Passenger liners

[Unknown Zombie]

The Orca, Beluga, and Dolphin are supposed to be specialized passenger liners but right now there's not really any good reason to take a Beluga, Orca, or Dolphin over other ships for running passengers unless you just like them for aesthetics.

What if the Beluga, Orca, and Dolphin got bonus capacity from any passenger cabin it equipped? Like 25% more or maybe 50% more?

For instance a class 6 business passenger cabin seats 16 people normally. How about when equipped to one of these passenger liners it could carry 20, or maybe 24?

Are there any other approaches that would be more appealing? Perhaps instead of passenger cabins getting bonus capacity the cabin modules could instead weigh zero?

 

[Straha Yeagar]

The three liners if I am not mistaken are the only ones that can fit Luxury cabins.

 

[Unknown Zombie]

The three liners if I am not mistaken are the only ones that can fit Luxury cabins.

Which are basically worthless. I've played over 1,000 hours and have seen a handful of these ever show up.

 

[Bartizan]

I like the idea of the "specialist" liners getting a bonus (buff) specific to the intended purpose, but then I fear opening Pandora's box with that on other ship's with intended or perceived speciality. I think weighinig zero might be a bit extreme, maybe the compromise could be a bonus reduction in weight for those modules to balance it out. It would not be unusual to think a ship designed for cabins would have an infrustructure leg up on the other ships in the form of weight saving design.

For all we know, maybe engineered cabins is on the drawing board....bump in capacity, lighter materials, etc. Or if they are not, I would actually like to see something like that.

 

[Unknown Zombie]

..It would not be unusual to think a ship designed for cabins would have an infrustructure leg up on the other ships in the form of weight saving design...

Yeah, that was the idea I had when thinking about the weight reduction.

 

[GJ51]

Let's face it

FD should have made it impossible for other ships to use anything other than Economy Class for passengers

Then the SK ships would have made sense

As it is - just load up an Anaconda with First Class cabins. That's about the best way to grind a few credits at present.

 

[Vardaugas]

Make cabins installed in them count one class higher than they are. Means we no longer need luxury cabins as the first class ones they install count as luxury and they are the only ships that can achieve that.

 

[Herdygerdy]

How about a buff - increases passenger capacity, lighter weight for passenger modules. In passenger ships only. Haven't done any sums but maybe up to 20%. Like an SRV hanger comes as H an G. But you only get one option presented when outfitting. Transfer of module is restricted too.

This would give them the edge over converted cargo ships but wouldn't let them carry more cargo.

Makes some sort of sense too. Passenger Ships would have dining areas, rest areas and utilities built into the design. So a module would just be sleeping / living quarters.

A cargo ship wouldn't have these. And as a cmdr I don't want to share my dining room with a kitchen for 4 (or whatever) with hundreds of the great unwashed . So in theory, space would need to be given to seating, toilets and food printers in the module itself. Adding weight to those modules.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Buff-When/?highlight=Beluga+buff+when&page=23


I posted a suggestion like this in the beluga buff thread a while back. I think it makes sense that passenger ships should have some sort of advantage over standard ships in carrying passengers