Careful: Guards Don't Recognize When Your Bounty is Gone

Enodoc · March 2016

Luvtantius_Micocia wrote: »

Enodoc wrote: »

sirinsidiator wrote: »

ZOS_Gideon there is also another case where the guard is trying to collect a bounty of 0.
I had 0 bounty, tried to pickpocket an NPC, but failed and then after 3 minutes (thanks to the TG passive) the bounty went down to 0 again, but there was still heat on me. Then I walked past a guard who stopped me and tried to make me pay 0 gold.

That's strange, Bounty shouldn't decay at all while you have Heat. (I think there's a similar bug with Trespassing, as bounty you gain while Trespassing will also decay while you still have full Heat from being in the Restricted Area.)

The bounty does not decay while there is still "heat" on a character. The problem is that the bounty appears to be gone but due to a bug there actually still is a bounty on your charachter. Changing zones forces to resync which often means when you do this right after your bounty dropped to zero you will see that you all the sudden gained some bounty again. If you will not change regions, and think you have no bounty you might get a surprise when a guard stops you and demands you to pay 0 gold and hand over the loot you stole.

That's the original issue from this thread. Sid's post seems to be about something different, having a legit zero bounty (white) while still having some heat (red), meaning your infamy (bounty and heat combined) is still above zero, which shouldn't happen, as heat should be zero before bounty can decay. The client sync bug is about having zero infamy according to the client, when you actually do still have infamy according to the server.