An easy way to get rid of a dormant bounty

kris44dad

kris44dad
I wish any destruction was an easy way to get rid of a dormant bounty, instead of waiting for the timer.

Reading other threads, I found out that if you are scanned and subsequently destroyed, a dormant fine gets added to the re-buy cost. But only under certain conditions. According to what I read, you can:

1) Fly to a neighboring system to where the bounty is located.
2) Buy a sidewinder.
3) Return to the bounty system in the Sidewinder, and land on a station without getting scanned.
4) Leave the station, get scanned by an authority, and allow them to destroy you.
5) Your total re-buy cost will replace the Sidewinder and satisfy the bounty amount.

That's all well and good, but I have been putting around the system for two hours in a Sidewinder and no one has scanned me yet.

And to top it off, I was never an aggressor against anyone. I accidentally slam-dunked my type-7 into the ground, loosing my haulage. Now I'm wanted. If you are going to make the bounties so hard to shake, that they persist through death, I would think accidental suicide warrants a fine at best. (No, I did not let any such fine mature into a bounty.)
 
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Achibot

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In order to be scanned you should park in front of a station for a short while. Flying around in SC won't help, you've misunderstood that part I reckon.
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
When you are killed, the bounty becomes dormant. Which means that if you incur another bounty with the same faction, it is reactivated again and added to the new one. Just thought I'd mention it as I've just managed to get myself wanted in my home system by doing exactly that. To compound that, I wasn't paying attention at one point and forgot to ask for docking permission... Didn't manage to turn my Cutter around in time before I was declared a criminal and all and sundry opened fire on me. :) I'm still running missions in that system, though. Just need to dock quickly (hence my docking mistake).
 

kris44dad

kris44dad
Achibot said:
In order to be scanned you should park in front of a station for a short while. Flying around in SC won't help, you've misunderstood that part I reckon.
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I was sitting in front of the station for 20 mins, just outside of trespassing range. I then flew from station to station hoping for a docking scan. No such luck.
 

kris44dad

kris44dad
CMDR Crank Larson said:
When you are killed, the bounty becomes dormant. Which means that if you incur another bounty with the same faction, it is reactivated again and added to the new one. Just thought I'd mention it as I've just managed to get myself wanted in my home system by doing exactly that. To compound that, I wasn't paying attention at one point and forgot to ask for docking permission... Didn't manage to turn my Cutter around in time before I was declared a criminal and all and sundry opened fire on me. :) I'm still running missions in that system, though. Just need to dock quickly (hence my docking mistake).
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I know that. But that doesn't address how to get rid of them.

Mrat said:
Go to a nav beacon. Seriously it's not even funny how much you scanned in them.
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OK, I'll try that.
 

Achibot

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kris44dad said:
I was sitting in front of the station for 20 mins, just outside of trespassing range. I then flew from station to station hoping for a docking scan. No such luck.
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Wow. The irony being that in almost any other circumstance that would represent exceptional luck. That really is harsh man, my commiserations.
 

Mrat13

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kris44dad said:
Most of my time is solo play. But I have wandered into open play for this.
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Honestly, if you just ask on the forums for someone to meet up with you to kill you, they'll be a que of people lined up to do it.

But then you'd have to make the thread, so it's up to you.
 

kris44dad

kris44dad
For right now, I'm parked outside Vizcaino City waiting by the entrance to be scanned and destroyed. Doing household chores, etc.... Been more then 30 minutes, so far...
 

kris44dad

kris44dad
Mrat said:
Honestly, if you just ask on the forums for someone to meet up with you to kill you, they'll be a que of people lined up to do it.

But then you'd have to make the thread, so it's up to you.
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If I did that, there would be an actual 'kill on sight' on me until everyone gets bored.
 

J3DI

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There's another thread about this on here.
The recommended solution was to be scanned and killed by a cop from the faction that issued the original bounty.
So I jumped in my sidey and got killed by someone who fitted the bill.
No joy, I still have a dormant bounty :-(
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
J3DI said:
There's another thread about this on here.
The recommended solution was to be scanned and killed by a cop from the faction that issued the original bounty.
So I jumped in my sidey and got killed by someone who fitted the bill.
No joy, I still have a dormant bounty :-(
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The bounty will remain dormant until the time expires, or it is reactivated by you getting another one. Dormant bounties aren't activated by scans.
 

kris44dad

kris44dad
CMDR Crank Larson said:
The bounty will remain dormant until the time expires, or it is reactivated by you getting another one. Dormant bounties aren't activated by scans.
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Are you suggesting I take a pot shot at an enforcer in that particular system, to activate my bounty and then let them kill me? I had thought that was already dismissed as a solution, but maybe I read it wrong.
 
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