Okay, dug through my rubbish to find Rank 300 stats for you.

Rank 300, Days Played: 236
TO: 1013 (Currently 18366 after 501 days played)
Engineers: 1615
Helmsmen: 618
Scientists: 1680
Decks: 1623
Attack: 6028
Defense: 5823
Hull: 13007
Shield: 2400

Mineral Production/hour: 8418
Artifact Production/hour: 10081
Research Production/hour: 10045

Yep, had both Mission Exotic and Dyson and can't remember what race/profession now, but fair chance it was Konqul Fixer.
The Rank Points difference may be explained by you being in an 80k/day legion for a decent portion of your 500-odd days and me (at that time) having been in a 25K/day legion for all my 236 days
EDIT: lol, late night posts and sleepy brains - I had completely forgotten that for the first 1000 decks I happily used Rank Points.

AP growth was, and still is, driven by scanning, NPCing and trading.

At that stage I was still completing my 3rd Velox I believe.

I found this on my Ship log. The next one was at rank 330 so I decided to go with this one.
Rank 278, Days Played: 559
Engineers: 717
Tactical Officers: 2486
Helmsmen: 727
Scientists: 2112
Decks: 1.8.5.1
Attack: 6182
Defense: 10976 (Aerlen: Defense +30%)
Hull: 13633
Shield: 2712
Cloak: 380
Scan: 415 (Explorer: Scan 20%)
2.4B Upkeep - I kept up by selling ACF on the GTC.

Mineral Production/hour: 4462
Artifact Production/hour: 7777 (Had mission exotic. I didn't have many good planet structures, so it was pumping around 1k arti)
Research Production/hour: 6176

Yeah, I had both mission exotic and dyson, spent the money on them. Although my stats weren't as good as diego's, like him i have increased a lot in the last 2-300 days and 360 odd ranks, my arti is about 26K and TO's are 9K, eng's 5K. Still not as good as Diego, but is arti prod beats me hands down from memory.

Update:
I reached rank 350 after playing GL for 606 days. 1,73 days/rank
After last 50 ranks I got to:
Modules: Cybernetic Link Interface 50%, Merged DataNode 500%, Anubix, AI Assault Drone r100,
2x Q-Pedd Assembly Line 2.0, Nanite Re-Assembler, Omnibase Chassis (taken from planet),
T.O. Heliofield, Havoc Coils

Hoarding: Lazuli Parts Vault (Uses Left: 45+20), Tri-Matrix Emblem (Uses Left: 79+3) & Energy Cube (Uses Left: 19+2).
Silthion Energy Sac (Uses Left: 0+9) - while spending 4 Energy Cubes and 12 Sacs on LM missions
Max energy bar 2888, recharge: 75/hour. (+ 647 e, +15/h)

Rank points used to keep ratio 1:4 (2 Engineers vs 8 Tactical Officers)
Got additional 855 rank points = 17,1/rank
Attack 7214 (+544, 3% from Anubix) up to 11K NPC dmg or 14K invasion.
Defense 2679 (+1025, 4% Datanode, 3x Velox)
Hull 12935 (+3530, while 1100 from better plating)
Shields 3353 (+1353)
Finished Dimensional Logistics 3/3
Scan/cloak high to find the bloody smuggler
Got the Hybrid larva 7 mins after finishing the mission & killing 5 NPCs.


Now working on: Kronyn chain The Aevax Experiment 30/60 (CL: 9 of 15) and Exotic Algorithms 33 / 120




Change during last 50 ranks:
Kills +425
Hacks +376
Raids +721

NPC +2251 (LM missions, smuggler, Seeing Red) or otherwise in return of 3789 NPC kills:
585 Dark badges
8x Krionite Torpedo
7x Quantum Bio-Vaporizer
1x QSE
11 xTerraforming device
10x Mylarai Build Extractor
Crimson Obelisk (Uses Left: 800+)
Dark Eluder Matrix (Uses Left: 6)
Crimson Amplifier (Uses Left: 61)
Dark Void Foci (Uses Left: 45)
Eruption Channeler (Uses Left: 48)
Sha'din Algorithm (Uses Left: 39)
Chaostatic Inhibitor (Uses Left: 27)
Orbital Mass-Disruptor (Uses Left: 31)
Affection Disseminator 4.0 (Uses Left: 3)
A.I. Emotion Core
2x Assembly
Sha'din Data Terminal (Uses Left: 4)
Shockpulse Charger (Uses Left: 27)
Stryll Seeker (Uses Left: 67)
Stryll Trap Probe (Uses Left: 148)
Silthion queen: 1

