Who decided to make the bounty collection mechanic...more laborius??

[CMR Don't shoot me]

Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy with a lot of the improvements in 1.1 particularly by making combat more difficult, but who's idea was it to now have local bounties?

Let's face it, noone really enjoys having to collect their bounties and I struggle to understand why they don't have electronic payment over a thousand years into the future. I know a lot of people have raised the issue of bounties being unclaimable, but noone seems to have raised why FD thought it was a good idea to make bounty collection more annoying in the first place?

Unless it is some bizarre way to balance professions more towards trading/mining?

I don't get it,

-your biggest fan, this is Stan.

 

[Astronut57]

Didn't realise this was a known problem till now. I have a couple of local faction bounties that I can't cash in because the factions aren't in control of any station in the system - in fact they have 0.2% influence in the one system they exist. I guess this means my transaction screen is going to fill up pretty quickly.

 

[Watcher]

Haven't they always been local?.. If the local authority is aligned to a main faction then yes, you can collect more widely (in other affiliated territories) otherwise it is local.

Unless I've missed something...
Did they ditch main faction bounties??

 

[NewYears1978]

They have always been local. Nothing new.

There are gameplay reasons for this, the same reasons as why you lose Cartography data if you die.

Quite simple one could go out Exploring and rack up tons of Cartography data, the self destruct so they respawn where they started. The fix is to make you lose the data upon death.
The same for bounties, you could just continuously rack up bounty credits and never have to worry. Death and loss of them causes you to have some real feeling of danger or consequence if you goof up and die. I do agree that the local part of it is VERY annoying though.

Using a warrant scanner I find bounties from 200 + LY away...but...I just hop in my Sidey and go turn them in....is a little goofy though..

 

[Karic Hovath]

Haven't they always been local?.. If the local authority is aligned to a main faction then yes, you can collect more widely (in other affiliated territories) otherwise it is local.

Unless I've missed something...
Did they ditch main faction bounties??

See this post:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112334&p=1757270&viewfull=1#post1757270

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They have always been local. Nothing new.

There are gameplay reasons for this, the same reasons as why you lose Cartography data if you die.

Quite simple one could go out Exploring and rack up tons of Cartography data, the self destruct so they respawn where they started. The fix is to make you lose the data upon death.
The same for bounties, you could just continuously rack up bounty credits and never have to worry. Death and loss of them causes you to have some real feeling of danger or consequence if you goof up and die. I do agree that the local part of it is VERY annoying though.

Using a warrant scanner I find bounties from 200 + LY away...but...I just hop in my Sidey and go turn them in....is a little goofy though..

You CANNOT currently collect on some local bounties.

See this post: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112334&p=1757270&viewfull=1#post1757270

 

[Antmax]

They broke the local bounties somewhat in that you can't cash in your vouchers if the faction isn't influential enough in the system to pay you.

Not sure if it's a bug or not. I have a small voucher with a faction in Ethgreze. They aren't the ruling faction but they do have 12% influence and still won't pay up. They don't operate in any other systems either. And this system only has one station.

 

[the_gargoyle]

Never mind, got beaten to it about 50 times.

 

[NewYears1978]

See this post:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112334&p=1757270&viewfull=1#post1757270

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You CANNOT currently collect on some local bounties.

See this post: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112334&p=1757270&viewfull=1#post1757270

Oh well that's quite annoying.

 

[CMR Don't shoot me]

Guys I've never had a local bounty before 1.1? Only empire, alliance and federation and I have fought in anarchy systems etc, so I'm surprised to hear these aren't a recent thing?

 

[NewYears1978]

Guys I've never had a local bounty before 1.1? Only empire, alliance and federation and I have fought in anarchy systems etc, so I'm surprised to hear these aren't a recent thing?

I get them constantly when using my warrant scanner.

 

[the_gargoyle]

Oh well that's quite annoying.

Yeah, it is. Especially when you get around a lot and your transaction screen is a garbage stuffed mess full of un-claimable junk.

