Want to be a pirate in Starfield? Avoid bounties – steal ships – hire real mercenairies, and leave no witnesses. Real pirates hang out with the Crimson Fleet and get their missions there, jumping around the settled systems to isolated places where no one will winess crimes. I’ll give you tips on how to avoid bounties, clear ships, complete quests, all for the benefit of your new career as a pirate in Starfield!
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There are at least two other ways to join the fleet. Don’t be a snitch😉
Also, the adoring fan doesn’t seem to care what you steal or who you kill and he can carry a ton.
This is not how the bounty system works for me. I’ve killed solitary ships and crews and killed them all … and still have a 5 figure bounty.
You can't hire Betty in a bar.
You dont have to travel in the ship you stole. After you sit in the stolen ship, make it your home ship. Your previous home ship undocks and its slow to take off so you can immediately reboard your ship then sit in pulots seat and make it your main ship again. The stolen ship will go into your collection and you're free to carry on your day
SPOILER You can attack the SysDef ppl when they make you an offer to be a double agent. Agree to help when in the cell, but attack via dialog after you are escorted. Attack and escape and you will get approached Dark Brotherhood style in Cydonia.
I never get that no more witnesses message and always get left with the 15000 fine, even when I take off my constellation crew and eliminate witnesses
Confirmed, I took out he target ship first and then the witnesses, not the other way around and left with no bounty
There should be a threaten persuasion where if you leave them living, you can threaten them not to report you. If they do, you can get an activity to hunt them down.
Bounty needs to be done properly, we have a brig, let us stun people, and drag them in, even hold them hostage and ransoms.
You don't even have to go through the trouble of finding contraband to get caught with. Just pick up the first thing you see around witnesses. For example in New Atlantis, just go into the little bar right off the spaceport and pick up a glass. Ninja cops will be on you in a second.
I learned a neat trick. Using console commands you can add one of the self service bounty clearing kioks to your ship. Its REALLY handy. You basically add the console that exists in your apartments that you can get in the game. The console allows you to customize the apartments but you can also add that console to your ship. You can add furniture, pictures and those kiosks.
Crimson fleet quest line is by far the best. For that, I will always be CF! Even if they make an mmo some day, I'm CF for life.
The "last witness" system is bugged. If you exit combat (like via stealth) your bounty will be recorded even if you kill eveveryone.
If the enemies are in an open area it will often bug out too. Small confined spaces are the only place it kinda works.
35k pshh I just paid off a 550k for the UC 😂 thought I killed everyone in the fleet… apparently someone got away
You don't have to empty out the cargo hold and captain's locker if you're just going to register and sell the ship – you'll get all that stuff dumped into your current ship's inventory after you sell it. Corpses however do need to be looted, that loot vanishes otherwise.
TO AVOID BOUNTIES: Many of you are saying you're getting bounties still – after you board the ship, if you're murdering crew, make sure they're all sneak attack kills. As long as no other crew member sees another die, no bounties are added. If you have a bridge-style cockpit with a ladder up to it, chuck a grenade up there. You can easily kill the entire crew of a huge class C ship and walk away with only 650 bounty for assault. Just make sure that no other crew witnesses another dying and you should be good. Works for me.
There is a non-criminal way of joining the Crimson Fleet (but technically would make no sense or motivation to do so going that route…)
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Do UC Vanguard missions. They eventually give you the option to talk to SysDef and help them out with a little 'problem' they're having.
There is another way to join down the vanguard questline. No spoilers but it avoids having to spend time in jail.
I pirate pirates. Show no quarter. Supra Et Ultra. Sic Semper Tyrannis.