' Wrote:One of the problems here is the lack of good "people" routes, liner owners often have to take other cargoes somewhere else to make a profit after they'd dropped off whatever people they were carrying. Liners carrying oorp cargo because they really don't have much other option is something, right now, I think we have to live with.
Transports carrying people on the other hand is a different matter entirely. Leaving freighters out of the argument, they have a hard enough time as it is, and only one is ever actually described as "podded", there should be some RP common sense applied to the carrying of people.
My personal views
Slaves belong in slave ships (prison liners, slave liners, other ships designed to carry people. I'd like to see a midsized alternative to the Yacht/Kusari Yacht as those seem more RP ships than real working transports, but failing that, anything 3600 that isn't obviously podded would alsso work.
Passengers/Tourists/Vips etc.. As above, but Lux/Royals rather than Prisons/Slaves.
Prisoners.. As above, but just the Prison in the liner category.
The two exceptions in my view are scientists and refugees.
There are a number of short scientist runs, Sigma 19 gate site to Ishehara for example, that are useful as fill ins on trading routes. Viewing scientists as corp employees, they can be stuck on whatever turns up to get them
Refugees, well, they'd be happy to hitch a ride on whatever will take them particularly given that there isn't a single pure human cargo run involving refugees that I've found.
You're telling me that Refugees will voluntarily crowd on to whatever ship they can, while Slaves, who are generally viewed as being forced, will be so picky as to "refuse" transportation on any ship not specifically designed for human cargo?
