Fined for Jettisoned cargo???

[Jaggid Edje]

Ever heard of theft by finding?

Further, only your fingerprints could be find on the baggy. Don't you think that would be pretty incriminating?

In the real world, what the cops would want you to do is turn in that bag of drugs to the cops rather than throw it back on the ground. In Elite, you cannot do that with illegal goods, there's no option to turn them in to authorities....so the OP is right, the game gives him no other option other than to eject it and then punishes him for it. Which does suck.

Either the game should give us the option to turn in illegal goods to authorities or it should not fine us for throwing it back out if accidentally picked up, just mho.

 

[Midian Cabal]

In the real world, what the cops would want you to do is turn in that bag of drugs to the cops rather than throw it back on the ground. In Elite, you cannot do that with illegal goods, there's no option to turn them in to authorities....so the OP is right, the game gives him no other option other than to eject it and then punishes him for it. Which does suck.

Either the game should give us the option to turn in illegal goods to authorities or it should not fine us for throwing it back out if accidentally picked up, just mho.

I hope that you aware that you can specity in your contacts tab which goods you want to ignore. You have no excuse. You picked them up and wanted to sell them on the black marked, but when you saw the cops you panicked and jettisoned them.
I still prefer having the option to sell them on the black market instead of giving them to the authorities for symbolic compensation, but hey, that's just me.

 

[Alone Wulff]

I hope that you aware that you can specity in your contacts tab which goods you want to ignore. You have no excuse. You picked them up and wanted to sell them on the black marked, but when you saw the cops you panicked and jettisoned them.
I still prefer having the option to sell them on the black market instead of giving them to the authorities for symbolic compensation, but hey, that's just me.

Well I'd already set this cargo to ignore (that bit must be a bug??). And I dumped it and was boosting back towards the fighting (Res site) before the cop even showed up on the scanner. I then watched him go all the way to the jettisoned cargo (amongst a dozen other stoled jettisoned stuff that I hadn't even touched) and then proceed to issue me a fine. It's illogical.

 

[Jaggid Edje]

I hope that you aware that you can specity in your contacts tab which goods you want to ignore. You have no excuse. You picked them up and wanted to sell them on the black marked, but when you saw the cops you panicked and jettisoned them.
I still prefer having the option to sell them on the black market instead of giving them to the authorities for symbolic compensation, but hey, that's just me.

I am aware, but it doesn't give us the option to flag "all illegal goods" to not pick up, which it should if it wants to fine us for picking up and then discarding things. The filters are by item type, not illegal/legal. Making us jink with those filters individually as illegal cargo is mixed in with other things we do want to pick up is as annoying as what the OP posted about...

BTW, you used the word "you" in the post I quoted above quite a bit....this didn't happen to me...so not sure what you're going on about. I just posted in support of the OP because the ridiculous "drug" examples people are using are totally silly defenses of the game logic.

I stand by what I said, if the game is going to fine a person for ejecting illegal cargo then it should give an option to turn it in to authorities, either that or we should have a filter that lets us filter by status illegal.

 

[Hullreaver]

My stupid collector limpet picked up illegal cargo despite it being marked as ignore! I jettison it, along comes a cop out of nowhere and fines ME for jettisoning it! No "Well done fella for not being tempted to take that illegal cargo...".

I look forward to playing after each update, but with each update comes some new stupid rule or bug!

Happened to me while doing a wing assassination mission. I always deploy a limpet to scoop the sweet, sweet mats from combat ships. All of the sudden I got the message about picking up illegal cargo and look at my inventory and I picked up...mineral oil. Jettison and got a fine as well.

It would be a really nice option to include the ability to ignore all cargo or all mats as an option. Otherwise, it is almost impossible to prevent.