Powerplay Faction: Zachary Hudson New here, Dormant bounty?

[Lonestar285]

Hi everone. I am glad to be here finally this is the most accurate forum it seems for in game information the rest seem to be speculation and that is frustrating. That said Hello and Thank you for having me.

I am really starting to get into this game and I noticed a patch went through that added some new frustrating features apparently.




I was leaving gres dock in zach hudson HQ and I was ambushed by pirate shortly after hitting cruise. I was interdicted, He started scanning me I fired at him and gained a bounty, federal dropships came in and smoked me during his raid on me and now I have dormant bounty and can't access any of the docks in nanomam (zach HQ)

I can not gain merits the way I'm used to which is supplies fortification. Has anyone had this happen to them and how else can I gain merits?

Thank you all, This was extremely frustrating as it cost me roughly 500,000 credits in insurance costs. I don't pick fights but feel a little betrayed by the feds

 

[Kiwirat]

I would think the bounty will not expire for up to a week. You can still gain merits by hunting opposition faction ships (e.g. Denton Patrious, etc) and handing those merits in at a ZH controlled system. E.g. I am killing opposition ships at Beta Caeli which is an anarchy system (no fines) and handing in the merits at alpha fornacis. Just be careful what ships you pick on...

 

[Othniel]

If interdicted, immediately reduce throttle to zero so no matter if it is a wing or a solo guy- this will prevent the long cool down time. Then, you can divert all power to engines and boost while Low Waking out (engage supercruise) with relative ease.
If you are interdicted by a lot of them and they are faster/as fast as you- their mass may interrupt your ability to Low Wake, therefore immediately select a nearby system and start up your FSD (High Wake). It may take a bit longer to jump, but it will not be affected by the mass of other ships.

Since they nerfed Powerplay merit gaining by interdiction- REQUIRING a wing, OR more time than a week can allow if you are aiming for Rank 5, I recommend you go back to transporting your goods.

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Another item of importance... if you are in a system aligned to any other power aside from Federation, you can be ambushed by their faction's ships (NOT PIRATES) and will become wanted if you fire at them REGARDLESS if they fire at you... in this situation, ALWAYS run (unless, as Kiwi pointed out, you are in an anarchy system).

 

[MickyG1982]

Hi everone. I am glad to be here finally this is the most accurate forum it seems for in game information the rest seem to be speculation and that is frustrating. That said Hello and Thank you for having me.

I am really starting to get into this game and I noticed a patch went through that added some new frustrating features apparently.




I was leaving gres dock in zach hudson HQ and I was ambushed by pirate shortly after hitting cruise. I was interdicted, He started scanning me I fired at him and gained a bounty, federal dropships came in and smoked me during his raid on me and now I have dormant bounty and can't access any of the docks in nanomam (zach HQ)

I can not gain merits the way I'm used to which is supplies fortification. Has anyone had this happen to them and how else can I gain merits?

Thank you all, This was extremely frustrating as it cost me roughly 500,000 credits in insurance costs. I don't pick fights but feel a little betrayed by the feds

He may have scanned you but that does not make him wanted, you need to scan him first BEFORE firing or else you end up with a bounty.

To get rid of it, get into a sidey or other small ship. get scanned by an NPC or player (not system security) & die. take the insurance option to put you back in the system where your ship is, sell the small ship & keep on playing.

I cannot stress this enough however, DO NOT GET KILLED BY SYSTEM SECURITY OR A STATION this is because they cannot claim bounties so yours will become dormant again.

 

[Arkadi]

I am getting mildly confused.

Whats the point about needing to scan a ship before I am allowed to defend myself?

When I am "clean" and in my "hometeritorry" and I get attacked I can safely assume that the other ship is getting a bounty and becomes wanted - so I can shoot the attacking ship after it hit me succesful. Why should I get a bounty? Only becouse I didnt scan??

Also I got a message in my inbox from Mahon telling me that I got hostile with him (yes I did try undermining him in a non-anarchy system). Still I am cordial with the Alliance. And its no news that I am hostil in another powers teritorry. So I dont really understand that message...

anyone?

http://imgur.com/dtFjSQ0

and

http://imgur.com/rwxM9jk

EDIT: I wonder if there is any official statement how crime & punishment works now especially regarding powerplay. I must say I didnt find anything and I am rather clueless atm.

I would give screenshots - but somehow I cant upload, neither over forum nor on imgur. I'll bring you screenshots as soon as internet lets me.

EDIT 2:
I am Hudson pledged and am flying in a Mahon exploited system with a dormant bounty for anonter allinace system. That mahon system is under rule of a federal faction. I am quite shure that I also have an alliance wide bounty (dormant) becouse of the message I got in my inbox (see above).

I was interdicted by an antal overseer who was wanted. We did shoot each other and the federal system security was showing up and scanned us both. They were not intervening in any way. They just sayed "you are clean carry on commander".

So I wonder: if the system security is federal and I was in a federal controlled faction within an Allinace system - what did those system security think: oh a federal pilot fighting against a wanted ship! We should engage and help him! But alas! We are exploited by Mahon so we cant help a hostile ship - even if it is fighting a wanted criminal!
But he also has a dormant bounty in another allinace system - but ... ah he is a federal brother so we will just close our eyes on this...

err! you get why I get headaches thinking about this...