Shared bounties with friends?

[Suicidal]

Has shared bounties with friends always been a thing? Recently my friends and I have been getting lower bounties and caught onto the "bounty share claimed" notification. Its kind of discourages us from playing together because even when we bounty hunt together but not in a wing, the whole bounty goes to who does the most damage. Anyone else find this tedious?

[Edelweiss ✿]

It's been there sicne day one of wings

[Tanvaras]

The bounty is 100K and 2 of you kill it, you both get 50K, its been this way as above said since day 1 of wings. But you want both to get 100K even though the bounty is a total off 100K, Not going to happen.

Being in a wing you can kill each target much faster and the bounties rack up a lot quicker. I play on my own and with friends when they are on and I am always making more credits per hour with them in a wing as we slaughter the wanted so much quicker than on my own.

If your making less credits, your wingman needs a kick up the boosters to get moving!!

[Cogenerate]

Originally posted by Spicy Genitals:

Has shared bounties with friends always been a thing? Recently my friends and I have been getting lower bounties and caught onto the "bounty share claimed" notification. Its kind of discourages us from playing together because even when we bounty hunt together but not in a wing, the whole bounty goes to who does the most damage. Anyone else find this tedious?

It's a good way to help someone get credits faster. Besides, if you're in a wing and helping one another, why shouldn't you share the rewards?

Just FYI: if you wing-up for Power Play merits, the merits are not split. Everyone in the wing gets the full merits.

[Wraitteli]

Originally posted by Spicy Genitals:

Has shared bounties with friends always been a thing? Recently my friends and I have been getting lower bounties and caught onto the "bounty share claimed" notification. Its kind of discourages us from playing together because even when we bounty hunt together but not in a wing, the whole bounty goes to who does the most damage. Anyone else find this tedious?

Bounty goes to each member inside the party that killed it THAT DID DAMAGE THE TARGET SHIP. If your buddy did not hit even ones the ship you killed....bounty is not shared.

It is boring to the tear feature that many fan boyz defend as "realistic" :D

This and many other reasons is why I have not play tihs game for a while....likely never will again.

[Asshat]

Well that's wonderful for you, and I am sure we are all better off for you taking the time to come in here and add that to this discussion.

Back to the OP - It will also work with trading monies. If I am in my fat Asp with small shields coming back from mining, my friend will be in the wing with me in his pimped Vulture, so he can provide me protection like a space-mobster! We found though, that if we are both docked at a port at the same time, when I sell the metals from the mining [on the normal market; this doesn't apply to mining missions], he gets a notification of a trade dividend. He can then go into the contacts section of the starport services, and is able to claim 5% of the total value I sold all the mining materials for. It may not sound much, but on a 1.5m haul, he gets 75k for being my bodyguard, and it is IN ADDITION to the monies I make from trading, so it doesn't come out of my profit. It helps, as it means we don't have to fanny around with me dropping him painite to scoop up and so on.

So as mentioned, it does pay to be winging up when you can :)

[Laurreth]

Originally posted by Wraitteli:

Bounty goes to each member inside the party that killed it THAT DID DAMAGE THE TARGET SHIP. If your buddy did not hit even ones the ship you killed....bounty is not shared.

It is boring to the tear feature that many fan boyz defend as "realistic" :D

You sure about that? AFAIK sharing mechanics inside wings are independent of hitting stuff.

There's much to criticise about the game, but you're grasping at straws (also, if you will never play it again, what are you doing here?)

[Ofan]

Originally posted by Shadowdancer:

Originally posted by Wraitteli:

Bounty goes to each member inside the party that killed it THAT DID DAMAGE THE TARGET SHIP. If your buddy did not hit even ones the ship you killed....bounty is not shared.

It is boring to the tear feature that many fan boyz defend as "realistic" :D

You sure about that? AFAIK sharing mechanics inside wings are independent of hitting stuff.

There's much to criticise about the game, but you're grasping at straws (also, if you will never play it again, what are you doing here?)

