Xi Wangda BETTER than Road to Riches

[SkyB]

Greetings cmdrs,

I've already done a guide on this before but the demand of my fellow cmdrs for credits leaves me no choice but to do it again:

Do 1st class bulk passenger missions - NOT VIP.

Head to Xi Wangda and transport 1st class businessmen, tourists or whatever bulk passengers preferrably to Widjahibiko (or however it is spelled), Donglavs or HIP 1430.

You need to get allied status for the fat stacks and you need to be able to transport 25 to 40 1st class passengers - best at least 30.

The cheapest ship that has the internal space to do this is the Type-7 as others will not offer the passanger capacity necesary.

It costs 17 mill, so you better get 20 million at least (insurance cost).

To get those first 20 mill is the challenge - for which you can do explorstian as an entry to the real money making.

At Xi Wangda (Cartier City) u can can get a single mission requesting you to transport 30 passengers requireing a 15 minutes flight - best to Donglavs, Cartan Installation, planetary side -

for 9 to 12 million credits and some G5 materials if you are allied to the respective faction.
The destination is around 120.000 ls away from the main sequence star where you jump in.

You have a lot of factions at Xi Wangda and three possible destination systems around.

You will also get a fair amount of imperial rank as three factions are part of the Empire + trade rank - Shinrarta unlock.

No to hardly boardhopping required.

Btw, this has been in the game for over half a year (at least) and is absolutely legit - no gold rush - despite me having shouted this out all over this forum several times.

So take your time and don't worry too much missing this.

Go grab your captain's hat, cram out a good netflix series and profit the biowaste out of this.

The best ship for this is a Conda.
I usually get 4 to 5 flights an hour, stacking two missions two Donglavs (best destination) and even getting missions worth 5 mil on my way back to Xi Wangda.

If I get lucky I can roll in profits of around 80 million per hour in my Conda.

The average is 50 to 60 million

Oh and btw, this run is called

The W4ng-Dong run
(only for you, Yamiks, only for you)

 

[Chorda]

First-Class named passenger missions out of Parutis were netting my 80c mil/hr a few days ago. Hudson space, so good for Fed rank grind, too.

You have to be allied as usual, but friendly status will start netting you big payouts.

 

[Conch]

i just wish i could stack CZ missions again... all this passenger stuff makes me just sour..

 

[concentric]

i just wish i could stack CZ missions again... all this passenger stuff makes me just sour..

You can.
Only instead of doing one mission and turning in 20, which was utter nonsense, you have to do every single one of them now, like it should have been from the start

 

[ZIGRAT]

You can.
Only instead of doing one mission and turning in 20, which was utter nonsense, you have to do every single one of them now, like it should have been from the start

In practice you are doing that with the passenger missions where the destination is the same, multiple missions in one single activity.

 

[iFred]

Thanks for the info

Best regards
Suk Mike Hok

 

[Conch]

You can.
Only instead of doing one mission and turning in 20, which was utter nonsense, you have to do every single one of them now, like it should have been from the start

dont really care if it was nonsense.. at least i was doing rewarding combat.
most of the time i did bounty hunting, and that doesnt earn that well.. doing the CZ stacking from time to time, i got money to do other stuff.

 

[concentric]

dont really care if it was nonsense.. at least i was doing rewarding combat.
most of the time i did bounty hunting, and that doesnt earn that well.. doing the CZ stacking from time to time, i got money to do other stuff.

I'm not saying combat couldn't pay better. There are different ways to approach this though. Being payed 20 times for effectively doing one mission isn't the most intelligent, let alone believable one...

Tried soloing wing-assassination missions yet?
With a decent ship it's not too hard to do them alone.
First off, soloing them actually provides something like a challenge depending on your ship and proficiency.
Allied factions pay above 3 mill a mission or rare materials like mef, efc and biotech conductors and the target usually drops a rare, too.
I started out doing them with the Corvette, which isn't too hard, and now I'm working my way through the smaller ships... Frenotx did in his Viper

 

[Yosharian]

First-Class named passenger missions out of Parutis were netting my 80c mil/hr a few days ago. Hudson space, so good for Fed rank grind, too.

You have to be allied as usual, but friendly status will start netting you big payouts.

Thanks for this. How much does each mission pay? Is it as profitable as SkyB claims Xi Wangda is?

I'm more interested in this one due to needing Fed rank and not needing Imp rank.

 

[Cmdr Eran Mintor]

inb4nerf

 

[Eldragon]

Paging insufferable grognards. Paging insufferable grognards: players are earning money in the game. Please commence bug report and whine protocol.

 

[El_Hefe]

Theres lots of ways to earn better credits than R2R's.

