Feature request: "Claim all bounties across the bloody galaxy"-button

[LeetNoob]

As I have said elsewhere, I too would not necessarily be against it in principle, however i do hope it is a LARGE hit in your profits from it (and not just 5% as suggested by another poster, I am more thinking 50% at least). IMO the incentive should always be there to do the leg work yourself. I do not think encouraging you to claim your own bounties is bad at all...... the main bad thing right now for me is not being able to wipe them without blowing up your ship.

Also (and i really do not know this) can we now see on the map where we have bounties for? I am very careful now in making a note of all bounty notes that are not obvious so i know where to go and cash them in, due to not having a clue ages ago where to go and redeem them (this was a pita) however there are more icons now on the galmap so am wondering if this particular issue has been resolved now?.

And sticking with "lore" is NOT a bad thing at all again imo...... however you are right at the moment however in that the lore is not consistent.

we cant transmit data on exploration and bounties over their air as there is no instant communications however there is a KWS and also there will be CQC and both of these presumably use some form of instant / FTL comms.

I agree, 50% cut is fair. Maybe unsactioned outposts would buy them off you for a 50% cut, that way you can chose is the trip worth the money. Right now I have a 1K bounty for a system over 200 Ly's away. I'd be happy for an abandon button to be honest.

You can't see on the map where you have bounties, and it's not always obvious where the factions are even located. This is something else I would love to see added.

You're right on the lore, you should stick to it as much as possible, but sometimes game design and fun play is more important.

 

[Kitiara]

IF we get something like this, then there must be a distance component to what you retain from the bounty.

Take D as the distance between the system your ship is in and the nearest system where the bounty can be claimed in light years.

S is the scale factor applied to the bounty claim

If D > 150, S = 0.1
If D < 50, S = 0.4
If D is between 150 and 50

S = 0.003 * (150 - D)

The bounty claimed then is Bounty * S

This means that you get 40% of bounties claimable within 50 light years, and thereafter it declines down to 10% at 150 light years and beyond.

 

[brumster]

Can I please just have a "cancel this bounty claim" option so I can just tidy up all the petty little x,xxx CR outstanding bounties to collect?

It's fine that you have to travel to wherever to pick them up. But at least give me the choice of cleaning out the old chaff rather than having to crash my ship to wipe it.

 

[KaizoMK]

I do believe that you should have to cash alliance, federation, and empire vouchers normally. However, I have no idea where the hell Joe's kebab shack coalition is, and it'd be nice to be able to sell it to someone who does.

 

[Bluebird007]

It would be nice to have the option to abandon if I want to.
It could be nice to have a roaming 'bounty trader' somewhere, like Jacques 24 Hour Party station. Just find it and cash them all in for a fee.
I'm not massively bothered, though .... I can live with it as it is.

 

[Commander Dave]

The system is OK at the moment but with one important caveat.
How do I find the systems that owe me money?
I've searched in the map, I've wandered around, still can't find them.
Got about 5 million to claim from a very long list of minor factions and I have no idea how to find them.
A button to highlight it on the tab would be handy, or an icon on the system and station in the galaxy map telling me there's money to be claimed there.
At the moment it's dead money.

 

[LeetNoob]

The system is OK at the moment but with one important caveat.
How do I find the systems that owe me money?
I've searched in the map, I've wandered around, still can't find them.
Got about 5 million to claim from a very long list of minor factions and I have no idea how to find them.
A button to highlight it on the tab would be handy, or an icon on the system and station in the galaxy map telling me there's money to be claimed there.
At the moment it's dead money.

A lot of the factions have the system name in their name. If not then google or the forums are you best bet. This could do with improving.

 

[SJT]

I've got over a million in unclaimed bounties and see no problem with it.

Not a bug. Not an issue.

Instant Pan galactic communications are not possible in the Elite universe which makes bank transfers not possible.

Yet, strangely, in the Elite universe 30 years ago you got paid your bounty immediately upon destruction of your target in deep space. Please don't try to use "lore" as an excuse for poor gameplay.

