Lower bounties since Power Play?

[stummies]

In case anyone hadn't seen this:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost2364055

They've not been deliberately 'nerfed' but they are more variable. There is an issue with the high and low intensity ones not scaling their difficuly correctly which is being looked into.

This makes me feel better, I'm glad it was unintended to 'nerf' them, be it their own reasons or the many people have offered concerning profitability. Apparently the patch they released today had a undisclosed fix addressing mission payouts, wonder if this was snuck in too. Still a few hours of work, will keep checking to see if anyone reports improvement.

[stummies]

Patch notes today list 1.3.02 fixing...

- Fix for resource extraction sites using repeating ships when spawning new ones
- Fix for the various intensities of RES locations. High, normal and low now mean high skill, medium skill and low skill, which they didn't before

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=155113

Work is gonna drag waiting to try this out... potentially a really happy camper here!!

[blazingmaniac]

My Boy tried it last night and said there was a noticeable difference, it seems to ramp up from Drop-ships to Pythons and then Clippers, with increasing bounties as time went on.
He had to quit out after that due to a lack of time but from what he saw he had noticed a difference for sure.

[stummies]

I did notice an improvement yesterday too, after 3 days of nothing. This patch is going in right now though, so either it was luck or this change today is in addition to something they maybe changed on the back end yesterday or with yesterdays patch. Either way I'm excited to try this out tonight.

[JohnLuke]

Keeping fingers crossed.

[Thunderbird]

This must be a record, last night I got a 115 CR bounty!

[stummies]

Well, they're still broken. I tried several times last night to get a decent RES, managed to get one that started with a clipper but then over 20 minutes of sidewinders and eagles.

They are at least acknowledging a problem...

From Michael Brookes:

"It's fair to say that the resource extraction sites aren't working as expected at the moment. The following changes were made for 1.3:

- Added in the new ships for each of the archetypes that spawn into RES locations. There are now between 4-7 different ship types that each of the 3 spawn maintainers can choose from. There’s also a nice selection of different scenarios for each scenarion to choose from.
- Smoothed out spawning by delaying some of the ships. Same number of ships will eventually appear after approximately 30-90 seconds, it was merely added in to reduce any heavy load slowdown when you first arrive at a RES site.
- Made high, normal and low intensity also mean high, normal and low skill for the ships that spawn into the RES site.
- Balance of high intensity is in favour of pirates and security ships for low intensity.

At the moment it seems that these are sometimes working and sometimes not so we're investigating why this is the case.

Michael "

Will wait and see.

[Wolf]

The source for Michaels quote

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthrea ... ost2380319

[uvelius]

By the way, is it possible to gain merits and still gain bounties?

[stummies]

By the way, is it possible to gain merits and still gain bounties?

In RES? Maybe I'm not understanding your question, I wasn't aware of a way to gain merits through RES hunting. You do get a bounty if you participate in PP and kill ships to gain merits, but only for the system you did it in. I personally last night flew to another power and killed ships for merits which netted me a 56k bounty in that system, then went back to a RES in another system and collected some (pitiful) bounties without issue.