Hurting shieldless friendly results in wanted and bounty, shielded friendlies just warn you via chat..

[CMDR Arazriel]

Hurting shieldless friendly results in wanted and bounty, shielded friendlies just warn you via chat..

Hi,

As a bounty hunter I often get into situations where no matter how cautious I am some type of friendly NPC flies through my line of fire and I become wanted.

I understand and do agree with the concept, but I think a little tweaking should be done.

I think bounties on players should stay, but with a little more sense.

Attacking a ship with one shot especially in a heated combat where pretty much everyone has shields of some sort - kind of logically - proposes that when you shoot someone with shields still ON they just warn you to stop doing so, and after maybe 3-4 more attempts they declare you as enemy and then you get "wanted".
If the same ship has "NO shields on" the "wanted" status comes immediately, because you breach the hull of the ship, and that logically means hostile intent.

I am not saying that it is not easy to get rid of accidental misfire, but sometimes it is just really senseless to get a 200 Cr bounty for accidentally giving a pulse into an innocent ship's shield.

At another point I'd say 200 Cr is too low and also too easy to get.

I think a bigger bounty like 5000 Cr should be the minimum, and you should be able to pay bounties as fines under 10.000 Cr at the faction's stations or moon bases.

What do you think about these changes?

 

[Lestat]

Well Use sound and Radar. They are your friend. Spray and pray dose not pay. I can hear a ship come from the side of me. The first thing I do is Look to see Who flying and how close they are to me.

I been playing Elite Dangerous from Day one in Alpha. Never had a problem stop shooting when a npc ship is flying in front of me.

 

[CMDR Arazriel]

To be honest I don't have problem with this.

I hear so much nagging about it I thought of a -maybe- better balancing.

I have more problem with the bounty being a laughing stock, [200 Cr] come on... At least 5000Cr or even more. Shooting down a pirate in a sidewinder gives you much more..
That way players would be even more cautious.

I personally had 3 accident in 4 moths, so not really annoyed.

 

[Psycho Romeo]

There is already friendly fire forgiveness, typically unless you really lay into someone a stray tenth of a second of beam or cannon round won't get anyone mad.

Though the pilot needs to be careful. It's not terribly hard, but it is something you have to learn to pay attention to. Like others said, use the scanners/audible cues.

 

[coca_fr]

I think a bigger bounty like 5000 Cr should be the minimum, and you should be able to pay bounties as fines under 10.000 Cr at the faction's stations or moon bases.

hhhhiiiiiiinnnnn the bloody criminal !!
He wants to kill people and only have to pay for their funeral ! That's very generous of you sir !

Noooooo, now you'll be tracked down and killed !

Tell me where you are exactly now ?

 

[CMDR Arazriel]

NPC's not players. Chill, mate.

And not kill, just accidental misfire.