Newcomer / Intro Lost Bounty

Terran · Mar 10, 2015

Hi all.

I found an Elite Anaconda being attacked by NPCs and I managed to get the kill. I was awarded a total of ~300k bounty. I immediately cashed in the 140k Fed bounty because I'm in Fed space and Fed aligned. There was also a 130k Alliance bounty that I did not initially collect as I was busy having fun killing NPCs. This bounty was visible in the contracts panel for a day or 2. Today I was playing and it suddenly disappeared.

Do these bounties have a time limit to turn them in? Or are bounties just totally bugged at the moment? Gutting to lose that 130k bounty

There was also some Empire bounty for the same NPC (bad dude!) and that is still there - unless the old one disappeared and I got more from another NPC.

andyraptor · Mar 10, 2015

Same problem yesterday .... logged out .... logged in ..... fixed

UI display problem

EDIT

No time limit on collection

Tornado · Mar 10, 2015

I'd you loose you ship just before the bounty disappeared?
That would wipe your bounty.
If not I would raise a ticket.

Terran · Mar 10, 2015

Ah. You know, I did lose a ship recently. I didn't realise all bounties are wiped if you lose your ship! I will make sure I collect them sooner in future

Many thanks for the replies.

samthesplatt · Mar 30, 2015

i didn't think bounties were lost if your was destroyed. I'm sure it didn't happen before 1.2 update

Sapient6 · Mar 30, 2015

samthesplatt said:
i didn't think bounties were lost if your was destroyed. I'm sure it didn't happen before 1.2 update

I'm 100% certain it has worked that way since 1.0.

Universal Evil · Mar 30, 2015

You always lose all bounties not collected if you lose your ship and it has been so since gamma version and proberly also in the beta days and I think it should remain that way...
You also don't have a time limit to collect the bounty unless you count those ship losses....

willowfan · Mar 31, 2015

You lose all bounty vouchers and also any unsold system discovery data if your ship is destroyed.

HornetX · Apr 5, 2015

Trolls are now stealing my bounties, I get the enemy ship down low on health, then another player just comes in and finishes him off taking the reward, what is this ! To make things better, now they fly in between you and your target so you accidentally hit them, putting a bounty on you, then they go after you. Then I die, lose all my bounties, but my fines still stay?! is this? This game is still beta, I don't care what Devs or players say, way too many bugs for it not to be beta.

Sapient6 · Apr 6, 2015

HornetX said:
Trolls are now stealing my bounties, I get the enemy ship down low on health, then another player just comes in and finishes him off taking the reward, what is this ! To make things better, now they fly in between you and your target so you accidentally hit them, putting a bounty on you, then they go after you. Then I die, lose all my bounties, but my fines still stay?! is this? This game is still beta, I don't care what Devs or players say, way too many bugs for it not to be beta.

NPC's will also fly between you and your target, resulting in a bounty on you and every NPC in the area going after you. This is not a bug. You need to develop trigger discipline or get better at running away.

Players taking your kills is going to happen in Open. If you are unhappy with that then hunt somewhere where there are fewer players or leave Open.

Not arguing with you about the game being beta (not agreeing, either), but the problems you are currently having are within your ability to improve.