Anton Sugar
Member
Yeah, reddit is saying you can earn a cool ~25m an hour (specifically, in a Python) doing the right passenger missions with the right factions.
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Rhomega Beta
Member
I thought only Belugas could do passenger missions. What other ships can?
Any of them. Passenger modules will fit in any ship.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
The Beluga and the Orca are the only ships which can fit luxury cabins, but any ship can fit the other type of cabins: first class, business, and economy. Even a Hauler can be turned into a little space taxi!
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Who would even want to travel around in a hauler?!? #Immersion
Veritigo_X
Member
I want taxi paint jobs now.
Joe Spangle
Member
You don't fuck with them, they fuck with you.
Where can you get passanger modules? I have searched way too many stations and i haven't been able to fit my diamondback explorer with them, i even went to the trailer station where he outfitted the ship with cabins and i couldn't find them.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Oddly enough i have found passengers cabins at almost every single high tech system, they're almost as ubiquitous as cargo racks.
https://eddb.io/station
Use this. Very helpful.
Just put in the module you want to buy, so a 3D or 4C rated passenger module. Then put in whatever system you are currently in as the Reference System and they'll tell you the closest station/system that has what you are looking for.
Edit: Hmm looking at their trade loop function I wonder if it would be more lucrative to dump 23 million on a stripped out Type-7 with 228 tons of cargo and do a simple 1-2 RT trade route. It looks like just from Cubeo I have several options for a ~700k run. Two jumps probably wouldn't take me more than 10 minutes a piece which means I'm looking at around 3.5 to 4.2 million an hour. I could eventually build up to then getting a Python and trying to make that 25 million an hour on passengers.
Thanks.
Joseph Merrick
Member
maybe they're bad at stacking vertically inside it, or the cargo boxes don't fit properly inside it. hehe. type7 is only 'large' because it's too tall for the medium hangars lol. maybe we'll get a shenmue style forklift simulator for stacking cargo when we get to walk around, only able to fully utilise the volume if you fill it up manually :O~ I'd play this minigame
Anton Sugar
Member
I am not sure what they use to determine cargo capacity, esp given that they have revised cargo capacities for some ships. I anticipate that, once we can walk around ships and actually see cargo storage and all that, some ships may need revisions.
Or it's just a part of the universe that some ship manufacturers are just poor designers compared to others! Happens in real life.
Or it's just a part of the universe that some ship manufacturers are just poor designers compared to others! Happens in real life.
Please no. Don't give FD any ideas. Okay now you have to sign your release forms for hauling hazardous materials. Sign here, initial here and here, and here, and here, and here.
I wouldn't care so much if it didn't blow up my plans to do trade runs, because requiring a Large landing pad totally alters that plan and reduces my profit by like 40%. Also if the ships were at all comparable when side by side. Yes the Type 7 is much taller, so it makes sense it is considered Large, but how the hell do you lose 60 tons of cargo? I mean the Type 7 in that image looks like it should be able to hold at least 2x the Python.
Lakon must really suck ass at ship design, while Delacy must be goddamn geniuses.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
It's pretty simple, Frontier messed up when they determined the stats for some ships. After 2.2 the T7 can finally hold more cargo than a Python, but it's only like 10 more tons, not any significant amount. Losing medium pads though, that is a significant loss with the T7 compared to the Python.
IMHO, either the T7 should be able to land at medium pads or it needs an extra 100T cargo capacity, at a minimum. The way the ships sit now, no one will ever fly a T7 unless they just want to for looks or something.
IMHO, either the T7 should be able to land at medium pads or it needs an extra 100T cargo capacity, at a minimum. The way the ships sit now, no one will ever fly a T7 unless they just want to for looks or something.
Joseph Merrick
Member
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Hey buddy you take that right back! The Keelback is like the best mid price ship ever!
So why is that certain ships show signs of wear and use when I've just purchased them? I've noticed this so far on the Asp Explorer and the Anaconda. There's crack on the right leg of the center console, and the Anaconda has chipped and peeling paint all throughout the cockpit area. Yet certain ships like those of the Imperial variety, are immaculate and pristine.
Are they not selling me brand new ships?
Are they not selling me brand new ships?
To be fair, I drive so poorly in low G that if those ruins weren't (mostly) indestructable I'd have pretty much flattened them.
