Horizons Funny thing happened to me on the way to the store

[Mike Reacher]

First thing to be unusual was ....... a mission target stopped beside me at the space port.
I targeted him as he did to me. We traded blows and he lost. No Payout!
I didn't notice but is it possible a security ship shot at him so I didn't get paid?Second thing, I got jumped by a pirate. Give me cargo blah blah! Pirate dead but, here is the funny bit! I somehow came into possession of a pile of stolen Polymers. Oh. I didn't get paid for that pirate either. Even though we were in deep space.[mad]
I didn't buy any polymers. So what the heck happened to do that? Bug? FD making a funny?:S

 

[d8veh]

Case 1 is a ship sent after you by a mission. The mission update message tells you who's coming and how much extra mission reward you'll get for killing him. You can still get these mission target guys appear even if you're not running the mission. They come when you get an ad-hoc offer of a mission in your comms panel even if you don't accept them. If you were clean, you should have at least got a minimal bounty for killing him because he assaulted you. That wouldn't apply if you were in an anarchy system.

Case 2. There's a few scenarios where you don't get bounties for killing a pirate: Anarchy system; you have "report crimes against me" switched off; you shot him first when he was clean, which would make you wanted. I've never heard of cargo magically appearing in your hold. Were you fighting while your cargo scoop was out? Did you scoop up the cargo? Most of the stuff you scoop up when you're out is stolen, so you have to use stealth tactics to get it into the station.

In both those cases, you most likely would have got a nice bounty if you'd used a KWS. If you don't have one, it's never worthwhile fighting those pirates. It just wastes your time.

 

[Mike Reacher]

Can't remember about things that happened. Bad memory and old codger being busy elsewhere today.

As for the Polymers, I didn't have my scoop open and the pirate didn't drop cargo. Just a random bug, I think. The stuff was sold to the black market so I didn't worry about it.
Just wish I saw more hud info.

AAh! Just remembered! The first bloke was a mission target. Not an ad-hoc mission. He shot first. May be another random bug. Unless the feds got in the killing shot.
The second one may have been anarchy, but that damn Polymer thing wasn't anarchy. Just weird!

 

[Mike Reacher]

Sorry to bring this up again .....
Another Mission Target yesterday. Anaconda pulls up beside me and .... blah blah etc.
I deployed guns and waited. he starts to shoot me. I retaliate. Station fires on him, and he moves away a bit.
Then it is me and the cops shooting. We blow him up as my guns are firing into him.

No bounty!

Is this something new with the latest patch or is it a bug?