Murder in a HazRes

So something strange happened to me earlier. I was flying in a HazRes in my FDL hunting some bounties for the CG, and I'm not sure if it was a bug or pure bad luck. I was fighting an Anaconda, while it was fighting a mining T-9 and it's 2 Sidewinder escorts.

Long story short, it was a bit of a knife-fight with me popping plasma at the Conda. Anywho, right before the Conda explodes (had about 3% health left), my FPS took a quick skip and I get two simultaneous fines for murder. It flashed by so quick, but I'm almost positive it was the same NPC name twice in a row, doubling the fine. It COULD have been both Sidewinders, but I didn't (AFAIK) hit them.

Maybe a stray plasma shot? I mean, it'd be a one in a million chance - it's hard enough to hit Sideys with plasma when you're actually trying. Maybe I or they collided? If that's the case, and they died, I would still accrue a wanted status, right? But seriously what are the chances of both Sideys colliding with me at the same time? Or even a single plasma shot striking both at the same time? I use all fixed so it's not like a turret or was shooting at them... Anyone else encounter this?

Arggh... what happens if I let someone kill me so I can finish off this CG? Never really had a bounty before that I wanted gone (i.e. assassinate target, move on). I can probably get by, but it'd probably just be easier to go get a Sidey and let someone kill me.
 
Same just happened to my wife in the Phiagra community goal. I suppose same location as you are.

As far as I know, the only way to get rid of an active Wanted status is to get yourself killed in a Sidewinder. It's poor and admittedly feels like cheating, but it's the only way to continue the CG. If there is another way, I'd love to know about it.

In general, ramming a Sidewinder happens quickly and often goes totally unnoticed until the fine pops in, especially in a big ship. Happened to me a couple of times as well.
 
Last edited:
The size of the bounty/ies will give a clue to what happened. How much is it/are they?

About 12K total. I mean it's pennies so I'm not worried about that, but I'm just more or less curious as to how. I really think it was a bug of some kind because my FPS dropped to 0 for a split second then I got the bounties. In my almost 2 years of playing, this is the first time I've experienced a bug like this (if it is a bug).

- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -

Same just happened to my wife in the Phiagra community goal. I suppose same location as you are.

As far as I know, the only way to get rid of an active Wanted status is to get yourself killed in a Sidewinder. It's poor and admittedly feels like cheating, but it's the only way to continue the CG. If there is another way, I'd love to know about it.

In general, ramming a Sidewinder happens quickly and often goes totally unnoticed until the fine pops in, especially in a big ship. Happened to me a couple of times as well.

Yes - same location most likely.

- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -

....but that dormant bounty becomes immediately reactivated upon the next scan, and by any ship.

And by that you mean that if I do a suicide-winder maneuver than it'll just be reactivated again once scanned?
 
Should be reactivated if a NPC bounty hunter scans you with a kill warrant scanner (I guess same with a player KWS, but not 100% certain on that).
Police in front of the station does not reactivate, as far as I know they use cargo scanners but not KWS. Wife just says she was scanned by the police approaching that CG station while having a dormant bounty but it did not reactivate - she was definately Clean afterwards. So police scan seems to be no problem.

In general I just live with the week bounty and wander elsewhere. But annoying if it happens in CG, of course.
 
Should be reactivated if a NPC bounty hunter scans you with a kill warrant scanner (I guess same with a player KWS, but not 100% certain on that).
Police in front of the station does not reactivate, as far as I know they use cargo scanners but not KWS. Wife just says she was scanned by the police approaching that CG station while having a dormant bounty but it did not reactivate - she was definately Clean afterwards. So police scan seems to be no problem.

In general I just live with the week bounty and wander elsewhere. But annoying if it happens in CG, of course.

Gotcha, thanks to you and your wife for the info. I would normally wander elsewhere, but like you said - the CG. I'm in the top 15% so I suppose I could leave and be okay but still, annoying :(

Edit: Looks like it worked. Had another CMDR kill me and it lists the total fine in the rebuy screen and now I'm not wanted.
 
Last edited:
Back
Top Bottom