passanger missions - exact cabin type needed?

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

I wanted to test those passenger missions, the basic ones.

Transport X <passanger_type> to spaceport Y.

I had a Beluga with enough luxury cabins and thought it might be nice to transport those refugees to the next system in style. They wanted economy class cabins. Passenger board told me that the mission is unavailable with "min cabin type economy". Apparently min. type is equal to "it has to be the exact type".

Maybe I did something wrong, but if I need to have the exact type of cabin for those missions, then those missions are useless. I won't constantly change the cabins in my Beluga just to be able to haul a few passengers form A to B.

Not to mention that this would make the Beluga completely useless. All my other ships can be equipped with economy class cabins and some of my ships with more. So why bother with the crippled Beluga at all.


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After a lot of very useful and helpful replies I learned:
The "seeking transportation" - the non VIP passenger missions - can be split between cabins of the same class (economy, business, fist class), but not between cabins of different classes.
"Seeking transportation" passengers can't be placed in luxury cabins.
"Seeking transportation" passengers can be placed in higher classed cabins (but not luxury)

The original question is answered. Thanks again to everybody.

 

[Faded Glory]

Could be something to do with luxury cabins, I don't know as I haven't actually used them.

But with first/business/economy, passengers will take any class equal to or better than that specified in the mission.

 

[Obnoxious_Gamer]

I wanted to test those passenger missions, the basic ones.

Transport X <passanger_type> to spaceport Y.

I had a Beluga with enough luxury cabins and thought it might be nice to transport those refugees to the next system in style. They wanted economy class cabins. Passenger board told me that the mission is unavailable with "min cabin type economy". Apparently min. type is equal to "it has to be the exact type".

Maybe I did something wrong, but if I need to have the exact type of cabin for those missions, then those missions are useless. I won't constantly change the cabins in my Beluga just to be able to haul a few passengers form A to B.

Not to mention that this would make the Beluga completely useless. All my other ships can be equipped with economy class cabins and some of my ships with more. So why bother with the crippled Beluga at all.

If I remember correctly, Luxury Cabins are for VIPs only. Any other type will do for the common peasants.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Could be something to do with luxury cabins, I don't know as I haven't actually used them.

But with first/business/economy, passengers will take any class equal to or better than that specified in the mission.

If I remember correctly, Luxury Cabins are for VIPs only. Any other type will do for the common peasants.

Thanks for the answers.

So the Beluga can take luxury cabins that are completely useless. Great. Guess I will just sell that useless piece of metal.

 

[WillFrog]

They're not useless, they're for VIPs only. If a mission has a little crown symbol on it they are VIPs and you can put them in the luxury cabin but they won't share. They take up the whole cabin. Non VIP passengers WILL share with others but AFAIK can't go in a luxury cabin. Just stick one economy class cabin in there to shove the plebs into.

 

[Faded Glory]

They're not useless, they're for VIPs only. If a mission has a little crown symbol on it they are VIPs and you can put them in the luxury cabin but they won't share. They take up the whole cabin. Non VIP passengers WILL share with others but AFAIK can't go in a luxury cabin. Just stick one economy class cabin in there to shove the plebs into.

Well, yes and no...

VIP's all state a minimum cabin class too, and as far as I have seen, there aren't yet any that require the luxury cabins. No doubt such missions will come...

But yes, named (VIP) passengers won't share a cabin, while bulk (tourists, refugees etc) are able to be piled into a single cabin as long as there's room.

 

[Obnoxious_Gamer]

Thanks for the answers.

So the Beluga can take luxury cabins that are completely useless. Great. Guess I will just sell that useless piece of metal.

It'd be great as an SRV carrier if you could fit the little hangars in all the class 6 compartments.

 

[fademist]

I wanted to test those passenger missions, the basic ones.

Transport X <passanger_type> to spaceport Y.

I had a Beluga with enough luxury cabins and thought it might be nice to transport those refugees to the next system in style. They wanted economy class cabins. Passenger board told me that the mission is unavailable with "min cabin type economy". Apparently min. type is equal to "it has to be the exact type".

