I think I got a mission to go to Cardassia Space sometime before I finished all the other missions but I deliberately ignored it until I had the others cleared off. But was definitely before I hit Captain. At a guess I'd say Commander 7 or 8.
IIRC you get the "handoff" mission around Commander 7 -to get the handoff you have to complete all the misisons for Admiral T'nag(sp?).
You'll get a slew of story missions from the Commander she hands you off too - they'll taper off around Captain 4, to be one or two per level. You'll have to run Patrol or Exploration missions to make up the difference - Exporation missions can get you easy exp, and badges that can be used to outfit your next tier of ship (you start gettign 5th rank Exploration badges here).
I had over 400 when I made RA1 - enough to outfit my shiny new Advanced Escort with all Mark IX weapons.
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Haven't been out there yet myself.
You'll get a slew of story missions from the Commander she hands you off too - they'll taper off around Captain 4, to be one or two per level. You'll have to run Patrol or Exploration missions to make up the difference - Exporation missions can get you easy exp, and badges that can be used to outfit your next tier of ship (you start gettign 5th rank Exploration badges here).
I had over 400 when I made RA1 - enough to outfit my shiny new Advanced Escort with all Mark IX weapons.
And thank you all, btw.
I think the hand-off mission to Deepspace 9 is Commander-8, but the majority of the missions are Captain+[/QUOTE]