Passenger Route Rework

[Croft]

Since starting OSC| last year I've been looking for ways to improve upon the most prominent issue my members bring up, passenger routes.

The Issues

Whilst our current routes are functional and reasonably profitable there is a lack of variation in destinations and in some cases an utter absence of passengers (liners full of Furs spring to mind) which makes our usual RP somewhat difficult to pull off in addition to throwing our entire niche out the window.
The variety we have consists almost entirely of planets stocking Vacationers who only sell points are the Shetland or Hawaii which they only connect to freeports 4 & 14, more Vacationers or Curacao (Hawaii's connection to the Mackinac will probably be removed or lessened when the latter moves) compounding the problem further. For a visual representation of the current routes I give you this:

Passenger Routes

Sirian Passenger Only Routes Breakdown (Warning: Contains arrows and lines.)

That is the entire Sirian connection of passenger only routes, that is bases that buy passengers and also sell passengers, as you can see its the complete opposite of pretty (the breakdown album offers a far clearer picture, figuratively and literally.). As you can imagine, trying to make headway with all that information got me nowhere fast so I went back to the very core of the matter and taking into account the upcoming move of the Mackinac came up with this.

The Idea

The goal is to make passenger moving a more fluid experience whilst still following the A -> B -> C -> A standard Xoria has set and providing a solid foundation which can be used to better intergrate Gallia into the Sirian routes. Keep in mind this deals only with the points of origin for passengers, the exception being Vacationers which are sold on far too many planets to include on my diagrams for which I've selected Hamburg to represent as the most connected of the selection.


*Update 17/04*
Passenger Rework V5

Switched to the alternate plan as it solves a lot more problems, the only two issues are the Mackinac - Curacao and the Baden - Denver which retain the upwards and downwards flow.

Route Rework

Changes:

VIP’s removed from Golden Dragon and Hawaii.
Vacationers removed from Denver, Malta, Stuttgart, Holstein, Houston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles,, New Tokyo, New London and Cambridge.
Passengers_li to Denver removed
Passengers to Hamburg removed.
Passengers to Grand Vista removed.

VIP’s added to Denver
Passengers added to New London
Passengers_br added to New Tokyo
Vacationers added to Manhattan
Tourists added to New Berlin

Passengers_li connected to New Tokyo
Passengers_rh connected to Mackinac, New London, Manhattan
Passengers_br connected to Hamburg and New Berlin
Passengers_ku connected to Curacao, Baden Baden and Manhattan
Passengers connected to the Mackinac, Grand Vista, New Tokyo and Denver
Tourists connected to Denver and Manhattan
Vacationers connected to Mackinac and New London
VIP’s connected to Grand Vista, Baden Baden, Hamburg and New London

Route spreadsheet

I've already contacted the Hogosha who have been kind enough to consent to the VIP's being moved though I would like to replace them with something favourable to the Hogosha, making the change a positive one for all concerned. Now it's time to hand the idea over to you, the community to provide feedback and ideas to improve the idea before a proper submission.

Keep it constructive please folks.

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