WHEEEEEEE
It should be as easy as setting a waypoint and navigating to it. But it's not.
Whenever fans or players suggest Frontier to implement game designs or changes to it, that turn their already pretty incompetent game design from bad to worse, I imagine somewhere a puppy gets kicked.
Whenever fans or players suggest Frontier to implement game designs or changes to it, that turn their already pretty incompetent game design from bad to worse, I imagine somewhere a puppy gets kicked.
Poor puppy must be dead by now.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
It would be nice to be able to set waypoints on the surface via the new surface maps, but the new compass for 2.2 does help considerably. I have no problem finding specific locations now on planets via coordinates, BUT I have years of experience navigating in flight simulators too, so that might be making it much easier for me than compared to other players.
I was able to find the ancient ruins,.but I've trying to get to a barnacles location and just when I think the numbers are going in the right direction they start decreasing.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
New alien crash site found:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?p=4725292&viewfull=1#post4725292
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?p=4725292&viewfull=1#post4725292
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Nice. Looks like some new parts on it too.
2.2 came out with passenger missions, ship launched fighters and a bunch of quality of life changes including module storage/transfers and ship transfers between stations etc.
In other news someone on the forums noticed the official site has been updated with Season 2 info.
FD said:
Looks like Season 3 isn't coming anytime soon.
Anton Sugar
Member
Yup we had an OT for The Guardians launch, check it out for details.
No just some minor stability patches. Can't for the life of me figure out what the client could be downloading that is 13GB of data though
Anton Sugar
Member
Seems like rest of Horizons is indeed coming in 2017, as if it weren't obvious: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...tinues-in-2017-(2-3-and-2-4-updates-next-year)
Lol. Look up.
Whats the expected "upcoming" additions; Character Creation and Multi-Crew for 2.3? I guess 2.4 will be actual First Person walking around ships and limited station stuff as the major features. At this rate though that won't be released until this time next year.
Can't say I really have any interest in any of those things as I'm not to into multiplayer stuff, but they could certainly improve on that allowing for shared missions and so on which could be useful even for me.
I'm most concerned and hoping for improved mission design and complexity. Multi-stage and complex missions were always one of my favorite aspects of space sims. So more detail, variety and random events within missions would be nice. They're starting to fill things out and provide some more varied options to players, but it's still pretty barebones skeleton stuff. The framework of missions is there, but it's pretty damn simple.
Can't say I really have any interest in any of those things as I'm not to into multiplayer stuff, but they could certainly improve on that allowing for shared missions and so on which could be useful even for me.
I'm most concerned and hoping for improved mission design and complexity. Multi-stage and complex missions were always one of my favorite aspects of space sims. So more detail, variety and random events within missions would be nice. They're starting to fill things out and provide some more varied options to players, but it's still pretty barebones skeleton stuff. The framework of missions is there, but it's pretty damn simple.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
2.4 is ????
If it was walking around in ships I would be very, very surprised. I'd say if that is even in Season 3 it'll be near the end of it.
Assuming 2.4 is a proper Thargoid war. Although it would also make sense with multi-crew addition in 2.3. Even more so now that Palin is doing meta-alloy research related to combat ships. Who knows. Definitely want EVA for repairs and exploration of derelict ships/recovery of black boxes etc asap though.
Anton Sugar
Member
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Considering the new ruin structures would think there is more than one species out there.
Anton Sugar
Member
Yeah, those don't look at all like the crashed ships or UA.
Anton Sugar
Member
Screw you passengers who instead of wanting to go to the station where I had just stacked the missions, instead wanted to go to a nearby system to a station that was 50,000 ls away from the star
Apparently if you ignore the message (by not even looking at it), you can ignore their request and continue to the original destination.
I was at the original destination and it didn't give me an option to drop them off.
Sothis Krieg
Member
So what to do with my Vulture ? I want to farm Empire rank to buy a Clipper but i will need money to outfit it well. Is bounty hunting still viable or there is some other ways to make money with a Vulture ?
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Bounty hunting works, also stacking massacre missions for CZs.
That was actually confirmed a year ago. I think Michael Brookes confirmed it again just a few months ago at LaveCon.
Anton Sugar
Member
Yeah, they have confirmed (whether officially or not--I know they mentioned it in a stream) that there are multiple alien species.