A station killed me.

[Coccolino]

Well, it's not the first time I enter a station with the WANTED status on me. I'm used to enter, pay my bounty, clean my conscience, and go with the wind.
And I already did that in the same system, same station.
But this time, with a 200cr bounty on me, the station took my 600K Viper out after entering the dock with regular permission. I really don't understand how this works. Also my 70K bounty vouchers got lost.
And if I think it started with a dumb fed ship entering my line of fire while I was killing a wanted guy in the resource extraction site, the whole thing turns out way more shocking.

So... should I pay my bounties in an independent station? Is it different than redeeming bounty vouchers you earn (you can do that only in stations with the same allegiance as the bounty)?

 

[Hitsuke]

A 200cr fine should not warrant Police action in my opinion. You'll get people saying "Learn to radar" etc, but that doesn't wash. The AI is so incredibly dumb at times, that in quite a few instances, being handed a 200cr fine is completely unavoidable. The completely ridiculous one that has happened to me on numerous occasions, is when an AI ship decides to smash straight into you full pelt, while you're flying in a straight line towards your target. *BANG* he flies straight into your fully pimped Cobra and disintegrates on contact (Usually Sideys or Eagles)... you collect a 200cr fine and a 6k bounty for idiotic AI behaviour.

We all know how AI LOVES to derp in front of you as you're completely unloading on your target as well. "Most" of the time you can avoid FF incidents when they come in at an angle where you can see them, but when they decide to zoom in at 350 m/s from just above your canopy, you don't get the chance to react 9/10.

They need to increase the Police aggression threshold to 1000cr imo. At least then you can enjoy a decent BH session without worrying about numerous AI derps ruining your earnings.

 

[Feldspar]

Chances are you are scanned by the cops outside the station. The safe way is to go to a platform, you don't get scanned there. The pilots federation should let you pay off bounties against you anywhere.

 

[Speculative]

A 500K fine wont get you killed, but a BOUNTY will.

You can pay them off anywhere through pilot federations link not just in the same system. If you pay the fine off in the first 24 hours it does not become a bounty.

 

[Senzafine]

A station killed me at the weekend after docking request was granted for just 100cr. Seemed a bit harsh. Only got the fine after accidentally firing the lasers too near to a station. Talk about zero tolerance...

 

[Hitsuke]

Yeah, if you receive a fine while near a station, or while Police are present, they just go all gung-ho and start blasting. It is pretty stupid, hence why I think there needs to be a sensible threshold in place before they open fire. I mean, it's only a fine, so you should be given ample opportunity to pay that fine, without having your hull reduced to Swiss cheese.

The system is a bit broken currently, and they need to give it a re-think.

 

[Coccolino]

The idea to raise the threshold for the police reaction during a BH session is very good. Let's say you can accidentally fire an authority vessel up to 5 times if there are "enemies" nearby. You get a fine, period. Different would be killing one of those cops.

 

[kurush]

I was able to land on Lave after getting a bounty for some unknown reason but I was holding my hand over the kill switch just in case. It seems that they don't fire all the time.

 

[Murphy's Ghost]

I'm sure I'll get accused of nerfing or trying to fix a problem that's not there, but I was thinking of these potential improvements:

- Stations that will fire on you shouldn't even give permission for docking - they should deny docking requests. Sure, I get it - they don't scan and discover you're a target until you are much closer in, but still...
- Your HUD should show the letterbox shaded in Red if you are close to it on approach and forgot to request docking permission first. Kinda like they give you a landing gear warning when it's not down on pad approach (and that's not as often lethal as forgetting docking permission).