Does this affect the RES?
Bounty hunting NOW
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Does this affect the RES?
ciger
Banned
player bounties for committed crimes, not NPCs or bounty vouchers.
What is the point of the bounty cap exactly?
Does FD hate us Bounty Hunters that much that we're not even allowed to earn a decent wage any more?
Seriously, why do I bother trying to play this game, sometimes...
If I've taken the HUGE amount of time, effort and skill to find and take down some pirate with say a 50 million bounty on his head, I expect that to pay off.
Even if it only takes 30 minutes to find and kill the guy, I can make more than that just doing a RES.
Does FD hate us Bounty Hunters that much that we're not even allowed to earn a decent wage any more?
Seriously, why do I bother trying to play this game, sometimes...
If I've taken the HUGE amount of time, effort and skill to find and take down some pirate with say a 50 million bounty on his head, I expect that to pay off.
Even if it only takes 30 minutes to find and kill the guy, I can make more than that just doing a RES.
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It's to prevent players boosting bounties artificially, players will still be able to amass multi-million credit bounties "legitimately"
People exploited the system by transporting lots of illegal goods getting astronomical fines for this and then waiting until the fines turned into bounties. Thus making it possible for a friend (or someone ready to pay real world money for it) to take them out claiming millions upon millions of credits "for free".
Ah, I see.
That's understandable - though this does then capitulate the whole problem with bounties at the moment.
It's so hard to find a bountified player to hunt as it is.
The only sure way to claim a pilot with a bounty on their head is to freeze them in carbonite. And since everybody knows that trick, you'd have to travel from one side of this galaxy to the other and see a lot of strange things before you'd find another pilot who will fall for the old "what's in this tube made of carbonite nozzles, why don't I take a peek and see?" gambit.
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digitalscream
Banned
You can still rack up bounties in lots of jurisdictions - it's only minor faction bounties that are limited to 1 million, so you'll still be able to find genuine multi-million bounties.
Devs are between a rock and a hard place on this - I think they've found one of the only solutions to the friend bounty exploit.
Devs are between a rock and a hard place on this - I think they've found one of the only solutions to the friend bounty exploit.
Aye.
And also this:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=139164&p=2129636&viewfull=1#post2129636
64 players had more than 1m bounty this morning. Not a huge volume.
digitalscream
Banned
Exactly - the ones who build up obscene bounties tend to only do so temporarily; their massive bounties last as long as it takes for one of their friends/customers to grab it.
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Sorry to go off topic here but...
You can make 50 million credits in 30 minutes in a RES?
Seriously?
I spotted this too
also wondered "how many 50m player kills has he actually achieved?"
FD shouldn't have announced the change... they should have just done it.
Alcubierre
Banned
There's an easy solution. Just make them pay the entirety of the bounty.
Can't pay the bounty off? Is it over 1 billion? Oh, I'm very sorry about your loss. Pay up or it's the basic Sidewinder for you.
That's what needs to happen. None of this coddling and babying of...Pirates of all people. If I was a pirate I'd almost be offended.
Not sure you understood what he said.
It was possible to rack up a rather large bounty in a short time just to let yourself get killed or get another copy of the game and kill yourself to end up with a windfall.