Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

So I have a question - when tagging targets by shooting them a few times......do I need to be hitting it near the ships final destruction or can I just shoot it and wait and have it blow up say like 30 seconds later and still get the bounty? (This assumes other CMDR's or NPC's are shooting it too ofc.

CMDR Chloe Bateman

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From my experience I think you would have to do the lion share of damage, or at least a few of the last shots, and stay fairly near before it blows up.

Just putting a few shots in and moving on to the next target has never worked for me.
Unless of course I have wingmates doing the killing.

In my experience, as Tor says, distance is a factor, I've had it where I've boosted away to avoid destruction towards the end and not got the bounty. My estimate is about 5km
I've never tried putting just a few first shots in and waiting but, again in my experience, you have to get some damage in before they get down to 5-10% or you don't get paid.

This is an example of one of the reasons I like having a SLF pilot on board. Sometimes i will work the target down to 10% hull or so, and then head off to the next target while my SLF finishes it off. Occasionally the slf will get destroyed in the battle. That's ok because the NPC will come find me since I've shot at them already. It always works out just fine.

If I'm alone I usually wait if something is getting battered.....

Then when the shields go down I wade in....Normally they are busy attacking the original attackers so you don't get much grief.....

In wing I just try to get there before the other basts blow them up.....

And YES Tor I'm talking about YOU.....

From what I remember from a video I watched, as long as you hit the ship within 20 second of it being destroyed you get the bounty, as long as you are also within a certain range. I am not sure what that range is. It does not matter if you only hit the ship a couple of times.

The video was on how a noob could earn 1,000,000 an hour in a basic sidewinder just by tagging Make a million in your first hour

I found this video long after I had gone past that stage, but to be honest I am not sure I would have used it had I found it, to me it's reducing the game to pure credit hunting and nothing else. However I do not see anything wrong in anyone else playing the game that way. One of his video's is how to make 15 mill an hour in a Python, I have never even watched that one, my Python makes much less and I am quite happy doing what I am doing.

Playing with NPCs, I think you just need a shot within about 20 sec of the ship blowing up.

Playing in a wing, I think just one shot anytime will suffice.

Playing with other commanders, I think you just need the last shot, but sniping kills from commanders is bad form (the may have fixed this so you need the majority of hits).

And I suppose you need to stay in the area. As normally you'd be finishing off a kill that the NPC cops started, you will normally be there (or hanging with your wingmates).

Roger Wilco Jr wrote:Playing with other commanders, I think you just need the last shot, but sniping kills from commanders is bad form (the may have fixed this so you need the majority of hits).

If two (ore more) commander that are NOT winged are firing at an NPC, whoever gets the kill shot gets the bounty. The other guy(s) gets zilch.

Since the bounties are duplicated in wings now instead of split, there is really no reason not to wing with other players when in a RES or CZ. I was pretty surprised this weekend when working a Haz-RES for the CG with one wingman and we ran across another commander (elite combat ranked mind you) in the RES and he ignored my invitations. I sent him two chat messages and two wing invites and got no response from him at all. Why????? Why????

Just wing up with people and share the wealth and fun!

JohnLuke wrote:

Roger Wilco Jr wrote:Playing with other commanders, I think you just need the last shot, but sniping kills from commanders is bad form (the may have fixed this so you need the majority of hits).

If two (ore more) commander that are NOT winged are firing at an NPC, whoever gets the kill shot gets the bounty. The other guy(s) gets zilch.

Since the bounties are duplicated in wings now instead of split, there is really no reason not to wing with other players when in a RES or CZ. I was pretty surprised this weekend when working a Haz-RES for the CG with one wingman and we ran across another commander (elite combat ranked mind you) in the RES and he ignored my invitations. I sent him two chat messages and two wing invites and got no response from him at all. Why????? Why????

Just wing up with people and share the wealth and fun!

Cause some people are idiots.

It's my revised occams razor.
Never bother to look further for a reason when stupidity fits the bill.

Best way to make sure you max cash return on targets. Lean into that Occam Tor and ......Kill them, kill them all.