuel scoop. Almost no tutorial says this (the only one that I know of has only 1.3K subscribers). After asking around on Reddit it was clear many people didn’t know, including some who had hundreds of hours on the clock. I guess everyone *assumes* you have a fuel scoop, but I have rocks to carry! There might be a void to fill here if you feel like it.
Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Im playing on Xbox. Can anyone advise in what to do if the mining/source and return mission dry up ? Also, after donation missions i seem to get quite a few follow up missions which are chained. If i complete these missions will they update the mission board with more of the mining/source and return?
Good news - being on Xbox should be fine for this method. The mining/source missions restock every 10 mins or so of real time, so you won’t actually ever run out. Still, you might have fewer than you’d like on a run, but this improves with your rank with the fed factions. A chained mission is always good news, so do it if you can/fancy, but it won’t give you more missions
I got my Corvette years ago, but your videos are awesome and more people need to see them, so commenting for the algorithm gods o7
I am losing my mind
would the type-8 be any good for this?
It would be great tbh. Not the best in the game, but certainly effective 🫡
Tried it, it sort of works, but it is nowhere close to the insane leveling speed of ngalinnmainani empire grind.
Yeah, it’s kinda annoying. It’s the best I’ve found that still works I’m afraid, everywhere else has lost most of the fed factions.
Still, at least you get some coin and trade rank here 🫡
Excellent guide sir. Your videos are top
I was so hoping you'd make a video on this. I'm happy as hell
There's also the Canopus-Exphiay route, but it is primarily courier missions and imo, pretty repetitive. Although the station in Canopus is 42,000 Ls away :P
True. I tried this last week before working this method out - it doesn’t work anymore unfortunately. There’s only 1 federal faction 😒🫡
Fsd overcharge
what would be comparable systems for the Empire to rank up using the same method?
This is a couple years old but Ngalinn to Mainani (not sure on the spelling lol, it’s been awhile) used to be the way to grind imperial rank. Take a small fast ship and run courier missions between the two. A lot of the rank missions are kill quests so something that can fight is a bonus. Going in with a few hundred million will be a big boost. There are usually a lot of donation missions.
@@prisonerofthehighway1059 thanks! I ended up doing just that long ago, though I was thoroughly disappointed these were just courier missions as I have made a type-9 cargo build specifically for this
Love this video. I got my fed corvet recently and it was a pain to get so I wish I had this video. Hopefully you'll have one soon for the empire though. Either way I'm glad others will have a better method than I did
Thanks mate. Empire might be tricky to record as I already got the cutter 😅 still, I’ll give it a shot if people are interested 🫡
@@DiturisElite ha ha fair. Though you could try an ult account with a sale?. I know it would help me out a lot to have a video for the cutter at least
True, should probably grab one at some point
Idk Ceos grind seems more efficient to me
Doesn’t work anymore unfortunately, that’s why I made the video 🫡
Question to anyone who has done this farm or any others, is this faster than doing the same with passenger or courier missions?
I’m obviously a little biased, but from what I tried before making the video, those methods don’t work anymore.
The systems recommended have lost most of their federal factions, so it’s painfully slow. Check the Reddit post linked in the description if you want some specific info 🫡
@@DiturisElite I tried a couple methods including this one and granted I am no veteran in the game but it seemed very efficient and relatively enjoyable (grinding is grinding at the end of the day). So to anyone wondering my opinion at least is that this method is great! Good job on the video
Sol has gold, silver, and cobalt missions, most of the gold and silver are worth 50m and can be shared. No system hopping needed, go to Galileo to get your gold, silver, and Cobalt, with any luck you can make around 200m in a very short time
I am so glad that I finished this grind for Empire and Federation in the past. This was the most boring grind I ever experienced in ED. Never again! Also I found out that you get quite some reputation boost while killing Thargoids in AX combat or surface combat (the faction needs to own the space). So maybe that is an alternative for someone who can take it slow while actually playing the game and earning lots of credits on the side.
Still boring as hell. I wish ranks were achieved by going through some epic story arcs. Becoming an Admiral in the Federation or a King in the Empire by just delivering stuff is a bit ridiculous
I kinda agree, but it would be pretty hard to make and fit in the game.
