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Legal status

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On more than one occasion, when I attack offenders and fugitives, clean status ships attack me. Sometimes I get bounty for defending myself and their legal status stays clean!
There was also a "mamba leader - high bounty" with a legal status "clean". I shot him and was fined 700 when landing on the starbase
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Re: Legal status

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Tambourine wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:57 am
On more than one occasion, when I attack offenders and fugitives, clean status ships attack me. Sometimes I get bounty for defending myself and their legal status stays clean!
This usually depends on exactly what is seen.

The station sees what is within the aegis. GalCop ships see what is within their scanner range.

Eg: If a clean ship attacks me from beyond the aegis and I fire back, the station only sees me fire at an "innocent" and I get clobbered for it.

This also can work to my advantage - if I'm outside aegis/scanner range and fire at a clean assassin for example, if he returns fire then the GalCop ships will turn on him....

No idea about your high bounty mamba leader...

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Re: Legal status

Post by phkb »

Looks like the Mamba Leader comes from Convoys: https://ooliteproject.github.io/oolite- ... mamba.html
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