Weird and pointless offer for selling passengers into slavery.

[Mikkel Toxwenius]

So I was ferrying 18 tourists for 13 million credits and I get a very offending offer from a bandit to sell them as slaves to him for 200.000cr. To add injury to insult he even wanted me to go to another starport in another system.

The base idea that you can get nasty offers like this I do like and although the concept of selling tourists as slaves sort of scratches an itch I have I don't know how the devs are thinking the offer itself makes sense or is in any way meaningful or useful. Every offer I have had of this sort is mindbogglingly ridiculously measly and unrewarding??

 

[Turd Ferguson]

I wish those offers would come in after passengers start complaining. I'd take them, even at a loss.

 

[Riverside]

I agree, the offers I've seen don't exactly present much of a moral dilemma.

 

[TheSisko]

So I was ferrying 18 tourists for 13 million credits and I get a very offending offer from a bandit to sell them as slaves to him for 200.000cr. To add injury to insult he even wanted me to go to another starport in another system.

The base idea that you can get nasty offers like this I do like and although the concept of selling tourists as slaves sort of scratches an itch I have I don't know how the devs are thinking the offer itself makes sense or is in any way meaningful or useful. Every offer I have had of this sort is mindbogglingly ridiculously measly and unrewarding??

Snap, got an offer like this earlier, but for 190,000CR. I decided that the CIF I'd get from honouring the contract was more valuable in the long run.

Now, if that offer was for 1M, that would have made my decision more difficult.

 

[Mikkel Toxwenius]

Yes. Imo the repercussions of doing this should be really felt. Like much more money, but also bad reputation and possibly strong bounty hunters being sent after you? or something, at least just something that would make me actually care.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Yes. Imo the repercussions of doing this should be really felt. Like much more money, but also bad reputation and possibly strong bounty hunters being sent after you? or something, at least just something that would make me actually care.

...or if it would at least disable the passengers' eject button and turn off their ability to send you messages.

 

[Jukelo]

It's probably that Frontier forgot to adjust the payout for those wrinkles after some genius decided they should crank up the reward for passenger missions beyond the stuid mark to try and get people to use the passengers feature.
So the wrinkles still pay more or less normally whereas the mission's payout is more in line with the new philosophy of showering the player with credits.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

It's probably that Frontier forgot to adjust the payout for those wrinkes after some genius decided they should crank up the reward for passenger missions beyond the stuid mark to try and get people to use the passengers feature.
So the wrinkes still pay more or less normally whereas the mission's payout is more in line with the new philosophy of showering the player with credits.

take some bulk passengers on a 40 minute flight during which you can pretty much go AFK. - tens of millions of credits and a significant bump to your trade rank...AND YOU CAN STACK MISSIONS!

take on a thargoid solo. High risk, always have lots of damage and rearm even if you are unsuccessful, requires skill, a heavily engineered ship, and probably more than a couple of rebuys figuring out how to do it - 2 million credits and such a small increase in combat rank you don't even notice it after killing 20 of them.

#balance!!11!

 

[MickyG1982]

So I was ferrying 18 tourists for 13 million credits and I get a very offending offer from a bandit to sell them as slaves to him for 200.000cr. To add injury to insult he even wanted me to go to another starport in another system.

The base idea that you can get nasty offers like this I do like and although the concept of selling tourists as slaves sort of scratches an itch I have I don't know how the devs are thinking the offer itself makes sense or is in any way meaningful or useful. Every offer I have had of this sort is mindbogglingly ridiculously measly and unrewarding??

These "offers" are more to affect your reputation than your bank balance.

Plus in all likelihood the slavers wouldn't want you to land in the same star port in case anyone is there waiting for your passengers.

 

[Mikkel Toxwenius]

These "offers" are more to affect your reputation than your bank balance.

Plus in all likelihood the slavers wouldn't want you to land in the same star port in case anyone is there waiting for your passengers.

