Bounties & Clemency

[Foos]

So, I'm allied with the system I'm in because I spend a lot of time there. System authorities are green on my scopes.
Every once in a while I'll get an annoying bounty while in the thick of battle, usually because using my fighter's guns is a bit less precise and I'm not as good at it yet.

Anyway, it seems silly that my allies would be willing to kill me over a 500cr fine for a bad shot.

So what I'm proposing is that I have an option by selecting the bounty on my info panel in order to exchange STATUS WITH THE FACTION to reduce a bounty to a fine. 1% status per 1000cr of bounty. This would ONLY work if you were friendly or allied with the faction and would essentially prevent these kind of nonsensical fraggings between allies.

 

[Teh Smoo]

Extrapolate. If someone wanted to get away with murder, all they have to do is a few missions, kill someone, pay status, repeat.

If they limit it per system, they just jump systems more.

 

[Foos]

Extrapolate. If someone wanted to get away with murder, all they have to do is a few missions, kill someone, pay status, repeat.

If they limit it per system, they just jump systems more.

I'm asking for the sake of discussion: when you say murder to do you mean murdering NPCs, like piracy? Or murdering PCs?

 

[Wyldwiisel]

I think the police responce for a couple of shots across the bows is a little extreme they should at least try to scan you before shooting unless you do murder them then yes the current police responce is prob what I would expect
Shooting and not killing should be more of a fine and move on
Murder should be reacting as they react now obviously once your fine rises a little you can have the odd bounty hunter pulling you in for a bit of a fight too