 

[Krait_79]

Why doesnt the year 3301 have any bank transfers? Its pretty annoying to receive bounties for random pirates and need to pick up the money by yourself in some random system at the other end of the galaxy. Come on guys, how hard can it be to collect all that money at once in the stations contact option?

I got 36 pending bounties peak and reduced them to only 19 pending now. But it would be really a bit less pain in the ass if you give the players the option to claim all those bounties at once in any station. Like a bank transfer, that thing people somehow forgot about in the year 3301.

Totally agree. I suggested the idea of a bounty exchange a while ago. You can claim other systems bounties anywhere subject to a comission fee.

The current system is just silly and clogs up my screen!

 

[esbenrose]

Most frustrating thing. I agree with OP. Please fix this (Great game, great game!)

 

[Hardwood]

Agreed, as a casual player this extra grinding to find these precious credits is a PIA. Please fix.

 

[Dommarraa]

I even did self destruct a few days ago, 50% of the reason for doing so was to tidy up my bounties.
300,000cr to tidy up and travel 200ly, well worth every cent

 

[NoTones]

I knew someone would find a flaw in my logic. But having to fly around to collect your bounties is not a flaw or bad design. It was a choice and I don't find it a bad choice.

the bad design comes from not being able to find these minor factions to go and cash them in.
Not all factions have the system they come from in the title. I just destruct a sidewinder atm to clear them this should not be the only way of clearing them

From another thread

Hello Commander Voz!

I like this idea. A nice choice between putting in effort to maximize reward and paying a tithe for easier access. I can see some potential wrinkles we might want (not allowing Federally affiliated bounties being cashed in Empire-affiliated starports and the like).

Not something that we can right now unfortunately, but I'll certainly jot this down for when we get to add some more bounty hunter love.

Hello Commanders!

Even a seemingly straightforward change like having the ability to abandon bounties takes time and resources to implement, test and deploy, so I'm afraid there's really no quick fix. But I do think it's a good idea and will champion it.

Also, much though I'd love to read and reply to every suggestion and query, I simply don't have time, so, apologies if I miss things, even if they have cropped up lots of times or seem "obvious" - it's not intentional.

 

[W4rSkuLL]

Suggestion here. There can on occasions pop up bank hubs where you can cash in your "stranded bounty". These are emissaries from other powers which come to cash in 5-10% percent of your stranded bounties. Lets say you are in Federation space. You have 1 mill of bounty in Alliance space. There pops up a bank emissary close to you, this shows on the galaxy map, where they take 10% fee for you cashing in your "foreign space" bounties. Or there can be bank ships which let you cash in.

 

[CYB34]

Come back in 2 years, you'll have this feature.

 

[Commander Dave]

A lot of the factions have the system name in their name.

Some of them do yes. But many are just called The Blue Nobscoffers or something.

If not then google or the forums are you best bet. This could do with improving.

I'd much prefer it to be in-game.
It's not that I need the money but it's a basic feature that should probably be reviewed.

 

[Heavenly-Hammer]

I'd like to +1 this, but only because my bounty page has 15 bounties in it, all of which are too small and too spread out for me to be willing to go collect them. If I would dismiss them I could because they amount to clutter.

Let me collect them all in according to the allegiance of a given system (even for the minor factions) or give me the option to abandon my claim on a given listing.

 

[GJ51]

They just announced that the next update will have wandering T-9 bounty exchanges in USS's

This will be the final complement to Wedding and Funeral barges and be just as useful.

 

[Ghostickles]

Why doesn't the Pilots Ferartion handle this? What good are they anyway?
Explorers get all the stuff everywhere! I want it!

 

[CMDR Kantos Kan]

What about those small 400CR bounties you get when killing an "enemy"? Besides the puny 400CR, do you get anything if you redeem them? These are the ones that are clogging my transactions tab. I've got those from traveling from one system to the other. Usually, I will head to the nearest station to cash them but sometimes, the system I'm in doesn't have any station with large pads.