The cost of these bounties is ridiculous for reasons totally unrelated to the 100k credit fine. It's not the amount, it's the fact that you get one at all and how tedious it is to get rid of it.
I have been doing A LOT of AX Reactivation lately. Even help testing out for a bug report about Banshees around human settlements. Due to that there's some risk and I've bit the dust a couple of times. Failing is rough because the loss on the payout and the material rewards (which like, some of these are insanely hard to find outside of AX Reactivation), but the 100k fine drives me absolutely rabid. There's literally no real reason for this, and additionally these have got to be bugged. When I bit it at one base, I failed the Reactivation at the base I was at, of course... and also one I had already completed (but not turned in) that took place in a totally different system I wasn't in any longer. Do you know how maddening that is?
Also, if you die to Thargoids in the system even in your ship - and forget Glaives, Basilisks seem to get a huge arousal from instantly gimping your FSD so you're basically dead minutes before they can even kill you - you fail the mission. But if you are killed by Thargoids before entering the system due to hyperdiction? Oooohhhhh, then you're fiiiiiiine. And hey, maybe it's because I hit self-destruction that time because I didn't feel like waiting another 40 seconds while the Basilisk took its sweet time. But still, what the hell? Like, don't get me wrong, I'm glad that doesn't happen, but in the face of the previous information, how the hell does that make sense? So, if I complete a mission, then leave that system, and die in any way, I fail everything I happen to have active at the time. But if I self-destruct to avoid dying, I guess I'm fine and I can do it anyway?? What's the deal?
And lastly, the point of this topic. Holy heck, is getting the fine annoying and infuriating. 100k is a lot to slap someone for with how easy it is to fail it (I mean, hey, see above! Too easy!) but I can't even pay it off where I got the freakin' fine! So then I have to go find a place where I guess the faction is in control enough, or move over to Inara or something to find an Interstellar Factor (and hope the info is up to date and correct) to pay extra to get rid of it!
It's not the 100k bounty. It's not how easy it is to get killed. It's not the difficulty, or the Glaives, or even really the Basilisks themselves (even though that near-instant FSD destruction is really excessive). It's the fact that any of cause of death state will not only immediately undo any work in any system you've completed without you losing any required item at all (which makes it cool since the item is useless for upgrades and I have to clear out my inventory too!) but then you have to surf around trying to pay the dang thing off! Just change something. Do away with failing all completed missions, make it easier to pay off the dang fine from where you got your mission, or remove the fine entirely! Any one of those, or all three! I already have to backtrack and spend extra time due to my failure anyway, why make this so incredibly painful?
I have been doing A LOT of AX Reactivation lately. Even help testing out for a bug report about Banshees around human settlements. Due to that there's some risk and I've bit the dust a couple of times. Failing is rough because the loss on the payout and the material rewards (which like, some of these are insanely hard to find outside of AX Reactivation), but the 100k fine drives me absolutely rabid. There's literally no real reason for this, and additionally these have got to be bugged. When I bit it at one base, I failed the Reactivation at the base I was at, of course... and also one I had already completed (but not turned in) that took place in a totally different system I wasn't in any longer. Do you know how maddening that is?
Also, if you die to Thargoids in the system even in your ship - and forget Glaives, Basilisks seem to get a huge arousal from instantly gimping your FSD so you're basically dead minutes before they can even kill you - you fail the mission. But if you are killed by Thargoids before entering the system due to hyperdiction? Oooohhhhh, then you're fiiiiiiine. And hey, maybe it's because I hit self-destruction that time because I didn't feel like waiting another 40 seconds while the Basilisk took its sweet time. But still, what the hell? Like, don't get me wrong, I'm glad that doesn't happen, but in the face of the previous information, how the hell does that make sense? So, if I complete a mission, then leave that system, and die in any way, I fail everything I happen to have active at the time. But if I self-destruct to avoid dying, I guess I'm fine and I can do it anyway?? What's the deal?
And lastly, the point of this topic. Holy heck, is getting the fine annoying and infuriating. 100k is a lot to slap someone for with how easy it is to fail it (I mean, hey, see above! Too easy!) but I can't even pay it off where I got the freakin' fine! So then I have to go find a place where I guess the faction is in control enough, or move over to Inara or something to find an Interstellar Factor (and hope the info is up to date and correct) to pay extra to get rid of it!
It's not the 100k bounty. It's not how easy it is to get killed. It's not the difficulty, or the Glaives, or even really the Basilisks themselves (even though that near-instant FSD destruction is really excessive). It's the fact that any of cause of death state will not only immediately undo any work in any system you've completed without you losing any required item at all (which makes it cool since the item is useless for upgrades and I have to clear out my inventory too!) but then you have to surf around trying to pay the dang thing off! Just change something. Do away with failing all completed missions, make it easier to pay off the dang fine from where you got your mission, or remove the fine entirely! Any one of those, or all three! I already have to backtrack and spend extra time due to my failure anyway, why make this so incredibly painful?