Elite isn’t all that well suited to ‘epic story arcs’ as it stands, although that would be insanely cool 🫡
@@DiturisElite yeah true, your method is still better than the classic data delivery anyway, I forgot to say that
@@DiturisElite yeah true, your method is still better than the classic data delivery anyway, I forgot to say that
If you're not in so much of a hurry to grind out rank but do want to rank up. Maybe you just feel like doing missions suck. Find a Federation (or Empire) controlled system near where you can mine and or bounty hunt. Sell your mined goods at that system and you'll build rank and reputation for Federation (or Empire) without doing any missions at all. Maybe you won't get top price for your goods, but you'll still make money while building rank and rep. And also be building your Trade rank as well. Mining will also help you collect those lower level Raw Mats you'll need for engineering. Alternate between mining and bounty hunting and you can build rank for both Federation and Empire at the same time as long as both powers are present near the system you're hunting in. Use a Kill Warrant scanner to get maximum value. Bounty hunting is also a good way to collect Manufactured and Data Mats. Then just check your rank periodically to know when to go looking for a rank up mission.
OMG so cool! Amazing videos! Is it work for the empire? I think yes. Do you have suggested systems/ports?
Is this game dead on console? Looking to get back into it but don’t really gotta lotta friends who play it
Console support was cut years ago.
It still has a loyal fan base though.
Damn! That Seemed a lot easier than the way I did it! If I'd spotted this earlier, I would have been a happier space Bunny or something! Ah well I did it the hard way but it's probably still a good way to earn extra credits so ''ll bear it in mind and maybe follow your methods to get some cash! nice straightforward video! Cheers for the info!
I've just found your content; I've played hours of Elite Dangerous, and I've understood nothing of it. Until your channel. Thank you so much & please, please keep doing these videos!
I'd love to know more about exploration, trading and such 🙏🏼 I'm going to try mining during my week off next week!
I have been farming federation rank last week and was already applying this exact method, without any outside help :D
in my opinion, doing a few delivery quests in between, and buy the stuff for the other missions at the destination.
it may change things up a bit during this tiresome grind
Wow. Freaking great guide! I still need to do the rank up my alt accnt, and I it has been a few years since I have done it. Thank you! o7 CMDR
Great concise guide for a great method. The only thing I'd add is that escaping interdiction is basically always possible after some practice, even in a type 9, you can win the interdiction minigame, which is far less dangerous than submitting and making a run for it. Depending on what comes after you and your ship, you could die fairly quick. Maybe consider making one for a more combat oriented approach. It's not as efficient, but it's perhaps more fun and there's a lot to know there as well between stacking pirate missions, efficient ways to do them, online tools to help you find good targets for pirate hunting etc.
Too bad you didn't release this guide like a month ago lol. Did it the slow way. But I have it now and it was definitely worth it if you like PvE combat
I unlocked the Corvette quote a while ago, almost exclusively by doing rescues from burning stations, but this was still an informative video. I had no idea you can satisfy mining missions by simply buying the commodities! Great to know!
Heyyyyyyy you found the same way I'm doing it, but instead of grinding it out I just do this as needed to help BGS instead lol. Love the videos man.
I just did high level assassination missions each mission is at least 1 percent Somtimes 2
Keep them coming and keep them basic. I’m not exactly new and appreciate your hard work and the help it offers me.
I'd love to see a video (or videos) on how to get to all the different elite ranks. I'm really struggling with my combat rank for engineering specifically
I got elite in new player area using an anaconda. Tip don't rank up so you don't lose the permit. Go mining in hyades sector dbx d1-112 planet 2 at the painite hotspot and sell in sector to carriers. Don't collect materials as they'll rank you up and you'll be able to return in an a rated anaconda with a NPC pilot, with fighters. Its easy if you head to the conflict zone there or haz res and take on every single elite you come across.
This system was working for me for a while but now i just keep getting absolutely sniped by the same 3 pirates. I genuinely have never been shot down faster then by these guys.
Sounds like 3 guys with small hardpoints lol. I’d switch to solo. I’ma big believer in open play but if you’re on a grind and someone is slowing you down, just take their fun away.
how long would this take?
If I remember it took me about 4 hours gameplay from petty officer. Not the quickest process, but as I say it’s a chill process to do in between more exciting stuff. It’s the fastest I can find at the moment, as all the other methods don’t work 🫡
Great one is also the Xeno passenger recue missions from federation space.
