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When did they nerf passenger missions, was it recently?
I believe they just did it yesterday.
I've been doing passenger missions at Upsilon Aquarii and I make about 100 mil per hour with a Python with economy cabins. Yes, you have to Ally with the factions first but that doesn't take too much time and you are off! I'm up to 2.2 billion credits at this point.
This is what I read yesterday as well. Before I was making literally up to $120-150 per hour running passenger missions out of Rhea....no joke.
You guys are right all the missions are gone. There is no way that I am going to twiddle my thumbs at super cruise for ~2,000,000 ls and only get 400K credits for 16 passengers. Frontier is going to spoil this game for me.
If you kill 2 elite anacondas you'll earn more than that.
I think FDev did neuter the passenger missions a bit too strongly.
To be fair they said in the livestream that they were aware of that and that these missions would be paying a bit better again in the near future.
That's terrible, I was making a lot more money on passenger flights then doing cargo.
So what is the current best way to make money, is it mining, cargo or something else?
The best way of making money in game is doing the thing you best enjoy. The easiest however maybe loosing yourself deep in the black for a few weeks scanning ELW's and Water worlds etc.
Exploration with an ADS and DSS is where it's at with credits.
Passenger missions are not that nerfed. You can still make several million in a trip, if you have influence and a decent sized ship. Exploration is an easy way to make money, and probably the lowest risk of any job as well (though I personally find it tedious). Massacre missions are a good way to make money through combat. Trade routes will probably make you the most...but you need to make sure you have access to the systems with rares and I personally find it boring AF (even more boring than exploration).
EDIT - In the station I'm at right now I am seeing a passenger mission to a system 15ly away for 2.5 million. And that is just one mission, as you can stack them. If this is "nerfed" then I have to say it's not a big deal.
EDIT - In the station I'm at right now I am seeing a passenger mission to a system 15ly away for 2.5 million. And that is just one mission, as you can stack them. If this is "nerfed" then I have to say it's not a big deal.
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My biggest problem with Passenger Missions is there don't seem to be many normal service bus type requests. Most I'm seeing are either poorly paid tours (400k for over 40 jumps) or a request to travel 10k's of LY to survey a planet, for around 5mill credits. That was in Ceos/Sothis, I've now jumped out and wandered across into Alliance space but still not seeing any real use for my passenger cabin.
What are you trying to achieve by sitting there credit grinding? Credits are just a means to an end.
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Seizewell - are you allied with the mission giver? If not then the payouts will be lower and passenger missions are not the best way to increase REP, you can take more missions and complete them faster. Also if it is the controlling faction then you can REP up by handing in exploration data, bounties, selling goods (possibly others). However, I would agree I see many more tourist missions than transport missions and not enough missions to allow me to stack so I generally don't do passenger missions unless I'm in the mood for it. Cargo doesn't get grumpy about being scanned, is rarely illegal and certainly doesn't demand I go buy something else or see something else on the way
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Seizewell - are you allied with the mission giver? If not then the payouts will be lower and passenger missions are not the best way to increase REP, you can take more missions and complete them faster. Also if it is the controlling faction then you can REP up by handing in exploration data, bounties, selling goods (possibly others). However, I would agree I see many more tourist missions than transport missions and not enough missions to allow me to stack so I generally don't do passenger missions unless I'm in the mood for it. Cargo doesn't get grumpy about being scanned, is rarely illegal and certainly doesn't demand I go buy something else or see something else on the way
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