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Why can't bounty rewards be transferred into our accounts?
- Thread starter TheSisko
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Because hax.
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Back before 2800 the credits for a bounty claim would be instantly transferable on proof of death. However the system was not secure and was easily exploited by hackers. Starting with the Secure Bounty Redemption Act of 2813, all independent commanders are now required to check in with a duly licensed bounty contact at a local station with proper identification and verification of termination for each claim before any bounties can be paid out. So blame the computer nerds.
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Actually I just made all that up
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Back before 2800 the credits for a bounty claim would be instantly transferable on proof of death. However the system was not secure and was easily exploited by hackers. Starting with the Secure Bounty Redemption Act of 2813, all independent commanders are now required to check in with a duly licensed bounty contact at a local station with proper identification and verification of termination for each claim before any bounties can be paid out. So blame the computer nerds.
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Actually I just made all that up
Since we don't know how the real actual Year 3302 will look its very much possible that we will not have the ability to transfer money into bankaccounts anymore. Banks can be gone, money, Humans and all that.
So using the actual real future as an argument may be not a good Idea, we don't know how it will look like and its very much possible that it will look like the total opposite of what you think the future should look like.
So using the actual real future as an argument may be not a good Idea, we don't know how it will look like and its very much possible that it will look like the total opposite of what you think the future should look like.
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Thanks, It took me a while to locate search option for minor factions but you have helped me a lot. Have some rep, commander
I'd at least like the ability to delete claims from the list. It's highly likely that I'm not going to cash in that random 400cr bounty I collected traveling through boing system where the only station is an outpost 100000ls from the sun.
But, unless I blow the ship or collect, it stays there forever, like a lingering reminder of a need to cash in all the teeny tiny bounties.
But, unless I blow the ship or collect, it stays there forever, like a lingering reminder of a need to cash in all the teeny tiny bounties.
Then explain how the KWS scanner only takes 10 seconds to know someone's wanted by a faction 200 LY away...
Maybe the banks should use the same computer vendor that the scanner company uses.
It wouldn't make sense to transfer the bounty immediately - you (the system offering the bounty) want to keep open the possibility that the killer doesn't know about the bounty or gets killed before they collect it or for some other reason never completes your process to collect. Then you get your enemy destroyed AND you get to keep the bounty money. Double victory!
It's the same way that the Comcast help-line doesn't make it easy for you to quit their services. It is not in their financial interest to expedite the process of losing money. So they do the opposite and drag it out as long as they can, in the hopes that inertia will win, and a lot of the time it does! Profit$$$!
We (the pilots) are just lucky there isn't also a 3-hour queue at the "Contacts" desk to get through to the lone payment clerk working that day (but is currently on their lunch break) and who requires we have five forms of ID needed including a local-system residence!
It's the same way that the Comcast help-line doesn't make it easy for you to quit their services. It is not in their financial interest to expedite the process of losing money. So they do the opposite and drag it out as long as they can, in the hopes that inertia will win, and a lot of the time it does! Profit$$$!
We (the pilots) are just lucky there isn't also a 3-hour queue at the "Contacts" desk to get through to the lone payment clerk working that day (but is currently on their lunch break) and who requires we have five forms of ID needed including a local-system residence!
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For the same reason you can't tell on a map whether a system has already been explored, or why you have to practically land on a moon to scan it, or have to physically fly to a station to see if they have animal meat. Either laziness, or more likely, a concerted effort to make everything as time consuming as possible.
Thing is, I made this an activity to do in game when I'm out for some fun, no strings attached.
I go to Shinrarta Dezra, where I have my hub with all my ships, dust the Imperial eagle off and I fast-trip anywhere I want.
I could use any of the other ships I own but that damned thing I built it for speed and so far outrace ANYTHING man-made.
It has just the basics, no guns or utilities, no useless weight. Just a fuel scoop and few selected necessities.
With Inara.cz I can easily (and I can stress this enough- it's really easy!) fish out the faction name's star system and off I go in the black wild yonder.
I don't expect anyone to believe me or find it as fun as I do, but... boy I like it.
But it's just me.
I go to Shinrarta Dezra, where I have my hub with all my ships, dust the Imperial eagle off and I fast-trip anywhere I want.
I could use any of the other ships I own but that damned thing I built it for speed and so far outrace ANYTHING man-made.
