Dormant Bounty Issue

XharKhan

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Severity
Moderate

Frequency
All of the time (100%)

Time of occurrence
Saturday

Date of occurrence
30/09/17

VR?
None / N/A

Location
Rhea Ito Orbital

Ship/SRV?
Ship

Ship Type
Multipe - Anaconda/Beluga liner

Commander Name
Khanny

Description
Got scanned entering the station with an illigal passenger. Got destroyed by system federal security, bounty became dormant. Every time I now go to the station I'm getting killed as I cant get in without being scanned, but also cant remove the bounty. So far its cost me near 100 million credits and about 5 ships.

Steps to Reproduce
Get scanned at station carrying illigal passenger.
Get killed so bounty becomes dormant.
Rebuy same or different ship, no difference.
Travel to station, try to dock and get scanned, return to step 1

Additional files?
 

MickyG1982

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The trick here is to stop doing the same thing over and over again until the dormant bounty expires.

Use a different system until the dormant bounty times out and you will no longer have this issue.
 

Allikat

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MickyG1982 said:
The trick here is to stop doing the same thing over and over again until the dormant bounty expires.

Use a different system until the dormant bounty times out and you will no longer have this issue.
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Yeah, that doesn't help.

I have the same issue.
There's no way to remove a dormant bounty once obtained. You know, like paying 10x the bounty amount to the issuing authority...
You make one mistake and a system is off limits to you for a week? Where's the fun and engaging gameplay in that? For missing the part that says "This passenger is wanted"? And you have no option to just fail the mission and hand the passenger over to authorities either.

This is a bug that needs fixing.
 
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XharKhan

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Yeah I'd have to argue this cant possibly be working as intended, unless your intent is to punish players for missing the Illegal Passenger notification, over and over again with the dormant bounty resetting to 7 days every time you're scanned/killed...I have since been a lot more careful choosing passengers, but since I'm effectively locked out of the system for a week its a bit of a moot point now.

I also tried buying a sidewinder and getting blown up by the system authority, didn't work...but I kind of guessed it wouldn't since I got nabbed three times in an anaconda and twice in Beluga Liner...

Hey ho, I'll guess since the only replies are other players that this doesn't classify as a bug or an error, shame that the players need to suffer for such an obvious flaw in mechanic.
 

SWAT Strachan

SWAT Strachan
It certainly bugged out on me as I never take wanted passengers when rank grinding, but last night one of my 'innocent' VIPs turned out to be wanted after all (despite this not being listed in the details of the mission board) and I lost two Anacondas and access to the system for a full week, all for a 300cr bounty.

It also strikes me as somewhat hypocritical that the law enforcement in these systems will hunt you down mercilessly for conveying one wanted person, but have no qualms about murdering the other 100+ passengers that I had on board at the time. That's a broken game mechanic right there. The worst you should get for a 300cr bounty is a warning to leave the system when scanned, or be denied landing at bases and stations not killed on the spot.
 

XharKhan

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How is this a suggestion or feature request?

make the mechanics of the game work? does that have to be in the form of a feature request now...chancers
 
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