Currently im running 3 cores and 4 conduits, you need to keep up your research in the energy line if you want to rank up quickly. 716 energy w/ conduits 996 w/o. Remember to ride the free energy from rank ups.

Coth how long does it take to recharge that much energy? I would think that would only make sense if you logged in just once per day. If I had 4 of the best relays available to me mow, I'd recharge 1 energy in a little under 2 and a half minutes. Let's say I have 300 energy. It would take me about 12.5 hours to recharge that. And if I logged in every 8 hours or less I would never really need more than 200 energy. If you have x4 of the +12 recharge conduits, it would still take 24 hours to recharge 720 energy, which seems like overkill. The only thing that would offset that is the free refill from leveling, but is that enough to make it worthwhile?

One exception would be the credit card players, who might think nothing of buying GP and refilling energy as needed. That would definitely add up fast.

Do not waste too much rank points on engineers/scientist/cargo. Once you hit higher level, they will come in artifact shipments more often than not. As for increasing RP, focus on planets with research rather than scientist using rank points. The only reason I can think of about increasing scientist is for raiding, which in turn isn't lucrative.

because some have requisites such as 2 kills, 20 cloak, 40 attack..

True. I did almost ran out of missions. Had to get like 10 kills/ some stats.
Do put some research to get modules to unlock them.
For those "violence" requirements, that's totally up to you to disable/hack people or just let the missions be until you eventually reach the requirement. (by self defense)