Docked with a bounty = banned from playing game for a week?

[hanks01]

That was the advice! THe fine is still locked (in fact the timer reset to 7 days) so the "sage advice" was just made up twaddle because it didn't change anything.

I could get out sure - multiple ways. There is still no way to pay though it seems. Seriously, what is the point of this feature? If you get a parking ticket in real life, you get a *DISCOUNT* for paying it early, you dont run the risk of arrest when popping out to Tescos to buy some coffee for a week before getting the chance of putting things right.

It just doesn't seem to have any rhyme nor reason to it.

Not sure why you ignored all the advice from most of us saying just leave the station and just listened to the one person saying grab a sidey. You wouldn't have got blown up and even if they did scan you (unlikely) your FSD would already be spooling up and you'd be out of there. Killing yourself in a Sidey doesn't clear the status, you have to get scanned first and then blown up by them so they can claim your bounty. However that's completely pointless because all you needed to do is leave the station which is something you would've learned when you first booted up the game.

If people turn on your for friendly fire, you leave. Suggesting it's wise to stick around and kill all the authority vessels otherwise game no like pewpew is daft and makes no sense.

The reason longer bounties were put in the game were to give larger pnishment for killing innocents. A lot of this stemmed from players ganking other players, then clearing their bounty and doing it again. Meant that bounty hunters wouldn't know to go after them and they'd just bow everything up with impunity and no consequence.

Adapt to the new system, it's really quite simple. If you desparetely have to get back to that system again then just smuggle yourself in like you would illegal goods.

 

[Lord_Crazy]

Well if you want to stick with the flawed real-world analogies, it seems that you could accidentally beat someone to death on the street, watch TV for a week, then pay the fine and get away with it as if nothing happened.

But then lets stop with these real-world analogies because they are clearly not applicable here I didn't "murder" anyone, I am playing a computer game about shooting ships, and I shot some ships.

Lets just forget it - I thought this game was about shooting ships (i.e., getting to an Elite combat rating). Clearly I was wrong and they are trying to make the game into some sort of strategy role-playing card-game.

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There was no blame, it was a question. Please read.

I do read. And even a cursory reading of OP plus your subsequent messages was enough to indicate that your post seems to actually be a complaint hidden behind a rhetorical question.
Anyway let's focus on your question, and here is the answer: no you are not banned as already stated. Your bounty cannot be paid since it is a bounty, not a fine. That being said this bounty is only valid in the system you got busted: you can quickly escape and avoid showing around in said system for a week. You can even decide to keep going in this system and assume the risk.

 

[skyforger]

undock and then save and exit in the station, then log back in, you will spawn in outside the station at a good distance away so you can move away freely

 

[Minoo Minou]

Yes of course, you have to stay docked for a week, don't even open the station services panel! They'll blow you up if you do (even in the hangar)!

 

[Lord_Crazy]

Yes of course, you have to stay docked for a week, don't even open the station services panel! They'll blow you up if you do (even in the hangar)!

Some say they would even blast you at the Launcher's screen right before you click "log in". I don't know if it's bar talk or real though

 

[gogereaver]

he just said its a bounty not a fine he must have killed the other ship.

 

[Lupin]

Seems time to learn new skills that us smugglers have been using for some time, i.e. learning to get in and out of stations and systems without scans.

And yes something had changed in ED, as I have had my FIRST bounty on my head since I started last November. As forced to shoot down local police ship as he would not brake off inductions (3+) before I talked him out of it
Seems mission AI the reason for that.

 

[DjordjeDtW]

So I am docked in a high security station after getting a bounty for accidentally shooting someone when they flew in front of me. There is no option to pay the bounty as apparently I have to wait a week (why?!) to pay bounties now.

If I try to leave, I will get shot by the station security as I have a bounty. But I cannot pay the bounty. So this means I am stuck in the station/not palying for a week?

Really?

So I have basically been banned from playing the game for a week? What?

One question Matt, which spacecraft you fly?

 

[Arksun]

Since joining powerplay I'm actually getting a kick out of being either Hostile or Wanted in non-Alliance systems, flown into enemy stations tons of times, haven't been scanned or attacked once... yet...

 

[wakko151]

Just man up and leave the area for a week...

 

[Phaser]

Heres how you accidentally get a bounty:-


Tonight, I was farming credits in a high res. An innocent NPC was going about his business at the roid belt when he was attacked by pirates. I went after the pirates but accidentally hit the NPC once with a stray shot, about ten seconds before an NPC pirate killed him. Soon as he died, I incurred a full bounty for the murder of the NPC even though I didn’t kill the ! Thing is, I don’t give a damn about flying around wanted! Ill still fly around in open, no matter how high the bounty is. For me, bounties are no deterrent for any behavior deemed unacceptable. However, I do think the bounty system is anally retentive. Im sure new players will find it equally so.

 

[Ubiquitous Che]

I got a 7 day bounty in my power's home system recently.

I took an assassination mission against a pirate, taken from from my home system's station. It was in a nearby star system. Jumped over and found the NPC in the second USS I found.

Took the NPC down to 33% hull before he managed to jump out on me.

