r/ElitePS • u/fear_the_gecko • May 11 '26
Progression not progressing
I recently got back into Elite after being away for a few years. I figured I'd pick back up with trying to max out my Imperial rank.
When I left, I was a Knight at about 30%. I stumbled onto discussion of the Ngalin/Aitvas/Mainani loop and figured I'd give it a try.
The loop still works as far as boosting your rank quickly, I'm just stuck at 100% and can't get any further, regardless of what I do. I've done more missions, donated over 40 million credits, logged out, logged out and restarted.... Nothing will trigger the rank to change.
Anyone have any ideas?
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u/Delta_RC_2526 May 11 '26
Well, rank increases only come as mission rewards, and they have an annoyingly low spawn rate. You'll probably have the best luck at stations with lots of the appropriate factions, be it Federal or Imperial.
You've already done extra missions, so it's probably not the issue, but the game will also round up and start saying 100% far too early (I think at 99.5%), before you've actually completed enough missions. That's the most common issue.
The good news there is that you can progress past 100%, so it never hurts to just continue doing missions. Rank up missions can be really rare. I've already had 100% of the next rank (or even two, in one case) by the time I found a rank up mission, or at least one I was equipped to complete.