you should read better.
the OP stated that he was killed by the station several times, thus had to pay the insurance several times.
And a decent fit Vulture is far from beeing a 100 million credit ship, but can have a million insurance fee.
Incompetence in game design
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you should read better.
the OP stated that he was killed by the station several times, thus had to pay the insurance several times.
And a decent fit Vulture is far from beeing a 100 million credit ship, but can have a million insurance fee.
Twice, actually. But you're right. It's a 50mcr ship.
Regardless, the point still stands, especially in a combat-oriented ship: How can someone grind their way up to a 50mcr ship and not understand the bounty mechanics?
The incompetence is not in the game design. It's PEBKAC.
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With multiple times you mean 'twice'. Which means a 2.5mil insurance, or a 50mil ship. Thats a pretty nice Vulture if you ask me.
Regardless, the OP had way too much credits not to know the difference between a fine and a bounty, but somehow blaming others, grinding, ignorance and ranting go hand-in-hand.
Sorry to say this OP, but your provocative thread title drew me to your posting and the only place I see any incompetence is in your ability to avoid friendly fire. When I first went NPC BH'ing I was incompetent and would make this mistake a number of times. After reading a number of posts referring to this problem and how to avoid it I used those described techniques and now rarely make those errors.
But occasionally I will get caught out when my attention wanders a little but I know how to deal with the situation these days without loosing ships.
I find it hard to believe you were unaware of the process of leaving the system until this small 10 minute bounty has turned into a fine and your wanted status in that system has expired.
The reason I find this hard to believe is by your own admission you lost 5,000,000 credits. For you to have reached a loss of that figure you must have been playing a reasonable length of time and gained some knowledge of how the friendly fire bounty/wanted status works.
It seems to me when you tried to dash into the same station in the system you were wanted in, to try to pay off your bounty without having the short wait in another system, your incompetence that led to that bounty/wanted status reared it's head again and you lacked the appropriate skill to smuggle yourself safely into the station.
So you come here and tell everyone how incompetent the game designers are, when really we are discussing your incompetence at playing within the games design.
The analogy definitely does not work when you run over a cop who jumps in front of your moving vehicle. Provided you live in North Korea.
lol yeah, no it isn't. Learn to deal with the game mechanics.
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Well, many likes to advise people in such situations, and that's all and well, but let's not forget this is a pretty big game design flaw that is illogical and has no use whatsoever so it would be high time changing it.
so you think i should be allowed to fly about shooting people as i wish "accidentally" annoying them taking down shields as they are trying to bounty hunt, and they cant do anything to me because i dont get a bountie??
very strange.
Thats modern gaming for you: just put some ductape on your trigger and four cutscenes later some hot chick tells you you are the awesomest dude in the world because of reasons and stuff.
Now you have to aim. Shucks.
Increase the fine for ACCIDENTALLY shooting another player or commander, don't execute them. Pretty simple concept.
You currently get no fine at all for accidentally attacking another ship.
Your problem is in the way the game determines "accidental". The leeway it gives you isn't enough for you.
Which is good because accidentally hitting a friendly ship more than the leeway allows still only results in a 6 or 7 minute bounty. This ensures the ship you hit can retaliate, others can assist and you learn to shoot better and take more care, Bob off for a few minutes and then carry on.
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This isn't olden times.
Unless I'm missing some information re: U.K. ye olde English?
Whew, quite a lot of comments and brisk conversation.
Some think I'm a noob, some think I should stop shooting when there's an authority vessel anywhere near, some want to give me a hug, some RTFM, some even envy my ship.
But some have good ideas about improving the AI and the bounty system, so maybe I'm not complaining in vain?
Some think I'm a noob, some think I should stop shooting when there's an authority vessel anywhere near, some want to give me a hug, some RTFM, some even envy my ship.
But some have good ideas about improving the AI and the bounty system, so maybe I'm not complaining in vain?
It really depends how you approach something and your approach is entirely wrong. You just attack the game if something doesn't go your way.
I once got blown to pieces by police outside a station. I stopped momentarily to do something and didn't realise I'd become WANTED.
What I did: Changed my operating procedures so I'm much more vigilant.
What I didn't do: Post angry thread declaring incompetence in game design.
Now that doesn't mean someone can't be right when they raise an issue but the way you worded this thread shows a degree of childishness.
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