Interstellar Factor ls no longer work?

[EverySingleTime]

I get fines (not notoriety) so regularly doing my normal missions that I made my home Station one with an Interstellar Factor. I switched to EDO a few weeks ago and IF no longer lets me pay my fines off, so I'm constantly having to turn myself in and fly back home. Getting tiresome, considering going back to Legacy. Is my Station bugged? Did this get changed with Odyssey?

[funkynutz]

Who issued the fine, and are they present in the system?

If so, you need to find a different Interstellar Factors, in a system where they don't have a presence.

[EverySingleTime]

Yeah, just read up on that. As it now works, using IF will be more of a time hassle than just going to jail and flying back home. What a braindead change. Oh well, back to Legacy. I gave EDO a try.

[Sighman]

To stop bounties ruining your game, never take missions against the faction owning the station you're flying out of. Just attack all the others. Their bounties won't affect you, unless you get an interstellar bounty (e.g. Imperial or Federal)

[EverySingleTime]

Frk.

Originally posted by Sighman:

To stop bounties ruining your game, never take missions against the faction owning the station you're flying out of. Just attack all the others. Their bounties won't affect you, unless you get an interstellar bounty (e.g. Imperial or Federal)

From what I'm reading, in EDO the offended party doesn't even have to have Station presence to shut down IF. Which checks out IME.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by EverySingleTime:

Frk.

Originally posted by Sighman:

To stop bounties ruining your game, never take missions against the faction owning the station you're flying out of. Just attack all the others. Their bounties won't affect you, unless you get an interstellar bounty (e.g. Imperial or Federal)

From what I'm reading, in EDO the offended party doesn't even have to have Station presence to shut down IF. Which checks out IME.

What I'm saying is, you don't need IF at all if you don't have a bounty with the station owner, because you're there legally and all the facilities will still be usable.

So when you pick illegal missions, avoid any targeting the faction owning the station you're using, as I said in my previous post.

[Licopolis]

I've encountered this issue just yesterday, and was able to pay the fine after re-logging into different game mode.
(exact nature of the problem was as follows:
me and my friend were doing restoration mission together, in the Hephaestus system. the settlement appeared functioning to both of us, and while he was drawing off scavengers with the Scarab, I turned on the reactor. I then stepped out of PWR building and killed 2 scavengers. Then I tried to reach the CMD building to extinguish fires, and almost as I reached it, settlement has lost its electricity again. When we returned to reactor, power regulator was gone. Since we couldn't salvage our own Scarab - obviously a game design mishap - we've lost that mission. My friend disengaged the shared mission and then I cancelled it, finding myself with 100000 cr fine to ICU Colonial Corps who owns literally every small installation on the planets surface there - those installations I yet was to bring back to life.
The fine itself didn't intervene with missions but neither at those installations not at stations in the system was I able to pay the fine. I then jumped to Deriso and docked at Gilles Station, but even there I couldn't pay.
Then I relogged into Solo, and finally after that the fine has appeared in the Interstellar Factor).

[EverySingleTime]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by EverySingleTime:

Frk.



From what I'm reading, in EDO the offended party doesn't even have to have Station presence to shut down IF. Which checks out IME.

What I'm saying is, you don't need IF at all if you don't have a bounty with the station owner, because you're there legally and all the facilities will still be usable.

So when you pick illegal missions, avoid any targeting the faction owning the station you're using, as I said in my previous post.

I've been going to jail repeatedly not for attacking ships aligned with any of my System's powers (all of whom I'm allied with), but only because that faction's ships spawn in my System. I've been assassinating drug lords and criminals who have zero Influence in my System, and whom every faction in my System offers Missions against.

All of my jail sentences stem from scanning data points to ascertain the location of legal Assassination targets. With EDO, merely the fact their criminal faction spawns in my Home System means I can't use IF. It's crazy. I'm required to go to jail to kill drug lords. Or make a couple extra jumps and a landing each time.

[anaris]

There are, of course, three billion other systems you could go to if you aren't welcome in the one you are in.

[EverySingleTime]

Originally posted by Licopolis:

I've encountered this issue just yesterday...

It's not a FPS issue, it's due to EDO directly invalidating Interstellar Factors.

[EverySingleTime]

Originally posted by anaris:

There are, of course, three billion other systems you could go to if you aren't welcome in the one you are in.

You're too short for this ride, sir.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by EverySingleTime:

Originally posted by Sighman:

What I'm saying is, you don't need IF at all if you don't have a bounty with the station owner, because you're there legally and all the facilities will still be usable.

So when you pick illegal missions, avoid any targeting the faction owning the station you're using, as I said in my previous post.

I've been going to jail repeatedly not for attacking ships aligned with any of my System's powers (all of whom I'm allied with), but only because that faction's ships spawn in my System. I've been assassinating drug lords and criminals who have zero Influence in my System, and whom every faction in my System offers Missions against.

All of my jail sentences stem from scanning data points to ascertain the location of legal Assassination targets. With EDO, merely the fact their criminal faction spawns in my Home System means I can't use IF. It's crazy. I'm required to go to jail to kill drug lords. Or make a couple extra jumps and a landing each time.

The system owner controls empty space in that system. All system defence forces in open space belong to that controlling faction. This includes RES zones.

All the other factions control space around their own facilities. E.g. if you open fire near another faction's station, you'll get a bounty from that faction. The system defence in that zone will belong to that faction too.

So yep, if you take illegal missions in a very large player faction's area, you're going to have a lot of trouble finding interstellar factors unless you first move outside that large player-controlled area.

Ground missions on the other hand - those will be fine, as the settlement and space in the instance belongs to that particular faction, not the system faction.

[EverySingleTime]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Ground missions on the other hand - those will be fine...

I really tried to get along with EDO. Rub it in... XD
And here I was thinking it was just my hooning explorer that got the shaft. Oh FDev, you give a pence and take a dollar. I shouldn't be surprised.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by EverySingleTime:

Originally posted by Sighman:

Ground missions on the other hand - those will be fine...

I really tried to get along with EDO. Rub it in... XD
And here I was thinking it was just my hooning explorer that got the shaft. Oh FDev, you give a pence and take a dollar. I shouldn't be surprised.

Ody is my favourite part of Elite. I love doing power restores, knocking off all the scavs and looting the bases.

[EverySingleTime]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Ody is my favourite part of Elite. I love doing power restores, knocking off all the scavs and looting the bases.

Sir, this is a Wendys.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by EverySingleTime:

Yeah, just read up on that. As it now works, using IF will be more of a time hassle than just going to jail and flying back home. What a braindead change. Oh well, back to Legacy. I gave EDO a try.

IF has always worked this way.