Bounty Hunter lisence?

[CrazyIvan]

anyone know what this does? bought it for 100k from the frigate but didnt read first and cant figure it out

[Merik Fyndhorn]

It allows a few things.

1. You can check if there is an outstanding bounty on people (Not stations) who contact you.

Really the most useful place to do this is just at the edge of the ring. The ring edge is like a singles bar for Ringas. As people come up to chat you have an option to look them up and demand they pay any outstanding bounties (You keep half)

2. You get to participate on patrols (running after pirates) or bounty hunters will protect you when there is no one to chase (Assuming you don't report to do the patrol).

3. You can ask any bounty hunter for the current drop point if you don't already know it.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

you bought one from the frigate? the one that says it will scorch you with their thrusters? to me it never said anything other than to meet up for patrol. then i go on patrol, we kill someone, then the guy says we go back to resupply and i'm like .. so that's it?
i've been trying to get the damn licence for a good few hours and i'm losing my patience

[Merik Fyndhorn]

You have to drop off the pirates life pods with BBW. The station doesn't count. It's a faction quest, so you need to raise your standing with the bounty hunters to a point they let you join. That's when they offer the license.

You are probably already close as long as you didn't do something to piss them off earlier.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Charlie Foxtrot:

you bought one from the frigate? the one that says it will scorch you with their thrusters? to me it never said anything other than to meet up for patrol. then i go on patrol, we kill someone, then the guy says we go back to resupply and i'm like .. so that's it?
i've been trying to get the damn licence for a good few hours and i'm losing my patience

you have to find the BBW and hunt a pirate and catch a pod than you get a additional option if you return with the pirate in cargo at communication with BBW after this you can get a licence (sometimes you have to hunt more than one pirate to get the licence option and you only get the option if you never destroyed a legal ship)

[Charlie Foxtrot]

great, so i'm f*cked already ..

[Merik Fyndhorn]

No, you can get back to normal faction. It just takes time.

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by Merik Fyndhorn:

No, you can get back to normal faction. It just takes time.

right it takes some pirate hunts to get back to friendly BBW after shooting a legal ship down.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

i was shooting legal ships because i wanted to test my setup. in my opinion it's asking a bit much to wait for a speccific encounter with a specific ship to get something specific done. like waiting for a pirate to shoot down just to see if your setup is even viable, which you have to do several times over to figure out one that is actually effective.
now i know you don't have to be in your combat ship to get a vilci meetup spot but i put so many hours into trying to get this damn licence it's not even funny. today i was mining and got one of these meetups, then wanted to go there directly from the enchelada station but there was no one there. so i went back to the station and wanted to then first go to the edge of the ring and to the meetup from there but it was already gone. now i have to go mining for another 3 hours to get the next meetup ..... just f*ck off, devs

[Koder]

Which version are you playing?

There was related fix published last week. The ship at the drop point should wait for you 30 days now, that should be more than enough time to handle any bounty business.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

should be up to date.
i didn't check the timer on it but i think by trying to go there directly i triggered the spawn but then i couldn't find them.

edit: patched on may 12 and declared as "up to date"

[Koder]

There is a version string in a bottom-right corner of the title screen and pause menu. There were 2 releases on may 12.

[Merik Fyndhorn]

Something doesn't sound right at all with this. Unless you are employing a muppet as astrogator you should have had days to get to the meetup. Even on the old versions.

If you get to the correct drop point BBW actually comes to you to tell you stand clear, so getting there are finding nothing sounds like your astrogator missed the target by a wide enough margin that the BBW didn't sense you.

If you find a station or what ever and look it up on the astrogator panel a new contact should be visible for 120 days, if your astrgators a pro. What are you seeing?

[Charlie Foxtrot]

it's version 0.501.7

when i first went there it was directly from the station. you can't pick it as destination when you launch from station so i just put my target on top of the marker and hoped for the best. i never had the opportunity to actually select the meet up spot as destination.
when i tried to select it after i went there from the station on the first try i couldn't select it either, presumably because i was too close or because the spawn was already triggered if that's even a possibility.

and because i mostly fly the cothon i don't have an astrogator. only geologist, pilot and mechanic. i never had a problem of that sort until now though

[Merik Fyndhorn]

Pick an astrogator over the mechanic and give it a go. The astrogator also identifies mystery things like corpses and make it possible to move around the ring easier when deployed.

The mechanics function is less important unless you are prone to taking damage.

Which you might be if you are using a Colthon for bounty hunting. You would do better to trade up to a Eagle Prospector if you want to fight. You can replace one of the done slots with repair drones and get better results than a mechanic.

[Adriel]

Originally posted by Merik Fyndhorn:

It allows a few things.

1. You can check if there is an outstanding bounty on people (Not stations) who contact you.

Really the most useful place to do this is just at the edge of the ring. The ring edge is like a singles bar for Ringas. As people come up to chat you have an option to look them up and demand they pay any outstanding bounties (You keep half)

2. You get to participate on patrols (running after pirates) or bounty hunters will protect you when there is no one to chase (Assuming you don't report to do the patrol).

3. You can ask any bounty hunter for the current drop point if you don't already know it.

How can i get to participate on patrols? Do i have to do some specific thing, go to some specific place or is it just by a random approach from bounty hunters?