r/EliteDangerous • u/Maleficent_Fault_950 • 7h ago

Misc Commit Crime PP

So, in the undermining section of PP there is "Commit Crime" activity. Is this just ANY activity that would produce a fine or bounty on you? Enemy undermine system, just do anything? Go to res site, attack every miner and fight off internal security forces? Gain a bunch of bounty and notoriety but also merits and undermine progress? Is there a potential for anarchy systems to do this, or would that not be considered crime?

tl;dr

PP Commit Great Crime

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u/forbiddenlake CMDR Winter Ihernglass 7h ago

Yes, commit crimes. But it's bugged and only a tiny amount counts towards the assignment. You'll going to be there a long time and rack up a huge bounty and notoriety before you complete the assignment.

(It was released this way and never changed, so clearly, two years later, this is obviously intended gameplay. Just skip the assignment, in fact, skip most of the assignments, because the ones that aren't straight up impossible still aren't worth the time to do.)

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u/Maleficent_Fault_950 7h ago

Yeah the weekly assignments are hella bugged, but I meant moreso because I feel like entering my murder hobo era. I'm tired of picking off silly pirates in res sites. I was hoping to plant myself somewhere, commit attrocities greater than mankind has ever known, and fight off unending waves of security reinforcements, all the while gaining merits. Unless there's an alternative mass-genocide way of earning merits. I know bounty hunting in certain systems can work, but that goes back to me sitting at a res fighting simple pirates.

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u/forbiddenlake CMDR Winter Ihernglass 5h ago

are powerplay conflict zones also tiring?

Or, if you can find the right systems and minor factions, you can fight waves of pirates that are attacking space installations. the owning minor faction needs to be in Boom state. Now combine that with a good system to earn merits via BHing.

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u/emetcalf Pranav Antal 7h ago

Yep, committing basically any crime is worth merits. Not very many, but you do get merits. Maybe like 20 per ship you murder, maybe less? It's practically worthless.

And it doesn't work in Anarchy systems because nothing is a crime in Anarchy.

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u/PirateHawg PIRACY = GOOD 7h ago

Best bang for buck is killing people on foot. Not a good buck but it works I guess

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u/Phoenix_Blue CMDR PhoenixBlue0 4h ago

See if you can find some on-foot "restore power" missions. Take those, then abandon them. Each one you abandon gives you either 50,000 or 100,000 cr in fines.