Will there be bounties for when goods are stolen from a cargo mission?asked by GlitchLoading
TL;DRSince the cargo is real, a hauler can try to retrieve stolen cargo, but can't yet replace it with other goods; and serious enough infractions systemically generate a bounty on the aggressor.
Well, because it's real cargo, you, being the cargo hauler, do have the option, assuming it hasn't glitched out the ship and disappeared forever, of retrieving your cargo if you can retrieve it, because it is specific cargo for your mission that you need to deliver. It isn't the case yet that you could just replace your missing iron with some other iron. That would be a different mission type.
That would be resource gathering, coming in the future, where you're basically asked to just provide them with an item or commodity from anywhere in the universe. That's not stolen. Yeah, probably not.
Unless you can scratch the VIN off. Chris has talked about that too. Could be a thing. A way to legalize stolen [goods], again, for a smaller vig and whatnot.
So if you get pirated on one of these missions, you could totally ask a friend who's a really good shot to come out and follow the baddies and get your cargo back before the timer runs out.
Or you could just negotiate. Glitch was just asking if it would automatically generate a bounty mission kind of thing.
I mean, it sort of does, because if the infraction is above a CrimeStat 3, then a bounty gets generated. So in a way, because it's systemic, the actions of the aggressor will generate a bounty.