How do i get rid of a Bounty?

Titan1978

Titan1978
I accidently nicked a Clean NPC during a CG. That cretin died and I Got a murder WANTED bounty of 20k - its too far for any small timeout. I tried a H-Jump and return made no difference. Went into a neighboring system, got a sidey - came back to the wanted system and got killed by System vessel. Respawned and brought back my ship - i noticed im no longer WANTED but I do have a 6D countdown for the bounty. Each time I approach the station to submit my bounties for the CG goal - the NPC system authority vessels ID me as WANTED and I get my WANTED tag back and I have to run. Got millions of bounties I want to submit.

So how the heck am I supposed to take part in the CG event, which ends in 3 Days If I can't get rid of my WANTED status for 6 Days ?
(ALL this because an idiot NPC came in my line of fire - It's not because I was TRYING to kill him.)
 
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Titan1978

Titan1978
i i get into the station after the Feds ID me - will the station open fire if I get into the starport before I land?
 

Baelydon

Baelydon
This question pops up all too often & google is flooded with answers, but here's the TL;DR run down:

Get into the cheapest ship, dock at a station like... 1 system away from the one you are wanted in (so you will be nearby when this is done), then.. GO to any station owned by the faction that is listed on the Bounty...
yup... you guessed it... hang out outside their station until you die.

Some say it doesn't work, I say it does. As long as you have your deathly fun AT the station owned by the faction listed on the bounty... it should be removed. I've done this just twice in this last week for stupid mistakes I had made, well... one mistake and one grudge match vs an NPC that scratched my paint on a new ship... we both died that day but IT WAS GLORIUS! :D

If you die at any point NOT at the aforementioned station, your bounty will be changed into a "Dormant" bounty. When this happens, you will no longer see "wanted" on the lower right of your display.. HOWEVER... if you go into that system and are scanned, the bounty will change back to a live/active bounty and you will be "wanted" again.

I personally buy an Eagle with max thrusters and distributor, go to the specific station, and see how long I can live after I start getting shot at by simply racing around the station, I try to race in to the station without permission and try to turn around and get back out.... **Just don't do that around other players, people tend to frown on speeding :) **

Anywho, it'll work, like I said, just find a station owned by the listed faction and you'll be good. If not, well... I've never had it fail for me... that's all I can say.

Have fun!
 

Titan1978

Titan1978
there should be an "I SURRENDER" option instead of going through all this - all for hitting an NPC I didn;t intend :(
 

Titan1978

Titan1978
Baelydon said:
This question pops up all too often & google is flooded with answers, but here's the TL;DR run down:

Get into the cheapest ship, dock at a station like... 1 system away from the one you are wanted in (so you will be nearby when this is done), then.. GO to any station owned by the faction that is listed on the Bounty...
yup... you guessed it... hang out outside their station until you die.

Some say it doesn't work, I say it does. As long as you have your deathly fun AT the station owned by the faction listed on the bounty... it should be removed. I've done this just twice in this last week for stupid mistakes I had made, well... one mistake and one grudge match vs an NPC that scratched my paint on a new ship... we both died that day but IT WAS GLORIUS! :D

If you die at any point NOT at the aforementioned station, your bounty will be changed into a "Dormant" bounty. When this happens, you will no longer see "wanted" on the lower right of your display.. HOWEVER... if you go into that system and are scanned, the bounty will change back to a live/active bounty and you will be "wanted" again.

I personally buy an Eagle with max thrusters and distributor, go to the specific station, and see how long I can live after I start getting shot at by simply racing around the station, I try to race in to the station without permission and try to turn around and get back out.... **Just don't do that around other players, people tend to frown on speeding :) **

Anywho, it'll work, like I said, just find a station owned by the listed faction and you'll be good. If not, well... I've never had it fail for me... that's all I can say.

