What is Group Transportation and why is it not available?

HappySpaceInvdr

HappySpaceInvdr
In the Passenger Lounge, “Group Transportation” is there but greyed out (and selecting it does nothing) on every station I’ve been to recently.

What is this option and what are the pre-conditions for it to be available in a system?

I’m especially confused as “Personal Transportation” missions frequently seem to involve groups of people!
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
Group transport is used for missions transporting bulk passengers, like rescue / evacuation missions. I have never seen any bulk passenger missions outside of rescue scenarios.

"Personal Transportation" is transporting a single person with their entourage, and you need a cabin fitting both in size and class for them. Bulk rescue missions distribute their passengers over all your cabins until all passengers are stored, and you only need economy cabins for them.
 

Ned Flandalorian

N
Group transport missions are a lot less glamorous than personal transport, you just shuttle nameless groups of people from one location to another. Sometimes a rival faction will make you an offer for you to hand the people over to them instead (usually so they can become slaves). They're often war refugees or militants (depends on faction states and/or governments).
 

Nikephorus Phocas

Nikephorus Phocas
HappySpaceInvdr said:
In the Passenger Lounge, “Group Transportation” is there but greyed out (and selecting it does nothing) on every station I’ve been to recently.

What is this option and what are the pre-conditions for it to be available in a system?

I’m especially confused as “Personal Transportation” missions frequently seem to involve groups of people!
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Funny you ask this because I saw this yesterday and had zero ability to select those missions as well. I'm trying to collect modular terminals and read passenger missions are the best way but I couldn't see the rewards because they're not available.
 

Untilting

Untilting
I just picked up a group passenger mission from Shinrarta no problem. Could you give an example of a station where you're seeing the issue?
 

GJ51

GJ51
HappySpaceInvdr said:
In the Passenger Lounge, “Group Transportation” is there but greyed out (and selecting it does nothing) on every station I’ve been to recently.

What is this option and what are the pre-conditions for it to be available in a system?

I’m especially confused as “Personal Transportation” missions frequently seem to involve groups of people!
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Do you have a good passenger cabin loadout? You can be locked out of Passenger Mission for either insufficient capacity or for insufficient Reputation required.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Seems ok here? Nothing special about this station.
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Leadfoot

Leadfoot
GJ51 said:
Do you have a good passenger cabin loadout? You can be locked out of Passenger Mission for either insufficient capacity or for insufficient Reputation required.
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Yeah, this. 👆 If you only have last class passenger cabins and the multi passenger missions all require business class or higher they'll be greyed out because you don't qualify for any of them.

If you have capacity to take on 25 passengers and you took on 20 of them, you have 5 seats left. If the lowest multi passenger mission is for 10 or 15 passengers, they'll also be greyed out.

Might also be related to how friendly you are with those factions. So, yes, GJ51 has the correct answer.
 

Danieros

D
Group transports are much more rare than personal transports, hence you not finding them, especially if you're only looking to work for one faction BGS. It's also a lot harder to fit then as they'll need multiple cabins and potentially all your cabins to be first/business class if you aren't in a large ship. Their advantage is that they won't need a return trip, so after you deliver them to point B, you're done.

Personally I'd have expected for it to be the opposite and group transports to be far more common than VIPs. In ED's future you have a lot more VIPs just looking for individual travel instead of consistent airlines between systems A and B.
 

GJ51

GJ51
Danieros said:
Group transports are much more rare than personal transports, hence you not finding them, especially if you're only looking to work for one faction BGS. It's also a lot harder to fit then as they'll need multiple cabins and potentially all your cabins to be first/business class if you aren't in a large ship. Their advantage is that they won't need a return trip, so after you deliver them to point B, you're done.

Personally I'd have expected for it to be the opposite and group transports to be far more common than VIPs. In ED's future you have a lot more VIPs just looking for individual travel instead of consistent airlines between systems A and B.
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My major focus is moving to a region and getting Allied with all factions in each system. One of the best ways to gain rep is through passenger missions. Even when Neutral I generally get access to both types in sufficient quantities to build rep quickly.

I'm not seeing any evidence of a problem as described here by others. I use Anacondas and Orcas. If I had to use one ship it would be an Anaconda fitted with frist class cabins that can handle a group of 54. That lets you do all but the group missions over 54. My second Passenger Conda has Business Class cabins that can hold a group of 80.

I use Orcas for VIP when I want the extra speed and maneuverability.

HTH
 
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