Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

I took 5 passenger missions (2 bulk, 3 VIP) on today, only to find out that *somebody* in the passenger list was apparently wanted, since I got my ship deconstructed by a station about 1 km from the mail slot. Here's the kicker: all of the VIPs were 'Rich Tourist' (no criminal masterminds here), the bulk passengers were business people or tourists (again, they shouldn't be wanted), and at no time did I receive a notification that someone was flagged as wanted.

Jumping to system: Clean

HUD while in system: Clean

Passenger briefings: Clean

1km from station: The most illegal person in the galaxy and should be terminated with EXTREME PREJUDICE

So what the hell happened? I saved the last 5 minutes of my ship's life in a video but I can't see anything that says "you're transporting an illegal knobhead"...

There are a few commanders reporting death by station because of Wanted passengers where there are no Wanted Criminals, appears to be a bug and you can get your credits back via a ticket to Fdev. may take awhile because they are busy. Not completing a Mission now reduces the number of missions you can stack not sure if that is working as intended (punishment) or if it has always been that way. I'm usually full before 20 missions but recently had 3 missions time out because I was late getting home and now limited to 17 mission stack.

The only notice you get is in the missions text.
That's it, nothing beyond that point.

The main problem I see is the aggression upon detection is utterly bananas.
Like has been mentioned before, if there was a criminal on a plane, the government wouldn't shoot down the plane.
The pilots would be asked to land, and the local police would arrest.
I belive, again, that FD dropped the ball to have some evolving content.
Say you get scanned, you get a redirect and if you do not accept that redirect, because you are carrying a fugitive, then you get a bounty in the system.
If you where to acquiesce instead you might even get a small bounty instead, but loose rep withthe faction who gave you the mission.

I'd love the 'redirect or face destruction' idea. Certainly would give you a choice between losing one passenger contract and rep or losing everyone aboard. FDev put out a whole topic on their FAQ so something tells me a ticket isn't going to resolve this any faster. Sucks that its 7 mil down the drain for the Beluga rebuy, but I can make that back. As for passenger missions, I'm gonna treat em like smuggling missions: either be ready to stealth or don't take em at all, at least until a fix gets pushed.

I don't take a lot of passengers, unless I'm really bored.

But when I do, I stay clear of those who don't like to be scanned.

It was already announced that there will at least be a HUD indicator added (where the normal WANTED status is displayed) when carrying wanted passengers. Not sure if it will also show up in the jump target tooltip or galaxy/system map.

This is known bug in 2.2.0.1, see https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=353

As said before this is a known bug. It happened to me some days ago that in the mission description was no hint about illegal passengers, but after flying some minutes on the left menu was mentioned that some of the passengers might be illegal in some systems. One of the systems I travelled to showed that I had illegal cargo (meant passengers). Later when I left a station in a system where I was not illegal the station shot me down after leaving the slot. I send a ticket to FD and wait for the refund

Just curious if this ever got fixed? If not then I'll play it safe and only carry 1-2 passengers until it is resolved

On occasion in the description there is a wee little line written in small red text stating that the individual may be wanted in some systems. Which will generally mean the system their going to. All other systems in the stack won't be a problem. But the second you get to their destinaton, BOOM the wanted status will come on and even if you high wake to another, system though he/she is not wanted, you are.