Does bounty hunting still give negative rep?

[bensis]

As title says... Does bounty hunting still give negative rep?

 

[PocketWettie]

As far as I am aware yes - kill a wanted from a given faction, rep with that faction drops. Sad but true.

This is good discussion around why this is working as intended though, and it makes sense unfortunately!

 

[Murmur]

Personally I am not getting any reputation change of any kind from bounty hunting.

 

[bensis]

I tried and didn't get any negative rep.

And I don't think it made sense getting negative rep as the factions shouldn't wanna be associated with criminals so they should want you to take the wanted guy out if he is one of their own. Unless it is a criminal faction that is.

 

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[Trafalgar Law]

I'm really not sure. I think I lost rep while hunting in federation space, but since I moved to Imperial space (on Monday) I haven't noticed any rep drop and I've been doing loads of kill pirates type missions during which I usually kill more than just the target ships (anyone with a decent bounty basicly). My rep has been increasing and now I'm friendly with several minor factions. I've not seen any red arrows caused by hunting not even on the pirate factions. The only rep changes have come from the missions.

 

[CmdrZaratan]

On a slightly unrelated note last night I figured out a mission to kill pirates only acknowledges kills of members of the pirate faction for the system. Most of the wanted guys I killed were members of other major factions.

 

[Fastdruid]

No.

I've only been bounty hunting since release and my standing has improved with the factions who have paid the bounty.

 

[srinidhalaya]

I never got the hit to my rep for bounty hunting, but ships of those factions definitely marked hostile afterwards, but wouldn't attack. Then again, I constantly moved when bounty hunting, from 1 anarchy to the next, usually because I was going to empire, then alliance, then federation to turn in bounties, and the closest anarchy is where I stopped to pick back up. Didn't last long tho, I'm now back to trading high supply commodities to low demand systems for 1cr/ton profit....sigh...

 

[Deleted member 38366]

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[Loren Lovanchi]

I was hunting last night for an hour or so at a nav beacon in an Anarchy system. No negative rep ticks, no red arrows, crimes are not logged in anarchy systems it seems, but when I flew to an empire system to cash in 400.000 cr. in bounty vouchers, my rep with the major empire faction changed to friendly.

I think I will just use Anarchy systems and not systems with security anymore to do my bounty hunting: no negative rep ticks, good bounties, and positive rep when you cash in!