Personally I'm excited about passenger missions, however (looking at the 2 mill in my wallet) not excited about having to buy a gazillion dollar ship to do them. Frankly, I don't think I'll ever be able to do that.
So my question is, what about allowing ourselves the ability to Freelance our piloting skills rather than having to own a ship? The captain of a cruise line doesn't have to buy that big boat in order to go to work.
So how would this work? Allow us to hire-out our pilot skills to passenger liner companies. The company would provide the ship and take a hefty cut off the top. A rental fee of a sorts...much the same way Taxi's work (at least in the United States). Of course we need to be sure pilots will treat the ship as if it's their own property so we can institute heavy fines for a loss of a passenger liner, as well as being banned from taking passenger missions for a certain period of time. Repeat offenders may be even permanently banned from taking those mission in that (and possibly surrounding) systems.
Of course there would still be a great benefit of actually owning your own ship in that you would not have to worry about the hefty rental fee, but this system would allow poorer pilots to take the missions and begin doing them to save up for someday owning their own craft.
Thoughts?
So my question is, what about allowing ourselves the ability to Freelance our piloting skills rather than having to own a ship? The captain of a cruise line doesn't have to buy that big boat in order to go to work.
So how would this work? Allow us to hire-out our pilot skills to passenger liner companies. The company would provide the ship and take a hefty cut off the top. A rental fee of a sorts...much the same way Taxi's work (at least in the United States). Of course we need to be sure pilots will treat the ship as if it's their own property so we can institute heavy fines for a loss of a passenger liner, as well as being banned from taking passenger missions for a certain period of time. Repeat offenders may be even permanently banned from taking those mission in that (and possibly surrounding) systems.
Of course there would still be a great benefit of actually owning your own ship in that you would not have to worry about the hefty rental fee, but this system would allow poorer pilots to take the missions and begin doing them to save up for someday owning their own craft.
Thoughts?
they will be transported in stasis I believe.