Frame Shift Wake Scanners to the rescue! I jumped after him in hot pursuit, interdicted him out of supercruise, and iced him like a boss.

Then a few problems readily became apparent to me:

1. The system he jumped to was my home system.
2. He wasn't registered as a pirate in my home system.
3. I incurred a 7 day bounty for murdering him in my home system.
4. This didn't even trigger the quest completion, presumably because I killed him in the wrong system.

I jumped back to the target system, and found the NPC I just murdered still alive and well in the next USS I found. Iced him and completed the mission.

Now I can't go back to my home system to turn in that mission for a week. Even if I use a sidewinder to do it, if I get scanned and killed off, I'll lose the mission payment due to ship death.

No fortifying of control systems for me next cycle.

 

[CaptainKremmen]

Whenever I'm docked and WANTED, I use the following sequence of steps to depart safely:

1: Press LAUNCH
2: Fly out of the station airlock at a leisurely speed.
3: Fly out of mass-lock range at full speed.
4: Frameshift away.

Whenever I'm docked and not WANTED, I use the following alternative approach:

1: Press LAUNCH
2: Fly out of the station airlock at a leisurely speed.
3: Fly out of mass-lock range at full speed.
4: Frameshift away.

 

[wakko151]

I'm a pirate with Archon Delaine. I have such a high bounty in Harma that I can not even land any more in the system. Did I cry about it? No. I simply left the system and have no plans to return for a week. Stop complaining about the game, there is nothing wrong with it. You just have to adapt to change, and you don't feel like it.

 

[Dazzerman]

I have a question related to this. I got a Bounty put on me tonight. I thought I'd try taking a mission to take out Smugglers instead of Pirates. They'd be Wanted too, no? Anyway, I shot the first target (just the once, with Beam Lasers), and got a Bounty of 145 CR. I mistakenly thought I could fly off to my nearest Anarchy system and pay it off, but I get it that it is a Bounty that would be paid to someone else for killing me. What I don't understand is why I have a Bounty at all for shooting at a Smuggler? It's been way more than 10 minutes, and the Bounty is still there so I'm guessing that it's a 7 day one.

I did check my target first, after a Kill Warrant scan, and although the target was Clean, he had a Bounty on him so I thought I was good to go because he was part of my mission, and he wasn't a celebrity or anything 'innocent'. I'm in Solo too, so it's not like it is a real person.

What gives?

Staying away from this station for a week wouldn't be a hardship as it goes, except that I took two missions based at this system. So I lose the missions, or abandon them, but I was hoping to play the game this evening, not spend the evening trying to work out how I needed to handle this stupid Bounty that I wasn't expecting.

The message on my Bounty in the Transaction page says "ON H-JUMP" as well. What does that mean? That I earned the Bounty when I hyperjumped out of the system? I'm confused...

EDIT : Why does my rank come up as "Mostly Harmless" still, when I am Competent these days?

EDIT2 : Bounty gone now - after I hyperjumped out of the Anarchy system I had gone to.

 

[Trinity Star]

I have a question related to this. I got a Bounty put on me tonight. I thought I'd try taking a mission to take out Smugglers instead of Pirates. They'd be Wanted too, no? Anyway, I shot the first target (just the once, with Beam Lasers), and got a Bounty of 145 CR. I mistakenly thought I could fly off to my nearest Anarchy system and pay it off, but I get it that it is a Bounty that would be paid to someone else for killing me. What I don't understand is why I have a Bounty at all for shooting at a Smuggler? It's been way more than 10 minutes, and the Bounty is still there so I'm guessing that it's a 7 day one.

I did check my target first, after a Kill Warrant scan, and although the target was Clean, he had a Bounty on him so I thought I was good to go because he was part of my mission, and he wasn't a celebrity or anything 'innocent'. I'm in Solo too, so it's not like it is a real person.

What gives?

Staying away from this station for a week wouldn't be a hardship as it goes, except that I took two missions based at this system. So I lose the missions, or abandon them, but I was hoping to play the game this evening, not spend the evening trying to work out how I needed to handle this stupid Bounty that I wasn't expecting.

The message on my Bounty in the Transaction page says "ON H-JUMP" as well. What does that mean? That I earned the Bounty when I hyperjumped out of the system? I'm confused...

EDIT : Why does my rank come up as "Mostly Harmless" still, when I am Competent these days?

If he showed as clean, then he is not wanted in that particular system and shooting at him first is a crime the local authorities do not care if he is wanted elsewhere. You picked up a small bounty if you look in the transaction it would have a timer, 7 or so minutes, after this time the bounty will convert into a legacy fine when you jump to another system. You can then jump back and you will not be wanted anymore and can go to the station and pay the fine.

 

[Dazzerman]

Thank you VictoriaG.

 

[wakko151]

just don't pay. Its a big universe. If some place gets too hot, avoid that area for a week. I never pay bounties or fines.

 

[GammaPaladin]

I blow in and out of stations with a local bounty on my head all the time. Just move fast and, ideally, turn the instant you're through the gate, while boosting, to cut around behind the station where the security vessels can't maintain line of sight (and therefore can't finish the scan if they do start one. Besides you should be out of the station's weapon range by the time the scan finishes even if you don't get out completely clean.