Maybe I did something wrong, but if I need to have the exact type of cabin for those missions, then those missions are useless. I won't constantly change the cabins in my Beluga just to be able to haul a few passengers form A to B.

Not to mention that this would make the Beluga completely useless. All my other ships can be equipped with economy class cabins and some of my ships with more. So why bother with the crippled Beluga at all.

u can use business cabin for the economy

 

[Kietrax]

Other thing to note is that all passengers for a mission must be accommodated in the same cabin. Since the Luxury cabins are generally low occupancy, is it possible you didn't have enough space in a single cabin for the number of passengers involved? Pretty sure there is no upper limit on upgrades you can give to your passengers ...

You can stack multiple missions into a single cabin though if the numbers fit.

 

[Bomba Luigi]

Other thing to note is that all passengers for a mission must be accommodated in the same cabin. Since the Luxury cabins are generally low occupancy, is it possible you didn't have enough space in a single cabin for the number of passengers involved? Pretty sure there is no upper limit on upgrades you can give to your passengers ...

You can stack multiple missions into a single cabin though if the numbers fit.

The "get 15 tourist (or whatever) to X" you can put across 2 Economy cabins, but I think that are the only one where that works.

Luxury Cabins do seem to be a bit pointless, but maybe not. Have now stumble across a missions that requires Luxury cabins and it does pay pretty well (21mil). but not sure, could be a one off as I think most of the time they don't pay more then first class, need to spend more time on it.

 

[WillFrog]

Well, yes and no...

VIP's all state a minimum cabin class too, and as far as I have seen, there aren't yet any that require the luxury cabins. No doubt such missions will come...

But yes, named (VIP) passengers won't share a cabin, while bulk (tourists, refugees etc) are able to be piled into a single cabin as long as there's room.

I've had a couple of min. class - luxury missions, so they do exist. They're not common though. You're better off just having one luxury cabin and a mix of lower class ones to maximize your carrying potential I think.

 

[TheSisko]

Well, yes and no...

VIP's all state a minimum cabin class too, and as far as I have seen, there aren't yet any that require the luxury cabins. No doubt such missions will come...

But yes, named (VIP) passengers won't share a cabin, while bulk (tourists, refugees etc) are able to be piled into a single cabin as long as there's room.

Yep, there's a lot of confusion about VIP requirements going around.

VIPs: Won't share a cabin
Standard passengers: Will share.

Cabin type is irrelevant. I've seen VIP missions for Economy class cabins, but then they'll want that whole cabin.

There's a perception going around that VIPs = Luxury Cabin, this isn't the case.

Also my fellow taxi drivers , you can find (in my experience) Luxury Cabin missions at systems where you're allied with one of the factions, especially if that faction is in Boom state. I've seen and done quite a few luxury cabin missions at my home base, a High Tech system.

And - don't forget the wonder of module storage. You can (funds permitting) purchase a few cabin types and dump them into storage - then equip them as needed to your ship when juicy missions become available, but your ship's current cabin configuration won't allow you to accept that mission.

 

[Faded Glory]

I've had a couple of min. class - luxury missions, so they do exist. They're not common though. You're better off just having one luxury cabin and a mix of lower class ones to maximize your carrying potential I think.

I actually don't have a ship that can take a luxury cabin, just hadn't noticed any. Good to hear that you (and Bomba) have in fact seen some though.

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Yep, there's a lot of confusion about VIP requirements going around.

VIPs: Won't share a cabin
Standard passengers: Will share.

Cabin type is irrelevant. I've seen VIP missions for Economy class cabins, but then they'll want that whole cabin.

There's a perception going around that VIPs = Luxury Cabin, this isn't the case.

That's absolutely correct as far as my understanding goes.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Do I understand that correctly?

- Luxury cabins can't be used for non VIP missions
- all VIP missions I've seen are lower cabin class ones
- VIP passengers from one mission need to fit into one cabin
- passengers need to go into one cabin and as a result more modules slots are better.

The result is, that using an Anaconda, Cutter, Corvette and other ships better for those missions. They can fit more cabins, don't have restricted module slots and therefore can be outfitted with all a CMDR might want to bring along.
The Corvette for example can use 2 class 6 modules more than the Beluga, making it the better passenger liner.

