WHY!?! (C&P changes gripe)

[Lori Jameson]

So, SP bounties break C&P badly. How so?

Every NPC you kill you get an ever increasing amount of credits added to your bounty. So far so good, yeah? Well, after extensive testing of the new C&P in an effort to have a huge bounty in every Superpower, I hit the 'soft-cap' on your bounty.

After you are Wanted in 5 or more systems belonging to a Superpower, local bounties no longer are incurred. From there on out you only get 2,000Cr added to your SP bounty (1,000Cr for Assault and 1,000CR for the Murder). Frontier removes the scale that influenced how much credits are put on your head after you hit SP bounty status.

This makes it more economically sound to be wanted everywhere in say, the Federation. It incentivises Criminal CMDRs to have 5 or more different bounties (even just Assaults) in 5 systems before going ham in that region of space. It completely defeats the purpose of the C&P bounty scale.

So, yeah. It makes the new C&P even more broken. It even manages to shatter my suspension of disbelief with my next point...




The new Outfitting 'feature'...

Now that I'm wanted in the Federation, even Colonia and Shinrarta Dezhra (areas completely removed from politics) as well as in other SP territory, I can't access outfitting. Not even to access my personal stockpile of ordinance... How does that even remotely make sense?

"Welcome to Alliance space CMDR! I see you've been busy helping our systems fight off Federal control. We locked you out of outfitting for your convenience!"

What!?!

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Huh?
Only 1000Cr for a Murder after 5 Murders within a SuperPower's jurisdiction? That makes no sense at all if that's correct.
Why would the SuperPowers begin to "amnesty" Terrorists just because they reached a kill count of 5 (??)

When it comes to Criminal Acts (non-PowerPlay), I personally don't quite think i.e. the Alliance would welcome "murder hobos".
For that to make sense, the SuperPowers would have to enter full-fledged and all-out open War against each other.

 

[Doctor Zajo]

Yeah this needs to be hot fixed ASAP. I am totally fine with consequences for crime, but damn FD don't outright discourage me from playing how I want.

It is almost like you don't want criminals in the game at all now. If that is the case, then just remove all criminal NPCs and remove the option to join activities like smuggling and pirating in the group finder tool (or whatever it is called).

There should be something for the criminals FD. And the least of that should be full access to services in Anarchy systems.

 

[Deleted member 115407]

superpower bounties are awesome.

I'm coming for you.

 

[Lori Jameson]

Doing BGS and illegal missions in several systems (when you do Spec Ops mission stuff) yeilds the same result. You don't need to be a 'murder hobo' to recive the same results I did.

 

[Codger]

Doing BGS and illegal missions in several systems (when you do Spec Ops mission stuff) yeilds the same result. You don't need to be a 'murder hobo' to recive the same results I did.

It's gonna happen for Planetary Scans, too, if you do them in multiple systems.

 

[Lori Jameson]

I'll be streaming my Noteriety Cleaning on Mixer (Valkyrian_Heavy). Don't worry vindelanos! I'll go back to my crime spree when this gets fixed!