Busted. Assumed they won't do that outright. Thanks for pointing this out.
Patch Notes Update Server side update at 11am - 21/04/15
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An excellent and much needed fix.
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Ummm... no. I don't exploit or even commit in game crime but I do occasionally have a stray laser blast accidentally hit an unwanted NPC. I don't want to immediately get blown out of the sky because of an incredibly minor infraction.
Anybody who is not a bounty hunter, and gets jumped by someone with a bounty, will be happy to collect it, if they prevail.
Hence, the waves of NPC's coming up, Weps.
Frontier has already implemented half of what I requested/predicted. A cap on bounties. Next, NPC Justice in both open and solo. No place to hide, as SJA keeps throwing NPC wings at you until you are down to a clean save.
Quote from the old BSG:
Apollo: The days they can beat us when they don't have a 10:1 advantage...
Zak: Apollo (gulp), better take a look at you scanner...
Apollo: But a thousand to one, *that's not fair*!
Courting the lightning bolt of a clean save?
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Neither is a clean save after accumulating X MCr in bounties. Character becomes a hunted NPC.
Which is where the NPC's follow the paint pack beacon to. And/or a clean save after accumulating X MCr bounties.
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No, Frontier isn't paying attention at all...
64 new NPC's, and clean saves for those 64 players coming right up!
Additional: You gotta pay off the fines, now.
But not the insanely ridiculous bounties of before.
I weep for the poor bounty hunters. Go try mining. One of the three guys mining quit last month, so there is a job opening...
This sort of bandage fix won't hold up. It's good to see that FD is taking actions against potential exploits, I hope the amount of damage done to legitimate players' pride of hard-earned infamy is worth it.
I have the exact same query, I wouldnt like it if i spent a few hours in game hunting for bounties only to find that my hunting was pointless after 1 million credits, meaning that i have to travel all the way back to where they can be turned in just to continue...
It's a cap for how big bounty someone can amass within legal region of specific faction. Nothing to do with bounty hunting, everything to do with being naughty
It's a cap for how big bounty someone can amass within legal region of specific faction. Nothing to do with bounty hunting, everything to do with being naughty
Sorted, No problems with that then!
rootsrat
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All the existing >1mil Cr bounties have been reduced to 1 mil. 64 players in total were affected by this. Source: Michael B. (somewhere in this very thread).
When you die, your escape capsule rescue / new clone should end up at the nearest station. That way criminals would be in danger of having to pay their bounty when tooling about in a jurisdiction where they are wanted. It makes no sense that you teleport back to the last place were you were docked. It just gives an easy escape from having to pay up.
Additionally while bounty payments are capped to 1 mil / faction, the fines that the player has to pay shouldn't be. That way criminal behavior always has a price.
Additionally while bounty payments are capped to 1 mil / faction, the fines that the player has to pay shouldn't be. That way criminal behavior always has a price.
Hi All,
On paper this seems like a good quicker fix - and band aid as someone put it earlier. Well done to FDev for doing something quickly serve side. Time will tell if it addresses the exploit or not. I think it will at lest make it harder - possibly to the point where it is not worth it. I think a player will actually have to grind it out to get a 1MCr bounty now lol.
People buying credits for real money did not actually bother me that much, I think they should be available in the shop. It seem to annoy enough people, so FDev fixed it, I am sure it annoyed less people this way than serparating solo/open would do (myself included - need to dock at those outposrs lol).
300,000+ players and 300,000 people trying to pull the game in different directions. FDev just need to carry on what they are doing and ignore me and everyone else.
However, about the being stuck. I am getting suspicious that mission system is effected by lower bounties - not as many (actually any at all yesterday) civil unrest raising missions in war critical pending state. I get the feeling I am going to have to go shoot poiceman, traders and bounty hunters to trigger this war rather than missions, a bounty limit is quite useful lol.
Simon
On paper this seems like a good quicker fix - and band aid as someone put it earlier. Well done to FDev for doing something quickly serve side. Time will tell if it addresses the exploit or not. I think it will at lest make it harder - possibly to the point where it is not worth it. I think a player will actually have to grind it out to get a 1MCr bounty now lol.
People buying credits for real money did not actually bother me that much, I think they should be available in the shop. It seem to annoy enough people, so FDev fixed it, I am sure it annoyed less people this way than serparating solo/open would do (myself included - need to dock at those outposrs lol).
300,000+ players and 300,000 people trying to pull the game in different directions. FDev just need to carry on what they are doing and ignore me and everyone else.
However, about the being stuck. I am getting suspicious that mission system is effected by lower bounties - not as many (actually any at all yesterday) civil unrest raising missions in war critical pending state. I get the feeling I am going to have to go shoot poiceman, traders and bounty hunters to trigger this war rather than missions, a bounty limit is quite useful lol.
Simon
How come we're still seeing bounties of multiple millions on the most wanted boards?
rootsrat
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Because wanted boards aren't dynamically regenerated most likely? I suspect they generated once and then that information stays.
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Wasn't it said that larger than 1M existing bounties will keep showing as before, but when cashed in they are only 1M in practise?
rootsrat
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I can't recall anything like that.
It would be great if they would implement this. I don't remember FDEV confirming it though. So many players have already suggested / requested such a mechanic... Besides, it's fun for everyone. I remember the fun times I had in old GTA games trying to survive when they sent the tanks... good times. Modern FPS games have Horde modes, this would be pretty much the same for a wing of players with too much cash on their hands who just want to have their mettle tested.
Exactly this. Every. word. of. it. Respawn at the nearest station (not being magically teleported across the galaxy) and a criminal non expiring fine as a separate player statistic independent of bounty (you break it - you pay it).
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