The Beluga Liner is power starved. Has less slots for cabins. Can't be used for anything else than passenger missions. Has weak shields. Can only use two of those three: shield, scoop, hangar.

Beluga Liner, the new definition of epic fail.

*Facepalm*
I'm done with that nonsense.

 

[TheSisko]

Do I understand that correctly?

- Luxury cabins can't be used for non VIP missions
- all VIP missions I've seen are lower cabin class ones
- VIP passengers from one mission need to fit into one cabin
- passengers need to go into one cabin and as a result more modules slots are better.

The result is, that using an Anaconda, Cutter, Corvette and other ships better for those missions. They can fit more cabins, don't have restricted module slots and therefore can be outfitted with all a CMDR might want to bring along.
The Corvette for example can use 2 class 6 modules more than the Beluga, making it the better passenger liner.

The Beluga Liner is power starved. Has less slots for cabins. Can't be used for anything else than passenger missions. Has weak shields. Can only use two of those three: shield, scoop, hangar.

Beluga Liner, the new definition of epic fail.

*Facepalm*
I'm done with that nonsense.

- Luxury cabins can't be used for non VIP missions
Yes they can. The cabin requested is a minimum requirement for the passengers. So if they asking for Business class and you have no Business class cabins available but you do have first or luxury available, then you can move them in there. No passenger is going to moan about free upgraded accommodation.

--all VIP missions I've seen are lower cabin class ones
Boom state. Allied. Go there and the missions will come, certainly on my hi-tech home anyway.

--- VIP passengers from one mission need to fit into one cabin
Yep, they don't want to share with the common people

- passengers need to go into one cabin and as a result more modules slots are better.
Only for VIP missions. Standard passengers are happy to share.

 

[Obnoxious_Gamer]

- Luxury cabins can't be used for non VIP missions
Yes they can. The cabin requested is a minimum requirement for the passengers. So if they asking for Business class and you have no Business class cabins available but you do have first or luxury available, then you can move them in there. No passenger is going to moan about free upgraded accommodation.

We have people moan about the introduction of QoL features all the time! Maybe it breaks the passengers' immersion if their cabins are too nice.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

- Luxury cabins can't be used for non VIP missions
Yes they can. The cabin requested is a minimum requirement for the passengers. So if they asking for Business class and you have no Business class cabins available but you do have first or luxury available, then you can move them in there. No passenger is going to moan about free upgraded accommodation.

I wanted to take a mission with passengers who wanted Economic. I couldn't put them in the luxury cabins.

 

[TheSisko]

I actually don't have a ship that can take a luxury cabin, just hadn't noticed any. Good to hear that you (and Bomba) have in fact seen some though.

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That's absolutely correct as far as my understanding goes.

Hence the well deserved rep . I've seen the same misinformation on Reddit too. The likes of you and me need to nip this nonsense in the bud.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

I heft passengers all the time - seems to pay quite well, so why wouldn't I?

Bulk Passengers: Will share any non-luxury cabin.
VIPs: Have minimum accommodation requirements. Many will fly First Class, others only in Luxury Cabins. They will not share a room.

My Orca is currently fitted with 1 Luxury Cabin, 1 First Class Cabin and 1 Business Class Cabin. The only complaints I ever hear are from Secretive Passengers of High Value, when NPC's hunting them insist on repeatedly scanning me while engaged in combat, because NPC's have unlimited buttons and fingers and can send unlimited inputs at one time. So I make a habit of simply avoiding them, and don't care about the bonus for blowing them up, since NPC's have gained the ability to actively and quite successfully evade mines now.

 

[TheSisko]

I wanted to take a mission with passengers who wanted Economic. I couldn't put them in the luxury cabins.

Did you have enough cabins? Or where they occupied by some other passengers? I've dumped loads of non-luxury passengers in my luxury cabins.

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We have people moan about the introduction of QoL features all the time! Maybe it breaks the passengers' immersion if their cabins are too nice.

One of the 30% hmm?

If a hotel upgraded my basic accommodation to luxury-class, I'd be well chuffed! Its win-win for everyone in the game, business class passengers can swim in the luxury pool and Commanders can swim in the extra profits.