Comment for the algorithm gods! Cool video!
Another corking video. I must admit I ranked up by doing passenger rescue missions when thargoids invaded. It worked well and was more fun. That said, I’ve never been one for ranking up for the sake of getting a ship and so I’ve just played and stumbled across extra ships. Taking a break from anything boring is always the way.
So true! If that was still around I’d so recommend it, it was so fun. Still, this ain’t too bad, and as you say, just take a break if it gets tedious 🫡
I may already have lost hair earning the right to buy a Corvette (Despite being a non-combat CMDR) but thank you, thank you, thank you CMDR Dituri for helping keep my own love for Elite going, and helping others find theirs.
You can ise it for so much more as combat i'll have it for passengers and cargo as an explorer it is allthow ok.
Nice no nonsense turorial gotta give ya a sub
By the way, resetting to main menu will refresh the Federal Navy (or imperial) rank up mission to a random one
True. I also found just opening the mission board again worked for me. I couldn’t fit the info in the script but it’s handy to know 🫡
It really does feel like work
sothis and ceos
No longer works sadly, that’s why I made the video.. 🫡
@@DiturisElite :'(((
Ceos and so this work well, robigo is federal so those missions give you fed rep as well as credits. I've even done it at the start with a sidewinder, but my fave is doing it in every single ship as I go. I usually go sidewinder, adder, viper mk IV, cobra mk III, dbx, asp x, until I can get a python. The dbx while small does have some good starter capacity and can do robigo within two jumps each way. Asp x as well. The sidewinder takes forever and I always take a fuel scoop. Once you can get there and back without needing to refuel there's no need for a med/big fuel scoop just a 1A is enough as it's only for emergencies and refueling a bit every jump. Ngalin and mainani are a lot easier to do for imperial rank as well.
No longer works unfortunately. All the old favourites (ceos, sothis, ochosi etc) have barely any federal factions now, hence me saying ‘all the old methods don’t seem to work’ at the beginning of the video.
Check out the original Reddit post for the method if you want some more info 🫡
@@DiturisElite You have to take all the fed missions as well as missions from the other factions delivering to the fed factions
I unlocked Federal Corvette and Imperial Cutter during the same 7 days i was earning 5 bils for my Fleet Carrier doing nothing but Transport missions in Boom systems. Cheers and O7.
That must’ve been… some week.
Massive respect, you must’ve been feeling like hitting the self destruct button by the end… 🫡
@@DiturisElite Not my first day in this game. I began with 35 mil and a Python and 7 days later I had my Fleet Carrier and both Imperial and Federal ranks I stated previously. It was a blast.
Unlocked that mf 4 hours before this video was posted 😵💫😂
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@@DiturisElite empire is up next tho if you wanna give a tutorial on that 🫶🏼
Hey Dituri, i used the Ceo courier mission method worked good for me and didn't require any cargo space. It was a bit dragged out and i dont know which one would be faster but it still another working method imo.
Glad it worked!
When did you do that? When I was unlocking this myself (last week) it was painfully slow, since most of the federal factions are gone. Again, happy it worked for you!
@DiturisElite its probably been 3 months or so now maybe 4. There was only one federal faction while I was doing it. But they were present at all the stations so the missions stacked.
If you want to get the rank mission changed to something els a relog changes the mission if i remember correct
True! Also works by just opening the mission board again, used this myself off camera 🫡
I tought that was enough, just wasnt sure as its a long time ago i did it. Don't want to spread lies you know🤣
Thank you for yet another awesome video - I was fielding a question from a new player about the Anaconda just last week, so I'll direct them to your video ! =] One thing I'm really struggling with is the SCO drive - I keep blowing-up my ship by using it, so I'm obviously doing something wrong. Since you're *awesome* at explaining things, do you think you might be able to do a video on what it is, and how to use (and not use) it ? I'd love to see that =D
You're not meant to keep it boosted indefinitely. You use it to get out of planetary/solar gravity wells when leaving stations, usually a 3-4 second burst. You can also use it to help get you to planets/stations located far away from the arrival star. Don't let your ship overheat too much, so use it in bursts.
