Michael Brookes
Game Director
That shouldn't be the case as per the known issue in the op - when they try to claim the bounty they'll only get the million.
Michael
Patch Notes Update Server side update at 11am - 21/04/15
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That shouldn't be the case as per the known issue in the op - when they try to claim the bounty they'll only get the million.
Michael
Mr. Brookes I heard a rumor that how much you can claim in bounty vouchers before turning them in was also capped to 1 million credits. Is this true? If so I feel another option should be visited as limiting how much in vouchers one can carry at a time is the same thing as creating an artificial limit on how long someone is allowed to bounty hunt before having to return to a station which is kinda bad for gameplay... Especially for someone who gets carried away hunting and goes home to realize "Oh hey... I haven't earned anything for the last 3 hours of my 4 hour flight."
I'm however very glad to see attention being paid to this. However long term having a cap on per-minor faction bounties of 1 million is actually kind of sad. I hope that a way to circumvent the exploitation of the bounty system is conceived so we can go back to the old way, sans exploits. However, it does need to be handled to prevent exploitation by players and RMT's alike.
I'm however very glad to see attention being paid to this. However long term having a cap on per-minor faction bounties of 1 million is actually kind of sad. I hope that a way to circumvent the exploitation of the bounty system is conceived so we can go back to the old way, sans exploits. However, it does need to be handled to prevent exploitation by players and RMT's alike.
But but...someone on the internet claims that you will get billions as long as you pay them...so it must be true!
Personally I'm looking forward to soon getting that money from that Nigerian Prince!!
Does this mean hunting down a player for weeks will, at most, rewarded with a single millions ???
Wow, now I'm impressed...
You've just destroy one of the most exCiting interaction in-game.
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If you will use bounty scanner, you still will be able to cash in all his bounties, not only local one. So...basically there can still be billion bounty...just will take way more time to collect it (getting 1M bounties with 100 factions).
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Michael, are you still storing the >1M bounties internally, just clamping them to 1M for display and kills? This would let you differentiate bad boys from really bad boys.
ciger
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so my bounty has been cut to 1m, bulletin board is now updated. looks like the bounty counter per minor faction has been set to zero as i could up my bounty by killing system security vessels. i should be able to do so in my current system of operation until i hit another million of bounty. seems to work fine.
what does not seem to work as intended is (redacted) and this may yet result in huge bounties being farmed within a couple of hours. will have more info on that soon.
if a dev wants more info just PM me for details.
what does not seem to work as intended is (redacted) and this may yet result in huge bounties being farmed within a couple of hours. will have more info on that soon.
if a dev wants more info just PM me for details.
Even if this guy is a very very very bad guy in many many many systems, he will not have 10 Millions on his head (or it's a bounty farmer).
Add to this that this guy is maybe playing in SOLO mode.
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FIRST: It's exCiting
SECOND: Your lack of comprehension of what this fix brings it's really sad. I hope in real life you're more careful about what you say.
EDIT: It actually makes me think that you may have have had some gain from the mechanism and now your toy is broken.
But I've been wrong before.
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Just stick a ticket with 'exploit' category in support.elitedangerous.com
Genuine question: how many multi-million credit bounties on Player CMDRs have you hunted down and cashed in on? I know Isinona tried to go after a few big names and then found out how much better the Vulture was than the Viper...
To be honest, I'm not convinced that you'd ever come across those players in open....
Now - with that level of bounty, I'd be expecting NPC's to camp the commander's location, interdict them every few seconds and hunt them with killer fleets of Fer De Lances or Anacondas. Fixing it using the game mechanics and making it near impossible to accumulate that level of bounty all at once!
Station death ray, refusal to grant docking permission, bounty hunters across known space hunting them down.
Doesn't matter whether it is in open, private group or solo, people with large bounties should expect large danger.
Now - with that level of bounty, I'd be expecting NPC's to camp the commander's location, interdict them every few seconds and hunt them with killer fleets of Fer De Lances or Anacondas. Fixing it using the game mechanics and making it near impossible to accumulate that level of bounty all at once!
Station death ray, refusal to grant docking permission, bounty hunters across known space hunting them down.
Doesn't matter whether it is in open, private group or solo, people with large bounties should expect large danger.
Sorry i failed at math it is 1,4 bil not 3,5 :/. Still alot
brilliant, one hole in the fence sorted
Mr. Brookes (or Sandro) with regards to the pending crime update :
Has any due consideration been given to using the crimes people commit as a method of determining how long before they can pay off their bounties instead of a fixed timeframe?
Has consideration been given to putting in the (previous elites Lawful, offender, outlaw, (desparado?), fugitive) legal status as part of the crimes and punishment system which would give FDev more granularity over implementing authority responses to different crimes?
I did post a fairly indepth suggestion for implementing a more responsive and more in depth system that reacts to the players actual crimes committed in the crimes and punishment discussion thread and wondering why we would have a fixed timeframe for paying off ALL bounties when once based on players actions might be more conducive to lessening the 'griefing' aspect while still allowing psychopathic play styles and not impacting on minor offenders (single friendly fire bounties, etc) anywhere near as much as it should impact on the 'bad boys' and still allows piracy etc with consequences of course for the various crimes and offender levels...
Mr. Brookes (or Sandro) with regards to the pending crime update :
Has any due consideration been given to using the crimes people commit as a method of determining how long before they can pay off their bounties instead of a fixed timeframe?
Has consideration been given to putting in the (previous elites Lawful, offender, outlaw, (desparado?), fugitive) legal status as part of the crimes and punishment system which would give FDev more granularity over implementing authority responses to different crimes?
I did post a fairly indepth suggestion for implementing a more responsive and more in depth system that reacts to the players actual crimes committed in the crimes and punishment discussion thread and wondering why we would have a fixed timeframe for paying off ALL bounties when once based on players actions might be more conducive to lessening the 'griefing' aspect while still allowing psychopathic play styles and not impacting on minor offenders (single friendly fire bounties, etc) anywhere near as much as it should impact on the 'bad boys' and still allows piracy etc with consequences of course for the various crimes and offender levels...
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Absolutely this!
I have no idea why solo mode and open is linked.... they should be completely separate. It leaves barely any incentive to play on one or the other...
I tried against Derath, the only one I found. I failed.
Every other CMDRs seemd to be on SOLO because I waited hours and hours where they were supposed to be (the TOP 5 showed them moving, I concluded they were playing).
The bounties systems wasn't perfect. But it was here. Does this is a reason to just to put away this gameplay option ?
PS: Don't mess with me. I didn't hurt you... not yet.
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