Medal points +35
On my "to do" list are medals:
01. The Lone Conqueror 8 / 15
02. The Elusive Smuggler (UPDATE: done at rank 352, NPC kills 3841
04. Hacker vs Hacker 0 / 900 - plan to be Kronyn Hacker
05. Black Hat 1783 / 2600
06. My Cargo Runneth Over 3479 / 5000
07. King of the Hill 2.0 - looking for help
08. The Omniscient 553 / 750
09. Shared Adventures 6 / 25 (+4)
10. If you want something done right... 3/30 (+3)
11. Choices, choices. 6 / 8


Done w:
Larva. Why'd it have to be Larva?, Seeing Red
Back on your feet, Soldier; Eureka!; She Blinded Me With Research; Equal Opportunity;
Worker's Comp; Clear Skies; Deep Meditation etc.


Arti planets:
1x C22MR,
1x C16MR,
1x VM13MR mission exotic
5x M - Very rich or better
9x VL - Very rich or better
4x L - Extremely rich or better
8x worse in size/richness
29/75 planets
+2 C15MR & 1MC17MR in trade progress - fingers crossed to get the boost of +1500 AP/hour.

Looking good Flux.
A couple of suggestions, not sure if you've done it but the Trellith Chain is very good for increasing arti production.

Also, if I were you, I'd put some rank points into engineers for a while, at least until your max energy is 10x rank, or even better you can autorank. Now I know you won't autorank, but it will help you with those NPC style LM's, so you won't need to use your cubes and sacs.

well, Phil... questions is, when to use the cubes to fit my plans.

I plan to finish the PvP medals, then all what will left is missions and NPCs (unless Dan implement finally something new for PvP activity).
I prefer to have more TOs than Eng... because many players have godlike energy bars yet they can not invade strongly defended planets .. so basically they are forced to build them from NPC loot which moves them w or w/o autoranking fast up in ranks etc.
I will be rather limited with energy but capable to take majority of good planets I will find and use some cubes if needed.

Btw, is there any damage cap for base battles?

Yes, 3 is 120, 4 is 200, 5 is 260, 6+ is 600

Plus theres more than just pvp medals. Like trying to get onto the boards

Thanks for the info.
For the boards.. well not sure, if I wish to get on direct attack panel. I like the rank range protection

Yea, I'm not really sure about all those cubes and tri-matrix. I have a ton of them too, I plan to use some to help upgrade the base to level 8, but beyond that.... I don't even need them for a scan blitz anymore.

I just reached a max energy of 10K at rank 746, so I have plenty of energy, but then I like to rank, my slow ranking has been once per day for the most of this year.

I guess my comment was made because the higher your energy bar then the more you get from your cubes and tri's, but your method seems to work OK, you still have plenty left!!

Update:
I reached rank 400 after playing GL for 701 days. 1,75 days/rank

After last 50 ranks I got to:
Modules: Cybernetic Link Interface 150% (+100%), Nanite Re-Assembler 160% (+160%), Merged DataNode 500%,
2x Q-Pedd Assembly Line 2.0, 2nd Havoc Coils, 2x Dormant Tenebris Relic, Crimson Intelligence, T.O. Heliofield, 2nd Composite Ray-S
Allies: Anubix, AI Assault Drone r100

Hoarding: Lazuli Parts Vault 80 (+20), Tri-Matrix Emblem 97 (+15) & Energy Cube 5 (-16).
Silthion Energy Sac 0 (-9) - while spending 18 Energy Cubes and 12 Sacs on LM missions
Max energy bar 3706, recharge: 75/hour. (+ 818 e)

Change:
Rank points used to keep ratio 1:4 (2 Engineers vs 8 Tactical Officers)
Got additional 1111 rank points = 22.21/rank
Attack 10147 (+2930, 3% from Anubix)
Defense 3527 (+848, 4% Datanode, 3x Velox)
Hull 18190 (+5255, 520 from Nanite Re-Assembler)
Shields 5028 (+1675)
Total crew 14047 (+5127) +444 Engineers, +1777 TOs, +972 Helmsmen, +1934 Scientists
Artifact production 10751/H (+4322)
From 2083 NPC kills, I got 5 Dark Arms Carriers w 5 KTs & 2 Troop Carriers w 2 TDs, +9 Toxic Purifiers

Now working on: Trellith Chain - Unfamiliar Remnants 2/15; Imminent Conflict 6/10 and Decrypting the Vault 4/10
Kronyn mission chain done, just waiting on bloody LM Carthyne Symposium to finish Cybernetic Link Interface.




