The bounty system is AWFUL

Veuth

I'm sorry but the bounty system needs a massive nerf because it takes WAY too long for your bounty to decrease. I have a bounty of 11k and I log on the next day to find out it's still 11k.
I really don't wanna lose my gold since I'm saving up for a house, this high bounty is making it impossible for me to sell/buy items and craft things at cities due to the large amount of guards.

Surragard

Don't log out. Find somewhere to hide and then go make a sandwich and come back. There was or Finally a system planned that would let players hunt other players who had bounty and essentially be justicars but apparently it ran into issues in testing and was scraped. Sometimes I do feel like the bounties are long because it was designed with the idea that you would be fighting other players to get away but I could just be crazy

IcyDeadPeople

You just need a different character with no bounty to buy stuff from guild traders. I have 2 that have had very high bounty for the past year or two, and several others with no bounty.

As for selling items, accessing bank or crafting on a character with bounty, go to Coldharbour.

Veuth

If you put all your gold in a bank and then proceed to be killed by a guard, does that clear your bounty?

Mojmir

Slot heal skills and rapids,block when guards attack you and run away. Sneak/stealth away from guards and don't get caught.

Narvuntien

Go to coldharbour... there is no rules in Coldharbour... and you can use all the amenities in the hollow city and the bounty goes down whille you do it.

starkerealm

Veuth wrote: »

If you put all your gold in a bank and then proceed to be killed by a guard, does that clear your bounty?

No. Your bounty is only reduced if the guard can take the gold off your corpse.

sumisu1

Narvuntien wrote: »

Go to coldharbour... there is no rules in Coldharbour... and you can use all the amenities in the hollow city and the bounty goes down whille you do it.

This. 1500000 in november, gone down to about 350000 now… I'll pay it off soon… kickback passive helps… rerolling a new character too

idk

Veuth wrote: »

If you put all your gold in a bank and then proceed to be killed by a guard, does that clear your bounty?

Nope, because you have not paid your bounty.

Essentially, get better at thieving and killing an you will not have a bounty.

Qyrk

Thieves Guild, and to some extent Dark Brotherhood passives help with heat and bounty.

Dr_Rektar

Never had problems with bounty system. 10k per day seems pretty good for me.

zaria

sumisu1 wrote: »

Narvuntien wrote: »

Go to coldharbour... there is no rules in Coldharbour... and you can use all the amenities in the hollow city and the bounty goes down whille you do it.

This. 1500000 in november, gone down to about 350000 now… I'll pay it off soon… kickback passive helps… rerolling a new character too

How did you manage ? My max bounty has been less than 3000.
I guess you rubberbanded and killed people?

Dr_Rektar

reapers march npc`s killing maybe, i have alt with 190000 bounty there

SilentFox22

I think the bounty timer is fine the way it is. What would be nice is if bounties were isolated region to region. Wanted in Glenumbra, lay low in Skyrim for a while where no one knows what you done back in Glenumbra.

Narvuntien

sumisu1 wrote: »

Narvuntien wrote: »

Go to coldharbour... there is no rules in Coldharbour... and you can use all the amenities in the hollow city and the bounty goes down whille you do it.

This. 1500000 in november, gone down to about 350000 now… I'll pay it off soon… kickback passive helps… rerolling a new character too

... If you kept mudering people... i think perhaps you deserve that bounty. You should get a title "Tamerial's most wanted"

You can use the bank and crafting stations in coldharbour, then sneak into Belkath for writs. Just stay out of other cities and do quests, including craglorn. You can probably get people to share you the daily pleadges.

starkerealm

zaria wrote: »

sumisu1 wrote: »

Narvuntien wrote: »

Go to coldharbour... there is no rules in Coldharbour... and you can use all the amenities in the hollow city and the bounty goes down whille you do it.

This. 1500000 in november, gone down to about 350000 now… I'll pay it off soon… kickback passive helps… rerolling a new character too

How did you manage ? My max bounty has been less than 3000.
I guess you rubberbanded and killed people?

Back when the system was first introduced, there were a bunch of NPCs with instant respawn times. You'd break into a house, murder them, and they'd pop back in instantly. So, a few enterprising players sat there and farmed these guys for hours, filling their inventory, sneaking to the fence, and coming back. Resulting in some hilariously high bounties.

phairdon

Put skill points into the forgotten quickly skill line, in thieves guild and kick back in legerdemain.

Veuth

Alright, I'm just gonna hang in Coldharbour for a while but I still think this should be nerfed because what if players can't get into Coldharbour? You're basically screwed.

Dr_Rektar

You can go in coldharbour every time. Its not quest bound location. And meh oultaws life never eas easy

kyle.wilson

I don't trust anyone complaining about bounties in the millions. After many players used npc instant respawn to exploit cp, I always second guess their excuse for the bounty.

SHADOW2KK

Well l2p or get the passive skills that decrease bounty over time OP, or go into Coldharbour or Cyro to play, no Justice active there

Asking for nerfs is a bit much, you are the one who done criminal actions, so pay up, or be better, do the TG/DB questlines too, they will give access to bounty decreasing passives.