Absolutely positive that is how it works. Tried and tested on hundreds of occasions

[Suicidal]

I 100% understand the trade dividends and a portion of your money when your friend is being a body guard, but in terms of RES bounty hunting, it seems to be better to stick with the system security ships to take out a 180k anaconda then with a friend and get half of it. Might just be me though. I can definitely see needing a wing in the new hazardous RES.

[Ofan]

Originally posted by Spicy Genitals:

I 100% understand the trade dividends and a portion of your money when your friend is being a body guard, but in terms of RES bounty hunting, it seems to be better to stick with the system security ships to take out a 180k anaconda then with a friend and get half of it. Might just be me though. I can definitely see needing a wing in the new hazardous RES.

SO if your waingman takes off 50% of the hull health of a ship you don't want them to get paid for it? I don't understand what you are trying to say :(

[Suicidal]

Originally posted by Ofan:

Originally posted by Spicy Genitals:

I 100% understand the trade dividends and a portion of your money when your friend is being a body guard, but in terms of RES bounty hunting, it seems to be better to stick with the system security ships to take out a 180k anaconda then with a friend and get half of it. Might just be me though. I can definitely see needing a wing in the new hazardous RES.

SO if your waingman takes off 50% of the hull health of a ship you don't want them to get paid for it? I don't understand what you are trying to say :(

No not exactly. I'm saying that bounty hunting with a wing of four doesnt pay nearly as well as bounty hunting solo in my experience. My friends and I will probably move from kremainn to somewhere with a hazardous RES and a station near by.

[Ofan]

Originally posted by Spicy Genitals:

Originally posted by Ofan:

SO if your waingman takes off 50% of the hull health of a ship you don't want them to get paid for it? I don't understand what you are trying to say :(

No not exactly. I'm saying that bounty hunting with a wing of four doesnt pay nearly as well as bounty hunting solo in my experience. My friends and I will probably move from kremainn to somewhere with a hazardous RES and a station near by.

A wing of 4 will clear the spawns 4 times faster than a single ship so you get 4 times the bounties split 4 ways, works out pretty much even in my experience.

I would advise Hazres eeven for solo farming there is very little in there that should trouble you and a wing of 4 is hugely overpowered for other res sites unless you are all pottering about in cobras or lower

[Suicidal]

Originally posted by Ofan:

Originally posted by Spicy Genitals:

No not exactly. I'm saying that bounty hunting with a wing of four doesnt pay nearly as well as bounty hunting solo in my experience. My friends and I will probably move from kremainn to somewhere with a hazardous RES and a station near by.

A wing of 4 will clear the spawns 4 times faster than a single ship so you get 4 times the bounties split 4 ways, works out pretty much even in my experience.

I would advise Hazres eeven for solo farming there is very little in there that should trouble you and a wing of 4 is hugely overpowered for other res sites unless you are all pottering about in cobras or lower

It's normally two vultures and two vipers when it's all of us together. The problem we have is getting small bounties, which split even two ways is hardly worth the time of day to us. Myself and the other vulture pilot are pushing for a python so money is top priority with us.

[Cogenerate]

Originally posted by Ofan:

Originally posted by Spicy Genitals:

No not exactly. I'm saying that bounty hunting with a wing of four doesnt pay nearly as well as bounty hunting solo in my experience. My friends and I will probably move from kremainn to somewhere with a hazardous RES and a station near by.

A wing of 4 will clear the spawns 4 times faster than a single ship so you get 4 times the bounties split 4 ways, works out pretty much even in my experience.

I would advise Hazres eeven for solo farming there is very little in there that should trouble you and a wing of 4 is hugely overpowered for other res sites unless you are all pottering about in cobras or lower

Actually, it works better than "even". A four-man wing, working as a team, can rack-up far more kills than the sum of 4 people individually. Having your wingman kill the ship that's shooting you is worth more than getting full credits for the one you were shooting at.