For about a week I've been trawling through FLStat and Companion looking for solid passenger routes for the new OS&C, that is routes that only take passengers and their variations (vacationers, tourists, VIP's) which so far has proved to be quite a challenge. A little curious as to why the routes were so difficult I decided to make a spreadsheet detailing where passengers could be bought and which bases they could be sold that also have another form of passenger e.g. selling passengers to Denver and picking up vacationers.
Clarification: These are meant as suggestions for the routes within the mod itself.
(Note: The sheet is based upon OS&C rep with a fully armed luxury liner and arranged by credit per sec) http://tinyurl.com/PassengerSheet
By looking at the sheet it's pretty clear to why the routes are so messed up, with the exception of Gallia, only a handful of them actually form a circle. The worst two sets are passengers_bw and Vacationers whose routes quite often dead end by buying and selling the same commodity, the passengers_bw also have their base buypoint in Alberta for some strange reason which is so out of the way it's barely worth visiting.
The idea is to create two basic circular routes consisting of:
Passengers from OS&C bases and capital planets to other capital planets. (Curacao or New London to New Tokyo/Berlin/Manhattan)
This would require moving Passengers from Shetland and replacing them with passengers_br
Adding buy/sell points for each passenger commodity to capital planets.
Vacationers from capital planets to OS&C bases. (Manhattan to Hawaii)
Splitting Vacationers into four separate commodities with buy points on capital planets and sell points on OS&C bases.
Tourists I would move from Hawaii to the Mackinac in Nagano to serve as gateway into Gallia, since it already uses the previous passengers a return route should be easy if the tourists are sold at the correct bases/planets.
My theory is to create a triangle of trade within the circular routes so whenever the Houses go to war there is always two routes available to the remaining Houses. Feedback, suggestions and constructive critizism are all welcome.
As a side note, VIP's are a bit of a mystery, the cheapest buy point is on the Golden Dragon Casino a Hogosha base in Shikoku which sell the best at Crete, obviously intended as trade route to the Corsairs yet artifacts on the return sell better on the Hawaii. This raised my eyebrow a bit as the Hogosha, who in lore extort money from the Mackinac to the point where OS&C would prefer to move the liner out of Kusari entirely which begs the question, why would they let them land on the Hawaii to sell artifacts? Until that's resolved I'm leaving VIP's in the wind so to speak.
