I think I have a bounty on my character because when I first started the game, I haven't gotten used to the floaty cars and ran over a few pedestrians on accident. Now whenever I'm near officers, they immediate aggro on me and/or start sending in flying drones and Terminators. I don't supposed there is a "pay bail" system like that in Skyrim that I'm not aware of, is there?
There is no bounty system in this game. Whenever gang members, guards or cops hang gout in any area, that area is considered "semi-restricted" or whatever, so when you come close, you slowly start filling their aggro meter just by standing there. There's no concept of arrest or anything, just shoot on sight.
AI in general is very bad in this game, especially when it comes to driving. I don't even think that AIs drive in this game. I think all those civilian cars are on rails. That would explain how they're not bound by collision detection (yet cars themselves get damaged by collision) and why cops never drive their own cars, or chase you in cars. I think AI driving only gets activated if a player knocks a car off rails and then AI slowly takes over just to return to its rails, then it shuts down.
I mean you can stop entire traffic just by parking in front of a car (rails). They will not do anything about it. In GTA they'd beep at you, curse you and eventually drive around you.
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This is actually a valid point, believe it or not. If you get high enough stats to survive those elite cops, you will notice that there is a finite amount of cops that "chase you". If you beat them all, they will stop spawning and your stars will disappear lol. There really is no bounty or criminal record whatsoever.