Long Range Passengers Missions need to be rebalanced... 300k credits for 22000 LY... really???

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
MULAYO SYSTEM
Favier Stations, there are many missions like this for all factions...
At least two zeros are missing for the reward...

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Werewolf13

Werewolf13
In my home system I am allied with every faction.

It is not uncomon now to see passenger trips to destinations 2000+ ly all the way up to 22,000 LY with payouts of only 2 or 3M credits. Used to be much much higher prior to the update like in the 20 to 40M+ range. Passenger missions have been nerfed big time since the update - at least the very long range ones.

That said: I haul a lot of passengers but usually short range transport or VIP's on vacation. One could earn up to 10M in an hour or so - sometimes - pre update - but usually only around 4 to 5M an hour post update. My opinion - passenger missions in general have been nerfed since the update.
 
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Werewolf13

Werewolf13
The money reward in long range passenger missions is not the mission reward. but the millions you'll pick up in exploration data
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Like I said - nerfed. I'm no explorer - it's almost as boring as mining <gag>. I move sheep for the quick money and the occassional attempt by stupid NPC pirates to interdict me and the sometimes thrill of hauling a wanted criminal around. Not so much anymore. Nerfed.
 

Brian of Ardagh

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Unknown Zombie said:
Even if reputation was allied and even if these missions paid the hard cap (50 million) I don't think they would be worth it.
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Oh, I agree with you, as a simple passenger trip; but like the post above yours says, it's the exploration data earned that helps.

Any way I was just pointing out that the missions on the screen showed much higher pay for Friendly vs. Cordial. But for a VIP trip so far they exploration data earning should be the icing on the cake, not the reason to go.
 

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
Shanaeri said:
The money reward in long range passenger missions is not the mission reward. but the millions you'll pick up in exploration data
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So I don't need passengers to get that far.... Without pax cabins I have more space for AFMU, repair limpets and I also get a longer range FSD...
 

CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
You could try to file a bug report.

I remember when I was in Robigo a few weeks back most of the missions to Colonia gave 20M plus.
 

zipline

zipline
Shanaeri said:
The money reward in long range passenger missions is not the mission reward. but the millions you'll pick up in exploration data
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If you spend too much time gathering exploration data those passengers start getting tetchy and can cause you a lot of grief ... easier to just explore!
 

rOmiLaYu

rOmiLaYu
CMDR Carbo said:
You could try to file a bug report.

I remember when I was in Robigo a few weeks back most of the missions to Colonia gave 20M plus.
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And I'll bet you were allied in Robigo. That's the ticket.

CMDR Matty, you are but "Cordially" related to the faction offering the missions. Progress to "Allied" and the payouts increase.

Of note, the 27mil mission right atop The list of missions unavailable to you because of your lack of status with the offering body.
 
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Feros-da-Grundig

Feros-da-Grundig
I can tell you exactly what is happening here.

VIP transport payout scales with distance of destination station pad from its system entry point not from distance from source system to target system. Pads in Deriso are less than 2000ls from arrival, hence low payout.

I don't know why it's offering such a far away system for VIP transport. That might be a bug, or some quirk if you're in a system in the middle of nowhere or something.

I have done chapter 4 VIP transport missions that payout 20+ million when selected properly.

You might be confusing exporation/sightseeing passenger missions with VIP transport.
 
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Vandaahl

Vandaahl
rOmiLaYu said:
And I'll bet you were allied in Robigo. That's the ticket.

CMDR Matty, you are but "Cordially" related to the faction offering the missions. Progress to "Allied" and the payouts increase.

Of note, the 27mil mission right atop The list of missions unavailable to you because of your lack of status with the offering body.
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Lol, yeah quite. I just received a poop load of money for trucking data to Colonia. Rewards ranged from 700k to 1.2 mil.

*edit*

Heh, it was about passenger missions, I knew that...

[gets coat]
 
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Mo Ronik

Mo Ronik
Last time I was out at the Gerst Ring at the BD+22 3579 system they had a butt load of big money passenger missions going to the Colonia region one way. This was before 3.3 so I don't know the current details. They also had as many data delivery missions as you can carry to top off the cash reward. When I get my trip out to Colonia planned I'm gonna go there and load em up and move em out and it will also give me the distance from start point I'll need to unlock one of the engineers too. Win-Win....
 

Burke

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If they want passenger missions to be worth while then bubble to sagA is a 250m trip (at least). So you can load up and be looking at 1-2b for a there and back trip. Why so much? Cause it has to be worth it compared to what you can make by running passengers round the bubble and that is comfortably 100m an hour.
 
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TopCat160

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How much does it cost to ship an AspX from the bubble to Colonia? Presumably the 'lore' explanation is that a hired pilot actually drives it from A to B?

And that's without paying passengers.
 
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