To Beluga or not to Beluga

[Sgt.Barnes]

Hi

So I have been running passenger missions and as long as I dont do the crazy wanted passenger ones I have been making good moolah. I have too date been doing it in my Annie but I need to look at a more suitable ship so I can re focus my Annie back to exploration. I have a T9 doing nothing but would the Beluga (being thats what its primary function is) be better. My priority is maximum 1st class & luxury bums on seats with a small (16t or less) cargo capability for customer requests with obviously the best jump range I can get. if money was no object would the Beluga be better than the T9 or would the T9 shift more passengers at once obviously taking into account jump range etc for the best credits per hour ?

Cheers!
CMDR Sgt.Barnes

 

[Viscera]

Honest question after reading yours:

Why are you worried about cr/hr when you obviously already have enough, and already have a ship with the potential to earn them quick.

Why not just build a ship thats fun to fly for you and enjoy the game rather than the money trail.

 

[Red Anders]

Honest question after reading yours:

Why are you worried about cr/hr when you obviously already have enough, and already have a ship with the potential to earn them quick.

Why not just build a ship thats fun to fly for you and enjoy the game rather than the money trail.

Maybe he finds making credits to be fun, amazingly enough people are motivated by different things. Why do you care? Can you answer his question or not?

 

[Sgt.Barnes]

Honest question after reading yours:

Why are you worried about cr/hr when you obviously already have enough, and already have a ship with the potential to earn them quick.

Why not just build a ship thats fun to fly for you and enjoy the game rather than the money trail.

I want to be super mega rich so I can take over the galaxy and make you all my minions. Once this is complete I will move onto the next galaxy with an evil super weapon I will build using all the power of all the neutron stars in this galaxy.


Muh ha ha ha ha ha


Ands coz I likes cash innit

 

[elrogarddublanc]

Hi

So I have been running passenger missions and as long as I dont do the crazy wanted passenger ones I have been making good moolah. I have too date been doing it in my Annie but I need to look at a more suitable ship so I can re focus my Annie back to exploration. I have a T9 doing nothing but would the Beluga (being thats what its primary function is) be better. My priority is maximum 1st class & luxury bums on seats with a small (16t or less) cargo capability for customer requests with obviously the best jump range I can get. if money was no object would the Beluga be better than the T9 or would the T9 shift more passengers at once obviously taking into account jump range etc for the best credits per hour ?

Cheers!
CMDR Sgt.Barnes

To be honest - its a taste thing.

I spent yesterday getting a beluga loaded up and modded. I have 4 class A SBs, 5 fixed class 2 MCs, a 6D shield gen. Modded with FSD grade 5, SBs class 3, shield gen class 5.

This gives 30ly range , 500-ish shields, with a boat load of luxury, business, first class and economy cabins.

The Beluga is surprisingly maneuverable, and the slot is not so much of an issue with a docking computer (I'm lazy). I'm making good money operating out of Sol where I have allied status with all factions. It does have heat issues, but 70% heat on jump out of a star is okay, and it has such a large fuel tank that a class 3 fuel scoop tops up just enough to extend easily to 200ly on a single tank.

Its okay - but I wouldn't take the exploration passenger missions in it - I would go full Annie on that just for the jump range - in fact I'm thinking of doubling up a few to go to Sag A* and other stuff on the way to earn a packet in addition to the exploration data. I've seen a 65M credit mission for 10000ly tours.

TLR - its good if extensively modded, but stay in the bubble.

 

[goemon]

Hi

So I have been running passenger missions and as long as I dont do the crazy wanted passenger ones I have been making good moolah. I have too date been doing it in my Annie but I need to look at a more suitable ship so I can re focus my Annie back to exploration. I have a T9 doing nothing but would the Beluga (being thats what its primary function is) be better. My priority is maximum 1st class & luxury bums on seats with a small (16t or less) cargo capability for customer requests with obviously the best jump range I can get. if money was no object would the Beluga be better than the T9 or would the T9 shift more passengers at once obviously taking into account jump range etc for the best credits per hour ?

