Shot dead for a 400 credit bounty?
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Absolutely, and right now it is a complete farce
A healthy dose of realism would be wonderful. Clearly to make a proper crime and punishment system, if you accidentally attack an NPC, rather than a 400 credit bounty, you should be arrested by internal security and have your ship towed to the nearest starport. At this point you will sit in a holding cell until they confirm your identity and then you can be booked and processed. At this point you can hire an attorney, the best charge 500,000 credits, or be given one free of charge, but he's not nearly as good.
You'll be told you are now being charged with attempted murder and will be executed if convicted, but if you plead guilty to simple assault, you only need to pay a 200 credit fine and perform community service for an hour (4 hours if you got the free attorney) by hauling toxic waste from the nearby station into the nearby sun and jettisoning it there for disposal. After your community service you just need to remember to pay another 20,000 credit fee to the towing agency for moving and storing your ship while you were being processed and can then leave without the sting of a bounty on your head. Seriously why can't Frontier get simple things like this right?
Yep. Bounty = Kill on Sight. Fine = Pay Up.
When it gets rreally ludicrous is in a RES if someone (player or NPC) accidentally picks up a 200 CR bounty, every authority vessel in the instance will drop their pursuit of a pirate Conda with a 250k bounty to attack the new offender!
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THIS JUST IN
If you are not yourself a distinguished expert on the subject on which you are criticising someone, your complaints are automatically invalid even if factually correct!
I find it fascinating that when determining whether to levy an assault fine, it matters whether your targetting computer has finished processing the targets wanted status, but it does not matter at all whether you are actually targetting a ship in the first place.
Intent is not identical to action; one can lead to the other, but one does not automatically lead to the other. Ever watched Minority Report?
There is still a bug for this.
unless you didn't lift your trigger finger fast enough as one of the crazy system police passes through what should be very obvious fire. Then you get 400 bounty, they all stop shooting at the pirate anaconda or other heavy high value target and blast you to bits because you're friggn mass locked by their ships and can't get away. Blew 5 mil in creds today replacing my ship. unplugged the controller. Have little desire to play right now due to losing hours of grind to a simple mistake (or was it a mistake? I'm not the one going flying through another's laser beams). It's a ridiculous mechanic. How about at least a "hey watch your fire" warning or something?
I'd kill you for a 400cr bounty. It all adds up. Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.
(Boost away from scans, silent running, use outposts, etc)
Or jump first, then wait in peace without system security crawling up your donkey.
NPCs will always go after the player with a bounty before going for NPC bounties and it makes sense considering the amount of effort it takes to get a bounty the size that the NPCs have.
To get the 400Cr bounty you have sustain your fire. It used to be a single shot but that got changed. You should pay more attention when shooting and run if you see a wanted status come up. Your rebuy was entirely your own fault.
Necro!
Why? Why do this to us? Lol
This assault bounty topic has been done to death (pun intended!).
Why? Why do this to us? Lol
This assault bounty topic has been done to death (pun intended!).
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