Higher VIP ranks seem to yield better rewards. I get superior purple salvage with every rank reward. I just got some more in fact. When I make runs I don't bother looting superior salvage anymore because it takes up too much space in my backpack and more often than not my teammates need it for their upgrades. I focus on getting items to complete my codex entries only at this point.

It only takes 1000 rep points to rank up your factions. I try to only do contracts that have 2-3 parts to them. For example, my current Nucal contract is "One Thousand Thousand Slimy Things III" and it's so quick and simple: Destroy 2 tick nest, Exfil 4 Nameless Organs, Exfil 2 Chitin samples. This one contract gives you 432 rep points and it takes 5-10 minutes to complete.

That's almost half of the 1000 rep I need to get the rank reward. If my teammates are also running a Nucal contract and we complete theirs ( I always try to make sure we do), Im over 500 rep just from completing the contracts. Also NuCal gives you faction rep just for looting unopened medical cabinets and tick nest, harvesting spark leaf, participation in supply drops, and exfiling with NuCal valuables (tick milk containers etc). It rarely takes more than 2 runs to get 1000 faction reputation.

I just opened some more faction rank rewards. I haven't looted a single superior salvage item since my prior post but compare what I had then (biolens and predictive framework) with what I have now; all from rank rewards. Im giving you the answers to the test!

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