Sure, that's my entire log file from launch day:
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Can't afford to record video 24/7, causes micro-stutters.
Got Bounty for attacking wanted Ships!
- Thread starter Gorgoth
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Can't afford to record video 24/7, causes micro-stutters.
This could be your answer. If it launched a fighter while you were shooting it and you hit the fighter before IT was scanned then you become wanted.
That sucks but it is definitely a thing.
Did you notice this last week?
(Perhaps you need to update your game manual / tutorial videos)
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I think that this may have happened to me earlier. I wanted to test out some newly engineered weapons so I visited a HazRes. Found a wanted Anaconda and scanned it with a KWS. Once I opened fire, after a few shots I received a bounty. Similarly, the bounty was for 200cr and the Anaconda had deployed a fighter, so I'm guessing that I must have hit it as it was launching.
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In my case I stalked the ship briefly after scanning while I faffed around with my weapon groups, so I’m confident that it wasn’t a matter of being trigger happy.
.......and there you go.
You SHOULD NOT.
BUT..........some ARE having troubles, and these troubles are leading to them having questions and problems.
I myself am about to go on a killing spree for materials and am hoping I don't have to spend half an hour having to travel to a station to pay a fine off if some pleb of an NPC flies in front of me. It will be my fault, but it'll kill the game experience for me (the fun factor - not a "way of life" factor...).
I thought this was a bug that was fixed in 3.0...
I'm guessing the fix didn't work if it's still happening, I'd put a support ticket in..
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Nope, I got the same too - I have video evidence and raised a bug. This is an issue: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/412401-Given-bounty-against-wrong-target
I think it's time to get rid of the "you always become wanted for firing at an unscanned ship, even if it turns out to be in fact wanted" rule once for all. It's stupid beyond belief.
Imagine the communication between the pirate ship and the authorities:
"This is Jabba the Hutt speaking, I'm a dangerous criminal, wanted in 586 systems. I'm currently in a Res site, shooting at an innocent novice miner. I'm also being shot at by a bunch of cops at the same time. There is a clean BHer CMDR here, who scratched my shield 0.5 ms before his scanner fiinished with scanning me. Please put a bounty on his head for the heinous crime he committed. Jabba the Hutt out."
"All right Mr Hutt, we're always glad to help you."
Imagine the communication between the pirate ship and the authorities:
"This is Jabba the Hutt speaking, I'm a dangerous criminal, wanted in 586 systems. I'm currently in a Res site, shooting at an innocent novice miner. I'm also being shot at by a bunch of cops at the same time. There is a clean BHer CMDR here, who scratched my shield 0.5 ms before his scanner fiinished with scanning me. Please put a bounty on his head for the heinous crime he committed. Jabba the Hutt out."
"All right Mr Hutt, we're always glad to help you."
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Or make the "WANTED" status appear once the ship is fully scanned.
Do the Police really want that trigger happy novice to 'help'? They are already dealing with the crim. I think waiting for the scan to complete is a reasonable trade off. If they fire on you (and hit you) they instantly become wanted so if you are not being attacked there is no hurry.
You can also find IF contacts in stations and bases controlled by an anarchy faction when the sysauth is a different faction.
It's not about what the cops want.
It's about that a wanted ship (which is at the time under police fire btw) should not be able to report a crime.
It's the same situation when you are sent on a mission to eliminate a pirate lord. You know for sure who he is, you know that he is wanted, and yet you have to wait for the scan result.
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The absurdity of the scenario you outlined lies not in that the player becomes wanted for shooting before the scan is finished. From the point of view of the local authorities you were ready to shoot somebody who, for all you knew, was not yours to shoot. That the police were shooting that ship doesn't give you a license to do the same.
The issue lies in that the police have poor target priorities and will forget what they were doing to turn on the player as soon as any crime is commited. That is what could use some work, but your carelessness and failure to go through the legal hoops to confirm you have the right to use your weapons of war on what could otherwise be an innocent pilot should not be ignored.
This flowchart is a mess and makes things look much more complicated than they are.
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All crimes should be reported if 'report crimes' is on (and it's on for all NPCs). Two wrongs don't make a right.
But the police should not be able to know that you were shooting at an unscanned ship, because that ship, being in fact wanted, should not have been able to report a crime in the first place.
So they don't need my help. OK, I get it. Yet they become completely happy to accept my help half a second later.
Very valid point. There's a logic failure when you know that crimes are reported by the ship being attacked (obviously this isn't the case in the actual game code).