Cannot pay fines in EDO.
- Thread starter Judz
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Nah. I can pay fines fine in EDO. The rules about distances for IF to work do seem a bit different in some cases though 
The rules about distances for IF to work do seem a bit different in some cases though
I think a few things have changed, whether the fine is on you (the commander) or on you (the ship) is also making a difference.
I think the OP is possibly suffering from a UI bug too, where some fines are not clearing from left panel when you pay them. Relogging from menu after SHOULD clear them.
Rule of thumb with Interstellar Factors is who issued it? Really only counts for bounties (fines you should be able to pay off anonymous access). You need to go to a system where the Faction who issued the bounty has no presence. You can't pay off bounties locally.
Too late yoof. read my next message...2 after your post. Also, read the title of the post...then read your reply.
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That's certainly the case with EDH - and superpower fines can be a pain. But in EDO I have had a couple of cases where IF refused to pay one or more fines / bounties until I travelled maybe 70 Ly. Ofc it could just have been the 'relog to clear' UI issue, but I don't think so.
The reach of some factions stretches further than that even and I think it's not so much distance related, as jurisdiction Don't think I've had a Factor REFUSE to pay it off but I am breaking the law in EDO much more than I ever did so can't really compare with EDH.
It is a bit confusing that fines/bounties you can't pay off in a certain place just don't show. Might be better if they did, greyed out because you can't pay here. There are certain big Factions though you know have a wide presence and you might have to go 100Ly or more to find a system they don't operate in.
I am aware of how IF work with factions
Still didn't work. Took a couple of hours to find someone to clear it. But as I said, that wasn't a common occurrence, and mostly it is straightforward.Using Horizons fixes things for a lot as the switch transfers the CMDR fines / bounties to the ship - which makes things easier to handle for some reason.
Not being able to pay off a fine to a Faction where you are and the Faction has presence is like being told you cant pay the fine you owe to someone in England but you can go and pay it off to someone in Scotland. It doesn't make sense. Bounties yes, that makes complete sense but fines...nope.
There's some logic to it if the faction doesn't control the system and authorities contact, station services. I haven't been paying enough attention to tell you if a fine from a small faction means anonymous access.
I think they really need to consolidate the Crime and Punishment and stop having two separate systems.
Definitely going to have a look at the pilot manual in game to see if it's been updated / makes sense.
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Well that's the thing, I had 2 missions, I completed one (restore power) and the 2nd one failed (prepare settlement, I didn't know these were bugged). I logged off at that location last night and relogged in this morning, that is when i saw the failed contracts. I stupidly forgot you now need to go and hand in the missions for them to complete otherwise it would have been 1 fine for the failed prepare settlement mission.
These being failed mission fines, I've always paid these off immediately at the same terminal I got the missions from (I know this due to the time I took a bunch and abandoned them immediately to tank my Sirius rep).
IF isn't necessary for this and probably doesn't help much (it's only useful if you're just trying to dump a bunch of transactions without needing to find the relevant stations one by one, or to avoid prison; in this case you do need to find an IF in a system where the issuing faction(s) don't exist, as mentioned above). But I'm unsure why you couldn't see these fines to pay them off if it was the same place you got the missions from.
I have gotten bounties that Interstellar factors didn't recognize/wouldn't pay off. These bounties were always for murdering ground targets (collateral damage) when I was doing missions at bases that weren't anarchy/lawless. It made me wanted. It made my ship wanted. However, ship based Interstellar factors (even from Odyssey settlements) couldn't see these bounties and pay them off.
The only way I could pay them off is to fine a large station with interstellar factors, dock, debark, run to a terminal and access interstellar factors there. Then I could pay it off.
I don't see this happen all the time, but it isn't rare. Not sure why these bounties (and sometimes fines) are being treated differently.