bounty issue

jircris11 · June 2016

Seems while doing dark brotherhood assassination bounties i get caught even if there is NO ONE around and we are in a corner of a room. the game is counting the person im using my blade of woe on as a witness i spent 10k just to finish a mission because of the bounty. one assassination alone netted me a 1.2k bounty. This *** needs to be fixed.

Deheart · June 2016

Are you putting points in the DB and Thieves skill lines? Bounty reduction, bounty reduction speed, and other passives really help.

And surprisingly enough, wearing leather armor and just putting points in the detection area reduction passive really makes a difference, just in case you aren't a leather wearer.

Also, there seems to be lag sometimes where it seems like there is no one watching you by the indicator but the server just hasn't sent the you are seen info to your computer.

jircris11 · June 2016

Yea maxed on the stealth aspect and such and in full leather. What i dont get or like is how on my main (CP147) i get 890 gold bounty if im caught where on my NB (45) i only get a 250 gold bounty.

dtm_samuraib16_ESO · June 2016

The bounty scales, seems?
Not into DB for a few decades, until everyone got tired of it.
Too many folks around.

Eweroun · June 2016

jircris11 wrote: »

Yea maxed on the stealth aspect and such and in full leather. What i dont get or like is how on my main (CP147) i get 890 gold bounty if im caught where on my NB (45) i only get a 250 gold bounty.

skill my dear...
it takes some time, but you'll make it..

first contracts i was watched always every time, cause I didn't took time to watch the patterns and so on...
now i get away easily..

you'll get there and sooner than you think you kill them before they see you!

GreenhaloX · June 2016

jircris11 wrote: »

Seems while doing dark brotherhood assassination bounties i get caught even if there is NO ONE around and we are in a corner of a room. the game is counting the person im using my blade of woe on as a witness i spent 10k just to finish a mission because of the bounty. one assassination alone netted me a 1.2k bounty. This *** needs to be fixed.

Oh, my lord.. so, this is where I get to use my 100,000 gold get-out-of-jail-free grand amnesty Edict. I was wondering when I get to use that. Lol!

jircris11 · June 2016

GreenhaloX wrote: »

jircris11 wrote: »

Seems while doing dark brotherhood assassination bounties i get caught even if there is NO ONE around and we are in a corner of a room. the game is counting the person im using my blade of woe on as a witness i spent 10k just to finish a mission because of the bounty. one assassination alone netted me a 1.2k bounty. This *** needs to be fixed.

Oh, my lord.. so, this is where I get to use my 100,000 gold get-out-of-jail-free grand amnesty Edict. I was wondering when I get to use that. Lol!

lucky lol

Eweroun wrote: »

jircris11 wrote: »

Yea maxed on the stealth aspect and such and in full leather. What i dont get or like is how on my main (CP147) i get 890 gold bounty if im caught where on my NB (45) i only get a 250 gold bounty.

skill my dear...
it takes some time, but you'll make it..

first contracts i was watched always every time, cause I didn't took time to watch the patterns and so on...
now i get away easily..

you'll get there and sooner than you think you kill them before they see you!

and skill is not the issue, i am quite good at stealth games what is getting me are npcs lodged in walls or under ground or my fave. npc spawning right as you hit X

Deheart · June 2016

and skill is not the issue, i am quite good at stealth games what is getting me are npcs lodged in walls or under ground or my fave. npc spawning right as you hit X[/quote]

Over the last couple of weeks I have come to strongly suspect that I suffer from a strange type of lag. NPC's have occasionally been invisible to me untill they attack me. Walking or running along, I pause to loot or mine a resource node, and suddently somthing starts attacking me.

I know there had to be times where I was not paying attention, but there were other times where I was stealthed and definitely on edge and hyper aware and still get attacked. I would think that they themselves have stealthed but I don't think mage type of NPC's use stealth?

holosoul · June 2016

NPCs whose names would be green if you enabled nameplates (quest, merchant, etc) can see through walls omnidirectionally and quite a ways away. Don't kill things near green NPCs.

Although, that should be addressed they should not get special vision.

Edit: To be clear, you can hide behind them, but they would still witness your murder; where in the same situation an 'innocent' would not.

CherryCake · June 2016

I got 99 issues, but bounty isnt one:

I am so sorry...

Tryxus · June 2016

Tryxus' Guide to Assassination

Step 1: Know your surroundings --> Check the location and every nook and cranny for witnesses, guards, hiding spots, escape routes and possible killzones
Step 2: Know your targets --> Stay hidden and learn your target's movements and patrol routes. Makes it easier to determine when to strike
Step 3: ULTIMATE DIE DIE ATTACK!! --> Step out of the shadows when there are no guards or witnesses around and when your target is most vulnerable to repeated stabs and slices from your dagger
Step 4: Profit --> $_$ Ka-CHING

Might make a serious guide one of these days

but this'll do for now

GreenhaloX · June 2016

I recently realize you can get an achievement for killing NPCs, and I figured out how to turn off the safe option for NPCs. Really not a priority for me to get this achievement or am I going around on a rampage, but any NPCs that pisses me off so far, (especially those that attacks me for catching me looting or pickpocketing) they got whacked. Then I just do my rounds of dolmen until the bounty gets cleared. Still can't kill the guards, though. They made them too powerful, but still easy to flee and escape. You also get an achievement for numbers of successful fleeing as well. What a game.. Lol!

Rune_Relic · June 2016

Wonder if there is a phasing issue going on.
Where NPC aren't actually in your phase but they see you..even though you don't see them.
Phasing bugs can throw up all manner of weird stuff.

jircris11 · June 2016

Rune_Relic wrote: »

Wonder if there is a phasing issue going on.
Where NPC aren't actually in your phase but they see you..even though you don't see them.
Phasing bugs can throw up all manner of weird stuff.

that may be, i have had a lot of npcs randomly pop up in the middle of my assassination animations and bust me x.x

NovaShadow · June 2016

There are invisible NPC's if ya'll haven't figured this out yet.

Literally invisible. I've come across them. No one is visible on my screen save my target, then I hear screams after I kill them, look around, still no one, yet I get a bounty, hear other voices but still no one around. It's incredibly annoying.

jircris11 · June 2016

yup that is what im getting..damn ghost!

holosoul · June 2016

GreenhaloX wrote: »

any NPCs that pisses me off so far, (especially those that attacks me for catching me looting or pickpocketing) they got whacked.

This always pissed me off, physically attacking someone is illegal even if they steal from you ('attempt' to steal from you)
They have no right to respond that way, even if a guard should arrest me or whatever, that doesn't make their actions OK or put them above the law. Their actions are illegal even within Tamriel's law

holosoul · June 2016

besides unless you're maxed legerdemain, pickpocking is 0 skill pure RNG so it's a lame function for ZOS to add in terms of game rules. Sometimes I think ZOS just trolls or makes the game unfun on purpose like, "we're gonna make this unpleasant"

Oh you want that skyshard? Well this rock is unscalable so you'll have to walk around half the map compared to where you are
Oh you got caught pickpocketing with a random chance that you can't affect in any way? Now you have to run away from this level 10 NPC because defending yourself is illegal

What the hell just make the game my favorite relaxing get away from real life why purposely make something that makes me think, "ugghhhh this ***"