The Bounty Hunting & Bounties tips, and general discussion thread

Cmdr Ultra · Apr 1, 2015

Anaconda Bounties

Probably on about 5 or 6 occasions this week I have received no bounty for killing NPC Anaconda's. No blue kill message in the top right corner of the HUD or in the Transaction computer. And of course no credits

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This last guy had 214,000 cr on his head, plus two Cobra wingmen ( i got their bounties ). There was no one else shooting at the Anaconda and I was at a Nav Beacon.

Is this a known issue / bug?, can it be avoided? ie: not hunting a Nav Beacon? or landing the killing shot with a Gimballed Beam laser?

Its just a bit of let down because it was quite an intense battle. Has anybody else experienced this issue?

Valethar · Apr 1, 2015

I'd bug report it. That does seem a little odd.

Briarée · Apr 1, 2015

this is happening since i started, in january.

bount were full of bug back then, seems this one didn't got completely solved

uncle bulgaria · Apr 1, 2015

I had this in a RES and conflict zone the other day, as I was in Open and there were other commanders around I put it down to one of them landing the final shot but it was only with Anacondas though.

I sniped another commander yesterday in a conflict zone, load of NPC and players working on a Conda when I boosted in and landed a C3 cannon shot to the beaten up power plant and bagged the prize. I regret nothing

Cmdr Ultra · Apr 1, 2015

Uncle Bulgaria i remember watching your show about the same time i was playing the original Elite. I don't remember you being so bloodthirsty.

There is no such thing as "kill-stealing" the Cmdr who lands the killing blow should get the prize.

Mephane · Apr 1, 2015

Sounds like NPC stealing power plant kills. The current mechanics against NPC kill stealing only take into account the hull reaching 0. If the ship explodes from a destroyed power plant, whoever got the last hit on that subsystem will be credited the kill alone.

(I hope they either remove power plant kills entirely anyway, or if they won't then at least make it so NPC anti-kill-stealing rules apply for power plants, too.)

uncle bulgaria · Apr 1, 2015

Cmdr Ultra said:
Uncle Bulgaria i remember watching your show about the same time i was playing the original Elite. I don't remember you being so bloodthirsty.

There is no such thing as "kill-stealing" the Cmdr who lands the killing blow should get the prize.

Totally agree.

People dropping rubbish made me snap, in a sort of Michael Douglas in Falling Down kind of way. Drop litter and I'll introduce you to my cannons!

emacinnes · Apr 2, 2015

Krepose Gavayne said:
I think it would be a good idea to have a 'hide minor faction bounty' option on the list, as well as an individual item abandon option (with a "Confirm Yes/No" answer to avoid any expensive misclick mistakes). When you have millions of credits in your balance you don't always want to bother with maybe four-figure values in the list.

A quick swap to a sidewinder (purchased as an additional ship, not a replacement) and an "accidental" death, then swap back, is my workaround to reset the bounty list for the moment.

I liked the earlier idea of the bounty broker in occasional systems that will relieve us of our tickets for a 10%-25% hit. (I've a feeling this should be much higher, like pawning jewellery, should probably be closer to 50%-75% off). The black market at a station can be the place to add this, as there's just the one lonely "I want to sell illegal goods" option for the moment.

geoffrey.hdt · Apr 4, 2015

Why did I get fines and bounties in anarchy system?

Hi everybody,

I was recently in CD-54 471, anarchy system, and interdicted an NPC T7. I managed to shoot progressively its cargo hatch to get most of his cargo, then had to take it down since he did not attempt to flee but opened fire at me while I was collecting the cargo. I then realized that I got both a fine and a bounty.
Then two system authority ships showed up. While getting away in supercruise, I got interdicted by a wanted NPC Cobra.

Would any of you know the OFFICIAL reason why one may still get fines and bounties , and why there is some authority in an anarchy system??

Buddy Love · Apr 4, 2015

Officially it's a known bug unfortunately!

Steve72 · Apr 4, 2015

Had this other day. Picked anarchy on map. Drop in at nav shoot and get fined. Bottom left said federation. Go figure

Radicus · Apr 4, 2015

Ive had the one where you drop into a USS, and pick the target, but wait till he shoots you first... When you return fire, you get fined! But he started it!!

Anton_ · Apr 4, 2015

Steve72 said:
Had this other day. Picked anarchy on map. Drop in at nav shoot and get fined. Bottom left said federation. Go figure

There is at least one star system where conflict resulted in an Anarchy-run system flipping over to Federation. The Galaxy map still shows it as Anarchy-run, and the red-painted starport still has "Never Surrender" and "Rise Up Now" painted around the letterbox. But it's a Federation starport in a Federation system now.

Anton_ · Apr 4, 2015

Bounties become more when it comes to paying?

Bounties (against me) always seem to be a bit more when I present to pay them. E.g., scratching the paint on a cop's ship, 400Cr -- but it's 600Cr when I arrive to pay it (within minutes of incurring it). Etc.

Is this a bug or did I miss something?

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Battleship Kickass · Apr 4, 2015

Yes it costs a premium to pay it off instead of dying to lose it.

Babul · Apr 4, 2015

yep, always has been like this. 150% to pay it yourself.

ColdFish · Apr 4, 2015

Yup, you pay a premium of an additional 50% when you pay your own bounties off.

But I guess you could figure as much from your bill/bounty.

Anton_ · Apr 4, 2015

Interesting. What is the official FD rationale for the 50%? Admin fee? Bribe?

Would make more sense to me if they said it's 600Cr up front, but I get a third off if it comes off my deceased estate. Which would come down to the same thing, just no surprises at the pay counter.

ColdFish · Apr 4, 2015

I guess the rationale is... money sink?
Nah, no idea and I don't remember it being mentioned anywhere either.

I guess it's just to make it less interesting to pay your own bounties off and clean your status too fast and easily.
50% can become quite some money when your bounty hits the 6 or 7 digit figures.

LuxAngel7 · Apr 6, 2015

PLEASE let us redeem bounty vouchers by faction allegiance

My bounty voucher list is a mess. I have so many bounties for so many random groups, parties, affiliations etc. that I have no idea where to even begin to go to collect them all.

On top of not knowing, galaxy hopping to go collect bounties one by one even if I knew where to go would be possibly the most tedious thing I could imagine to do in this game.

At best, not being able to redeem a bounty issued by a minor faction, based solely on what major faction (independent, Alliance, Federation, Empire) system I'm in results in the slightly OCD reaction of wincing at a 1-2k bounty that's taking up space on my screen.

At worst, I'm driving myself insane wondering "where the hell do I go to collect this 400k bounty?!?"...."Purple Seperatist Unicorn Brigade? Wha?"

It would be so much more realistic (imo) and convenient (for sure) if we could redeem all Empire bounties at any Empire system, Federation at Federation etc etc. no matter what little minor faction issued the bounty.

Please please please consider making this simple change, consider it a plea from a bounty hunter who wants to cry when he sees all the credits he has no idea / desire to go trekking around the galaxy to collect one bounty at a time...

If a dev actually sees this, thank you for all the hard work you guys put into this game!