Have fun!
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So I went to a station which was owned by the faction that dumped the Bounty on me - but after dying - all it did was turn the bounty "Dormant"!
There are only THREE stations in the system and all of them are the same faction - going to anyone and getting killed is not WIPING my bounty. Just making it dormant. That doesn't really help me since I always get scanned before entering the station and it turns into an ACTIVE bounty again!!
You said it worked for you?

Is this a bug that the same trick doesn't work for me?
 

Guest104505

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Did you just "die" or get shot by a system authority ship / the station? The latter claim the bounty and convert it into a legacy fine that you'd have to pay when rebuying at the station. This is probably why Baelydon suggested to start from another system before doing this.

For the same reason, always pay your fines at the freewinder station! If you have legacy fines in that system and need to rebuy a "free" sidewinder, you might else not have enough money to pay the fines and have to declare bankruptcy, losing everything you have except your rank.

Here's an extreme example, having to pay >100M on rebuy. I guess the Rebuy-Screenius Maximus group would make me their god. ;)

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dutchy2000

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Titan1978 said:
i i get into the station after the Feds ID me - will the station open fire if I get into the starport before I land?
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Honestly don't know never been scanned while wanted while trying to dock, I am assuming yes. How are you getting scanned, it usually only takes me like 10-15 seconds to dock from dropping out of SC.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Titan1978 said:
So I went to a station which was owned by the faction that dumped the Bounty on me - but after dying - all it did was turn the bounty "Dormant"!
There are only THREE stations in the system and all of them are the same faction - going to anyone and getting killed is not WIPING my bounty. Just making it dormant. That doesn't really help me since I always get scanned before entering the station and it turns into an ACTIVE bounty again!!
You said it worked for you?

Is this a bug that the same trick doesn't work for me?
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No, it's not a bug.

The only way to clear a bounty on destruction is to have that bounty collected, so you need to be scanned and then destroyed. To be honest, I'm not sure that system security collect bounties, but it's probably worth a try to see if they do and it clears it (if you haven't tried this already). Make sure you are scanned, that the bounty becomes live again, you are wanted again, and then let the system authority destroy you.

With the dormant bounty, since you are not wanted (until you are scanned again by system authority), you could also try to get into and out of the station without being scanned, speeding will generally achieve this. Just be careful not to hit another ship on the way in or out while speeding.
 

Titan1978

Titan1978
Faded Glory said:
No, it's not a bug.

The only way to clear a bounty on destruction is to have that bounty collected, so you need to be scanned and then destroyed. To be honest, I'm not sure that system security collect bounties, but it's probably worth a try to see if they do and it clears it (if you haven't tried this already). Make sure you are scanned, that the bounty becomes live again, you are wanted again, and then let the system authority destroy you.

With the dormant bounty, since you are not wanted (until you are scanned again by system authority), you could also try to get into and out of the station without being scanned, speeding will generally achieve this. Just be careful not to hit another ship on the way in or out while speeding.
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This. I did this @ three separate stations owned by the same faction. I allowed the system security to kill me. That's 3/3 times that I got killed and WANTED is not getting wiped.
Now I don't know if a Fed in Supercruise 'dicting me and killing me is different. Honestly, for inadvertently killing an NPC - that would seem a whole lot of effort to hang around in space waiting for non-pirate, non-allied-powerplay-hunters not to kill me while I wait in SC for a Fed to find me.
 

Faded Glory

Faded Glory
Titan1978 said:
This. I did this @ three separate stations owned by the same faction. I allowed the system security to kill me. That's 3/3 times that I got killed and WANTED is not getting wiped.
Now I don't know if a Fed in Supercruise 'dicting me and killing me is different. Honestly, for inadvertently killing an NPC - that would seem a whole lot of effort to hang around in space waiting for non-pirate, non-allied-powerplay-hunters not to kill me while I wait in SC for a Fed to find me.
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As I said, I wasn't convinced that system authority ships collect bounties, and it would seem that since they scanned you then destroyed you for your wanted status then they don't collect them. It's unlikely then that any NPC other than a bounty hunter would work. If you play in open, you could ask another CMDR to destroy you, just make sure they get all your bounties. Are they all from the same faction?

