I got a 7 days bounty during the Run CG. I was in an Haz Res and both my SLF and I (in a Cutter) were busy firing at a wanted ship (already scanned and confirmed wanted) when all of the sudden I see the dreadful WANTED alert on screen, for having killed someone I shouldn't have (I was not wanted prior). Oh well...
I stayed in, finished killing a few more NPCs, then jumped to a neighboring system to reload, repair and refuel. I called my iCourier there, then flew back to the RUN CG station, docked in silent mode and exited the station again. Waited a good 20 minutes for NPC police to scan me outside the station but nothing. Next I went into supercruise, hoping to get interdicted...nothing. Went back to the same station, loaded the iCourier with some cargo and tried getting scanned while exiting...nope. Back into SC with my cargo and I finally got interdicted by an NPC. Uh oh...he wants my cargo now but he didn't detect my bounty! This could be a problem because if I get killed without the bounty being detected first, it might end up not being removed (that was my worry, not sure if that's the case).
My iCourier is built for speed so, no weapons. I escape back in SC only to be repeatedly interdicted by the same NPC. Tired of this, I submit one more time and let him have some of my cargo. I go back to SC and he interdicts me again; he wants more! "This time I'll just unload it all and be on my merry way", or so I thought. I leave the extortion site and he interdicts me again! But my cargo is empty? I keep escaping the interdiction, all the way to an High Res (sometimes submitting and then escaping, other times just fighting the interdiction). I make it to the High Res and drop out. Guess what? He is right there behind me, still wanting my empty cargo ("Drop whatever tonnage and this can end", he keeps saying).
"Alright, I'm gonna fly to the Police, they'll see him firing at me and they will kill him for me", was my 'brilliant' idea of the day. As I approach the police, I'm getting absolutely blastered by this pirate sidewinder now. I'm right in front of the police and the police doesn't care at all! Earlier, while boosting towards the police, another NPC had began scanning me. "Don't think we cannot see your dirty deeds" pops up on my screen. Yeah! Finally I got someone to recognize my bounty! But wait, now I'll have two NPCs firing at me, one that wants my empty cargo and another one that wants to collect the bounty on my head. I must make sure that the bounty hunter kills me (again, I was afraid that if the pirate killed me, the bounty wouldn't go away).
I took my iCourier as close as possible to the Anaconda police and started flying in close formation with it, on the opposite side of the pirate. The pirate was still firing at me, as I got closer and closer to the Anaconda. I'm now so close to the underside of that behemoth that I could smell its fumes coming through my AC system. "It's now or never" I thought, as the bounty hunter NPC I boosted away from earlier, had begun closing the gap. My iCourier wouldn't stand a chance with two NPCs firing at me at the same time (pirate and bounty hunter) and the bounty hunter was now in weapons range. Suddenly the moment I was waiting for: the pirate NPC accidentally lands a shot at the police Anaconda! I peel out of formation, as I watch the Anaconda police open up on the pirate sidewinder. He killed him so fast that the other police ships didn't even have the time to engage. Great, now do me, do me! Still nothing from the police...alright, fine, where is that bounty hunter...oh there! I let him shoot me down and I respawn in the Run CG station, clear of the bounty and happy that I can resume bounty hunting without having to wait for 7 days (by which time the CG would have been over).
At 3:06 you can see the moment I became Wanted. You can clearly see that we were both busy firing at another ship when the Wanted alert popped up on-screen. Bug?
[video=youtube_share;yvuGXp0r0_U]https://youtu.be/yvuGXp0r0_U[/video]
I stayed in, finished killing a few more NPCs, then jumped to a neighboring system to reload, repair and refuel. I called my iCourier there, then flew back to the RUN CG station, docked in silent mode and exited the station again. Waited a good 20 minutes for NPC police to scan me outside the station but nothing. Next I went into supercruise, hoping to get interdicted...nothing. Went back to the same station, loaded the iCourier with some cargo and tried getting scanned while exiting...nope. Back into SC with my cargo and I finally got interdicted by an NPC. Uh oh...he wants my cargo now but he didn't detect my bounty! This could be a problem because if I get killed without the bounty being detected first, it might end up not being removed (that was my worry, not sure if that's the case).
My iCourier is built for speed so, no weapons. I escape back in SC only to be repeatedly interdicted by the same NPC. Tired of this, I submit one more time and let him have some of my cargo. I go back to SC and he interdicts me again; he wants more! "This time I'll just unload it all and be on my merry way", or so I thought. I leave the extortion site and he interdicts me again! But my cargo is empty? I keep escaping the interdiction, all the way to an High Res (sometimes submitting and then escaping, other times just fighting the interdiction). I make it to the High Res and drop out. Guess what? He is right there behind me, still wanting my empty cargo ("Drop whatever tonnage and this can end", he keeps saying).
"Alright, I'm gonna fly to the Police, they'll see him firing at me and they will kill him for me", was my 'brilliant' idea of the day. As I approach the police, I'm getting absolutely blastered by this pirate sidewinder now. I'm right in front of the police and the police doesn't care at all! Earlier, while boosting towards the police, another NPC had began scanning me. "Don't think we cannot see your dirty deeds" pops up on my screen. Yeah! Finally I got someone to recognize my bounty! But wait, now I'll have two NPCs firing at me, one that wants my empty cargo and another one that wants to collect the bounty on my head. I must make sure that the bounty hunter kills me (again, I was afraid that if the pirate killed me, the bounty wouldn't go away).
I took my iCourier as close as possible to the Anaconda police and started flying in close formation with it, on the opposite side of the pirate. The pirate was still firing at me, as I got closer and closer to the Anaconda. I'm now so close to the underside of that behemoth that I could smell its fumes coming through my AC system. "It's now or never" I thought, as the bounty hunter NPC I boosted away from earlier, had begun closing the gap. My iCourier wouldn't stand a chance with two NPCs firing at me at the same time (pirate and bounty hunter) and the bounty hunter was now in weapons range. Suddenly the moment I was waiting for: the pirate NPC accidentally lands a shot at the police Anaconda! I peel out of formation, as I watch the Anaconda police open up on the pirate sidewinder. He killed him so fast that the other police ships didn't even have the time to engage. Great, now do me, do me! Still nothing from the police...alright, fine, where is that bounty hunter...oh there! I let him shoot me down and I respawn in the Run CG station, clear of the bounty and happy that I can resume bounty hunting without having to wait for 7 days (by which time the CG would have been over).
At 3:06 you can see the moment I became Wanted. You can clearly see that we were both busy firing at another ship when the Wanted alert popped up on-screen. Bug?
[video=youtube_share;yvuGXp0r0_U]https://youtu.be/yvuGXp0r0_U[/video]
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Here is the report (thank you CMDR Vega)
