What happens when you log off?

[GG7]

I just gave this a good testing against some A.I. in a RES. Leaving the game with my Sidewinder at 5% hull, I returned, and I was not dead. Not only was I not dead, but my ship was at 100% health, all 5 times.

I have found some pretty bizarre behavior to develop inside a big starport IF you leave your game running with your ship sitting on the pad ON THE SURFACE of the station flight deck.

Today for example, I got called out on a personal emergency and left my game running unattended for nearly 7 hours! My ship was safely parked on the pad of Finney Dock in Eleu.

When I returned to the game, the frame rates had been reduced to a literal slide show speed! It had to be in the low single digits! Before I quit the game and rebooted, I took a few moments with HeadLook and started looking around. I started noticing that there was pieces of blown up ships everywhere! I had already discovered that sitting at a port for more than about 20 minutes would start triggering a series of ship destructions at the hands of the automated station security system.

Well... Apparently, when left alone for many hours, this ship destruction becomes so constant, and the debris so thick, that the game slows to a crawl possibly while attempting to render all the pieces? I saved and quit, rebooted the game, and everything was back to normal.

But... This definitely helped to confirm what I had long suspected. That the station based NPC ship destruction does increase with sustained inactivity while docked at a large starport, but also that the game appears to have a significant "Memory Leak".

 

[mark0ne]

Saving in normal space about 12km or more from a station is probably the safest place to save in this build. You would think saving on a pad would be best, but with the buggy nature of this build it actually is kind of risky. The station you save "IN" could start being buggy and crashing you to the Dashboard when trying to leave. OR! On rare occasions, the controlling faction can fall out of favor and a coup can swoop in and forcibly remove them from power!

If you happen to be Friendly or Allied with that now defunct faction, and not cozy enough with the new faction in power, you might find yourself in HOSTILE territory! Basically trapped inside the station controlled by enemy forces, who will blast you to bits the second you emerge from the airlock/mail slot!

Lol..technically you should be.safe anywhere logging off except in asteroid belts. I was safe in a station. When I tried to log back in I got a weird message 'trying to sync date', which was promptly followed by a failed error message. When I did manage to log back in my vulture was apparently destroyed as I was taken straight to the debug screen. Damned bug cost me over 300,000 after insurance to rebuy my ship.

 

[X-Terminator]

I just gave this a good testing against some A.I. in a RES. Leaving the game with my Sidewinder at 5% hull, I returned, and I was not dead. Not only was I not dead, but my ship was at 100% health, all 5 times.

Smane here. So how can the hull repair itself? Handy when exploring as an exploit!

 

[GJ51]

Smane here. So how can the hull repair itself? Handy when exploring as an exploit!

Nanites !