COMPLETED CG Maintain Security in Xi Wangda (Bounty Hunting)

Kalizandra · Jul 19, 2023

AceMcKool said:
At the rate it's been increasing (about 10m/day), Top 25% should hit 90m tomorrow afternoon, so yes, you need to do at least 20m more just to be safe.

More Work? Zug zug

HRDiagram · Jul 19, 2023

Hooplah said:
I wonder...If a player is in the top 25 percent for BOTH Community Goals do they get 6 weapons instead of 3?

Those are two separate events, the rewards are not shared, therefore one should get 6 modules.

exLatius · Jul 19, 2023

Ashnak said:
The obvious tactics are:

wing up

use beam Corvettes (although I was winged up once with a Krait Mk.II who used triple pre-engineered Guardian Plasmas. He was able to hit and usually one-shot any of the small fry)

have experience in when to reset the instance to get juicier targets

pre-stack bounties depending on any hunch you might have about future CGs (it's areasonable bet that any system the Musashi is in might be involved in Thargoid related CGs)

I've got a beam Corvette and yesterday I had been flying for 3 hours in wing. I got only 68 mil! I tried to mark all targets (just firing instantly one ray, one shot).
You mentioned 'any hunch' about further CG. Did you predict current CG? What are the signs?

Disemboweled Ego · Jul 19, 2023

exLatius said:
I suppose It' been said many times. I wonder HOW 'top10%' and eapesially 'top10' are acting? What tactics do they chose? Awfull numbers are shown by Inara: at the moment larger then 800 mil separate 'top 10' and 'top 10%'. It means one has been gaining 133 mil per day.

Installation Scenarios.

In war state you get an extra combat patrol on the defender side so the scenario becomes about tagging everything before it dies.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsi14vCeZg

(this is just for fun, if I wanted to be most effective I'd probably use an ammoless build here)

In boom state you can ignore the smaller ships and farm the condas/corvettes that continuously spawn - this might be slightly faster if you have a large ship with a lot of firepower that can kill them fast and tank the smaller ships without having to kill them fast.

I think in wings the bounties are shared and split so it's not as effective for installations.

Northpin · Jul 19, 2023

A good High Res works as good.
The trick is to use an ammoless build and get a good instance that keeps spawning only Condas and FDL. (Ammoless to avoid having to leave the good instance to go an rearm)
I've got up to 1.6 millions from a single Conda

Cmdr Sharky · Jul 19, 2023

exLatius said:
I suppose It's been said many times. I wonder HOW 'top10%' and eapesially 'top10' are acting? What tactics do they chose? Awfull numbers are shown by Inara: at the moment larger then 800 mil separate 'top 10' and 'top 10%'. It means one has been gaining 133 mil per day.

I bet some of the top ones had a ton of saved up bounties from before the start.
Edit I'm probably wrong about this as it would have to be this specific faction's bounties.

oblivionmanman 2476 · Jul 19, 2023

if you take the combat missions to tamya on the boerd say kill 20 pirates kill them hand the bounties in they count i do them all the time and have top ten now .

Cmdr Sharky · Jul 19, 2023

Northpin said:
A good High Res works as good.
The trick is to use an ammoless build and get a good instance that keeps spawning only Condas and FDL. (Ammoless to avoid having to leave the good instance to go an rearm)
I've got up to 1.6 millions from a single Conda

I imagine being a high combat rank helps as well as you get tougher ships spawning, and therefore likely higher bounties. Highest I've seen on a single ship is a bit over 900k. I'm not Elite, the second account I'm playing is only Expert.

Helmut Grokenberger · Jul 19, 2023

I don't know if there are any available in this CG; but in general, installation scenarios work very well. In the past I made easily and reliably 5 to 10 million per scenario run, which takes about ten minutes.

exLatius · Jul 19, 2023

oblivionmanman 2476 said:
if you take the combat missions to tamya on the boerd say kill 20 pirates kill them hand the bounties in they count i do them all the time and have top ten now

Are you TheManTop10??? How much bounties have you earned?
Please, clarify your method. Do you collect/stock massacre missions?

Northpin · Jul 19, 2023

exLatius said:
Please, clarify your method. Do you collect/stock massacre missions?

For CG only bounties work - the mission payout doesnt count to CG - so if you stack 10 massacre missions wont help you get more bounties

oblivionmanman 2476 · Jul 19, 2023

exLatius said:
Are you TheManTop10??? How much bounties have you earned?
Please, clarify your method. Do you collect/stock massacre missions?

yes

exLatius · Jul 19, 2023

oblivionmanman 2476 said:
yes

Do you mean there is a feature in bounty hunting in HazaRas having got massacre mission(s)?

HRDiagram · Jul 19, 2023

Northpin said:
A good High Res works as good.
The trick is to use an ammoless build and get a good instance that keeps spawning only Condas and FDL. (Ammoless to avoid having to leave the good instance to go an rearm)
I've got up to 1.6 millions from a single Conda

Amen to this!
Yesterday an Anaconda gave me 2.3mil

(I took a screenshot as I couldn't believe it), but Condas and FdL that give more than 1mil per kill in the right instance are quite regular, if you're lucky with instancing (and have the right rank).

oblivionmanman 2476 · Jul 19, 2023

sort of. doing masscre missions target are in target us shows up blue you get the bounties and the mission reward on completion.i the hz just the bounties,i just kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak.

Disemboweled Ego · Jul 19, 2023

HRDiagram said:
Yesterday an Anaconda gave me 2.3mil (I took a screenshot as I couldn't believe it), but Condas and FdL that give more than 1mil per kill in the right instance are quite regular, if you're lucky with instancing (and have the right rank).

I think there's some kind of hard cap of 1m per faction that a ship can give you, but a ship can have bounties from multiple factions if you use a KWS which can push it up to 3-4m in extreme cases.

Ashnak · Jul 19, 2023

exLatius said:
Did you predict current CG? What are the signs?

I didn't - but there's a thread a little down about that.

HRDiagram · Jul 19, 2023

Disemboweled Ego said:
I think there's some kind of hard cap of 1m per faction that a ship can give you, but a ship can have bounties from multiple factions if you use a KWS which can push it up to 3-4m in extreme cases.

I believe you are correct. When I run a bounty hunter with beam laser(s) I always link the KWS to them, so it all happens in the background

Ned Flandalorian · Jul 19, 2023

Can confirm what the above posters have mentioned - despite what the info panel says when a ship blows up, the maximum bounty payout from any single faction (which is relevant for this CG since it's only the bounties for Amanogawa Enlight that count) is capped at one million. There is no way to get 1.6m or 2.3m from a single kill.

Ned Flandalorian · Jul 19, 2023

Northpin said:
Most probably the top ten are also winged, cause the numbers are suspiciously close

More like those are the AFKers leaving their PCs running the game 24/7.