You should be able to live with the dormant bounty, as you aren't wanted unless a scan wakes it up or you commit another offense. It's just a matter of avoiding getting scanned at stations. If there are any outposts in the system you are in, you rarely get scanned at them. Also, check in the system map and see whether there are any stations where you aren't wanted, as the bounty is only faction wide, not system wide, and in the past I have found myself to be wanted at two out of three stations and clean at the third, and if you have Horizons, check out planetary outposts, as you also won't be scanned going to them.

The dormant bounty will time out after however long the timer is and will become a legacy fine.
 

Alderius

Alderius
Titan1978 said:
I accidently nicked a Clean NPC during a CG. That cretin died and I Got a murder WANTED bounty of 20k - its too far for any small timeout. I tried a H-Jump and return made no difference. Went into a neighboring system, got a sidey - came back to the wanted system and got killed by System vessel. Respawned and brought back my ship - i noticed im no longer WANTED but I do have a 6D countdown for the bounty. Each time I approach the station to submit my bounties for the CG goal - the NPC system authority vessels ID me as WANTED and I get my WANTED tag back and I have to run. Got millions of bounties I want to submit.

So how the heck am I supposed to take part in the CG event, which ends in 3 Days If I can't get rid of my WANTED status for 6 Days ?
(ALL this because an idiot NPC came in my line of fire - It's not because I was TRYING to kill him.)
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Exact same thing happened to me a few days ago, tried all the same things you did with same results. Solution: get killed by a CMDR (I arranged a hit in the same system I was wanted in, in this case Phiagre). I couldn't instance with my hit man, so ended up asking a CMDR in Open, he killed me in my suicidey and the wanted status went away (not just dormant).

Good Luck!

Edit: You can try sneaking into the station (aka smuggle yourself in) if your bounty is dormant to get the BH bounties before suicidey. I didn't have enough to worry about that myself. If you're in "wanted" status the station will deny you landing and shoot at you, if you're wanted status is "dormant" you can get landing clearance and smuggle yourself in and won't get shot at if you're not scanned first. Then get a CMDR to whack you.
Just reading this, it won't work because in order for the wanted status to become dormant you have to die, which defeats the purpose. Basically I think you're messed, you won't be able to hand in the bounties because you won't be given landing permission while wanted. Best case is to get whacked and get back to the CG.......
 
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Huggy

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Titan1978 said:
I accidently nicked a Clean NPC during a CG. That cretin died and I Got a murder WANTED bounty of 20k - its too far for any small timeout. I tried a H-Jump and return made no difference. Went into a neighboring system, got a sidey - came back to the wanted system and got killed by System vessel. Respawned and brought back my ship - i noticed im no longer WANTED but I do have a 6D countdown for the bounty. Each time I approach the station to submit my bounties for the CG goal - the NPC system authority vessels ID me as WANTED and I get my WANTED tag back and I have to run. Got millions of bounties I want to submit.

So how the heck am I supposed to take part in the CG event, which ends in 3 Days If I can't get rid of my WANTED status for 6 Days ?
(ALL this because an idiot NPC came in my line of fire - It's not because I was TRYING to kill him.)
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You could use SILENT RUNNING (check out some videos), that is a game mechanic, to get into the station, and is a lot more fun than blowing yourself up!!!!!
 

TheDayman

TheDayman
I can confirm that if you have an active bounty and let another CMDR kill you, it will clear your bounty but you have to pay for the fine on the rebuy screen as well. I accidently took out a Sidewinder with a stray plasma shot, got the murder fine, landed at the station, switched to a Sidey, messaged a random CMDR asking him to kill me and he agreed, went outside the no fire zone, he killed me and it worked.
 
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