question concerning military rank

[cronoise]

So we started playing EM a few days ago and now are at the point where we want to build our military rank. First thing we discovered was you have to survive to get mission credits, that was a no-brainer.

Now that we took our first steps in EM-combat we just do mission after mission in a warzone. But one of us is getting almost double the ranks the other player gets and we just can't tell why. We do our missions together, both are surviving, both have almost equal kills... but one player is rank 39 and the other rank 15.

Can someone shed some light on this for us? We obviously are missing something but probably are too blind to see >.<

[Capt_Caveman]

mil rank increases 1 point per waypoint plus 1 point per 10 kills


civ rateing increases as above plus 1 point for every 500,000 credits you earn

[Edited on 2-7-2012 by capt_cronic]

[cronoise]

Cool, thanks a lot! So it's irrelevant how many missions you complete? This would make the patrols most efficient I'd say...

[Maarschalk]

So we started playing EM a few days ago and now are at the point where we want to build our military rank. First thing we discovered was you have to survive to get mission credits, that was a no-brainer.

Now that we took our first steps in EM-combat we just do mission after mission in a warzone. But one of us is getting almost double the ranks the other player gets and we just can't tell why. We do our missions together, both are surviving, both have almost equal kills... but one player is rank 39 and the other rank 15.

Can someone shed some light on this for us? We obviously are missing something but probably are too blind to see >.<

As Capt_cronic pointed out! So one of you is getting more kills then the other!

[Maarschalk]

Cool, thanks a lot! So it's irrelevant how many missions you complete? This would make the patrols most efficient I'd say...

Not really, because you can do one way point mission at a time that involves killing 10 Vonari's which overall pays you better then a 5 waypoint mission per waypoint.

So say a 5 waypoint mission pays you 100,000 credits and a 1 Waypoint mission pays you 22,000 then 5 missions of 1 waypoint earns you 110,000 credits!;)

[cronoise]

Not really, because you can do one way point mission at a time that involves killing 10 Vonari's which overall pays you better then a 5 waypoint mission per waypoint.

So say a 5 waypoint mission pays you 100,000 credits and a 1 Waypoint mission pays you 22,000 then 5 missions of 1 waypoint earns you 110,000 credits!;)

Yah, but who needs money?

For rank it seems it would be the maxing waypoints and minimizing the number of ships encountered there... so my first guess would be something like a 3 waypoint mission with 4 enemies at each waypoint, meaning 4 points to rank increase.

[Maarschalk]

A 5 waypoint mission with 12 enemies at each waypoint at 500,000 credits will give you 12 points towards rank, do 10 of these and you have 120 points!....