@@OGmujrim Ah right so that's where I'm going wrong - perhaps it's a keybind or something 'coz I couldn't seem to find any way to turn it off once it had started going absolutely crazy and basically melting my ship LOL. Thanks ! =]
@@Cmdr_Amethyst on keyboard, the bind is tab, same as boost in normal space, and it's a toggle. Meaning you hit tab to start it , and hit it again to turn it off. Fly dangerously cmdr o7
@@OGmujrim Thank you soooooooo much - I think I must just have been panic-punching my keyboard as the temperature kept rising LOL, I'm such a n00b. I shall give it a go when I get back home - I have an Anaconda that I picked up that has one in it basically by accident, and I'd engineered it before I realised so I yeeted it into storage in favour of the classic as it blew up - I'll dust it off 'n give it another go =D Thank youuuuuuuuuu o7 o/
Ceos - Sothis tourist run is still viable, along with evacuation of damaged stations. You can do many missions on these in one go.
Both have issues sadly, in my recent experience. Nearly all the fed factions are gone from ceos/sothis (as well as the other famous systems) and damaged stations are becoming less common now, probably dying out soon. The method in the video is likely to stay working, and to my knowledge is almost as good as they used to be.
Sad, but things move on! 🫡
@@DiturisElite There is still FEDs in Ceos/Sothis which still yields missions, and probably easier to do then the trading which requires huge micro management, and probably slow.
And currently there are many damaged stations due to the war, and easy to find them. Yes, it is not always viable, but most of the time it is, and giving alternatives is always good, as not everybody plays the same.
Currently Ceos/Sothis has only 1 federation faction and is mainly data courier missions offering only 2 star reputation rewards.
This is fine until rank 5 or 6 but after Ensign you barely get 1% per mission and struggle to get a full 20 missions (fed faction) even if you hit all the stations. At Lieutenant and up the slow increase becomes even more painful.
Walley Bei is going much quicker for me, also Sol and it's 4 stations work well for this. If nothing else it is nice to get a change of scenery :).
Tysm Dituri, great video, concise and clear, cheers.
Oh I just unlocked the corvette about a week ago. I wonder what is the estimated time to unlock the corvette using your method. I was grinding from cadet to rear admiral for 6 days with 3-5 hours of playtime, all i did was assassinate and killing some pirates of lalande 18115. The mission provider is in saktsak and the station is bursch enterprise. The mission target usually spawns close to the star and the sco really helps me to interdict mission target. The downside is sometimes the mission is updated that the target isn't there and you have to meet the intel in another system.
Fair enough, sounds like a good time.
I took about 4 hours total gameplay going from chief petty officer, but a fair amount of that was spent working out how it should be done, so following this guide should be a little quicker.
All depends on preference and priorities 🫡
@@DiturisElite yeah i think your method is quicker considering i have to find the targets too, in the other hand i wanted to rank up my combat that's why i play bounty hunting missions. Keep up making good content cmdr, it's quite hard to find elite's guide in 2024. o7
@@DiturisElite Oh and i just realized i am using your method to unlock guardian fsd booster!!! I am currently in the moon and collecting the guardian materials but i got kicked out of the game because of maintenance 😅. Once again thank you for the guide 👍
No problem, hope it goes well 😊🫡
But… but i just re-unlocked it 39 minutes ago!!!!
Rescuing people from burning stations during the Nine Martyrs attacks in 3307 was a great way to quickly rise through the ranks with both Federal and Imperial navies.
Indeed it was, and good fun too. Wasn’t to last forever though
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Been playing ED for 2 years and have yet to unlock the Corvette lol. Been to focused on the Thargoid war. But I’ll definitely use this guide. I only have one Fed rank higher till Rear Admiral
Great! I’ve been playing for 5 years and only just bothered 😅🫡
Well done chap. Robigo runs for Imperial rank, and from Brunel, in Ceos for Fed rank works quite well.
Ye, I hear ceos used to be great. I tried it before I found this method though and just doesn’t seem to work anymore, nearly all the fed factions are gone.
Still, if some can get it work that’s great. Thanks mate 🫡
Stacking courier missions is still faster then this because the turn around is so much quicker.
Doesn’t work anymore unfortunately. It used to be great (I unlocked my cutter with it), but all the systems that everyone raves about for the federals (ochosi, ceos etc) just don’t have enough federal factions anymore.
Checkout the Reddit post in description if ya fancy 🫡