New to the game. I just seen a 20 mill passanger mission and am thinking about buying a dolphin and buying luxury passanger compartments. I don't know anything about passang er missions and just wanted to know how many passangers i can fit andif there's a difference in passanger capictity between first class luxury and business? Ty
Dolphin capacity
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Try outfitting the Dolphin using an online tool like Coriolis:
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/dolphin
That will give you an idea how many passengers of the various classes. And yes, the higher the class of the cabin the less people it carries. The class 5 luxyury cabin available for the Dolphin can carry 4 passengers. Play around with this tool it is excellent for this kind of planning.
There are differences in capacity. There are also differences in passengers. The difference in passengers is the most important. Bulk passengers, the kind that say things like: "Transport 4 Aid Workers" or "Transport 9 Refugees" will 'share' a cabin with other bulk passengers. VIPs, noted by the little crown icon, and typically named "Neil Glenn wants to go somewhere" will NOT share a cabin. Once you put a VIP in a particular cabin, it doesn't matter if there are only 2 people or 10 people in that VIP group, no one else can fill the remaining seats in the cabin.
To clarify - if you have a 8 passenger Luxury cabin, and put a VIP party of 3 in it, the remaining 5 seats cannot be filled.
Conversely, if you put 4 Bulk passengers in the same cabin, you could put 2 groups of 2 bulk passengers in there as well, or any other combination that fills the remaining seats, but only with other bulk passengers.
Likewise, cabins of the same size, but different types will hold different numbers of passengers. A class 5 Economy cabin will hold more passengers than a class 5 Business, class 5 First Class or class 5 Luxury.
I've never seen Luxury missions worth the effort. And doing a 20M mission to SagA or Colonia is not worth it when you can do 10-12M missions inside the bubble. Just get allied at a good station and there will be money galor running short sight-seeing trips with your Dolphin. It's how I make money.
Those long-range passengers are not for direct profiteering. They're there when you say "I've been everywhere else, I should go to Sag A*." or when you need to make a long trip for Professor Palin - they're bonus money for your efforts you're undertaking anyways.
Short-range VIP's however can be extremely profitable, and that includes Luxury passengers. Those 1-5 jump runs paying 10, 11, 12m are not only profitable, but will take you to some interesting and potentially useful locations. I recently revisited an Ice Geyser site a passenger wanted to visit, and stocked up on Selenium, Tungsten and Tin - all materials that my supplies of were running quite low.
Umpteen econo passenger 1-2 hop runs are great if your only motivation is amassing credits in a short period of time, but believe me when I say, this will pass.
I own at least one of every ship, two of most, and three of the ships I fly most. I can afford to buy and A-rate any ship I want, still have more than enough to cover rebuys, and spend the majority of my time just enjoying the game. I join CG's because I want to haul or blow things up. I visit exotic places because I can. I trade because I feel like it. I mine because I want to sit around and chat. Right now I'm involved in the rescue efforts in the Pleiades because I can. I do combat in a Beluga, explore in a Dolphin, and spend most of my time in an Orca - just because.
Elite becomes a very different game when you shed that constant sense of having to make as much as you possibly can you'll be amazed by how much you actually make just plain screwing around.
I can completely recommend them though, they are to locations that have been suggested by players and are usually visually stunning. They are also usually pretty far away though - think a few hundred LY at least, and often thousands. So make sure you read all the mission details before accepting!
So after reading up on it a bit a went and bought a dolphin with the best fsd. I made about 25 mI'll doing sightseeing and transports. It took a while to find a station with passage cabins I was looking for but I finally found some and outfitted it with a first class 5 cabin and 2 business 4 cabin. It seems to work well for me. Is there any way to speed up my supercruise at all. And what else could I do to increase jump range?ty
Talk to felicity farseer and have her engineer a fsd for better jump range, I believe you can get close to mid 30's or thereabouts.
You cannot speed up supercruise. it's governed by gravity fields in space - max speed zones and such. Every ship with any FSD will go the same speed in the same areas of space in super cruise.
To save yourself trouble looking for modules like passenger cabins and such, go to Inara website. They have a search tool to find whatever module you're looking for, and you can look in stations near where you are. It saves a lot of time. Click on any Inara signature (like mine) to go to that site.
I'll bet you only smoke half of the Cuban cigar and you don't even finish your single malt scotch as well. It's nice being wealthy.