I just started to play Elite Dangerous about a week ago and noticed and started in the asellus primus galaxy. At first I was making credits doing surface find and rescue rescue missions but then took 1 which called for me to eliminate some rogue droids. Not an issue since I had gotten pretty good with the surface rovers turret gun. When I got there i made sure the droids aggro'ed me before firing back and wiped them out. Problem was Bakers Prospect where I had taken the mission had turned red to me and started firing on me when I tried to dock. Figuring that once red always red and that was where I respawned I deleted that save.and rerolled. Once agin I made a lot of credits doing surface missions picking up lost cargo etc and on one of the missions all of a sudden same thing.I turned red for doing the same thing I had been doing for the last 2 hours. The second time however I did not get close enough to base to die and jumped out of system.
Looking for a new source of income I read bout the Nav Sites and the the Extraction sites. I started hunting in the low RES in LP 98-132 and developed a routine of following the police ships around until they started wailing on some wanted guy then going in and helping them out. This worked pretty good for 7 or 8 trips in and then I fired on a wanted guy the police were already shooting it turned me red and gave me a fine. The police then turned me to scrap metal. Wen I rezzed I had a 200 credit fine and a 6 minute bounty which when timed out can be cleared by a jump. I went back in system went to Freeport, payed the 200 credits and all was well. I headed back to the RES spot found a wanted guy getting wailed on by the police and once again was given a fine and a wanted status. This time I ran like hell, jumped out of system and waited till the time had cleared. Third time I go in saw three police beating up on a vulture fired one shot and the red came back except this time when the police killed him seconds after I started running and the fine went from 200 credits and minutes to to 6000 credits and a 6 day waiting period. Looks like I need to find some new systems. There was no cargo in my hold, before entering the extraction zone I had docked at Freeport to pay the fine and got scanned going in and out. The police had taken the guy I shot down to single digits so he was definitely on the bad side. What gives here, twice now it seems as if the rules suddenly change for no reason.
Now if this is anti camping code then it needs to be looked at and redone. Traditional MMO's using declining mob spawn to keep people like me from farming one area. That's cool and a necessary game mechanic. However suddenly changing the rule set without informing the player of the change other than killing him/her game is just lazy game design. I am hoping this is a bug. I really do enjoy the game so far and this is the first thing I have found that I found unfun so far. My only work around is to keep doing the RES sites and when I get a fine for doing the same thing that was fine 5 minutes before just move on. If this is a poor attempt to discourage camping, then devote some time to writing some diminishing rewards code and player will just move on to better hunting grounds.
Looking for a new source of income I read bout the Nav Sites and the the Extraction sites. I started hunting in the low RES in LP 98-132 and developed a routine of following the police ships around until they started wailing on some wanted guy then going in and helping them out. This worked pretty good for 7 or 8 trips in and then I fired on a wanted guy the police were already shooting it turned me red and gave me a fine. The police then turned me to scrap metal. Wen I rezzed I had a 200 credit fine and a 6 minute bounty which when timed out can be cleared by a jump. I went back in system went to Freeport, payed the 200 credits and all was well. I headed back to the RES spot found a wanted guy getting wailed on by the police and once again was given a fine and a wanted status. This time I ran like hell, jumped out of system and waited till the time had cleared. Third time I go in saw three police beating up on a vulture fired one shot and the red came back except this time when the police killed him seconds after I started running and the fine went from 200 credits and minutes to to 6000 credits and a 6 day waiting period. Looks like I need to find some new systems. There was no cargo in my hold, before entering the extraction zone I had docked at Freeport to pay the fine and got scanned going in and out. The police had taken the guy I shot down to single digits so he was definitely on the bad side. What gives here, twice now it seems as if the rules suddenly change for no reason.
Now if this is anti camping code then it needs to be looked at and redone. Traditional MMO's using declining mob spawn to keep people like me from farming one area. That's cool and a necessary game mechanic. However suddenly changing the rule set without informing the player of the change other than killing him/her game is just lazy game design. I am hoping this is a bug. I really do enjoy the game so far and this is the first thing I have found that I found unfun so far. My only work around is to keep doing the RES sites and when I get a fine for doing the same thing that was fine 5 minutes before just move on. If this is a poor attempt to discourage camping, then devote some time to writing some diminishing rewards code and player will just move on to better hunting grounds.
