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Hi there!

When I capture an escape pod, can I sell the captured person as a slave or will that person be regarded as free, when I dock at the station?

Thx for answering

Sometimes you get to keep them as slaves, but at other times you get a payment on arrival.

When you scoop a pod it is held in your manifest as a slave. But on docking at any station you will get a docking report screen where you will get either a reward from the insurance or bounty for the reprehension of a criminal. More often than not this will far exceed the price of slaves at the station.

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Haha ninja'd Fatleaf!

Fatleaf wrote:

When you scoop a pod it is held in your manifest as a slave. But on docking at any station you will get a docking report screen where you will get either a reward from the insurance or bounty for the reprehension of a criminal. More often than not this will far exceed the price of slaves at the station.

Beware not to jettison an escape pod or it'll become a common cargo container of slaves, without any bounty/prize/reward/extra money attached.

JazHaz wrote:

Haha ninja'd Fatleaf!

Not very often that happens!

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

Beware not to jettison an escape pod or it'll become a common cargo container of slaves, without any bounty/prize/reward/extra money attached.

I am not too sure of that Cmdr. Maegil. I regularly jettison pods that really annoy me at the sun and watch them burn

Maybe it used to be like that but was changed since...IIRC, I once tried to jettison some cheap cargo to pick up the latest space flotsam, and there was a couple of pods I had picked up on the way... I jettisoned them and scooped them back, but when I got to the station there were no rewards.

JazHaz wrote:

Sometimes you get to keep them as slaves, but at other times you get a payment on arrival.

Just re-read your comment. On the rare occurrence you scoop a slave trader and the docking report states that you sold them as a slave. In every case a pod that is scooped is either a criminal (you get a bounty) or it is a poor victim (you get a reward).

Fatleaf wrote:

In every case a pod that is scooped is either a criminal (you get a bounty) or it is a poor victim (you get a reward).

Sometimes you don't get the 'reward' that you should though:

El Viejo wrote:

Sometimes you don't get the 'reward' that you should though

Yes, but you've got to factor in the warm glow of satisfaction at having Done the Right Thing. You can't put a price on upstanding citizenship!

(Except here you can, and your upstanding citizenship cost you 465.9 ₢ ...)

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

Fatleaf wrote:

When you scoop a pod it is held in your manifest as a slave. But on docking at any station you will get a docking report screen where you will get either a reward from the insurance or bounty for the reprehension of a criminal. More often than not this will far exceed the price of slaves at the station.

Beware not to jettison an escape pod or it'll become a common cargo container of slaves, without any bounty/prize/reward/extra money attached.

I released the slave by accident by pressing "D", they where again in the excape pod

LouisdeFuines wrote:

I released the slave by accident by pressing "D", they where again in the excape pod

As long as you are in flight, Oolite remembers all pods the cargo/slaves was in when you scooped them. On dumping they stay in their original pods. Only when you dock at a station, the pods are rearranged and most often replaced by the more common pods. This rearranging of cargo for you is a service from your local station to tidy up your cargo hold

Well, then it'd seem I was wrong... It was a long time ago, and ever since I got this impression, I've been careful not to jettison them.