There is only ONE skill you need as a bounty hunter and it is not dogfighting
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Why do you need USSs? Just go to Anarchy System Nav Beacon with Kill Warrant Scanner.
Also, USS appear at random, so if you just go 30km/s in the SuperCruise, they will pop in front of you and you can jump in those instantly. Try it. But better go anarchy.
Also, USS appear at random, so if you just go 30km/s in the SuperCruise, they will pop in front of you and you can jump in those instantly. Try it. But better go anarchy.
you do it wrong
Are you referring to bounty missions? Yes, totally agree there...peeking into every random corner of space to get a good roll that gives you your mission objectives is not very compelling. It works to make progress but it isn't particularly rewarding.
For general bounty hunting, just drop into a popular planetary ring...plenty of prey there
Back on to USSs...what if we kept them but implemented them more dynamically. For example, I get a typical bounty mission that says check these systems. I go, land at some station there and see if there is anything on GalNet or the BB that could indicate that they will be found near this or that planet. This would mean that the target would only spawn in that area, so I'd only need to check a handful of USSs and all USSs outside of that area wouldn't spawn the target. Or, from the Contacts menu, I could pay a snitch to give me a precise reading on the target location. The snitch gets a good percentage of my bounty but my time searching is greatly reduced. In the latter case there would be a mission target, that behaves like a USS but it persistent until the mission is completed.
For general bounty hunting, just drop into a popular planetary ring...plenty of prey there
Back on to USSs...what if we kept them but implemented them more dynamically. For example, I get a typical bounty mission that says check these systems. I go, land at some station there and see if there is anything on GalNet or the BB that could indicate that they will be found near this or that planet. This would mean that the target would only spawn in that area, so I'd only need to check a handful of USSs and all USSs outside of that area wouldn't spawn the target. Or, from the Contacts menu, I could pay a snitch to give me a precise reading on the target location. The snitch gets a good percentage of my bounty but my time searching is greatly reduced. In the latter case there would be a mission target, that behaves like a USS but it persistent until the mission is completed.
USS are basically the worst place to bounty hunt Oo. Nav points and RES are the places to go.
The U.S.S. mechanic is a realistic depiction what is would be like to search for one ship in an entire solar system. In the vastness of space there has to be a bit of luck and perseverance involved with finding an Object, especially one that doesn't want to be found. How do you suppose you would be able to just roam up on a target and start firing?
You, and the others complaining about the U.S.S. system, seem to be used to situations where the work is done for you and you just expect to scoop up the rewards. It shouldn't be a snap to find, even a ship sized object, in the midst of open space.
You, and the others complaining about the U.S.S. system, seem to be used to situations where the work is done for you and you just expect to scoop up the rewards. It shouldn't be a snap to find, even a ship sized object, in the midst of open space.
This would be true if it weren't so mechanical.
When you're doing a bounty mission do the following:
* Slow to 30km/s, wait for USS to appear, drop into USS
* It won't be your target (highly unlikely - see later steps)
* Enter S/C
* Repeat above steps until you see the same group as in the first USS (usually 3 drops)
* Move to the next system on the list & repeat the above ... keep doing this until a person in one of the USS's tells you where the bounty can be found
* Go to that system and repeat the first 3 steps until you find your bounty (usually 3 drops)
* Pew pew
if you want to pla yit safe, go to a resource extraction point. Plenty of feds flying around those in case things get hairy. I'm personally not particularly fond of nav point beacons, as there is a bit too much stuff going on and yeah, as someone else said, not enough "US" time with my target. The really fun bit is interdiction *ESPECIALLY* in non-anarchy system. Supercruise around, scan ships for wanted ones, trying to find one with a big whale of a ship and a decent rating, and then position yourself behind him, trying to get near enough for the interdiction to work BEFORE he exits SC, then the whole interdiction process itself ... When everything works out you scan him for warrants fast (who knows what he might be worth in other systems?) and you go for the kill. *FUN*! (and yes ... fun in Supercruise .... sue me you naysayers!). Going to a USS, if you do it ffrom time to time to change your routine, is actually nice.
basically : you're doing it wrong .)
basically : you're doing it wrong .)
No, its not that, for me. It should take time to comb space for someone or something...actually that is part of the reason I hate that I can see a ship's precise location at 2k light seconds away in super cruise (makes no sense at all).
What is missing is any backstory or foundation to anything that occurs at a USS. It is truly and literally random once in system (with some greater probabilities to your current missions). Part of bounty hunting should include investigation. You should need to learn that your quarry is near this planet and that information not only costs you money but can go stale if you dilly dally. Or how about being able to tap into system security, where you can pick up distress signals and maybe your target will be there, pirating yet another hapless traveler. The current mechanic works, and uses up the right amount of time, but that time is spent mindlessly jamming J and going through the procedure over and over and over with not much to provide variation or interest.
I don't want everything handed to me on a platter, and I wish people would stop assuming that is the problem people have with it...no, the problem is that it is a bit lacking in the intelligence and engagement departments. It needs more from the player to engage with the mission and to find creative ways to get to a resolution....not the same old jam J, deploy hardpoints, target blip, scan, retract hardpoints, jam j, wash and repeat...it can be more!
You're doing that wrong as well.
Everyone in an anarchy is clean, by definition. You need to use your kill warrant scanner on each ship to find out the bounty on it from other jurisdictions, then after you have killed it you go to a station or outpost of that jurisdiction to claim the bounty.
You are being inconsistent the USS system makes it too EASY what i want is a system where i get the targets name and the name of a system or 2 where they do business...and then have a mechanism where we can track them down..the problem isn`t we expect to scoop the rewards for no work its that the current system doesn`t require work the USS`s will spawn directly infront of you if you cruise slowly forward...its completely given to you there is NO work involved...its pathetic...in frontier i used to goto the system the target was expected...and let them jump out then track/hunt them through that system...in this its cruise slowly forward and blow them up when they appear.
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Its the only way to do the Elite Anaconda BB missions.
Regarding Bounty hunting at NAv Points, yeah, I may have done that wrong