Sightseeing adventure missions?

[Indianer]

I’ve been transporting passengers for awhile, but I would like to do some sightseeing missions. How do these work? How do you find the different waypoints on the map and complete the missions?

[Beetroot]

I'm interested in this too. I wanted to get a liner and try it, but the missions make it look like "12 million credits to fly 2000 jumps to the center of galaxy and back" and stuff.

Is this cool?

[Knottypine]

In this video, he's doing some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYD5WGt97VA

[Ratt]

Originally posted by Indianer:

I would like to do some sightseeing missions. How do these work? How do you find the different waypoints on the map and complete the missions?

The passenger will want you to scan one or more specific tourist beacons in order. The full list of them is in the mission description, but only the one that the passenger wants next is marked as a mission objective on the galaxy map.

The passenger sends a mail message to you when you get to the correct system to tell you the nearest body to the tourist beacon, and then that's marked as a mission objective. When you scan the beacon, the passenger sends another message telling you either to bring it back to the station where you picked it up (if the mission's over) or where the next beacon is (if it's not). Anywhere the passenger mentions this way is marked as a new mission objective on the galaxy and system maps as appropriate.

The passengers come in several types, each with a set of traits that dictate what affects (usually decreases) their satisfaction with your services. If the passenger is too upset, the mission will fail and the passenger will demand to be sent home; you can either comply to clear it out of your cabin for neither reward nor penalty or eject the ungrateful bastard into space at the cost of having to pay a bit to restock the life pods before you can take anyone else on. Most importantly, some passengers are criminals, which means that getting scanned by system security will not only upset the passenger but also probably get you shot.

Sometimes the passenger will make an extra demand, either to go somewhere not on the itinerary or to have some commodity or other bought. Accepting and fulfilling these yields a token credit reward. Explicitly denying or accepting and then failing to fulfill them upsets the passenger. There is no penalty for ignoring these requests.

Originally posted by Beetroot:

I'm interested in this too. I wanted to get a liner and try it, but the missions make it look like "12 million credits to fly 2000 jumps to the center of galaxy and back" and stuff.

Is this cool?

Those are exploration missions, not sightseeing missions. They're similar, but there's always only one destination, it's out in the middle of nowhere, and the only two passenger types are Famous Explorers (who don't complain much) and Criminal Masterminds (see above about getting shot). If by "cool" you mean an effective way to make money, god no; they're mostly excuses to do long-distance exploring and suggestions of places to go look at. If by "cool" you mean an enjoyable experience, it's going to be mostly jumping from system to system scanning things, so it depends on whether you like that or not.

[Indianer]

Thanks for the information. What type of scan do you need to do on the beacons? Do I need a special scanner array for that type?

[darkflemish]

Originally posted by Indianer:

Thanks for the information. What type of scan do you need to do on the beacons? Do I need a special scanner array for that type?

The scanner everyone have by default. (discovery scanner)

[Naryoril]

Which means, once you drop out at the beacon's location (it shows up as a navigation target in the left panel once you are about 1000 ls away from the planet named by the passenger), just target it, look at it and wait until the spinning symbol at the bottom left window is done.

[Indianer]

Thanks! I wasn't sure about the scanners. I have done some exploration of new systems, but never any sightseeing adventures. Sounds pretty basic.