Will the new crime/punishment screw up certain missions, like scans?

[FatFreddysCoat]

I was in a system yesterday and picked up some planetary scan missions from the controlling faction in the same system: did the scan and became wanted. Ok I think it’s a stupid mechanic that I become wanted by the very same people for doing what they asked me to do, but I redocked after a bit of silent running, handed the mission in, swapped to a suicidewinder and cleared the wanted tag.

Now that the wanted tag will stick with my ship, how will this work? Every time I do some kind of scan mission I’m now going to be wanted and run the risk of having my SRV equipped ship getting wasted not only when reentering the station to cash in, but also when I decide not to do any more and leave the station. How do I clear that wanted tag and - if it’s immediately payable - how much will that be, and isn’t that a huge deterrent to doing missions like that?

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Currently all you have to do is

- wait x Minutes (until Transaction tab states "Clear on H-Jump")
- Hyperjump out of System
- dock and pay off either at Interstellar Factors or locally (a normal Fine, you're no longer Wanted)

I have no idea though how minor offenses (Mission-related) will be dealt with in V3, didn't try that during Beta.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Provided you're not combining the scans with a bit of murder (which will generate notoriety and make your bounties much larger and harder to clear), this won't be much trouble in 3.0

1) Do scan, get tiny bounty, run away
2) Return to issuing station (usually in a different jurisdiction anyway) and hand-in without trouble as you're locally Clean.

For managing the bounties you've got a few options.
1) Clear them at an IF office once in a while. The bounties are for a few hundred credits and the missions pay a million or more, so this won't break the bank. You'll need to do this if you end up with bounties in the same jurisdiction as the mission issuer. In most parts of inhabited space, IF offices are pretty common, so it'll only be a slight detour (or just take the missions from stations with IF offices in the first place, if that's practical).
2) Ignore them entirely. It does mean your scanning ship is hot ... but scanning can be done in a Sidewinder with an SRV (easier to land it, too), so you could have a cheap scanning ship for this purpose, and switch to a clean ship for everything else.