Combat Rating

Combat Rating is an estimate of how dangerous or how experienced the player is with combat. It is a measurement based on the (undepreciated) value of all enemy ships you've disabled. For example, to reach a combat rating of 3, you will need to have disabled approximately 10M credits' worth of ships. In contrast, your Reputation with a given government is based on the amount of crew you've killed or saved.
Some jobs, like marauder hunting, require a certain amount of combat rating before they can be offered. There are also some side stories, such as the Kestrel mission, that require a certain amount of combat rating.
Combat Rating is calculated according to the formula [new rating] = [old rating] + ([ship value, in credits] + 250000)/500000. For example, disabling a 1M credit ship will boost your rating by about 3. Rating has a hard cap of 2B points.
Combat Rating as displayed in the Player Info screen is the natural logarithm of this number. That is, a combat rating of 60 corresponds to an in-game rank of ln(60) ≈ 4, or "almost dangerous," as according to the table below. Because of this logarithmic growth, it takes an exponentially increasing amount of work (in terms of disabled ship value) to increase your in-game rating.
Rank	Rating points	Value (credits)	Title
0 	0 	0 	harmless
1 	3 	1.359M 	mostly harmless
2 	7 	3.695M 	not entirely helpless
3 	20 	10.04M 	borderline competent
4 	55 	27.30M 	almost dangerous
5 	148 	74.21M 	moderately intimidating
6 	403 	201.7M 	not to be trifled with
7 	1097 	548.3M 	seasoned fighter
8 	2981 	1.490B 	respected enemy
9 	8103 	4.052B 	force to be reckoned with
10 	22026 	11.01B 	fearsome scrapper
11 	59874 	29.94B 	formidable adversary
12 	162755 	81.38B 	dread warrior
13 	442413 	221.2B 	veteran battle-lord
14 	1202604 	601.3B 	legendary foe
15 	3269017 	1.635T 	war-hungry lunatic
16 	8886111 	4.443T 	absurdly bloodthirsty
17 	24154953 	12.08T 	terror of the galaxy
18 	65659969 	32.83T 	inconceivably destructive
19 	178482301 	89.24T 	agent of mass extinction
20 	485165195 	242.6T 	genocidal maniac
21 	1318815734 	659.4T 	destroyer of worlds
Category:Game Mechanics