Keep Bounty Vouchers Upon Death

[JBlak]

Now I've seen this discussion thrown around in the forums, but not as an actual suggestion.

Please let us keep our bounty vouchers upon death, it's the 34th century, we're in the information age people, our data's probably being backed up in 100tB/s superluminous internet in real time.

Also, bounty hunting (as well as all other moneymaking methods) as is already dims in comparison compared to trading, so letting us keep vouchers upon death probably wouldn't upset any balances. I did make back my financial losses after crashing into another cobra by doing 2 trading runs in my Asp, but it was still frustrating at the time.

Maybe some can argue that losing bounty vouchers upon death adds a thrill factor to the game, but personally, I get into combat in the game (with NPCs) as a kind of temporary escape from the absolutely tedious, yet absolutely necessary, task that is trading. Minimizing frustration in PvE combat in any way possible would make me very happy.

Please discuss.

 

[Ratas]

I'd still say no. Death should be something you seriously want to avoid. Explorer data is also lost, wouldn't be fair if it was different. And part of fun in long explorarion is the balancing of risk to make it back to civilization. What needs fix is that Trading with high value cargo is just too safe. Make that actually Dangerous and things are much better.

Death penalty is already quite minimal, no need to make it even more trivial IMO.

 

[Odin Wyrmbane]

Death penalty is literally so small that it could lead people to suicide in order to up their CR/H income That is something that has to be avoided. Personally I like it that you loose it if you die. It gives me some serious concerns about behind pulled out of supercruise when heading home to cash out my vouchers!

 

[baja2215]

For me it's a no too .... nothing better than flying around with 1m in unclaimed bounties; low on multi-cannon ammo; 2 shield banks remaining and an expert anaconda appears with a bounty close to 100k - do I play it safe and leave it alone and hand the bounties in or do I take it on and risk it all? It's a risk vs reward thing - the more bounties you get the more risk is involved with the next one (especially in open, in an anarchy nav beacon).

In short; it's a gameplay decision not a 'year 3300 technology should be able to do it' issue.

 

[JBlak]

I think until bounty hunting is tweaked into a viable moneymaking option rivaling trading, it is a purely recreational activity. It would be nice and somewhat more satisfying, to cash in the rewards of my one hour session of recreation (however small it may be), without risk of it being lost in a freak accident.

How about this, for the sake of gameplay, if you lose a battle fair and square and get destroyed, or if you disconnect to avoid death, you lose your vouchers. But if you die in a crash, you keep it.

 

[Magic Man]

When do you die?

 

[Paranoid Android]

How about this, for the sake of gameplay, if you lose a battle fair and square and get destroyed, or if you disconnect to avoid death, you lose your vouchers. But if you die in a crash, you keep it.

There is no reason you should crash. To play devil's advocate; I suggest you lose your insurance if you crash as that is entirely down to pilot error and you have to start in the sidewinder again.

All other professions lose something if they "die" - bounty hunters should not be the exception.