Taleof2Cities

Veuth wrote: »

Alright, I'm just gonna hang in Coldharbour for a while but I still think this should be nerfed because what if players can't get into Coldharbour? You're basically screwed.

You can get a port from another player ... regardless if you have done the quest to get to Coldharbour.

IronCrystal

The bounty will decrease at a decreased rate (1/2?) while offline compared to while online.

11k bounty is not a lot lol, but if you have the thieves guild dlc you can obtain vouchers or something which will clear your bounty. In addition, there are passives that will speed up the rate at which the bounty decreases as well as passives which lower the rate you'd pay out.

MattT1988

Veuth wrote: »

Alright, I'm just gonna hang in Coldharbour for a while but I still think this should be nerfed because what if players can't get into Coldharbour? You're basically screwed.

Easier solution is to not get a high bounty.

TheShadowScout

Veuth wrote: »

I'm sorry but the bounty system needs a massive nerf because it takes WAY too long for your bounty to decrease. I have a bounty of 11k and I log on the next day to find out it's still 11k.
I really don't wanna lose my gold since I'm saving up for a house, this high bounty is making it impossible for me to sell/buy items and craft things at cities due to the large amount of guards.

Sounds like a "learn to crime" issue.
Don't like the big bounty?
Don't. Get. Caught.

Sneak a lot. Steal only when they aren't looking. Burglary is better then pickpocketing, since containers have no chance of feeling your hand slip into them. Also there are some locations where you can steal completely unobserved - containers tagged as stealable but with no witnesses in sight (often through quest-related changes in the area).

Or of you do...
- flee to Coldharbour or -Cyrodil- and earn something there.
- do all your selling in outlaw refugees (every one of them has one entrace that is outside the city limits) and all your crafting at overland crafting stations.
- pay it off, then steal more without getting caught to regain your losses.
- join the thieves guild for some perks in that regard.
- raise legerdemain (overland treasure chest hunting!) for more perks in that regard.

And 11K is nothing. Especially now while al those furniture schematics are still selling for good gold...

Personally I think the bounty decreases way to quickly! It makes crime almost consequence-less, unless you go really overboard and murder a whole town or something...
I for one would have preferred if the bounty did not decrease, but was split for each alliance. So you could have a high bounty in DC lands, but be "upstanding" back home in EP lands...

xeoneexb14_ESO

MattT1988 wrote: »

Veuth wrote: »

Alright, I'm just gonna hang in Coldharbour for a while but I still think this should be nerfed because what if players can't get into Coldharbour? You're basically screwed.

Easier solution is to not get a high bounty.

Exactly where is the fun in that?

MattT1988

xeoneexb14_ESO wrote: »

MattT1988 wrote: »

Veuth wrote: »

Alright, I'm just gonna hang in Coldharbour for a while but I still think this should be nerfed because what if players can't get into Coldharbour? You're basically screwed.

Easier solution is to not get a high bounty.

Exactly where is the fun in that?

Don't do it if you can't handle the consequences. The game rightfully punishes you if you get caught murdering it's innocent inhabitants.

zaria

starkerealm wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

sumisu1 wrote: »

Narvuntien wrote: »

Go to coldharbour... there is no rules in Coldharbour... and you can use all the amenities in the hollow city and the bounty goes down whille you do it.

This. 1500000 in november, gone down to about 350000 now… I'll pay it off soon… kickback passive helps… rerolling a new character too

How did you manage ? My max bounty has been less than 3000.
I guess you rubberbanded and killed people?

Back when the system was first introduced, there were a bunch of NPCs with instant respawn times. You'd break into a house, murder them, and they'd pop back in instantly. So, a few enterprising players sat there and farmed these guys for hours, filling their inventory, sneaking to the fence, and coming back. Resulting in some hilariously high bounties.

Understand and its well deserved, some of the npc was probably Khajiit too.
Sounds like an time to make an alt.

Sausage

Its called Risk and Reward, as far I know ESO is trying its best to follow it at least to some lenght. Risk and Reward only gives nice twist to MMORPG, if its not used for everything. Imperial City followed Risk and Reward design too.

If everything is easy, then everything becomes stale, thats something I dont want personally, so that said If anything we need more twists.

SanSan

"I have a bounty of 11k and I log on the next day to find out it's still 11k."
I feel like you over exaggerated on the "still 11k" comment.
Just go steal Thief Troves and use the anti-bounty papers (i forgot what they're called)

phaneub17_ESO

SanSan wrote: »

"I have a bounty of 11k and I log on the next day to find out it's still 11k."
I feel like you over exaggerated on the "still 11k" comment.
Just go steal Thief Troves and use the anti-bounty papers (i forgot what they're called)

It doesn't seem to decrease during maintenance, or at least the first time it came out that gave some trouble. Had nearly the same amount when the server went offline as it did when it came back up.