The bounty hunters really sour the game

[LancelotSwe]

Sure thing that Spain wants my head because I raid theirs tradeships, but having bounty hunters showing up randomly in ports to attack me is not fun anymore, now there's atleast 6 of them, beating them with my boarders is usually no problem but half the time my boarders hit the local population and then I have aggroed all the town.

And buying the hunters off everytime worked before, now it costs me 200 000 pesos everytime.

Having the spanish ships hunting me is okay, usually you can escape but the bounty hunters-mechanic is not fun at all.

[Drake]

when bounty hunters show up in cities try to hide yourself behind one guard and let them hit you, they will hit the guard and fight the whole city or you can just go back to your ship and moor again

[LancelotSwe]

Originally posted by Drake:

when bounty hunters show up in cities try to hide yourself behind one guard and let them hit you, they will hit the guard and fight the whole city or you can just go back to your ship and moor again

Well, you can't go back to your ship, it's closed when they appear. Hiding behing guards is a good idea but my borders still attack.

I could dismiss them in every port but seems like a bad solution to a bad problem.

[Sam]

Originally posted by LancelotSwe:

Sure thing that Spain wants my head because I raid theirs tradeships, but having bounty hunters showing up randomly in ports to attack me is not fun anymore, now there's atleast 6 of them, beating them with my boarders is usually no problem but half the time my boarders hit the local population and then I have aggroed all the town.

And buying the hunters off everytime worked before, now it costs me 200 000 pesos everytime.

Having the spanish ships hunting me is okay, usually you can escape but the bounty hunters-mechanic is not fun at all.

I mean, that's just the way it works. You piss off a nation enough, you gonna have to pay the price.
Time to spend a bunch of dubloons to get the bounty removed, or at least lowered so that you wont have to deal with a gang of them at ports.

Also, if you're far enough into the game, you get the Lamport's Suit, which raises your stealth a lot. If you wear that you can usually talk your way out of it (90% chance in my case) so it won't even matter anymore.

[LancelotSwe]

Originally posted by sam:

Originally posted by LancelotSwe:

Sure thing that Spain wants my head because I raid theirs tradeships, but having bounty hunters showing up randomly in ports to attack me is not fun anymore, now there's atleast 6 of them, beating them with my boarders is usually no problem but half the time my boarders hit the local population and then I have aggroed all the town.

And buying the hunters off everytime worked before, now it costs me 200 000 pesos everytime.

Having the spanish ships hunting me is okay, usually you can escape but the bounty hunters-mechanic is not fun at all.

I mean, that's just the way it works. You piss off a nation enough, you gonna have to pay the price.
Time to spend a bunch of dubloons to get the bounty removed, or at least lowered so that you wont have to deal with a gang of them at ports.

Also, if you're far enough into the game, you get the Lamport's Suit, which raises your stealth a lot. If you wear that you can usually talk your way out of it (90% chance in my case) so it won't even matter anymore.

I kind of understand why they have it but I think it's a bit to much having assassins that often, it's most fun to raid Spanish ships, let me to that for France without having to worry about landing in some places that's tight and not enough room to fight 6-7 assassins without my companions hitting the locals.

Took some time to remove that much bounty too, understandable for how much bounty I had though.

Is there a way to fight the spanish without raising the bounty too high?

[XŦĦ§¥]

Originally posted by LancelotSwe:

Is there a way to fight the spanish without raising the bounty too high?

Raise the pirate flag before attacking any nation. it will reduce and sometimes negate any relation drop.

[Cozy]

Them bounty hunters have been a menace, but so have my companions carrying buckshot... Those poor towns people and merchants.