Postby raorn » Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:43 pm
I started towing passengers because I needed Modular Terminals for an engineer. Bought Orca, installed various cabins, took three groups of VIPs to fly around. One of them appeared to be wanted criminal. When someone asked for some commodity, I tried to sneak into a station with Silent Running. When I was already landing on a pad, my ship heated up, I tried to turn off Silent Running, but messed with controls and turned off Flight Assist instead. It ended up not very good, ship started bouncing inside the station and blew up with all the passengers.
Second attempt. One of the passengers wasn't criminal, but "wanted". Still not good to be scanned. I visited all the locations fro all three groups, picked up all optional commodities and on my way to final destination I tried to boost into mailslot. Missed the grill just a little friggin tiny bit, hit the station, shields gone, hull down to 17%, ALL passengers panicked and ejected!
Since then I never took criminals on a trip.
As for "shitty occurrences". Well, shit happens, but it's not fatal. Purpose of this game (at least for me) is not in getting big virtual "credit score". I met new people, I saw pretty nice generated images of imaginary planets, I virtually killed virtual bad guys after hard day at work. When I tell this story about my very first VIP taxi experience to other people they laugh and I laugh too. When shit happens, make fun out of it, don't get frustrated.
Keep calm and Fly safe! o7