This method is also no secret,players have been doing these instead of economy bulk passenger missions since the economy bulk ones were nerfed,or since the distance multiplier was nerfed i should say.

 

[Mars Starcruiser]

R2R with LYR only got me abouf 15mil/hour. Did get me elite explorer in 20 hours though. Been still running smeaton vip’s for 35mil per hour but nice to see something that makes more

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

Yeah first class bulk can yield alot. For ~40k its around 12-14 million a hop. I think you want a system where it works both ways.

I never did the 40 mins flight time runs, but even so i hate passenger missions at the moment, can't stand them.

I still mind blown why frontier didn't make passengers similar to rare goods, with the wrinkle being a bonus million for each tourist beacon you went to visit between source and destination (and the galaxy map showing which systems have beacons conveniently). This would have been so good, completely sandbox and awesome, and the first idea you come up with when asking the question. Mind blown why not.

 

[Darth Llama]

I have been doing something similar to this.. only in a different system.. still pays better then anything else I have found in game.

No, it's not the $100M per hour that it used to be, payouts are far less then pre-nerf.. but you can still make some good money doing passenger missions. It's boring, but it pays.

I really wish they could make combat more rewarding financially.. whenever I find myself in need of credits I always jump back to the station where I have my Passenger-Conda stored, put on a movie and prepare to spend some time just cruising toward a station.

It would be nice if I could make comparable money by actually playing the game.. closest you can get right now is Wing Assassinations. They're quite fun, but those are a case of needing money to make money. Unless you're really skilled, you'll need a pretty good ship for that.

 

[space voyager]

dont really care if it was nonsense.. at least i was doing rewarding combat.
most of the time i did bounty hunting, and that doesnt earn that well.. doing the CZ stacking from time to time, i got money to do other stuff.

You can still do a bit of stacking around stations that were attacked by Thargoids. They and their surroundings offer missions to kill off local pirates and you can collect those missions for same pirates in same system. Example is Artemis Lodge station and Obsidian orbital, Ant Hill Mob pirates.

But first wait until Elite is fixed and mission targets are properly generated again, you don't want to be doing 40 interdictions. If you get a chance to do them at all.

 

[Soulcatcher]

Yeah first class bulk can yield alot. For ~40k its around 12-14 million a hop. I think you want a system where it works both ways.

I never did the 40 mins flight time runs, but even so i hate passenger missions at the moment, can't stand them.

I still mind blown why frontier didn't make passengers similar to rare goods, with the wrinkle being a bonus million for each tourist beacon you went to visit between source and destination (and the galaxy map showing which systems have beacons conveniently). This would have been so good, completely sandbox and awesome, and the first idea you come up with when asking the question. Mind blown why not.

In regards to the tourist beacon thing, these optional mission objectives such as "find this item" "visit this beacon"

Cool, I would go out of my way to do them but

They don't pay enough for the effort and time required to do them. 100k to aim and wait for the timer to jump out of supercruise and scan the beacon? instead of say just straight afking for 30-40 missions on a long distance supercruise VIP mission?

Not worth it.

Maybe instead of credits, if they offered some rare engineering materials, or just useful engineering materials, I'd do them.

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

In regards to the tourist beacon thing, these optional mission objectives such as "find this item" "visit this beacon"

Cool, I would go out of my way to do them but

They don't pay enough for the effort and time required to do them. 100k to aim and wait for the timer to jump out of supercruise and scan the beacon? instead of say just straight afking for 30-40 missions on a long distance supercruise VIP mission?

Not worth it.

Maybe instead of credits, if they offered some rare engineering materials, or just useful engineering materials, I'd do them.

Sure, but id make it closer to 1 million than 100k for each random beacon. The beauty of that is you can do as many as you feel like similar to current sandbox activities. You stop when you feel comfortable you've had enough and take what you've got.

If you mean the current sightseeing missions, yeah i had fun when they first came out trying the 11million plus runs.. but they turned out torture as well, you have to return to base to get your payment, and if you stack even 2 of these the entire run can easily take 1 to 1.5 hours (at least when i did it). After the second or third go i was scarred for life.

There likely is an available 'exploit' currently where you can get 2 destination tours that pay ~5mill each which would optimize the experience (see outposts with criminals at higher cabin classes) but the whole idea still makes me shudder.

 

[Jaiotu]

Don't forget to check the mission boards for data deliveries while you're at it. You can stack these on with the passengers to make a few extra credits and build Rep++. These are especially good for building reputation to unlock the really good bulk passengers missions.

Oh ... and you don't have to do these out of Xi Wangda necessarily. Just find any two systems that are fairly isolated from anywhere else (provided both systems have ports with large landing pads).

 

[Cmdr Eratosthenes]