Kill count not increasing

[hiran]

So the OXP works as designed.

But then I'd like to challenge the design.

The kill count should react immediately. If bounties are paid in the Galcop office so be it. But having shot the wrong ship I would simply not go to Galcop and live on happily without ever getting a bad rating. A free life for pirates!

[Cholmondely]

So the OXP works as designed.

But then I'd like to challenge the design.

The kill count should react immediately. If bounties are paid in the Galcop office so be it. But having shot the wrong ship I would simply not go to Galcop and live on happily without ever getting a bad rating. A free life for pirates!

But isn't it an option - changeable through Library.oxp - and the default is presumably that bounties are paid immediately and kills credited immediately - which has been my experience.

[hiran]

So the OXP works as designed.

But then I'd like to challenge the design.

The kill count should react immediately. If bounties are paid in the Galcop office so be it. But having shot the wrong ship I would simply not go to Galcop and live on happily without ever getting a bad rating. A free life for pirates!

But isn't it an option - changeable through Library.oxp - and the default is presumably that bounties are paid immediately and kills credited immediately - which has been my experience.

You must be right. Very likely I have the OXP in my set, and I never experienced such an issue.

[RobsterLeal]

I'm guessing the default is pay immediately - somehow in one of my many pokes around the settings I mistakenly set that to wait until visit Galcop....

[Nite Owl]

Just took another look at the files. The Default option for the Bounty payments are deferred until collected from Sec Offices is true in the Library OXZ. You can go in under the Library F4 screen option and change it to false. Bounties and Kill Counts will then be collected as in the Vanilla Game. The alternative to this simple method is to do the Tweak thing and change the Default from true to false. Never have been one to leave well enough alone the Tweak is what was done within my copy.

Look for the bountysystem_core.js file in the Scripts folder of the Bounty System OXZ. Open it in a non traditional text editor such as Notepad++. Go to line 88 or there about to make the change. The following is what you are looking for and what you should change.

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B1: { 
		Name: "_deferredBounties.enabled", 
		Def: false, // TWEAK was - Def: true, <----- THIS IS THE VARIABLE TO CHANGE
		Desc: "Bounty payments deferred" 
		},
		Info: "0: When true, severity 1 bounties can be discovered up to 5 LY from point of origin. When false, severity 1 bounties are not
		transferable;\n" +
		"1: Bounty payments are deferred until collected from Sec Offices." 
	};

Either method works as well as the other. Most of you probably had a similar experience to mine and changed things shortly after the release. Once done you did not remember that this was even an option. As stated previously, it completely slipped my mind until a dive into the files was undertaken.

[phkb]

I’ll turn it off by default for the next release.

[Cholmondely]

I’ll turn it off by default for the next release.

Just musing about all this.



The bounties are given by GalCop police (presumably) for clobbering the pernicious pirates (and possibly also the Thargoids. Really? For Thargoids? Not by the Galactic Navy if loaded, or the Galactic Co-operative itself?).

But the kill count is assessed by the Elite Federation. And they refuse to let GalCop police prevent them awarding kills to pirates and other mass murderers.

I can see an argument that the award of kills might take some time (issues with communications (Imprint approach rather than Dark Wheel approach), verification etc.), but not that the GalCop Police would be involved.


Reference: Communication