I am not encouraged by this new C&P stuff. After working so hard to keep my name clear, last night I accepted a Fed Rank up mission (rarely see those anymore, so take em when they pop up), it was Kill 24 pirates in X system. So I brush off the Chieftan and go to X system, great there are several HazRes and HighRes in system, this will be easy. Go first to the High Res, get a few mission targets done and all the sudden, in the midst of 20 ships or so I am firing on a target and a stray ship crosses my fire, or at least I think one did cause I never saw it, I stop firing when I see the 400 bounty warning for hitting an unintended target, I think, how can this be, I see my target in front of me and my beams are painting the target, so how could I be hitting someone else. Well, not soon after I stop firing, my bounty is increased because the ship I never saw that I hit must have died...Ok, I am in a High Res, I know there are security ships around me, so I finish off my mission target and zoom out with the murder bounty hanging over my head. No problem, will finish my targets in a Haz Res next door. As soon as I equalize in you see the message "Warning, Comm links down" yada yada yada, I see a mission target and start firing, next thing I know, 4 ships are turning red and firing at me, I finish off my target and turn to see who the others are, maybe mission targets? But no, they are Power Play ships attacking because I have a warrant...Power Play crap, and they remain clean after firing on me. So I get mad and clean house, each one of course incurs my bounty higher and higher, but I am angry at the designers who designed this flaw into the game, and it is a flaw, because think back, every time you get the warning jumping into a Haz Res, Comm links down, so what does that mean, to me it means that no one can hear you scream because, get this....COMM LINKS ARE DOWN, so if I kill a 'clean' ship when COMM LINKS ARE DOWN, then how the hell do I incur a bounty, how the hell does the System Authority even know the death happened, COMM LINKS ARE DOWN. Utter cow manure . Well, before you know it more Power Play clean ships show up and start attacking, so now there is security in the Haz Res, they might not say System Security, but that's exactly what they are, in fact, there are more 'Security Ships' in the Haz Res then there are System Security ships in the High Res. Well, I jump out, no point in killing more clean ships, since I don't get nothing for em anyhow cept a higher bounty. So I can't hunt in a High Res, can't hunt in a Haz Res, gotta complete my mission for the rank up, no problem, gotta interdictor, will finish my targets that way, but no, FDev in their infinite wisdom decides to throw 'Clean' bounty hunters to keep interdicting you even in SC, and if you kill them, guess what, yep, another bounty and another increase in the stupid notoriety. Well, I am thoroughly fed up by now and still have 8 targets to go, screw it, don't care if they try to interdict me, I can beat those clean ship interdictions no problem, just can't do nothing when I interdict a mission target and those idiots pop into the instance and start attacking. So I kill both the target and clean ship and wala, instant system response shows up. Big deal, jump out. Still have a few targets to go so decide to zip back into a Haz Res, kill as many mission targets as I can, and zip back out. Finally finish the dang mission with a Notoriety of 6 and 133k Fed bounty, So I am now wanted all over Fed Space, all because of a stray shot and a stupid C&P non-thought out system. Well, I turn in the mission and get my rank up to Petty Officer, and I know that now I have to wait an untold number of hours for the Notoriety to go down so I can pay off these stupid bounties and clear my name, so what do I do, I go to an outpost at the CG, I am in a Private Group, so no worries, park the ship on the pad and right now the game is still on and I'm not playing, my ship is just sitting on the pad waiting, preventing any NPCs from using the pad. Will check to see if the Notoriety has gone down to zero when I get off of work, which should be around 12 hours since I quit playing last night. Don't know if it will work, but at this point I don't care, I mean C&P is one thing, but do they really want to punish those of us that aren't criminally minded all because of a stray shot on a ship I never saw in the first place, it could have been behind my target, doesn't matter. So with this new system I guess FDEV wants to curb professions such as Bounty Hunting, because there ain't no point in doing it anymore with this crap, and forget helping your home systems BGS out, don't wanna BH in the Home system anymore because a "stray" shot will lock you out and you can't get into anymore ships until sometime in the future when Notoriety goes down or some other bull crap. So the only safe professions are what...trading or exploration anymore. Can't rely on trading really, cause you can get interdicted and then the security comes and guess what "stray" shot goes into effect....really FDEV, what are you trying to curb with this ill thought out system?