Cheers!
CMDR Sgt.Barnes

passenger racks only come in size 6 - so basically you don't win passenger capacity by having larger internals.

a beluga has 4*6 internals and 2*5 - you'll need one 5 for a shield generator.

a t9 has 1*8, 1*7, 1*6 and 1*5 - again you'll need the 5 for a shield generator.

so - beluga can hold more passengers.

a conda on the other hand can hold more passengers, than a beluga - especially because you can run her with a class 4 shield ... but even with a class 5, it has one class 5 internal more.

cutter is an obvious choice when you want to combine passenger transfers with bulktrading.

the beluga has an amazing supercruise handling. for typical tourist mission you'll love that.

on the other hand, in my impression passenger missions are hard to stack with the current mission generating system - but i didn't have a close look at tourist systems/ service systems and state depending passenger missions.

anyway, i'm currently running an orca (for pure passenger missions), a cutter (for combined passenger missions and bulktrading) and an AspE (for "longrange" passenger missions). planning on a conda build for the really longrange passenger missions...

 

[Bomba Luigi]

a beluga has 4*6 internals and 2*5 - you'll need one 5 for a shield generator.

A Class 6 will be needed, as both class 5 Slots are locked.



Op if you wann do luxury passanger a Beluga or Orca will be needed, but the Orca may be the better choice. The Beluga is a bit weird, I mod him now and will run around a bit with it, the larger fuel tanks does improve him as you can go really far without the need to refuel.
But as far as I can see with 1st class cabins your good for getting good missions (business class already do it too sometimes), I do think going orca or Beluga is more a style thing then anything else.

 

[crushdepth]

I just got a beluga today. It's a cool, cool ship. Just not very practical

The orca is actually much better for high-paying passenger missions in every way (especially speed, which is important on ships that need to Run Away) except two: The jump range, which is Suck, and you can't have a fighter bay on an orca, which is also Suck I'd rather have the fighter bay and jump range, so I sold my orca.

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

^^ As above. REALLY wanted to like the Orca, luxury cabin fit, grade 5 5A FSD gave me 23ly and I had my pick of high end passenger missions, but two things gripped my faeces:

1. No fighter bay on the Orca
2. That range and reach (fuel tank) sucked harder than my neighbours missus.

So I got the quirky but beautiful Beluga:

ISS JONAH:

 

[philmo]

I traded in my Anaconda for a Beluga and was not too excited. I find the jump range too low and my Conda also has more storage. The Beluga does have the ability for luxury cabins but I hardly see Luxury requests in my travels. The only obvious benefit I saw is manourabiliy of the Beluga when travelling with wanted passengers and speed docking - as I am rubbish at entering the pillow box at speed in my Conda.

 

[CMDR Beltane]

Like my Beluga, but what "breaks" its neck atm a bit, is that contracts with luxury cabins are way too rare atm and also pay not really noticably more. Fly if you want to do that stuff in style, but other than that another ship, especially Conda, can do that as well.

 

[defekt]

Beluga = Bubble-bussing.

I don't know why it has such a massive fuel tank given that the ship is a very poor choice for long range charters.

Once again, FD prove that they don't understand what the term 'multi-role' means because, once again, the multi-role ships do this better.

Both of these idiocies can be resolved reasonably easily (in terms of passenger missions at least):-
1. Give the Beluga a practical jump range.
2. Vastly up the frequency and pay for Luxury charters.

 

[Viscera]

Maybe he finds making credits to be fun, amazingly enough people are motivated by different things. Why do you care? Can you answer his question or not?

why do I care? I found the wording of his post intrigued me and wondered why he was so interested in the cr/hr ratio of the game in this instance, when he clearly already had plenty of cr. Hence why I mentioned the fact it was an honest question, not just a knee jerk post for no real reason other than that I am piano player who can fit in a 1 inch deep hole.

Oh and your answer was very satisfactory Sgt. Barnes, thank you. Rep your way for that one.

Can you answer his question or not? Not to his satisfaction or I would of done.

Thank you.

 

[Bomba Luigi]

Beluga = Bubble-bussing.

I don't know why it has such a massive fuel tank given that the ship is a very poor choice for long range charters.

Once again, FD prove that they don't understand what the term 'multi-role' means because, once again, the multi-role ships do this better.

Both of these idiocies can be resolved reasonably easily (in terms of passenger missions at least):-
1. Give the Beluga a practical jump range.
2. Vastly up the frequency and pay for Luxury charters.

Jumprange isn't bad at all, and with mods even pretty great. But I do agree on Point 2.


Oh, and seeing Voorheez Pics reminds me that the Beluga needs a better debug cam, it can hardly handle the ship