Is there PLAYER BOUNTY hunting in this game?

[Indy409]

I have yet to find a bounty on a player how do you go about finding bounty's on players and not Ai

[Deckire]

just have to be in the right areas with a Warrant Scanner. Pirates are usually in very common areas: Community Board areas, Engineering Systems or well known systems that have Players Traffic. If you run hold around a area and hear people calling GG and stuff in system chat, more then likely PvP is happening and you can see about hunting them down.

[Sam Willet]

Originally posted by Indy409:

I have yet to find a bounty on a player how do you go about finding bounty's on players and not Ai

When docked, look at the system news in the Station Services panel. You can see the top 5 player local bounties (and their location), and the top 5 or 10 major bounties (with location)

At least then you know who you're looking for. Finding them in the game is another matter.

Or you can fly around Deciat looking for player ships with names like BigPhatKilla and EatLeadNoob

[Oggmeista]

You mean within the coding of the game ctual given objectives etc, , no it doesn't and i like the idea, especially now with the odyssey expansion . Obviously though in a evolutionary combat game, there's always players who play the game with that ethic, but it's not the same as what i actually think you meant..

[Sam Willet]

Originally posted by Oggmeista:

You mean within the coding of the game ctual given objectives etc, , no it doesn't and i like the idea, especially now with the odyssey expansion . Obviously though in a evolutionary combat game, there's always players who play the game with that ethic, but it's not the same as what i actually think you meant..

I'd happily put up a billion bounty on a couple of players.

But Fdev have a hard limit of 2 million bounty income per kill, to stop one player racking up a huge bounty, and letting a friend claim it by killing the first player.

Also, putting bounties on people could easily be abused. Imagine streamers trying to play, and getting two dozen people putting a billion credit bounties on their head for lolz.

It would be nice if the top ten most wanted in the game were always shown on the galaxy map though, and with icons in-system. (Like team mate markers, but in Red perhaps?)

[Indy409]

Iv been wanting a bounty system in this game for years and now odyssey is here I want to be able to hunt players when there on planets. I would like a system be kinda like starfield where you go to a kiosk and find bountys and it tells you where they are, and what planet to look for them at. I dont think Fdev will do that that but would like to see it and im sure other players, plus it would bring a whole new way to play and more players, thus keeping the game alive since it feels like it is dying.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Indy409:

I would like a system be kinda like starfield where you go to a kiosk and find bountys and it tells you where they are...

Already in game. Viewable from every station terminal while you're sat in dock. You even get two distinct bounty lists. Regular bounties (player pirates/murder hobos), and power play bounties.

[Indy409]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Originally posted by Indy409:

I would like a system be kinda like starfield where you go to a kiosk and find bountys and it tells you where they are...

Already in game. Viewable from every station terminal while you're sat in dock. You even get two distinct bounty lists. Regular bounties (player pirates/murder hobos), and power play bounties.

wait so if your in your ship you can see bountys for players? So the terminals in the stations dont have that

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Indy409:

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Already in game. Viewable from every station terminal while you're sat in dock. You even get two distinct bounty lists. Regular bounties (player pirates/murder hobos), and power play bounties.

wait so if your in your ship you can see bountys for players? So the terminals in the stations dont have that

Top 5 system and top 5 power play bounties are indeed displayed on the station menu, usually below the local news reports.

[Sam Willet]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Originally posted by Indy409:

wait so if your in your ship you can see bountys for players? So the terminals in the stations dont have that

Top 5 system and top 5 power play bounties are indeed displayed on the station menu, usually below the local news reports.

Behind the locked door with the sign that says 'beware of the tiger' (apparently.)

[ZombieHunter]

We call them NPCs. Yes you can find players with bounties. Each station will tell you the highest bounties that have been through the system. However, they do not tell you where they were last seen which would be a nice addition to help you follow their trail and hunt them down. B/c it lacks this, its almost impossible to do. Like all things Elite, it is a half ass implementation.

[Sam Willet]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Each station will tell you the highest bounties that have been through the system. However, they do not tell you where they were last seen which would be a nice addition to help you follow their trail and hunt them down.

Actually, it does tell you where they were last seen.

[ZombieHunter]

It does not matter. You cannot collect the full bounty and they can simply block you. It was a bad decision from the start that had wide reaching ramifications only b/c in the early days FD didn't want it to be easy to make credits. Well that has been thrown out the window, yet the ridiculously stupid gameplay systems they put in at the start have not been removed or updated to reflect the current state of the game. They keep throwing out new carrots while leaving their previous ones rotting in a festering pile of garbage.

[Indy409]

We need a good bounty system in this game I feel it would bring player base back and make game fun again. Plus we need new poi's but I would be happy with a bounty system like I explained. Imagine you are on a planet and your wanted and the bounty hunter finds you. Just add to the adventure this game is.

[0Samuel]

Originally posted by Indy409:

We need a good bounty system in this game I feel it would bring player base back and make game fun again. Plus we need new poi's but I would be happy with a bounty system like I explained. Imagine you are on a planet and your wanted and the bounty hunter finds you. Just add to the adventure this game is.

...You do know that is a thing, right? Your notoriety has to be really very high, but past a certain point moving around does become quite dangerous.

Bounties aren't really a PvP thing though because that always leads to extreme toxicity. Technically the gankers killing people in engineering systems probably do have fairly sizable bounties, and yes, you could make a little money by killing them, but that assumes they let you. More likely they'd rather combat log or block you or do the any number of things their victims don't know how to do that make PvP completely avoidable.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Indy409:

Imagine you are on a planet and your wanted and the bounty hunter finds you. Just add to the adventure this game is.

This is what Omnipol does on foot. Just get your notoriety to 10 and see what happens.

If you're flying around instead of being on foot, ATR ships will destroy you.

However, gankers will just leave their PCs on overnight while sitting in a station to lower their notoriety, so it's a nothing burger.