Bounty on an innocent person.
- Thread starter GameonAce
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This one. Sounds like you may have succumbed to the "npcs randomly shooting you" bug and incurred a bounty by destroying a red contact without a bounty unknowingly.
Although, you said Zachary Hudson. That sounds like a powerplay bounty... I'm not fully across how that works, but did you perhaps fight back against a powerplay target attacking you in their own jurisdiction? And what power are you currently pledged to?
There is no innocence, only degrees of guilt.
I did fight back against a person marked as Wanted | Enemy. I am currently pledged to Alising Duval.
Thats a deep quote right there.
@Rubbernuke might be able to answer if that would make you wanted or not.
Is especially true in Elite. Just trading medicines at a station in outbreak? That'll help the station owners and set back their opposition.
Saved a miner from a pirate? Cashing that bounty may hurt that miner's faction.
You fought one of Zachary Hudon's powerplay agents, that gets you a bounty from him regardless of where you are / what their status is.
Thanks.
So, you kill a pirate, that'll give you a bounty to cash from the local jurisdiction, being the system ruling faction, call them A
That miner may belong to a different faction within the system, call them B. So if you cash that bounty, A's influence will increase, and will correspond to a commensurate decrease in all other factions including B
As Ned points out fighting an PP NPC will always give you a small set bounty. It operates outside the C+P system (so you should not be wanted) although IIRC someone a week or so ago mentioned a bug regarding this. But generally, if the bounty is low and does not escalate (i.e. each kill adds 2000 credits) its a PP bounty.
