Scanning private beacon / shooting down a skimmer with a SRV shouldnt make my whole ship "hot"

[The_Aurora]

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Returning player, didnt know about the whole hot module ordeal and now I have a lot of expensive modules in storage that I have to pay large sums of money to "clean" (even though the bounty is cleared). All for shooting down a skimmer with a SRV. Whoever thought this was a good idea should reconsider their thinking, I would understand this with shooting down players or authorities BUT A SKIMMER?

 

[Factabulous]

Skimmer showed faction affiliation, you killed skimmer, faction put a bounty on you. Working as intended.

You can find unaligned skimmers if you really feel the need to kill them, but probably not whilst on scan missions.

 

[The_Aurora]

Skimmer showed faction affiliation, you killed skimmer, faction put a bounty on you. Working as intended.

You can find unaligned skimmers if you really feel the need to kill them, but probably not whilst on scan missions.

My point with this post was to express my opinion on how the crime system works, not that I got the bounty in a first place. If I have the bounty cleared the modules stored should be as well or they shouldnt be in the milions to "clear" for a skimmer kill.

 

[Bigmaec]

Skimmers are people too...

 

[Factabulous]

My point with this post was to express my opinion on how the crime system works, not that I got the bounty in a first place. If I have the bounty cleared the modules stored should be as well or they shouldnt be in the milions to "clear" for a skimmer kill.

You chose to store modules after being a veeerry naughty person. Which is a bad idea. Most people do it once, come on here to complain, then don't do it again. Unless they are very rich

You can read all about it in the FAQ https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/faq.php?id=423 or I think it's in the Pilot's Handbook if you want an in-game source.

 

[varonica]

My point with this post was to express my opinion on how the crime system works, not that I got the bounty in a first place. If I have the bounty cleared the modules stored should be as well or they shouldnt be in the milions to "clear" for a skimmer kill.

This is to stop players putting modules in storage and using a suicide to clear bounty, then putting said modules back into the ship. You clear the bounty in the original ship with all modules still in it.