Why can't bounty rewards be transferred into our accounts?

[TheSisko]

Its 2016. We've had the ability to transfer money into bank accounts for years now.

But, in ED, in the year 3302, if you want to collect your bounty reward, you have to go to the system where you earned it.

Why?

I suggest a bounty reward screen/tab where you can see what you earned and where, and have the ability to transfer those bounty credits into your account regardless of where you are. It would save time from running around to collect our rewards after passing through a system where the player is attacked and successfully destroys the attacker.

 

[DukeWally]

That's the point -- it's one of the many time sinks built into the game to keep you playing longer if you want your credits -- or conversely to slow down your game "progress" if you don't invest the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_sink

 

[Ydiss]

Discussed to death this one. The general consensus is that it's ok as it is except with annoying random bounties you forget, or neglect, to hand in then can never be bothered to hand in (or cannot work out where to hand in), leading to a clogged transactions tab.

The common suggestion for which is to have a claims broker you can pay commission to, in order to remotely claim bounties.

 

[Yukon Sam]

I was doing the CG at Cherets a couple days ago, built up a nice stack of bounties, and decided to push it with juuuust one more. Pirate got in a lucky shot and smashed my canopy. I finished him off and jumped for the station, watching the timer tick down on my air. Almost there.... boom, interdicted. I dodge and twist, charging the FSD, cursing in a most unladylike fashion, and jump out with 24% hull left. Slid through the mail slot with less than a minute to live and collected my pay.

I find it annoying that we have to collect our bounties in person, but at the same time, there's a strategic element to knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em that would be eliminated if we could claim them anywhere.

 

[Ian Skippy]

It would totally remove any risk/reward assessment and makes death much more meaningless for Bhers.

 

[ziddan]

At least we could get a "show on galaxy map" for each faction bounty so we could find our way back the system where it can be collected

 

[DefiledDragon]

I was doing the CG at Cherets a couple days ago, built up a nice stack of bounties, and decided to push it with juuuust one more. Pirate got in a lucky shot and smashed my canopy. I finished him off and jumped for the station, watching the timer tick down on my air. Almost there.... boom, interdicted. I dodge and twist, charging the FSD, cursing in a most unladylike fashion, and jump out with 24% hull left. Slid through the mail slot with less than a minute to live and collected my pay.

I find it annoying that we have to collect our bounties in person, but at the same time, there's a strategic element to knowing when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em that would be eliminated if we could claim them anywhere.

Good point. However, it wouldn't be "game breaking" if we could claim ALL our bounties in any station, regardless of where they were earned.

 

[bitstorm]

I'm all for making players do stuff in the game, so in principle for having players collect bounties.

But NOBODY COULD BE BOTHERED!

It's like 30k here 15k there and so on in an endless list that can never be deleted unless you physically have your ship destroyed. It's just silly.

It's like having a files on your laptop and you have to destroy your computer and claim a new one on insurance just to delete some files.

 

[drholliday]

It would totally remove any risk/reward assessment and makes death much more meaningless for Bhers.

How would that be? It's not about transferring funds automatically on kill. That indeed would be a problem. But I don't see why there should be a problem with collecting in a station. There is no risk traveling around collecting. It's just a timesink. In fact. The way it is now I'd love to have an option to just delete bounties because they clutter up my mission board and I'm never going to collect them.

 

[DaveB]

Aside from any other consideration, if the faction can get their target killed and NOT pay out the bounty, of course they will.

"I'm sorry, Cmdr Faceplant, but with the destruction of your previous ship your sensor logs went with it and you can no longer present the required proof that you took down the criminal named in this warrant. I'm afraid sensor logs verified by your ships computer are all we can accept. I didn't make the rules but...."

Followed by peeved cmdr storming out of the security office and the clerk calling accounting, "Fred? Bill at the front desk. You can tear up warrants 345221 and 4905688. They went down all right but the guy that got 'em lost his logs. Unless they show up our radar again you can flag those as dormant."

