Ranking up Free Companies (1-5 and over) : what was your actual credit count?

Hey everyone!

Having started over a FC and looked around the Web for information, I find that the currently displayed information for credits needed to rank up your FC is wrong on most websites. I've seen someone reach rank 2 at 5k, we did it around 4.5k, while most sites say 2750 or so.

So, for compilation purposes, if you remember this information or if you have a rank 1-4 company (meaning you didn't expend any credit), could you post your credit count, if possible when you reached a specific level (but your current count will be interesting as well)? Don't hesitate to include some other information, especially the size of your FC!

Have fun in the game!

*** Edited the post to share our findings ***

To summarize the credit thresholds at which we raised rank:
- Rank 2 at 4.5k
- Rank 3 at 18k
- Rank 4 at 41k
- Rank 5 at 72k
- Rank 6 at 109k (no credits spent between 5 & 6)
We were able to predict very precisely the amount of credits at which we would ding the next rank very early in the previous rank, and the estimation remained very consistent during the whole bar progression, meaning that the progression in the bar is linear.

What we're certain of, as of 2.1 :
- FATEs give credits equal to the level of the FATE multiplied by :
* 0.8 for 3 persons online
* 1.0 for 2 persons online
* 1.43 or so for 1 person online
You need only to achieve bronze to get the credits, and getting silver or gold does not increase the ranking anyhow.
- Quests follow the same pattern as FATE.
- Levelling doesn't give credits.
- Hunting log doesn't give credits.

What I'm almost certain of but need to confirm :
- Achievements don't give credits.
- HQ gathering gives credits : I think it's 3 for 1 person online, 2 for 2 and 1 for 1.
- HQ crafting gives credits, and it depends on the level. Have to verify, but I think it's 10 points for lv 50 crafts with 2 persons online, and 2 points for level 1-10 HQ crafts.

I think it would be a good idea to write this down in case someone's looking for more accurate FC rank up information (as of 2.1) since there doesn't seem to be anything remotely accurate on the Internet.

After almost a month of hard work, we finally attained rank 6 with only 2 people (and proceeded to buy our house!). I'm sure Keewee can give the exact breakdown but we got rank 6 at roughly 109k Company Credits. Ranking up seemed completely tied to credit acquisition, that is to say the more credit you get for an action, the more "xp" you get for your Free Company.
We're 99% sure that the only actions that raise Company rank are actions that give your Company credits, that is:
- Quests
- FATEs
- Crafting
- Gathering

Everything being heavily biased towards FATEs and quests at the moment, as crafting and gathering don't give a lot of credits. Achievements give credits too, but they're not worth farming as they give their number of points (usually 10) in credits. Completing hunting log, levelling up etc. didn't seem to do anything at all, even at lower Company ranks. Also, the more people are online, the less credit you'll get for a specific action (I think the breakdown is 1 person, 2 people, 3 or more people online). this has been known for a while but is pretty significant if you're raising a very small FC.

Have fun. :)

Completed OP with our findings.

1 node gives 1 credit.

Node? Gathering node, you mean?