Only way to clear it out is to swap to a cheap sidey and smash into something.

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I get them constantly when using my warrant scanner.

I think you are mistaken again, I have been bounty hunting since release, KWS religiously.. Never ever seen a local only bounty.. only the big three major powers.

 

[wstephenson]

They broke the local bounties somewhat in that you can't cash in your vouchers if the faction isn't influential enough in the system to pay you.

Not sure if it's a bug or not. I have a small voucher with a faction in Ethgreze. They aren't the ruling faction but they do have 12% influence and still won't pay up. They don't operate in any other systems either. And this system only has one station.

It's a bug, and it's

Still being worked on.

Michael

 

[Starnoob]

I think you are mistaken again, I have been bounty hunting since release, KWS religiously.. Never ever seen a local only bounty.. only the big three major powers.

Yup, same here. I've bounty hunted exclusively for income since game launch and I've never once had a bounty payed by anyone other than the big three, and I always use a KWS to extract additional bounties.

 

[Karic Hovath]

I get them constantly when using my warrant scanner.

I think you are mistaken again, I have been bounty hunting since release, KWS religiously.. Never ever seen a local only bounty.. only the big three major powers.

Doesn't really matter either way at this point. I'm fairly sure that I've received bounties from major in-system factions as well as the big three. In Anarchy systems, I only ever received bounties from the big three. It's possible I'm misremembering but, like I said, it doesn't much matter either way.

 

[NewYears1978]

I have a local bounty in my log right now, when I get home I will screen shot it..
I can't remember the name off-hand but it was like Elysium Something Something

I exaggerated on the countless part - I've had maybe 3 or 4 of them.


I do have a mission stuck in my log though which is very annoying, but completely unrelated to this topic. It's already abandoned but I cannot discard it.

 

[Jerakeen]

I think they're a stupid idea. I'd like a "you know what? Keep your flipping bounty" button to delete them from my transaction panel. I have bounties on there for a couple of thousand credits that I'm never going to travel hundreds of light years to collect so I'd really rather like to just be able to write them off and get them off my list.

And I never noticed getting them before 1.07
If you're telling me that they've always been there then I have no reason to disbelieve you so I must have just not got any before.

It does rather make a mockery of having to go in person to collect bounties. Given the fact that if you get wanted status everywhere the instant you inadvertently shoot a clean ship it's rather ludicrous that fulfilling a bounty isn't transmitted in the same way and automatically credited to your account.

 

[NewYears1978]

I think they're a stupid idea. I'd like a "you know what? Keep your flipping bounty" button to delete them from my transaction panel. I have bounties on there for a couple of thousand credits that I'm never going to travel hundreds of light years to collect so I'd really rather like to just be able to write them off and get them off my list.

And I never noticed getting them before 1.07
If you're telling me that they've always been there then I have no reason to disbelieve you so I must have just not got any before.

It does rather make a mockery of having to go in person to collect bounties. Given the fact that if you get wanted status everywhere the instant you inadvertently shoot a clean ship it's rather ludicrous that fulfilling a bounty isn't transmitted in the same way and automatically credited to your account.

This is so true. You accidentally fire on a friendly(before the fix anyways), immediately wanted and all the authority vessels int he galaxy are now after you....but you get bounties and have to turn them in locally, and lose them if you die

 

[Mixxi Pal]

Screenshot from a video on January 12th. I've always received bounties like this but never from a faction without a station:

 

[Negative Entropy]

I think you are mistaken again, I have been bounty hunting since release, KWS religiously.. Never ever seen a local only bounty.. only the big three major powers.

they have been here from day 1.

the thing is they are most common in independent system. in fact if you bounty hunt in an independent system without KWS you will only collect these local bounties.

 

[Eagle Eye]

Local bounties from minor factions are always there, even before 1.1. The difference is that the minor factions issuing bounties used to always have a station where you can cash in. Now minor factions without a station reward bounties too. Thats the problem.