Xbox One NA Issue: Bounties and death in beginning areas (devs pls read)

xX_BLUDWULF_Xx · June 2015

As I said Xbox One NA server.

In the AD and DC beginning areas I believe I encountered an issue with new characters I rolled just minutes before.

Note, I did skip the tutorial. To my understanding (please correct me if I am indeed wrong), when you acquire a bounty and stopped by a guard you are given two options, either to pay or flee.

As I came straight into the game without any gold I chose to flee, a chase occurred and I'm sad to say that my toon did not survive in both cases. At this time I chose to resurrect choosing the " Here" option.

It is also my understanding that, if killed while attempting to flee, your bounty is cleared and all stolen items are removed from you inventory. In both cases the stolen items were removed but the bounty did not clear. I was attacked by a guard yet again on both toons (my main is EP so I don't know the AD and DC beginning zones well enogh yet) and this time I chose to resurrect at the wayshrine, still my bounty did not clear.

the only way that I was able to escape this fate repeatedly was to log out on each toon, when this occurred, log into my main and then, after some time had passed, I went back to both alts and their bounty was gone.

I have only encountered this issue twice and it was last night with brand spanking new alts. On one I was caught pick-pocketing, and the other I was observed stealing from a crate.

Is this working correctly? If not then is Zos aware?

UrQuan · June 2015

xX_BLUDWULF_Xx wrote: »

It is also my understanding that, if killed while attempting to flee, your bounty is cleared and all stolen items are removed from you inventory. In both cases the stolen items were removed but the bounty did not clear. I was attacked by a guard yet again on both toons (my main is EP so I don't know the AD and DC beginning zones well enogh yet) and this time I chose to resurrect at the wayshrine, still my bounty did not clear.

Your understanding is not correct. When you are killed by the guards your bounty is only cleared if you have enough gold on your character to pay it and that amount of gold is automatically removed from you.

Edit: I should add that I'm not at all surprised that you might think that your bounty is automatically cleared when you're killed by the guards, regardless of whether you have the gold on you to pay it. That little bit of misinformation has been posted on the forums multiple times ever since the justice system was first on the PTS.

Qyrk · June 2015

This is working as intended. Go to your settings and turn on prevent attacking innocents. This doesn't safeguard you from acccidental stealing however. Bounty is only cleared once you have enough gold to cover it after death or pay the fence.

Akavir_Sentinel · June 2015

The setting to prevent attacking innocents should be turned on by default, but it isn't.

Akavir_Sentinel · June 2015

Qyrk wrote: »

This is working as intended. Go to your settings and turn on prevent attacking innocents. This doesn't safeguard you from acccidental stealing however. Bounty is only cleared once you have enough gold to cover it after death or pay the fence.

You can turn off accidental stealing too. There's a setting to turn off autoloot, and to turn off autoloot for stolen items.

UrQuan · June 2015

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

Qyrk wrote: »

This is working as intended. Go to your settings and turn on prevent attacking innocents. This doesn't safeguard you from acccidental stealing however. Bounty is only cleared once you have enough gold to cover it after death or pay the fence.

You can turn off accidental stealing too. There's a setting to turn off autoloot, and to turn off autoloot for stolen items.

That doesn't prevent you from accidentally stealing items that aren't in containers though. So that drink on the table beside the NPC you meant to interact with? Yeah, you just stole it.

Qyrk · June 2015

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

Qyrk wrote: »

This is working as intended. Go to your settings and turn on prevent attacking innocents. This doesn't safeguard you from acccidental stealing however. Bounty is only cleared once you have enough gold to cover it after death or pay the fence.

You can turn off accidental stealing too. There's a setting to turn off autoloot, and to turn off autoloot for stolen items.

Actually that's not true. Those armors and weapons on racks, you can steal even with this setting.

EDIT: UrQuan always beat me to it

UrQuan · June 2015

Qyrk wrote: »

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

Qyrk wrote: »

This is working as intended. Go to your settings and turn on prevent attacking innocents. This doesn't safeguard you from acccidental stealing however. Bounty is only cleared once you have enough gold to cover it after death or pay the fence.

You can turn off accidental stealing too. There's a setting to turn off autoloot, and to turn off autoloot for stolen items.

Actually that's not true. Those armors and weapons on racks, you can steal even with this setting.

EDIT: UrQuan always beat me to it

lol that's because I'm a ninja

TheShadowScout · June 2015

Welcome to ESO, now with justice!

It helps a lot if you pay attention and take your time, you know...

But if you get an accidental bounty regardless, no sweat, just skip town for a while, kill some mobs out in the wilds, run a dwelve or two, and by the time you're finished you ought to have enough to sneak into the outlaw refugee and pay a fence to settle things with the guard for you. Or just hide in there and wait it out in the first place. Or log off and play an alt, after a while the guard will forget your misdeeds, online or no. Or if you are over level 10, join the war in cyrodil, where there is no law...

AdamBourke · June 2015

Just as a warning to anyone who might be planning to get the mass murderer achievement... don't do it in one go. This will give you a bounty of over 50 000 gold (at level 45), which takes over a week to be forgotten...