Passenger/Taxi missions would be awesome though...
you enter the Bulliten Board, click "TAXI!"
Enter the Station/system you wish to go, and how much you would pay to get there...
hit enter and wait for someone to accept it.
once you get there and they turn you in as a mission, you are then free to continue with purchasing a new ship, getting in another ship (automatically if there is a ship there).
if the pilot fails to deliver you or you die in the mission.. you go back to where you came from in the "Waiting room", and click the "Retry Taxi Mission", or buy a ship, get in a ship, etc.
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for the "Waiting Room", while you wait to be picked up, use any view from the little "Watch Tower" at a landing pad... you can see people land and take off.. and sit on your butt...
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you are spending your own money to get around.. and can get around faster when someone with a decent ship takes you, it would just be the waiting for a pickup the would slurp.
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for NPC's just pick up and go.. but for players.. you might not even KNOW you've got one.
maybe they WANT you to know.. not sure.. but a Taxi Skin for ships might also be in order as well...
Fuel Rats.. Taxi Birds ...
make the rate a standard rate based on distance if you are worried about extravagant amounts being "purchased" or some other stupid thought...
I just want to get to my ship ... and bring it home...
you enter the Bulliten Board, click "TAXI!"
Enter the Station/system you wish to go, and how much you would pay to get there...
hit enter and wait for someone to accept it.
once you get there and they turn you in as a mission, you are then free to continue with purchasing a new ship, getting in another ship (automatically if there is a ship there).
if the pilot fails to deliver you or you die in the mission.. you go back to where you came from in the "Waiting room", and click the "Retry Taxi Mission", or buy a ship, get in a ship, etc.
.
for the "Waiting Room", while you wait to be picked up, use any view from the little "Watch Tower" at a landing pad... you can see people land and take off.. and sit on your butt...
.
you are spending your own money to get around.. and can get around faster when someone with a decent ship takes you, it would just be the waiting for a pickup the would slurp.
.
for NPC's just pick up and go.. but for players.. you might not even KNOW you've got one.
maybe they WANT you to know.. not sure.. but a Taxi Skin for ships might also be in order as well...
Fuel Rats.. Taxi Birds ...
make the rate a standard rate based on distance if you are worried about extravagant amounts being "purchased" or some other stupid thought...
I just want to get to my ship ... and bring it home...