SERIOUS Problem with passenger missions.

There are whiny, lily-livered, pusillanimous fussbudgets being billed in the Passenger Lounge as 'Famous Explorers'

If they're famous, they should be used to the paparazzi by now, right? But oh, no, don't let 'em scan the ship.

If they're explorers, they should maybe have a bit more ambition than trundling a couple of thousand lights to visit a tourist spot.

If they're explorers long enough to get famous, they should understand that the occasional hard landing THAT WE ALL WALKED AWAY FROM YOU GREAT WET HEN is part of the breaks of the exploring game. A bit of a shaking when you're taking a swing by a neutron star? I should be charging you extra for this sort of thing YOU WRETCHED WHINING SACK OF WEASEL SPIT THIS IS PART OF THE AUTHENTIC EXPLORING EXPERIENCE YOU'VE NOT BEEN OUT IN THE BLACK PROPERLY IF YOU'RE NOT LIMPING HOME WITH AN EMPTY AFMU AND DINGS IN THE HULL AN ARCTURAN MEGA-ELEPHANT COULD MAKE SWEET, SWEET LOVE TO.

(OK, I admit the bit where I ever so slightly dinged the tourist beacon was on me BUT MAYBE IF WE COULD ACTUALLY EXPLORE INSTEAD OF HANGING AROUND THE MAN-MADE NAVIGATIONAL HAZARDS THIS SORT OF THING WOULDN'T HAPPEN.)

Can we PLEASE stop billing this particular class of self-loading cargo as 'Famous' 'Explorers' until they learn not to give me quite so much earache over the WELL-KNOWN AND FULLY ACCEPTED BREAKS OF THE GAME YOU CLAIM TO BE FAMOUS FOR PLAYING DON'T MAKE ME COME BACK THERE YOU RABBLE OF POLTROONS.

Item for the developers' to-do list: when we get the legs upgrade, make it a thing that we can go back into the passenger area with a length of pressure hose and thrash some sense in to, and the sense of entitlement out of, the pismires who seem to think that they can go out in the black and expect the whole thing to be as uneventful as a mid-week stay in a Premier inn?
 
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Whenever a passenger happiness goes down due to an accident:


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Ah, passengers. The cargo that complains(tm)!

Bleh they can & moan all they want, as long as they want to go to destinations that actually exist. Oh wait nope! Lol. Wake me up when they've fixed em
 
YOU GREAT WET HEN

YOU WRETCHED WHINING SACK OF WEASEL SPIT

DON'T MAKE ME COME BACK THERE into the passenger area with a length of pressure hose and thrash some sense in to, and the sense of entitlement out of YOU RABBLE OF POLTROONS.

I shot passenger tears out of my nose. ( I add them to morning coffee)
 
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There are whiny, lily-livered, pusillanimous fussbudgets being billed in the Passenger Lounge as 'Famous Explorers'

If they're famous, they should be used to the paparazzi by now, right? But oh, no, don't let 'em scan the ship.

If they're explorers, they should maybe have a bit more ambition than trundling a couple of thousand lights to visit a tourist spot.

If they're explorers long enough to get famous, they should understand that the occasional hard landing THAT WE ALL WALKED AWAY FROM YOU GREAT WET HEN is part of the breaks of the exploring game. A bit of a shaking when you're taking a swing by a neutron star? I should be charging you extra for this sort of thing YOU WRETCHED WHINING SACK OF WEASEL SPIT THIS IS PART OF THE AUTHENTIC EXPLORING EXPERIENCE YOU'VE NOT BEEN OUT IN THE BLACK PROPERLY IF YOU'RE NOT LIMPING HOME WITH AN EMPTY AFMU AND DINGS IN THE HULL AN ARCTURAN MEGA-ELEPHANT COULD MAKE SWEET, SWEET LOVE TO.

(OK, I admit the bit where I ever so slightly dinged the tourist beacon was on me BUT MAYBE IF WE COULD ACTUALLY EXPLORE INSTEAD OF HANGING AROUND THE MAN-MADE NAVIGATIONAL HAZARDS THIS SORT OF THING WOULDN'T HAPPEN.)

Can we PLEASE stop billing this particular class of self-loading cargo as 'Famous' 'Explorers' until they learn not to give me quite so much earache over the WELL-KNOWN AND FULLY ACCEPTED BREAKS OF THE GAME YOU CLAIM TO BE FAMOUS FOR PLAYING DON'T MAKE ME COME BACK THERE YOU RABBLE OF POLTROONS.

Item for the developers' to-do list: when we get the legs upgrade, make it a thing that we can go back into the passenger area with a length of pressure hose and thrash some sense in to, and the sense of entitlement out of, the pismires who seem to think that they can go out in the black and expect the whole thing to be as uneventful as a mid-week stay in a Premier inn?

So..in short, you are saying Passenger Missions reflect real life too much and are too realistic?
As for famous not liking paparazzi, I do not think ANY famous person does it, or 'are used to it' so yeah, if they are taking you for a holiday cruise, you can bet they will look at you without favour if you do not do your best to make sure their holiday goes as smoothly as possible?

As for distance...... there are those that go to SAg A? so I don't quite follow.
 
Passenger missions do seem to resemble real life. Most of my jobs in the last 10 years have been some form of customer service. Once I realized passenger missions weren't much different than customer service irl, I stopped doing them.
 
Customer service, in this context, should include the option to make the blighters walk home.

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So..in short, you are saying Passenger Missions reflect real life too much and are too realistic?

If they reflected real life at all the terms of charterparty would not permit this level of malarkey. You want me to get you where most ships can't, the fee is for getting you there and back alive and the whole amount is in reliably-bonded escrow before we launch or you can damn' well walk. And there'd be insurance terms into the bargain: there are standard forms for shipping jobs of this character.

Good luck with the kind of ship that would, in real life, put up with nonsense on the scale the monkeys in the passenger lounge hand out. They'll be that desperate for a REASON.

I quit doing Sothis runs to get AWAY from having my boat stacked to the deckheads with biowaste.
 
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Currently on my way to Colonia with four famous explorers.

Haven't heard a peep from them, and I'm about 5KLy out.

I'm getting 41 million for it too.
 
Hi, I'm CMDR Dusty Arne,

And i suicided with my VIP nose down with 450m/s on a 4G planet to make sure he couldn't use the escape pod.

Why?

Because he wanted to change his destination to a beacon 545k LS into a system on arrival at his original destination.
 
Hi, I'm CMDR Dusty Arne,

And i suicided with my VIP nose down with 450m/s on a 4G planet to make sure he couldn't use the escape pod.

Why?

Because he wanted to change his destination to a beacon 545k LS into a system on arrival at his original destination.

Did you even get the luck of being offered an additional 4,200 Cr for the change in flight plan?
 
Or 1500 cr for a tourist beacon three jumps out on a one jump mission paying 4500 cr.
I did the mission only for the legacy firmware, he was unhappy but I did get the materials.

I don't blame you there. So far I've been lucky and haven't hit any reroutes with mine. I keep waiting for it to happen right before I dock at the destination.
 
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