Will the bodies ever stop disappearing?

[Ryox]

Then they could at least wait with the despawn until a new NPC is spawned.
Having bodies disappear within a few seconds is strange to say the least.

I think you summarized here the game designers dilemma. It can have gameplay ramification.
Also, seems to me that it's a common practice in many other games to have bodies disappear like that. To avoid the "pile of corpse effect" (see my first post).

 

[Nadreck]

A bit late now. Halloween would have been a good time to slip this in without announcing it.

 

[ferus]

I think you summarized here the game designers dilemma. It can have gameplay ramification.
Also, seems to me that it's a common practice in many other games to have bodies disappear like that. To avoid the "pile of corpse effect" (see my first post).

Well, if the bodies wouldn't be useful even after death then it wouldn't be a problem.
But in Odyssey they still have purpose.

They could at least leave 1 dead body with the highest authority

 

[ferus]

Can someone help me with the second problem?

I flying all over the bubble now, trying to clear the interstellar bounty at IF but it doesn't show up anywhere.

 

[gooddoc]

Can someone help me with the second problem?

I flying all over the bubble now, trying to clear the interstellar bounty at IF but it doesn't show up anywhere.

Log out, then log back in. Go to a System with an IF, but if that Station/Outpost/Settlement faction is listed & is the same faction that gave you the bounty, then it won't let you clear it there......or your notoriety has increased from zero!!! You can only pay bounties with 0 notoriety.
Or go near to a Penal Colony with your Ship, go to a Settlement & get killed, then pay your fine on re-spawn.

do note though that paying off your bounty, the bounty MAY still show in the tab column until you next log into the game.

 

[Daniel Cloudsifter]

I killed them on foot and they were gone a few minutes later.
But some bodies remain until I leave (more than 10-15 minutes).

I really don't get this and having bodies disappear is stupid because I lose the possibility to clone their IDs later.

While this annoys me, what annoys me more is when all x (9, 13, 20, etc.) scavengers charge me in a non-stop wave and I have to kill them all and have no time to scan for bounties. Inevitably 25% or more of those bodies disappear before I get a chance to scan them. That's really frustrating.

 

[LeoBartlet]

In a perfect world the bodies wouldn't disappear or yeet halfway up the sky and land kilometres away but they do. In a perfect world, NPC would drop loots and perhaps some cheeky mats but they don't.

This is Frontiers world we just live in it.

 

[ferus]

Log out, then log back in. Go to a System with an IF, but if that Station/Outpost/Settlement faction is listed & is the same faction that gave you the bounty, then it won't let you clear it there......or your notoriety has increased from zero!!! You can only pay bounties with 0 notoriety.
Or go near to a Penal Colony with your Ship, go to a Settlement & get killed, then pay your fine on re-spawn.

do note though that paying off your bounty, the bounty MAY still show in the tab column until you next log into the game.

Nope, nothing helped.
My notoriety is 0 but the interstellar bounty never shows in the IF panel no matter how many LY I fly away. Only in my left ship panel.

 

[ferus]

In a perfect world the bodies wouldn't disappear or yeet halfway up the sky and land kilometres away but they do. In a perfect world, NPC would drop loots and perhaps some cheeky mats but they don't.

This is Frontiers world we just live in it.

And hence my question if it will ever be changed...
It doesn't hurt to ask since FDev is (hopefully) monitoring these forums.

 

[gooddoc]

Nope, nothing helped.
My notoriety is 0 but the interstellar bounty never shows in the IF panel no matter how many LY I fly away. Only in my left ship panel.

Don't understand that one.
Iv had fines & bounties still showing after paying them off & have just ignored them.....as long as the fines/bounties aren't restricting say Missions at a Station/Settlement, I wouldn't bother too much about it.
You say on the Ship panel?? tried paying it off in the Station menu rather than the Concourse?

 

[ferus]

Don't understand that one.
Iv had fines & bounties still showing after paying them off & have just ignored them.....as long as the fines/bounties aren't restricting say Missions at a Station/Settlement, I wouldn't bother too much about it.
You say on the Ship panel?? tried paying it off in the Station menu rather than the Concourse?

I don't have issues with normal bounties - those I can pay off in a system where the issuing faction is not present. That works fine.
But the Interstellar bounty never shows up in IF, it just cannot be paid.

