Committing Crimes v Getting a Bounty

[Eolath]

Never went to jail, must 've paid my bounty about 20 times..

(No I didn't even go to jail for the Two sides of a coin quest, or atleast it didn't record me going to jail since I broke out and paid the fine :) )

[palitoot]

They always see me but i want them to see me i like to get a bounty

and resit arrest.I got a bounty of 45 000 my biggest bounty ever was 365 120 :D.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

I get caught very, very occasionally. When I do, it's usually because somebody wandered in in the instant before I did whatever it was I was about to do- or because I wasn't aware I was committing a crime. I remember raiding the Hackdirt store and being arrested when I returned to Chorrol because apparently (even though all of the stuff in boxes and barrels there is marked as unowned) the shopkeep didn't like me taking what I pleased.

 

IMHO, jail is pretty pointless. Unless you've managed to get an obscenely high bounty and can't afford the fine, there's no reason to pick the jail option at all. I think that the fine option ought to be removed after your bounty reaches a certain point, because it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a murderer to get off with a "now, don't do it again, have a nice day."

[swedishmeatball]

I never get bounties.. Only time I've ever gone to jail is on quests. When I have to talk to Arnora's husband, thieves guild (Eh, 'twas quicker), and such. Otherwise, I refuse to get caught. I have a save game just before I pickpocket people, since that's the one of the riskiest crimes.