How do other commanders organize their passenger trips when they have multiple tourists going to the same destination? I noticed destinations on their manifest do not count as visited unless they are visited in the CORRECT order, making taking multiple groups with conflicting destinations meaningless. Thoughts anyone?
Taking tourists to multiple sites
- Thread starter The Wallet Inspector
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I haven't had a chance to explore this feature, but I'm wondering how my Exploraconda would be for a passenger hauler? Take some passengers to Sag A or some similar spot, swing over to Colonia on the back haul and pick up some lucrative haulage missions on the way back to the bubble? Is that a viable strategy?
You'd have to be lucky to get a mission with those parameters.
I almost accepted a 36KK cr mission, but 72K ly round trip mission, was too much, I just got back from the black.
Well, my (allied) home faction offered a 40 MCr round trip to Colonia today. (With more than two weeks to complete and a 'no hurries' passenger). I'd call that quite viable.
Well, my (allied) home faction offered a 40 MCr round trip to Colonia today. (With more than two weeks to complete and a 'no hurries' passenger). I'd call that quite viable.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was hoping for. Would my Conda be viable for that?
It would be nice if all the destination markers were there from the start of the mission, instead of one after the other, that way you could plan a route for all passengers from the start, without the backtracking. It makes the Beluga Ferry pointless (I am using an Orca, but it still has tons of space)
(Sorry, missed the reply.) Sure. When I can finally be bothered to visit Colonia, I'll take someone along, there's no reason to fly empty unless you're buckyballing. In my - limited - experience, those missions usually have 3-7 passengers and seldom require more than business class cabins, so if you take a 5D business or a 6D first class cabin and you're all set. (Or simply equip on demand when you see a tasty one, no need to have room for 10 people if you only carry 4.)
It still doesn't pay more credits per hour than regular bubble tourism and ferrying, but it does give you a lot of money for going where you wanted to go anyway, without much trouble.
Well, it's a bit of a hassle, but the mission description tells you where they want to go (at least the systems and the beacon names) and in which order, so you can put bookmarks on the map and plan accordingly.
Yeah, this was something I noticed during the beta - you can put loads of passenger cabins in the Beluga (for example) but, it's another matter actually using them all efficiently, most of the time I was running at 1/3 capacity.
At the moment I just run single group missions in my Cobra (you can fit 2x size 3 cabins) - and it's fast enough to do a runner if any of them turn out to be wanted!
At the moment I just run single group missions in my Cobra (you can fit 2x size 3 cabins) - and it's fast enough to do a runner if any of them turn out to be wanted!