Stop the Sobek Boys (from cheating)
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IIRC an Anaconda pays out 36,000 in combat bonds. (Could be wrong)
If they purely killed them that would equate to 514 of them so presuming over 1000 ships is not unreasonable.
If they purely killed them that would equate to 514 of them so presuming over 1000 ships is not unreasonable.
In quivira CG the top was 40 mill. at the end of it i got 17 mill
To find cheating in a game? I'd say yes. Do i personally care where on a highscore list i place? No.
In the second CG, it is almost the same. TOP 5 contributors have something like 18.7M, 16M, 15.5M etc.)
I played a lot and I contributed approx 1.2M. I played approx. 3 hours yesteday and 4 hours today. I was killing every "wanted" ship around nav beacon, sometimes got 200 Cr bounty, sometimes 90.000 Cr etc. The ships simply does not spawn fast enough and I cannot imagine to contribute 18M even playing non-stop without trips to refuel/reload/cash bounty.
A bit strange...
But if it is true that all Alliance Bounty Vouchers count, regardless of time, it is quite possible that some bounty hunters just already had enough vouchers and they just travelled to the system to cash them.
I played a lot and I contributed approx 1.2M. I played approx. 3 hours yesteday and 4 hours today. I was killing every "wanted" ship around nav beacon, sometimes got 200 Cr bounty, sometimes 90.000 Cr etc. The ships simply does not spawn fast enough and I cannot imagine to contribute 18M even playing non-stop without trips to refuel/reload/cash bounty.
A bit strange...
But if it is true that all Alliance Bounty Vouchers count, regardless of time, it is quite possible that some bounty hunters just already had enough vouchers and they just travelled to the system to cash them.
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I think it's worth highlighting these players to the Devs. if it bothers you - they've removed players from the CG's in the past. But be aware - I've seen some player hording bounties (even up to 10Million) just waiting for a CG to open, then case in the $$$ they've horded right when a CG opens.
Yes, this is quite possible. We will see if those players will contribute 18M once or regulary, every day
i fly a Python mostly in res sites and i can easy make 1.5mil per hour, if a really push it and use power changes more to get to targets fast i can and have made 2 mil in 1 hour and im sure im not the only one.
ahh good to know, i did say earlier i didnt know what kind it was but then took it from another post it was BH.
There may or may not be cheating occurring. Who really knows?
I signed up to the CG also today, and have generated over two million bing bongs in bounties so far in one morning.
So maybe this shows the scope of how these fantastical numbers can be generated. Being one player amongst two or so thousand other cmdrs involved.
Could be something in your post though as I Chose the other CG available on the bulletin board, and bounties can be amassed in RES and USS. Rather than Just combat zones alone. It would take twice as long to hit those numbers in a combat zone......but....some people will, and do play non stop.
By by the way. Can you let me know if you find my shoe please, it's floating in space somewhere. :/
I am Flimley
I signed up to the CG also today, and have generated over two million bing bongs in bounties so far in one morning.
So maybe this shows the scope of how these fantastical numbers can be generated. Being one player amongst two or so thousand other cmdrs involved.
Could be something in your post though as I Chose the other CG available on the bulletin board, and bounties can be amassed in RES and USS. Rather than Just combat zones alone. It would take twice as long to hit those numbers in a combat zone......but....some people will, and do play non stop.
By by the way. Can you let me know if you find my shoe please, it's floating in space somewhere. :/
I am Flimley
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Not really; I've donated just under 10m earned from about 2.5 hours of play since it started, and 600k I had from earlier in the week... and this is my first Community Goal. I'm using a Python in Solo so I don't have to share the spawn, and resetting the instance until the Dropship / Python / Imperial / Anacaondas appear, then just sitting and blasting them over and over until I can't take much more. The safest way to reset the instance is to point your nose 90 degrees away from the planetary rings, boost out until you can engage supercruise, then just turn immediately around and drop back in again; if I see sidewinders or criminal Adders as the first couple of spawns I reset it again until I get the heavy spawn.
The heavies give an average of 100k credits for each kill, and my figures are coming from simply chain killing them at a rate of about 1 every 5 minutes; at a certain point, when the zone is full of miners and NPC police, the next spawn is almost always one of the heavies, and they're always criminal if you've got the right spawn list. To get to 18m then I would expect to do about 4 hours of grinding (another 1.5 hours from where I am now), which isn't that much for the obsessives, but I can't keep focused myself that long.
It also took me to Master ranking, and unlocked the Alioth Permit mission, although I didn't realise this as the text description was broken and it's now gone; I hope to see it again either when I do an hour or two more tonight or before I leave for the rest of the week. If I'm still top 5% when I return I'll be amazed, but at the time of typing this it's already just about to unlock Tier 5 and at 4.7b handed in in total... I rather suspect those who can grind for 8-10 hours a day are probably sitting on enormous sums to hand in, so it could end exceptionally quickly. Not sure what the global bonuses are going to help with at all, I just wanted to take part for the first time, and get an extra bit of free cash... no cheating involved though, just working the spawn then using a large ship.
Just would like to point out that although it says you can only count bounties from after you signed up, this is wrong
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I accidentally found a way to make your bounties from
before the goal count towards the total, I've reported it but I can tell you it's possible to cheat that way
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I accidentally found a way to make your bounties from
before the goal count towards the total, I've reported it but I can tell you it's possible to cheat that way
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Just to be clear, this isn't the bounty hunting mission.
At the time I took the screenshot the top guy for that community goal was coincidentally on 18 million.
18 million for bounty farming is very believable (I was on 9 million at the time).
Here are the current total for both community goals, they have been active for the same amount of time:
On the left is the Combat Bonds, on the right are the Bounties.
52 million for combat bonds vs 24 million for bounties.
I thought the number was too high before, but maybe it was possible without cheating. I'm calling hax now.
At the time I took the screenshot the top guy for that community goal was coincidentally on 18 million.
18 million for bounty farming is very believable (I was on 9 million at the time).
Here are the current total for both community goals, they have been active for the same amount of time:
On the left is the Combat Bonds, on the right are the Bounties.
52 million for combat bonds vs 24 million for bounties.
I thought the number was too high before, but maybe it was possible without cheating. I'm calling hax now.