Running out of fuel finding pirates

[Hrdina]

You need a station with a black market before you can sell stolen cargo. Ideally an outpost - they are less likely to scan you there.

You can look on the System Map to see if a station has a Black Market. It can save a long, disappointing trip.

[buksida]

Thanks for the replies - I got fined and then 'wanted' status for accidentally hitting a police ship while fighting in a RES.

Of course they all attacked me and I had to high-tail it out of there. Do the fines/bounties on you eventually go away or do you have to pay them? I have a 'dormant bounty' in one system, not sure what that is all about either.

[Gorf]

It's all very confusing and I think it was overhauled to try and rein in the players in open who delighted in causing trouble and then using a disposable craft into the side of the station to clear their bounties.

I think a dormant fine can be paid off if you don't get scanned by an authority craft in that system. I just paid one off from a few weeks ago in the supposed anarchy near Azrael. Turns out it's been flipped to a faction's control, but the galmap hasn't been updated.

Anyway, I went off exploring and came back to do some missions. In one, I ended up in that station, saw I had a dormant fine and just paid it off.

[Mouse]

If you have a pirate mission, once you get into the system your supposed to be in, set a slow supercruise and keep an eye out of Unidentified Signal Sources. Cna get a mission done rather quickly that way if the system doesn't have a RES.