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Oct 11, 2005 Red_Corsair link
OK im very mad at this, I was just minding my own buisness tradin in itan and all of the sudden i get a 522k bounty on my head! how i was just tradin! i didnt kill anything nothing!
Oct 11, 2005 Celkan link
Bounties are not usually given immediately after a kill--they are frequently on a timer, I've heard it's about a week or so.
Oct 11, 2005 Forum Moderator link
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Love, Forum Moderator.
Oct 11, 2005 LeberMac link
LOL. Attention everyone! Red_Corsair has a bounty! Yay!
(That'll teach ya to post stuff like that in the forums... kinda like broadcasting your position on 100...)
Oct 11, 2005 Touriaus link
/me waits for another advertisement from lever.
Oct 11, 2005 Will Roberts link
What is the criteria for having a bounty placed on ones head?
Oct 11, 2005 KixKizzle link
Its not on a timer.
Oct 11, 2005 JestatisBess link
I get bounties from killing the serco transports and escorts at Sedina L2. I thought it was immedate after i kill a certian amount.

the no one really knows why bounties are placed it seems.
Oct 11, 2005 Spellcast link
bountys are.. well.. borked.
Oct 11, 2005 RelayeR link
Bounties are immediate. This seems to be a bug unless you had the bounty for a while and just noticed it.
Oct 11, 2005 MysticRogue link
If you get a bounty and its claimed, another one will not show up for a week, no matter when you actually get it. Unless its with another nation.
Oct 11, 2005 Cunjo link
I'm telling you, I got a bounty placed on my head at the precise moment I issued myself on a roid... twice.

unless you're *supposed* to be penalized for killing yourself, I think they're borked.

...and if you *are* supposed to be penalized for killing yourself, can we at least have the option to claim our own bounty? I mean, if it stands to reason that you can place a bounty on yourself, shouldn't you be able to claim one too? </sarcasm>
Oct 12, 2005 FSNI link
I have a question...How does one know they have a bounty placed on them...do you get a message or something...or is it a mystery?
Oct 12, 2005 ctishman link
[Moved to Bugs]
Oct 12, 2005 yodaofborg link
This isnt a bug ctishman, its a feature, its how it works(tm).

Well, Red's bounty is simple, he was in a bus war at a station, and got (48?) quite a few kills. (stations = monitored space)

Bounties are not always placed immediatly, the first bounty maybe, but this isnt red's first bounty, theres a 7 day delay inbetween 2 bounties from the same nation, but this doesnt mean your immune from bounties, it just means the next bounty wont be placed straight away after meeting the criteria.

The bounty system isnt borked, bounty farming isnt borked, the xp loss isnt borked, its as simple as this.

If you dont want a bounty placed on your head, get all your faction standings above -600, you will only ever get a bounty placed on your head by a nation that hates you, but if a nation likes you, they will not put a bounty on your head (but they will remember any kills you do, incase you become hated again).

Nuff said.
Oct 12, 2005 Beolach link
@FSNI: You get messages in your mission computer when the bounty is first placed and any time the bounty increases, and the bounty will show up on your CharInfo page.
Oct 12, 2005 Cunjo link
>>"theres a 7 day delay inbetween 2 bounties from the same nation"<<

that can't be right... because I got a bounty twice in the same day, for killing the same person (within 10 mintes of eachother, in fact). both bounties were placed immediately, and at the moment, the only nation I was below -600 on, was itani. This was in corvus space.

I also had two bounties placed for killing myself (and yes, I can say that conclusively, as I wasn't even -on- 7 days prior to them being placed, and they were placed instantaneously as I issued on the roid... twice.

So either

a) nobody really knows how they work
or
b) they're borked.

take your pick, but neither one works the way you say it does.
Oct 12, 2005 Red_Corsair link
It was 43 bus kills yoda not 48 :P
You were close thoe.
Oct 12, 2005 JestatisBess link
Cunjo:
"No one really knows how the bounty system works"
Oct 12, 2005 LeberMac link
Oh hell is this because of our little buswar in M-14, Red? I mean you only killed me like 6 times, but it WAS in Odia M-14. A Serco player killing lots of Itani-admired players (Like Me & Miharu) can get you an Itani bounty? That sux.