I dont't see how this could be useful to me? I would get bad rep with the mission giver, which is very unlikely to be something I'd want. I would then get some positive rep with the faction sending the offer, but that will in most cases be from an random and therefore almost always irrelevant (to me) faction. I get that the slavers want me to land somewhere else, that is not the issue. The issue is that they offer this extremely measly sum of cash. Say if this was one of the only ways to generate rep with the super evil pirate faction so I could get access to super evil pirate tech, or super evil pirate missions, now that would be far more interesting. Add to that high penalties to rep with the faction (+ potential affiliated superpowers) so that it would really matter to me. But instead, it's just pointless, there's no reason to do any of it.

 

[CMDR Carbo]

It's kind of ridiculous because the bonuses don't seem to scale with the mission rewards.
I have never accepted an Alternate Destination offer or a Slavery offer. They are kind of pointless.

 

[MickyG1982]

It's kind of ridiculous because the bonuses don't seem to scale with the mission rewards.
I have never accepted an Alternate Destination offer or a Slavery offer. They are kind of pointless.

Unless, of course, you are playing the BGS & trying to ruin the mission giving faction, 200k with a rep swing for you (& whatever that does to the BGS for the given factions) is better than getting paid nothing at all.

It's another option, if you don't want to work that deeply in the game, simply don't take it & complete the original mission.

 

[Iskariot]

So I was ferrying 18 tourists for 13 million credits and I get a very offending offer from a bandit to sell them as slaves to him for 200.000cr. To add injury to insult he even wanted me to go to another starport in another system.

The base idea that you can get nasty offers like this I do like and although the concept of selling tourists as slaves sort of scratches an itch I have I don't know how the devs are thinking the offer itself makes sense or is in any way meaningful or useful. Every offer I have had of this sort is mindbogglingly ridiculously measly and unrewarding??

I agree.
It would be cool if those offers at least created some sort of a moral dilemma, instead of being ridiculous.

Either the amount of money offered should be, let's say, 50% higher, or the money could be less, but perhaps the destination might be much easier than the original mission.

I guess FDev have a bit of tuning to do.

 

[Arry]

It is all about role-play. The same as filling up with passengers and then setting off to visit some Thargoids.

 

[JetsonRING]

So I was ferrying 18 tourists for 13 million credits and I get a very offending offer from a bandit to sell them as slaves to him for 200.000cr. To add injury to insult he even wanted me to go to another starport in another system.
The base idea that you can get nasty offers like this I do like and although the concept of selling tourists as slaves sort of scratches an itch I have I don't know how the devs are thinking the offer itself makes sense or is in any way meaningful or useful. Every offer I have had of this sort is mindbogglingly ridiculously measly and unrewarding??

It's funny, I get those slaver offers and their offers always pay less than simply completing the mission. o7

 

[Ian Skippy]

It's probably that Frontier forgot to adjust the payout for those wrinkes after some genius decided they should crank up the reward for passenger missions beyond the stuid mark to try and get people to use the passengers feature.
So the wrinkes still pay more or less normally whereas the mission's payout is more in line with the new philosophy of showering the player with credits.

This.

 

[Mikkel Toxwenius]

It is all about role-play. The same as filling up with passengers and then setting off to visit some Thargoids.

I don't mind roleplaying, but I do mind whether or not it makes sense and in this case it does not.

It's funny, I get those slaver offers and their offers always pay less than simply completing the mission. o7

Exactly. It's not just the high paying missions (although they make it seem completely absurd) it's also the lower paying missions, they still just pays less for more work + reputation hit.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

It's not so pointless when you aren't running uber-lucrative long SC passengers.

I had a 60k mission turn into about 1M once by taking up a slavery offer.

 

[Ka_Tor]

It's not so pointless when you aren't running uber-lucrative long SC passengers.

I had a 60k mission turn into about 1M once by taking up a slavery offer.

slaver scum

 

[Macros Black]

One could hope that the factions monitors their counter-offer success rate and chops off the head of their financial controller adjusts the offers accordingly.