Hello all! I'm new to the game and I'm loving it. Recently however I accidentally fired on a ship before completing a scan and received a bounty, was killed by security forces and now I have a dormant bounty. Wanted to know if there were any commanders around the PITA system (A. Duvall territory) who could KWS me and collect. Thanks!
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- Thread starter Ivan Droggo
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You can use the suisidewinder method. Go to a station in a system next to the one where you got the bounty. Buy a basic Sidewinder. Jump into the system where you got the bounty and use the system map to find a station that's owned by the faction that gave you the bounty.. Go to the station. When you drop out there, line yourself up with the axis of rotation about 6km out so that you're directly in line with the slot. Put 4 pips to engines and do a single boost, then fly at full throttle until you're quite close. You can reduce your speed as you go through. If you deploy your landing gear in the slot, it will slow you down inside in case you're still going too fast. Land, then take off again and fly out of the station. Hang around outside the slot until the feds scan you and blow you up. You will re-spawn back in the station with a new SW and no bounties, so you can go and get your ship, sell the SW and carry on.
key steps:
1. You must land at the station first
2. You mustn't get scanned on the way in, else they'll blow you up and you'll keep the bounty.
3. You must get scanned after you take off to reactivate the bounty, then you can blow yourself up if you want.
key steps:
1. You must land at the station first
2. You mustn't get scanned on the way in, else they'll blow you up and you'll keep the bounty.
3. You must get scanned after you take off to reactivate the bounty, then you can blow yourself up if you want.
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This will only turn a bounty in to a dormant bounty won’t it? The OP stated he already has a dormant bounty. To the best of my knowledge the only way to get rid of this is to:
1) Wait it out and pay off the legacy fine once timer is up
2) Have another player scan you with KWS, kill you to collect bounty?
I haven’t messed around with the bounty system too much so could be wrong...
No, that's wrong. If you use the method I describe, you come out clean as you can see in this demonstration video I did at 40:28.
[video=youtube;WK0XHN9CuY4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK0XHN9CuY4&t=1856s[/video]
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Thanks for clearing that up - good to know.
We've been through hoops recently trying to suicidewinder out a bounty. It seems that it only expire completely after having been destroyed TWICE by the station. Not by the cops, by the station.
Just got rid of a dormant bounty yesterday doing the following:
Go to a station that is CONTROLLED by the FACTION THAT ISSUED THE BOUNTY,
Sneak in, land, launch and then loiter around the slot, you will be killed by security or the station.
Then go through the re-buy screen to be re-born at a starter system or at the station that just killed you.
The info after I was killed stated that I was done in by security ships, worked the first try.
This works now, what will happen after the update remains to be seen.
Go to a station that is CONTROLLED by the FACTION THAT ISSUED THE BOUNTY,
Sneak in, land, launch and then loiter around the slot, you will be killed by security or the station.
Then go through the re-buy screen to be re-born at a starter system or at the station that just killed you.
The info after I was killed stated that I was done in by security ships, worked the first try.
This works now, what will happen after the update remains to be seen.
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You didn't follow all the steps I outlined above. You come out clean first time every time if you do it right.