Accidental Wanted due to imbecile NPC pilots crossing my fire....

[excalibus]

True, but in all the time I've played this and all the ships I've killed, that has never happened. If I've ever accidentally shot a clean NPC it's because he flew between myself and my target, not because he flew behind it. From the sound of it, that's also what happened to the OP.

Having said that, I can't remember the last time I got a bounty for accidental glances off friendlies. I can however remember the last time I got a bounty because an NPC flew his ship into the back of me and exploded :\

It does happen, I have been in fights with fixed weapons where I have missed the target and hit a friendly behind the target... that was quite some time ago now though... These days I am lazy and use gimbals I still tend to drop my trigger finger off when friendly or non targtet ships are going anywhere near my line of fire as gimbals are forgiving but not quick to respond to rapid direction changes...

 

[viper666]

There's a sensor display for a reason, situational awareness. Are your sensors set for minimum range so you get good target separation? I've only ever 'clipped' two ships with friendly fire, both of them NPC cops, who are the dumbest of the dumb. Any target that crosses your line of fire, MUST come in from either the left or right of your field of view. You should see that ship starting to cross, if you don't your target fixated and your situational awareness is low to non existent.

 

[Rampant]

There's a sensor display for a reason, situational awareness. Are your sensors set for minimum range so you get good target separation? I've only ever 'clipped' two ships with friendly fire, both of them NPC cops, who are the dumbest of the dumb. Any target that crosses your line of fire, MUST come in from either the left or right of your field of view. You should see that ship starting to cross, if you don't your target fixated and your situational awareness is low to non existent.

Rubbish. It can come in from top or bottom or any of the 360° around your monitor.

 

[CMDR Crustatious Cornelius Pig]

Now, I can engage a SINGLE bounty, or some numbnut manages to fly through my lasers being fired, resulting in a Wanted title.

Before anything, if an NPC is too bloody dumb to watch where he's flying, I should not be the one being titled Wanted!!!
That is BLOODY unfair.
Instead, the NPC should be fined towards me, for obstruction of justice, and aiding a pirate.

Now, I know one can get off the Wanted through Death, is there another option, like bailing, or something?
I do not want to loose my ship, see...

Thank you beforehand.

It has happened to all of us

 

[Comrade Napoleon]

It has happened to all of us

On another note are we related

Cheers