 

[shadragon]

Losing bounties (and exploration data and cargo and missions) on ship destruction means you work at staying alive. Stops players using self-destruct to begin again safe and sound 20LY away with all your goodies intact.

 

[lonewarrior]

Its 2016. We've had the ability to transfer money into bank accounts for years now.

But, in ED, in the year 3302, if you want to collect your bounty reward, you have to go to the system where you earned it.

Why?

I suggest a bounty reward screen/tab where you can see what you earned and where, and have the ability to transfer those bounty credits into your account regardless of where you are. It would save time from running around to collect our rewards after passing through a system where the player is attacked and successfully destroys the attacker.

The way I see it, once the ship is destroyed you gather up some of the debris or a black box from the ship to bring back and confirm you killed the right guy
Sending information via comms probably could be faked, think of it like cutting off your targets head and bringing it back as proof of the kill
Thats how I imagine it anyway

 

[tiger61378]

Wanted: Dead bounties require hard proof...that's why you have to haul the data to the station where they're placed. Too easy to fake a transmission

 

[Cpt_Zap]

How much money have all us combined not bothered to collect ? Billions ?

So minor factions have had their enemies removed and saved themselves a shed load in the process, and you wonder why they resist any attempts at an automated payments system


Agree with not being able to clear your transactions though, that's annoying.

 

[Sloma]

Don't mind hauling bounties to where I got them earned if I remember where the faction which issued them is from. At the moment I have outstanding bounty to collect in Marias Corporation but I don't know or remember where to look as the left panel does give me any hints. Usually you get the name of the system but for some factions this information is missing.

 

[Heater]

Other issue is for large ships, i.e. I have out standing bounties in systems with only small / medium pads, and unless I buy a small / medium ship, I cannot collect the bounties,
so yes we need some type of broker to clear them out.

 

[DanTheMan]

It just doesn't ring true though does it?
The KWS can instantly jack up the bounty on a wanted party by looking at their criminal record across multiple jurisdictions from wherever you happen to be when you scan them.
However, the payments system cannot work across borders or as instantly on the verified Kill and you MUST go into a station to collect payment.......a convenient gap in the logic here I think.

Yes it is done for a reason, but I am not sure it is a logical or good reason myself. I am not getting bent out of shape over it though; it is what it is.

 

[Shadowhaunt]

The simplest solution would be to add the capability in the transactions tab to search for the nearest system pertaining to the faction bounty. It could open up the galaxy mapp and home in on the closest sytem, letting you easily plot a course. This would help those deep inside one of the territory of one of three major faction quickly and easily find a system belonging to one of the other two factions they can submit their bounties in. Another possible fix would be along the broker idea. Each station, or maybe only certain ones like other station services, has a broker available when you dock. The farther away you are from the system the bounty is for, the more the broker charges to pass along the info. That way there's still incentive to visit the originating system if you're after every credit possible.

 

[DaveB]

It just doesn't ring true though does it?
The KWS can instantly jack up the bounty on a wanted party by looking at their criminal record across multiple jurisdictions from wherever you happen to be when you scan them.
However, the payments system cannot work across borders or as instantly on the verified Kill and you MUST go into a station to collect payment.......a convenient gap in the logic here I think.

Yes it is done for a reason, but I am not sure it is a logical or good reason myself. I am not getting bent out of shape over it though; it is what it is.

The lore is that your criminality or otherwise is stored securely on your ships computer. Law enforcement ships and a KWS can interrogate that secure storage. It's not communicating with remote jurisdictions. There was discussion back pre-release of anarchy stations perhaps offering a service to "hack" that secure storage and get rid of warrants against you, which would be a good thing in my opinion but it never happened.

 

[dementia]

Its 2016. We've had the ability to transfer money into bank accounts for years now.

But, in ED, in the year 3302, if you want to collect your bounty reward, you have to go to the system where you earned it.

Why?

I suggest a bounty reward screen/tab where you can see what you earned and where, and have the ability to transfer those bounty credits into your account regardless of where you are. It would save time from running around to collect our rewards after passing through a system where the player is attacked and successfully destroys the attacker.

Because the bounty hasn't been claimed yet.