Oolite Bulletins

I often scoop the escape capsules from my bounty hunting. I get the 30 odd g for totalling the Pirates vessel . But when I scoop up the rogue and hand him/ it /her over at the nearest main station I get a petulant message to the effect of " Instead of an Insurance payment of 500g you receive a bounty chit for 23g".. Me thinks the deal I get from these transactions are indeed bounty chit

Anyhow..I reckon I'm gonna start dropping them off at hermits or seedy space bars in future to see if I can get a fairer deal.

<chortles> GalCop (or whoever actually polices/controls stations) are just plain crooked!

The odd backhander to the police, NotW style, sometimes works.

GalCop sure are cheap around here...

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Hey.. it's Riedquat.. they probably counted themselves lucky to get anything!

Tricky wrote:

GalCop sure are cheap around here...

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With food at 2₢ per tonne, 4½₢ buys a LOT of emergency doughnuts.

what!?!... you can scoop escape pods!? another difference from the original. Great. I was just vaporizing them instead.

I'll have to try that next time.

wthomas33065 wrote:

what!?!... you can scoop escape pods!? another difference from the original. Great. I was just vaporizing them instead.

I'll have to try that next time.

Oh you can vapourize them if you want. Especially if you've been contracted to organise a "retirement party"

wthomas33065 wrote:

what!?!... you can scoop escape pods!? another difference from the original.

I don't think that this is a difference. I'm fairly confident that I scooped escape pods on the C64. If there's a difference, it's that in Oolite the escape pod isn't automatically turned into a ton of slaves, but treated separately from the rest of your cargo.

There are generally much fewer differences than you seem to assume. Oolite is, after all, a recreation of Elite.

This may be an OXP-only feature, but I've found that if you rescue Galactic Navy personnel, you get a pretty hefty reward indeed. I think I got around 1000 Cr for delivering a 4-star admiral, though how he lost his ship (and why he was on anything other than a Behemoth) I'll never know.

Docking in Usralaat, I handed over a prisoner, and got a bounty of 20.3Cr. The insurance fee of 500Cr went to governmental taxes. Not happy.

HAL wrote:

Docking in Usralaat, I handed over a prisoner, and got a bounty of 20.3Cr. The insurance fee of 500Cr went to governmental taxes. Not happy.

Hi HAL, welcome to the boards! Sadly this sort of thing is all too common these days ... that said, there are other occasions when you can hand over a captured pirate, expecting a smallish bounty, but instead get a decent insurance payoff because the local officials have been bribed. Of course, this does mean that there's a pirate who gets straight back into the spacelanes, to prey on more innocent traders. It's scant comfort but at least the prisoner you handed over is now out of circulation ...

Welcome aboard, HAL... ain't GalCop wonderful! I have been known to shoot-up the nav buoy of a station where that has happened!

When I'm on the hunt, I lase escape capsules with pirates. When I AM the pirate, I scoop the pod for the payoff. I'm a screwball like that.

Rese249er wrote:

When I'm on the hunt, I lase escape capsules with pirates.

You do scoop them first, I hope?