Horizons Became wanted with large bounty

[SimImperial]

I have been playing this game for about a year now and this is the first I have seen this.

CASE:
I am taking celebrity tourist on tour. Tourist informs me that 1/5 targets will be following him and offers bonus for each.

First target interdicts me. The target is showing WANTED status and Mission target. I kill and receive credit bounty reward of 150k +.

Second target interdicts me. The target is not showing WANTED status but Clean even after interdicting me and shows as a Mission target.
I wait till he fires on me. He then shows Wanted status. I return fire and then become wanted myself.
I stop firing and left without killing him because I did not know what was going on.

I checked my left panel and it shows a bounty on me of 7k and a 6 + day wait period (sounds like murder of the first NPC).

Now I just logged back into the game and that Mission shows as FAILED. It did not run out of time so I'm really lost now...
I can not see were I made a mistake in this matter. I issued a support ticket because I want to know if I caused this.

What it looks like to me is that the wanted NPC I killed first gave me a reward and a murder bounty at the same time.

 

[catsgomeow]

when i tried my vip mission the hub he was going to blew me up, pop, just like that, mission failed, big insurance cost and me sitting there just blinking my eyes and mouth open, second passenger mission completed but somehow picked up a 10k fine at a hub and i have no idea why because nothing happened.

 

[Mercury7]

when i tried my vip mission the hub he was going to blew me up, pop, just like that, mission failed, big insurance cost and me sitting there just blinking my eyes and mouth open, second passenger mission completed but somehow picked up a 10k fine at a hub and i have no idea why because nothing happened.

The passenger was probably wanted and you were scanned, which would explain the ship destruction. As for the fine - no idea. Did you accidentally hit another ship whilst in the docking area?

 

[SimImperial]

The passenger was probably wanted and you were scanned, which would explain the ship destruction

Is that how it works? Wanted passenger makes you wanted. I notice they some of the missions state (PASSENGER MAY BE WANTED IN SOME SYSTEMS etc..) I wonder how the commander would know when entering a system if his passenger is wanted there.

 

[Codger]

Passenger missions have some gotchas.

 

[catsgomeow]

Is that how it works? Wanted passenger makes you wanted. I notice they some of the missions state (PASSENGER MAY BE WANTED IN SOME SYSTEMS etc..) I wonder how the commander would know when entering a system if his passenger is wanted there.

Thats what        me off to be honest i just wasnt expecting it and felt alittle bit trolled by the mission but im over it now, the fine could be me knocking something and not knowing, its possible though i swear i didnt, this is the first time ive flown an orca and it kind of rolls around like a beached whale, not used to it yet.

 

[SimImperial]

I'm glad life is not based on this game. (Honey why is the U.S. Navy blasting our cruise ship? Well babycakes, someone must be wanted on board.)

 

[Cmdr Snuffler]

I'm glad life is not based on this game. (Honey why is the U.S. Navy blasting our cruise ship? Well babycakes, someone must be wanted on board.)

Oh but it is, that's exactly what happens...it would be more like "Honey, why is there a U.S. Navy drone above us? Well babyca.....*BOOM*"
Obviously that is the extreme case...but drone strikes are like that. You and babycakes were just collateral damage.

 

[SimImperial]

Second target interdicts me. The target is not showing WANTED status but Clean even after interdicting me and shows as a Mission target.
I wait till he fires on me. He then shows Wanted status. I return fire and then become wanted myself

Frontier reviewed my logs and explained what happen here. The second target scanned me. This is where I picked up the 7000 credit bounty plus 7 days.
This must have been a "passenger might be wanted mission" It was one of the first I took after the upgrade so I probably did not even read for it or understand
like I do now.

 

[rrobes]

The bugs need to be worked out.

In the meantime, I will take on only tourists, businessmen and refugees and no whale ships, killer or otherwise. Everyone rides economy, my Corvette has webbed seats with four-point harnesses and barf bags nearby, so when someone comes calling no one is going to be macerated while I tend to business of blowing things up.

There should be a way of airlocking these criminal masterminds, not taking them on a cruise.

Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride![sour]

 

[Mike Reacher]

Many bugs methinks.
Mission deliveries are way down according to the forums, but what hey? I was just paid 717000cr for a five minute collect cargo/bring it back mission. (   )