It has just the basics, no guns or utilities, no useless weight. Just a fuel scoop and few selected necessities.
With Inara.cz I can easily (and I can stress this enough- it's really easy!) fish out the faction name's star system and off I go in the black wild yonder.
I don't expect anyone to believe me or find it as fun as I do, but... boy I like it.
But it's just me.
Why? Because;
- The devs probably don't want bounty hunters sitting in single RES sites never going anywhere else as they want them to be travelling around a bit to populate the galaxy & get involved in random encounters/scenarios
- If all the bounty hunters are camping in RES sites and not travelling around, there is even less risk to criminals than there currently is
- There would be no risk of losing what you have earned, so players wouldn't have to make the decision to 'cash-out' of a RES - Risk makes a game better, not worse!
- You would think if someone was going to pay you millions of credits they would want you to actually go to them with proof, rather than just rely on a signal from some RES site which could be fake
- Bounty hunting is already way too easy (in RES's it's glorified duck-hunt), making it any easier would damage the game and everyone would moan how boring/gamey it is
A while ago I was crossing the bubble from one CG to another in a Clipper. In a random system (nothing there except an outpost and a barnloft where kids can practice playing banjos) I get interdicted by a small ship. half a minute later the ship is gone and I can collect the 6000 credits the local government owes me. Now, my clipper can't dock at the outpost so I have to go to a neighbouring system, buy a small ship, go back here and dock to collect. That's not going to happen, buying and selling a ship leaves me with a 10%loss so the measley 6000 will be reduced to 2800cr net value if I buy a sidewinder.
Now this has been going on for a while and my transactions list keeps growing, lately I've noticed that some entries gets scrambeled and my guess would be that sooner or later the list will grow until something gets broken.
I really don't care about the clutter and can't be bothered to self-destruct for it, but really hope we get an agency that can forward these bounties (for a fee if need be) before the transaction list grows to a point where it is rendered useless.
Cheers
DZ
Now this has been going on for a while and my transactions list keeps growing, lately I've noticed that some entries gets scrambeled and my guess would be that sooner or later the list will grow until something gets broken.
I really don't care about the clutter and can't be bothered to self-destruct for it, but really hope we get an agency that can forward these bounties (for a fee if need be) before the transaction list grows to a point where it is rendered useless.
Cheers
DZ
The ability to cash-in bounties in space / at a nav beacon or at any station would be a step forward for PvP bounty hunting.
I unfortunately don't hold my breathe on this one anymore...
I unfortunately don't hold my breathe on this one anymore...
I understand that everybody must "arrive alive" to benefit from their activity (traders to sell their cargo, explorers to sell their exploration data. bounty hunters to claim their bounties), fair enough. But only BHers need to to go to a specific system to cash in. A fair compromise would be to allow cashing in bounties remotely through the Pilot's Federation, deducting a commission, but only while docked at any space port.
The purpose is that to claim the bounty, you have to personally visit the bounty holder. KWS identifies foreign bounties; not local - don't like it? Don't use a KWS.
It's based presumably on the american kind of bounty system where bounty hunters actually have to turn over their captured individual to claim the fee; in other words physical proof. The KWS data is the proof. That you have to haul your backside out to collect it, is pretty much just the cost of doing business.
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Some missions do need you to 'return alive' to claim the final amount, and that is to a specific system; LR smuggling is basically the same thing. Same with exploration; you still have to 'arrive alive' in order to hand the data in; and if you want to improve your faction rep at a particular system - then you have to visit that system. So BH isn't really alone in this.
If you think jumping maybe 250ly or so to go claim some cash is awful, how about 25,000ly (or more) to do the same? Pretty sure it's not that bad in comparison, really.
It's based presumably on the american kind of bounty system where bounty hunters actually have to turn over their captured individual to claim the fee; in other words physical proof. The KWS data is the proof. That you have to haul your backside out to collect it, is pretty much just the cost of doing business.
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Some missions do need you to 'return alive' to claim the final amount, and that is to a specific system; LR smuggling is basically the same thing. Same with exploration; you still have to 'arrive alive' in order to hand the data in; and if you want to improve your faction rep at a particular system - then you have to visit that system. So BH isn't really alone in this.
If you think jumping maybe 250ly or so to go claim some cash is awful, how about 25,000ly (or more) to do the same? Pretty sure it's not that bad in comparison, really.
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