Horizons High paying passenger missions?

gbgunner · Nov 6, 2016

Hi Cmdrs,

Just started (few days in) doing the passenger missions, but where are the ones I heard about paying 5 - 10 mil for one jump?

Does doing passenger missions in certain economies give better payouts? All the ones I have had have been a lot lower then 5 - 10 mil for one jump. There are some available but they are massive distances.

I have full rep now with some factions (HiTech system), but the missions are either 20k + in distance or not well paying.

I have a large ship fitted with large and medium first class cabins and a small economy cabin.

Cheers

Gb

Lunatic_Asylum · Nov 6, 2016

At the moment, passenger missions seem to be bugged, as they do pay out up to 5,000,000 per one jump sometimes (that is too much!). I hope David is looking into it right now.

Svetlo41 · Nov 6, 2016

I have found the highest paying passenger missions in systems where I am allied to a local faction. I also found high paying missions in systems that I have a permit with.

Stigian · Nov 7, 2016

Lunatic_Asylum said:
At the moment, passenger missions seem to be bugged, as they do pay out up to 5,000,000 per one jump sometimes (that is too much!). I hope David is looking into it right now.

Screenshot of this 5mil payout 1 jump mission please.

According to my stats page I have delivered 8162 passengers and only 1 single time did I ever get a passenger mission that had an update that turned it from a 1mil credit mission to a 5.7 mil mission. This came at the price of a faction hit to accept that payout.

Again, 1 time in 8,162 passengers, all done with ally faction in a boom system. The absolute highest paying passenger mission I have ever laid eyes on was 1.5mil.

Please show me this mythical unicorn mission because I need to be doing those. Maybe then I wont need to spend the next 3 months of my life griding credits to fit out my Cutter properly, yes properly not some cheap fail fit that goes boom when looked at.

Bdragon4 · Nov 7, 2016

If you look around, you can find "[name] seeks sightseeing adventure" missions for around 15M. Explorers will pay more than that.

Stigian · Nov 7, 2016

Don't think those are 1 jump missions, so they don't qualify.

Bdragon4 · Nov 7, 2016

Stigian said:
Don't think those are 1 jump missions, so they don't qualify.

Oh. Yeah. Those missions are for at least 100LYr trips. But if you've got nothing else going on and you're up for some flying, its an easy way to a a really nice ship.

Spacecat · Nov 7, 2016

Helps to have a small cluster of systems where you have high rep and can jump around looking for them. I got a 1 jumper for 5 mil last night.

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Stigian said:
Screenshot of this 5mil payout 1 jump mission please..

I don't have a screenshot, but just did a 5 mil one jumper last night (my ship has a 29 ly jump range). A few nights ago, I hauled some General 2 jumps away for over 9 mil. They aren't common, but they're out there (most are 1-3 mil). Seriously, I've made like 70 mil since I started passenger missions about week ago, and I've been flying a freak'n Keelback the entire time.

Stigian · Nov 7, 2016

I'm glad to hear they are out there. If they are rare, then its balanced. Seems like some of you *cough* Lunatic_Asylum *cough* either don't know or don't care that this game has many different types of ships, that require many types of modules. It takes over a billion credits to fully equip a Cutter, heck the 8a thrusters are 148 million alone, add in good shields and armor and your over the top on the costs. This is just one ship and you scream cut the payouts. This leads me to believe your fine with paying for a game that you will never see the majority of the content because its locked behind a grind gate so that only those with biblical amounts of free time will ever see.

I want to experience everything this game has to offer, but I don't have 10 years to devote to it. I totally agree with keeping the progress consistent, but don't punish people that can't spend their lives sitting in front of a monitor.

Lunatic_Asylum · Nov 7, 2016

Stigian said:
Screenshot of this 5mil payout 1 jump mission please.

According to my stats page I have delivered 8162 passengers and only 1 single time did I ever get a passenger mission that had an update that turned it from a 1mil credit mission to a 5.7 mil mission. This came at the price of a faction hit to accept that payout.

Again, 1 time in 8,162 passengers, all done with ally faction in a boom system. The absolute highest paying passenger mission I have ever laid eyes on was 1.5mil.

Please show me this mythical unicorn mission because I need to be doing those. Maybe then I wont need to spend the next 3 months of my life griding credits to fit out my Cutter properly, yes properly not some cheap fail fit that goes boom when looked at.

OK! I found one near Fabian. A 4-space passenger (not wanted) mission with a 10-13 LY jump.

P.S. There is no need to cough at me. I love the variety of missions and ships in the game. [heart]

Serpentis Ictis · Nov 7, 2016

I had a 2.5m 2 jump mission yesterday - 6 business class berths. It was a CEO, didn't even get extra requests, so I was happy.

Pay was too much though.. needs to e about half that or less.

kpmop · Nov 7, 2016

I don't have screenshots, but yeah I did a couple of 1million+ passenger missions -- i think one was only 50-odd LY. I am allied with the faction and that makes a significant difference to the rewards offered (from what I've seen anyway).

One thing I've been meaning to comment on (though it's probably already been said) - there were a few 1-2 million credit jobs for anywhere between 50 and 200 LY jaunts, then there was a 1000LY job, but they were only offering 5 or 6 million for it - I recall a couple to Colonia too for about 30-odd million and that's 20k LY... long/short - the rewards don't scale well for distance/time.