The Bounty Hunting & Bounties tips, and general discussion thread

spacescrub

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Ok. This I discovered works.

If you choose a bounty mission that has you look for a single target and it pays a high bounty (150k+cr and 1day+ to complete it) then make sure you will be playing the next day.
Accept the mission.
Go do something else, don't waste valuable time looking for it.
Next day when you log on, go to the system where the mission tells you to go.
The bounty target will be there for you. You have to wait long, minutes only.
Works everytime for me.

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*You don't have to wait long, minutes only.

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TheVIPer

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Bounty Hunting Contract Boredom

I am attempting to complete a mission to track down a named NPC to collect a bounty. I know I need to go to the system mentioned and basically look around the area for USS; however, I've gone through over 20 of them and so far I only got one ship that basically told me to stop hunting "or else".

The three systems the game have him spawn in are completely empty except for the star ... so I've been here almost two hours flying around completely empty systems bouncing in and out of USSs.

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is it really this boring? I'm in the correct system according to the mission. I just cannot believe it would take this long, or that the USSs spawn so rarely in empty systems.
 

Midian27

Midian27
Have you tried a strong signal source? Maybe he's in there. I have no idea since I find those missions a waste of time and don't do them.
 

bsnaylor

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TheVIPer said:
I am attempting to complete a mission to track down a named NPC to collect a bounty. I know I need to go to the system mentioned and basically look around the area for USS; however, I've gone through over 20 of them and so far I only got one ship that basically told me to stop hunting "or else".

The three systems the game have him spawn in are completely empty except for the star ... so I've been here almost two hours flying around completely empty systems bouncing in and out of USSs.

Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is it really this boring? I'm in the correct system according to the mission. I just cannot believe it would take this long, or that the USSs spawn so rarely in empty systems.
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There is a bug with these missions, it's on the known issues list. (and yes, i've had the same issue more than once)
 

TheVIPer

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bsnaylor said:
There is a bug with these missions, it's on the known issues list. (and yes, i've had the same issue more than once)
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Meh ... so the solution is to just delete the mission? This will certainly be the last time I try one of these. While also boring, at least running a rare route back and forth produced something of value.
 

DanteLeonhart

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Midian27 said:
I can't understand why people even do those missions. You make so much more doing almost anything else. The mission system is hopefully just a placeholder because at the moment its pointless at best and god awful most the time.
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I like to pick up about four or five of these at every station in Achenar. The result is a slew of missions that take about 1hr to complete. I usually rack up more than a million CR, so it's actually very viable. Plus your combat rank goes way up real fast. Not to mention the payout of increasing faction Rank.
 

Shadow_Frost

Shadow_Frost
Bounty notification on target

We get so much data on the ships we target, if they're wanted or not, who they are with and if they are a part of a wing but I'd like to see how much their bounty is on that list. It's annoying to bounce back and forth between the left screen and the main one when picking a target out of a wing. I'd enjoy it being listed right there, right below "Wing". Anyone think of a reason this would be too carebear?
 

Krait_79

Krait_79
Shadow_Frost said:
We get so much data on the ships we target, if they're wanted or not, who they are with and if they are a part of a wing but I'd like to see how much their bounty is on that list. It's annoying to bounce back and forth between the left screen and the main one when picking a target out of a wing. I'd enjoy it being listed right there, right below "Wing". Anyone think of a reason this would be too carebear?
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Totally agree. It's a pain having to switch back and forth. Would be good if we could filter what target info to display including bounty value
 

Monk

Monk
DanteLeonhart said:
I like to pick up about four or five of these at every station in Achenar. The result is a slew of missions that take about 1hr to complete. I usually rack up more than a million CR, so it's actually very viable. Plus your combat rank goes way up real fast. Not to mention the payout of increasing faction Rank.
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Have you done this recently? I'm wondering if this bug was introduced in 1.2.
 

CMDR i Tetsuo

CMDR i Tetsuo
Sorry but I really like having to look at the UI panels, it feels more mechanical and tactile and is an element of ED I really appreciate.
What would be a slight improvement though would be having the contacts panel default to whoever I have targeted when I tab across, it can be a bit of a headache when you're in a high traffic area.
I'd also love a toggle on the Nav panel to collapse the local system data leaving only the stars, some of the big systems make selecting another nearby star overly cumbersome with the excessive scrolling.
 

DanteLeonhart

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Midian27 said:
I can't understand why people even do those missions. You make so much more doing almost anything else. The mission system is hopefully just a placeholder because at the moment its pointless at best and god awful most the time.
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Yeah. Sunday was pretty terrible but yesterday wasn't bad. It's not very consistent. What i really hate about it, is having to take rank hit when I abandon the mission.

This is one of the things I hate about an always online game. At least offline, I could have loaded a previous save but now I'm depending on Fd to do something to reimburse my time with their product. And I'm under no illusion that that will ever happen.
 
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CMDR Arni Sigurdsson

CMDR Arni Sigurdsson
Midian27 said:
I can't understand why people even do those missions. You make so much more doing almost anything else. The mission system is hopefully just a placeholder because at the moment its pointless at best and god awful most the time.
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You must do some of those missions to get the Imperial and Federal rank up..
 

TheVIPer

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I just had the same problem happen. Missions are pretty useless in their current state. Go find target, target never appears. A few hours I'll never get back.
 

Maxavius

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I took on one of these missions last night about 150 bounty and about 1 day and change to complete. My first USS was an alternate offer. And after searching for about 2 hrs last night I couldn't get to my target. In the process of searching again today with aboUT 9 hrs to deadline. And yes it's not the most profitable. But I need to raise my rank not my balance. Will report back if it works today as this never used to take this long. either a bug or a reworking of the mission .
 
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schurem

schurem
How to turn in certain bounties?

Hi guys,

Little newb-Q from me. I have accrued a bunch of smallish bounties over the past few months, includin a bunch of combat bonds. I have however forgotten where the people are where I can turn them in. How to find out?

help me obi wan keforumobi, you are my only hope!

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