Is it just my imagination or have all the big bounty ships disappeared? For the last week or so, even in the big ship spawns the bounty values seen to have plummeted. I was in one last night, loads of big ships, anacondas, pythons, clippers and drop ships abound but there was hardly anything above 100k. I even had one anaconda that paid out 37k. I was playing for over two hours and only had one ship at 200k.
Where have all the high value targets gone?
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I definitely had one last night .... usual re-rolling of RES until .... HOLY COW ... endless stream of big fish .... was definitely getting bounties in excess of 200k
Made about 4.5m in a little over an hour .... they're just rare ... but definitely had more in one system i frequent than most of the others
Made about 4.5m in a little over an hour .... they're just rare ... but definitely had more in one system i frequent than most of the others
Saw it a few times in the new beta.
I think you are right. I definitely noticed that bounties have gone down for the big ships, but also the number of big ships.
The few Anaconda's I have encountered this week were mostly between 50k and 80k.
I even decided to do trading for a while because of it.
It's just luck.
I made a killing at a RES last night. There was a constant stream of big ships - enough that I could ignore the minnows. Bounties were averaging 100-150k a pop.
I made a killing at a RES last night. There was a constant stream of big ships - enough that I could ignore the minnows. Bounties were averaging 100-150k a pop.
I'm a little bored of RES, but I had a great day yesterday in SSS's. A very interesting engagement with with 8 ships (Vultures and FDL's) winged and fighting each other, high bounties all and a really good engagement, canopy cracked in the end but richer 
Also had a Pirate Lord mission last night that netted 390K in total, tooled-up Anaconda - Also successful with cracked canopy!
Honestly, Vulture canopy is like paper
Also had a Pirate Lord mission last night that netted 390K in total, tooled-up Anaconda - Also successful with cracked canopy!
Honestly, Vulture canopy is like paper
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Me too. I've very excited about 1.3 and the quest leveling mechanic (haven't heard many complaints about it, must be good then). I love getting bounties of the bulletin and roam around looking for my targets - it puts the 'hunter' in 'bounty hunter'. RES playing, while rewarding, feels more like 'bounty farming'.
Yeah I love it too! The hunting aspect is cool and you find some interesting things along the way. RES farming whilst effective credit wise gets very samey.
Ive been playing the same res. Only get a hour and a bit to play. No matter how many resets most evenings I get ok spawn of a few good ships. Then every so often I get awsome spawn but then back to mediocre.
The assassination mission are paying out well. Just under 200k for mission then over 300k for bounty on said target. 20 mins work. It just when I take one I dont get another straight away.
The assassination mission are paying out well. Just under 200k for mission then over 300k for bounty on said target. 20 mins work. It just when I take one I dont get another straight away.
I found a good res the night before last. Made 3 mil in about an hour. Went there again last night and after a couple of resets I made another 3 million. The nearest station was independent so I handed in my system bounties plus around 700k of fed and imp bounties too. (Went to a fed outpost the first night without checking).
It was the endless jumping between RES's that made me abandon the game last week and I haven't been back since. I just don't have the time to waste in trying to find something fun to do to play Elite.
I hope power-play and Major RES' will bring some predictability to the dice-rolling. It'd be nice to know that if you go to a large-population low-security extraction site you'll probably get X type of ship and so on. But in reality, you just have to reload and some days you just never get a good run and you've realised you've spent over an hour mucking about when trying to get the game into a position to be able to play it "your way".
I hope power-play and Major RES' will bring some predictability to the dice-rolling. It'd be nice to know that if you go to a large-population low-security extraction site you'll probably get X type of ship and so on. But in reality, you just have to reload and some days you just never get a good run and you've realised you've spent over an hour mucking about when trying to get the game into a position to be able to play it "your way".