And I am still wanted in every Empire system because of this.

This is a Federation system 60 LY away from the system where I acquired the bounty.

 

[dm06]

I thought it was made by design to avoid this (me against infinite enemies reinforcements) :
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That's easy and not a problem at all, just some optimizations are required here.

 

[zimms]

Nope, nothing helped.
My notoriety is 0 but the interstellar bounty never shows in the IF panel no matter how many LY I fly away. Only in my left ship panel.

I guess that means you're the one who put the bounty on your head. You're always present at the current station.

 

[ferus]

I guess that means you're the one who put the bounty on your head. You're always present at the current station.

That didn't occur to me
I'm going to hand myself in... to myself.

 

[LeoBartlet]

And hence my question if it will ever be changed...

If it then it'll come in some random update years down the line.

It doesn't hurt to ask since FDev is (hopefully) monitoring these forums.

Asking Frontier a question and expecting an answer is the definition of madness.

 

[Frop]

I don't have issues with normal bounties - those I can pay off in a system where the issuing faction is not present. That works fine.
But the Interstellar bounty never shows up in IF, it just cannot be paid.

And I am still wanted in every Empire system because of this.

This is a Federation system 60 LY away from the system where I acquired the bounty.

Just checking, but there can't be any Empire factions in that system either, otherwise the Empire bounty won't show up. It would help if the game still showed all the bounties and provided a reason why you can't turn them in at your present location.

Edit: Just saw the system name in one of the screenshots, there are five Empire factions in that system.
Edit 2: Checked Inara, try this one:

Worlidge Hub in Qi Gongzi - station | Elite:Dangerous | INARA

The companion site for Elite:Dangerous with the game database, market data, trade routes, outfitting, engineers, blueprints, crafting, Thargoid war, squadrons, logbooks, galleries, galaxy information and much more...

inara.cz

Edit 3: The IF will probably make a neat sound when you turn in your bounty, but will leave the entry unchecked. Relog afterwards to make sure it cleared properly.

 

[ferus]

Just checking, but there can't be any Empire factions in that system either, otherwise the Empire bounty won't show up. It would help if the game still showed all the bounties and provided a reason why you can't turn them in at your present location.

Edit: Just saw the system name in one of the screenshots, there are five Empire factions in that system.
Edit 2: Checked Inara, try this one:

Worlidge Hub in Qi Gongzi - station | Elite:Dangerous | INARA

The companion site for Elite:Dangerous with the game database, market data, trade routes, outfitting, engineers, blueprints, crafting, Thargoid war, squadrons, logbooks, galleries, galaxy information and much more...

inara.cz

Edit 3: The IF will probably make a neat sound when you turn in your bounty, but will leave the entry unchecked. Relog afterwards to make sure it cleared properly.

In that case I am thoroughly lost now.
Both the system and the station seem to be under Federation:

I just don't get it anymore...
Or do you think ANY empire faction would prevent the bounty from showing up?
If that's the case then it's just easier to hand myself in and get it over with. Too many hoops for some bounty that I wouldn't even get if the game wasn't bugged in the first place.

 

[Frop]

I just don't get it anymore...

That's understandable, it took me a while to wrap my head around the annoying mechanics as well.

• Faction-specific bounties can only be paid off at an IF in a system where that faction is not present.
• Power-specific bounties can only be paid off at an IF in a system where that power is not present, i.e. where there are no factions aligned to that power.

The station I linked you is in a system where there are no Empire factions, it should work to pay off your Empire bounty.

Maranunggu - star system | Elite:Dangerous | INARA

The companion site for Elite:Dangerous with the game database, market data, trade routes, outfitting, engineers, blueprints, crafting, Thargoid war, squadrons, logbooks, galleries, galaxy information and much more...

inara.cz

Qi Gongzi - star system | Elite:Dangerous | INARA

The companion site for Elite:Dangerous with the game database, market data, trade routes, outfitting, engineers, blueprints, crafting, Thargoid war, squadrons, logbooks, galleries, galaxy information and much more...

inara.cz

I personally keep a few bookmarks of different IFs depending on where I'm conducting business, so I always know where to go to pay off my current bounties.

 

[Frop]

Or do you think ANY empire faction would prevent the bounty from showing up?

Yes, that's what I said in my first comment.

 

[GJ51]

Has anyone checked the morgue?