More Granular Bounty System

[Marc_Hicks]

Hi guys,

After a few instances of destroying ships over the interstellar equivalent of Jay Walking (e.g. those listed as Wanted, but carrying less than 500Cr in fines), I got to thinking that it might be nice if the Bounty/Wanted system was a little less Binary.....& more granular.

So might I suggest one of a few possible solutions for a future update?

1) No "Wanted" status unless you have racked up more than 1,000Cr in fines.

2) An indication of *how* wanted a pilot is (might appear as Wanted: Insignificant, Wanted: Minor, Wanted: Intermediate, Wanted: Major & Wanted: Notorious).

3) Perhaps indicated if a Wanted Pilot is wanted for Non-violent or Violent offences.....or both.

4) Perhaps indicate the crimes a Wanted Pilot is actually wanted for (like Wanted (Minor Trespass) vs Wanted (Piracy & Murder)).

Or perhaps some unique combination of some-or all-of my suggestions.

Anyway, I hope this suggestion is helpful .

CMDR Marcus.

 

[CMDR Bungle]

Customisable HUD to show bounties on the main screen maybe. Perhaps linked to a purchased upgrade... could have a similar trade one using some of the many suggestions in other threads but only one or the other can used at one time. Lots of possibilities.

I'd love to have the equivalent of a police scanner in my ship - real-time info on local bounties and ships that have been spotted, USS-style instances randomly generated and sent to your bounty-hunting UI etc. etc. again all linked into the upgrade.

 

[Midarc]

2) An indication of *how* wanted a pilot is (might appear as Wanted: Insignificant, Wanted: Minor, Wanted: Intermediate, Wanted: Major & Wanted: Notorious).

3) Perhaps indicated if a Wanted Pilot is wanted for Non-violent or Violent offences.....or both.

4) Perhaps indicate the crimes a Wanted Pilot is actually wanted for (like Wanted (Minor Trespass) vs Wanted (Piracy & Murder)).

CMDR Marcus.

I really like this idea.
Maybe a symbol, kinda like the elite status, that changes with the severity of the bounty's notoriety?
Something similar to the skull and crossbones found on those floating hives of scum and villainy out there we occasionally dock at.

 

[Marc_Hicks]

I really like this idea.
Maybe a symbol, kinda like the elite status, that changes with the severity of the bounty's notoriety?
Something similar to the skull and crossbones found on those floating hives of scum and villainy out there we occasionally dock at.

Sounds good to me .