Best systems for Sightseeing Tour missions

[Witcher]

Anyone like to share which systems are good for sightseeing tour missions preferably within 100 ly and with valuable bodies (ELW, water world, etc.) to scan nearby?

[Casual Overload Gaming]

I've found systems with outposts offer the best sight-seeing mission payouts. A caveat or two: I'm elite explorer and I am friendly with each faction in the system. I pull sight-seeing missions out of Gang Yun. I find I can often get missions that pay 15M cr or more and are 1,000 LY or so round trip. I can do a couple of these in an hour of game play versus the really long sight-seeing missions which, at 20,000 - 30,000 LY require much more time. Appel Outpost in Gang Yun offers the ability of taking wanted passengers on missions without being concerned about being scanned upon return. The only drawback is it requires a medium ship. When I first started, I used an Asp Explorer with one first class passenger cabin. I recently changed to a Krait which, with Guardian FSD booster, is getting about 55 LY per jump. It makes the trip go by quickly. With the Krait, I might be able to outfit two first class cabins, though that'll drop my jump range.

The key to high-paying missions seems to be your ranking with the faction giving the mission combined with your ranking in that profession. If you weren't already aware, sight-seeing missions contribute to your exploration rank.

I've tested this in other systems similar to Gang Yun, with only one outpost in space and an economy other than tourism, and it seems to work in any similar system.

I have had very little success with passenger missions in tourism systems.

Good luck, and safe travels!

~ C

[Witcher]

Thanks, I was getting up to 1.5 mil per VIP sightseeing tour mission and 1 jump from an outpost in Pleiades except not many to stack.

So, I went to Ceos and found plenty VIP missions to Sirius Atmospherics last night - picked up 3 which ranged from 700k to 1 mil and just increased Explorer rank by 1% :/

Btw, are Ceos and Sothis no longer controlled by Sirius Corp since other stations were built in 3.0?

[ReeNoiP]

Originally posted by Witcher:

Thanks, I was getting up to 1.5 mil per VIP sightseeing tour mission and 1 jump from an outpost in Pleiades except not many to stack.

So, I went to Ceos and found plenty VIP missions to Sirius Atmospherics last night - picked up 3 which ranged from 700k to 1 mil and just increased Explorer rank by 1% :/

Btw, are Ceos and Sothis no longer controlled by Sirius Corp since other stations were built in 3.0?

They are still in control and own most of the stations. At least they were just before the latest patch.

If you wan't to make a lot of cash going to Sirius Atmospherics, cram in as many first and economy class cabins as you can. There doesn't seem to be any bussiness class passengers and luxury are rare. I remember making about 8 mil per run in my python.

[Witcher]

I'm not strapped for CRs, except the rewards from Sightseeing Tour missions seem to increase Explorer rank slowly. The 3 missions I picked up at Brunel Hub were all VIP missions but can you get non-VIP missions to Sirius Atmospherics from New Dawn Station?

I'm also going to explore and scan valuable bodies in nearby systems before I get bored of Sirius Atmospherics.

@Calean, are there many stackable missions in Gang Yun to visit the same tourist beacon in a nearby system?

[Witcher]

Sirius Corp has re-controlled Babbage Gateway and Brunel Hub except New Dawn Station's still controlled by Federation Unite!