Research tree:
Weapons - next to research Null Rays (not a priority)
Power - Proxy-Universe Reactions 1.1M research to finish 1th tier
Shield - Force Obviation Fields done 1/3
Cloak - Inverse Flux Jamming done 1/3
Hull - done Syncopated Phase Matter 3/3
Defense - Phase Shifting at 0/3
Sensor - Continuum Analysis 3/3
Planetary - Topopolis Rings 0/1
Logistics - Hyper Logistics 22.6M to 1/3

Medal points +65
On my "to do" list are medals:
01. A long road to get here (701/730)
02. My Cargo Runneth Over 4466 / 5000
03. Hacker vs Hacker 0 / 900 - after last Cybernetic Link Interface
04. Black Hat 1916 / 2600
05. Shared Adventures 19 / 25 (+13)
06. King of the Hill 2.0 - looking for help
07. The Omniscient 610 / 750
08. If you want something done right... 8/30 (+5)
09. Choices, choices. 6 / 8

Done w:
The Lone Conqueror; The Elusive Smuggler; Larva. Why'd it have to be Larva?; Seeing Red;
Back on your feet, Soldier; Eureka!; She Blinded Me With Research; Equal Opportunity;
Worker's Comp; Clear Skies; Deep Meditation etc.

Update:
I reached rank 450 after playing GL for 823 days. 1,83 days/rank

After last 50 ranks I got to:
Modules: Cybernetic Link Interface 200% (+50%), Nanite Re-Assembler 200% (+40%), Merged DataNode 500%,
2x Q-Pedd Assembly Line 2.0, 3rd Havoc Coils (+1), 2x Dormant Tenebris Relic, Crimson Intelligence, T.O. Heliofield 40% (+40%), 4th Composite Ray-S (+2), 1st Annex Decree
Allies: Anubix, AI Assault Drone r100

Hoarding: Lazuli Parts Vault 91 (+11), Tri-Matrix Emblem 116 (+19) & Energy Cube 6 (+1).
Silthion Energy Sac 22 (+22) - while spending 4 Energy Cubes and 5 Sacs on LM missions
Max energy bar 4859, recharge: 75/hour. (+ 1153 e)

Change:
Rank points used to keep ratio 1:4 (2 Engineers vs 8 Tactical Officers)
Got additional 1762 rank points = 35.26/rank
Attack +2841 ( 3% from Anubix)
Defense +1406 ( 4% Datanode, 3x Velox)
Hull +11731 ( 600 from Nanite Re-Assembler)
Shields +2476
Total crew 21836 (+7792) +726 Engineers, +2799 TOs, +1544 Helmsmen, +2723 Scientists
Artifact production 12455/H (+1704 w 3 project planets in progress)
From 2858 NPC kills, I got 9 Dark Arms Carriers w 8 KTs + 1QSE & 9 Troop Carriers w 9 TDs, +3 Toxic Purifiers

Now working on: Voliir Chain: The Biofleet Evacuation 9/15, Signal Alignment 11/50 and Decrypting the Vault 5/10.



Research tree:
Weapons - next to research Null Rays (not a priority)
Power - Proxy-Universe Reactions done
Shield - Force Obviation Fields done 1/3
Cloak - Inverse Flux Jamming done 1/3
Hull - done Syncopated Phase Matter 3/3
Defense - Phase Shifting at 0/3
Sensor - Continuum Analysis 3/3
Planetary - Topopolis Rings 0/1
Logistics - Hyper Logistics 1M to 1/3

Medal points +130
On my "to do" list are medals:
01. The Erudite 1/15
02. Black Hat 2211 / 2600
03. Hacker vs Hacker 19 / 900
04. The Omniscient 645 / 750
05. Taltherian Chain - autorank using some of Tri-Matrix Emblems
06. King of the Hill 2.0 - looking for help
07. Dark Whispers
08. If you want something done right... 16/30 (+8)
09. Choices, choices. 6 / 8


Done w:
A long road to get here; My Cargo Runneth Over; Shared Adventures;
The Lone Conqueror; The Elusive Smuggler; Larva. Why'd it have to be Larva?; Seeing Red;
Back on your feet, Soldier; Eureka!; She Blinded Me With Research; Equal Opportunity;
Worker's Comp; Clear Skies; Deep Meditation etc.[/quote]

Play how you want, but my god...

why have you got 9 terraformers and enum crystals and a QSE sitting in cargo? you can easily max at least one planet to 20x with that, especially considering your low artifact production

This, please put points into engineers and rank up.
You're scaring me

I will accentuate the positive only.
Good work on increasing your engineers and energy by a considerable amount over the last 50 ranks/almost 4 months.

When I open caches, I will literally collect more arti points in 1 day than you have in your entire time of playing.

Why is your arti so bad?

Are you gonna give him a participation medal too?
"Good job on sitting on 60k ctps worth of artis"