Crime Gameplay Additions

Crime Gameplay Additions expands and adds on some of Starfield's gameplay elements surrounding how bounties work and rules of engagement for law enforcement.

FEATURES AT A GLANCE:

• New smuggler space routes into major hubs
• Counterfeit passports
• Natural bounty decay system
• Jurisdictions for law enforcment
• dynamic player wanted perk

SMUGGLER ROUTES:

• New contraband items have appeared around the settled systems. They are data slates containing coordinates to secret space lanes into the major hubs around the settled system. When you possess one, a new map marker will appear around a hub planet. Using this location, you can bypass the security scan in orbit and land in the settlement, bringing your illicit cargo with you.

• However, local law enforcement is constantly shutting these smuggler routes down, you may only have a limited time to use one once you discover its coordinates.

• You can find these new items anywhere you may find other contraband, and also for sale in places like the key, or in shady vendors inventories.

• The coordiantes are considered contraband items themselves and are worht apretty penny in the black market if they don't expire before you can sell them.

COUNTERFEIT PASSPORTS:

• New UC and FC counterfeit passports have been disseminated to the settled systems. With one of these in your posession, you can come and go as you please in hub cities even with a bounty. As long as you have it on you, you can bypass security checkpoints like the one in New Atlantis!

• These passports can be found wherever you may find contraband, at the key, and sometimes for sale through the trade authority.

BOUNTY DECAY:

• Have an active bounty in the united colonies but need to finish a quest? Running to Neon to pay your bounty isn't always the answer. Now you can find a nice hideout anywhere outside of UC controlled space and lay low while your bounty decays over time. The same applies for the Freestar Collective!

• Abandoned facilities on planets do NOT count as part of law enforcement jurisdiction. However the surrounding planet countryside does. This means you can find yourself a nice cozy factory to lay low for awhile (after you've taken care of it's occupants of course)

• If you return to the jurisdiction in which you have a bounty, the decay timer will reset and only work again if you leave.

JURISDICTIONS:

• The UC and Freestar Collective now have laws surrounding how they are allowed to pursue a criminal within their jurisdictions.

• With a low bounty, unless scanning your ship for bounties or contraband, most law enforcment will ignore you as you are not worth their time to engage. However, at a higher bounty level they will apprehend on sight.

• With bounties under 3000 almost no one cares enough to pursue you unless you walk straight into a city without a counterfeit passport, or hail a security ship practically begging them to check you,

• UC ships are not allowed to pursue UC criminals in FC space, and vis versa. However, if your bounty is high, they might give each other permission to pursue you, even if you are outside their jursidiction. And if it is extremely high, you might be engaged in unincorporated space by either faction.

• UC and FC ships might pursue you outside of their jurisdictions when you have commited a crime but if your bounty is not high enough they have not been granted the permission to engage and can only watch you fly by and get away.

DYNAMIC WANTED TRAIT:

• You can gain and lose the wanted trait dynamically depending on your bounty level. The threshold for this is somewhere in between too low of bounty for anyone to care, and being attacked on sight. Law enfocement would rather issue a third party contract to deal with petty criminals then waste their resources tracking you down.

This mod is the ground framework for many more ideas in the works, the mod will be exanded with new crime related gameplay opportunities over time!

If you're interested in reporting any bugs, offering feedback, or have any ideas, you can find a link to my discord here: https://linktr.ee/BrianWrites