It seems to me all I need to do is go about 10k from an object, and it despawns.
What gives? If I hatch-breaker a cargo vessel, it will often carry on running, and the cargo will be spread out over quite a large distance. Given the hatch breaker often only spills a few containers I often want to carry on chasing the target. If I do this, however, anything that was dropped in the first spill will despawn by the time I get back to it. This is rather annoying. I've lost about 100k credits in loot so far to this issue, so it's not a massive problem, but it is annoying.
What gives? If I hatch-breaker a cargo vessel, it will often carry on running, and the cargo will be spread out over quite a large distance. Given the hatch breaker often only spills a few containers I often want to carry on chasing the target. If I do this, however, anything that was dropped in the first spill will despawn by the time I get back to it. This is rather annoying. I've lost about 100k credits in loot so far to this issue, so it's not a massive problem, but it is annoying.