Yes, good point Felix. I see advice from time to time about running these from a Tourist economy system, and maybe that helps? But yes, I agree that faction rep is key to get the best missions on the boards. Elite-level passenger hauls tend to have good payouts. For commanders who establish a home system and a web of allied factions in the surrounding systems passenger work can be quite lucrative.
Passangers or Courier. Which?
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Tourist systems tend to give missions to Colonia. These can pay a fair amount but are obviously time consuming.
If you do have a home system you can work rep on factions within a radius of about 20 LY to get decent rep.
Otherwise dropping exploration data can be a quick method but might annoy BGS players in the region.
As I said I run quite a few transport missions in Elite. And as mentioned I tend to take rewards other than money, and that collateral explo data profits can help to offset that choice. Yesterday I took a three-stop sighteeing mission and one of the destination systems had four earthlikes all lined up in a neat row plus a water world. It turned out I had already scanned one of the earthlikes (how did I skip all those others?), but I did them this time and it was still 6m in additional profits. That system was an outlier, it's rare that you will find so many in one system. But it illustrates how this side hustle can make these missions more lucrative. And with so many systems jumped through and to the exploration money adds up fast. I was flying my iced-out Dolphin which I equipped with the tech broker DSS and that thing makes it all a snap and you'd need to intentionally foul up to miss the efficiency bonus.
System was LHS 3167 in case anyone wants some quick and easy data cash.
System was LHS 3167 in case anyone wants some quick and easy data cash.
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