Fairly regularly I see destroyed ships on landing pads. Is that something I need to start worrying about? Can someone just pop by and fire a few rockets at me while I look at the mission board? I suspect they are just generated to add a bit of flavour to the game world, but I could at minimum see players doing something like that.
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It's simply flavor. Generally at outposts? There is a static model of a destroyed ship taking up the large landing pad on all of them... (I think it's still there, lol...)
At any rate... once you have landed, you are safe from all attacks until you launch again.
Cheers... and all the best on your flights. o7
At any rate... once you have landed, you are safe from all attacks until you launch again.
Cheers... and all the best on your flights. o7
Thanks guys. 
Not so. I got killed on a landing pad in a Coriolis station. I was attacked by an NPC while I was outfitting, so I didn't know it was happening. I then logged off while I was still happily sitting on the landing pad, but I logged on to find myself in a detention centre, even though i hadn't done anything wrong.
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:19:21Z", "event":"ShipyardSwap", "ShipType":"python", "ShipID":57, "StoreOldShip":"Federation_Corvette", "StoreShipID":50, "MarketID":3226035456 }
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:19:39Z", "event":"Docked", "StationName":"Fraas Gateway", "StationType":"Coriolis", "StarSystem":"Warninohan", "SystemAddress":3961864046963, "MarketID":3226035456, "StationFaction":{ "Name":"Serrot Blue General Group"
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:19:39Z", "event":"ReceiveText", "From":"$ShipName_Police_Empire;", "From_Localised":"Internal Security Service", "Message":"$Police_Attack10;", "Message_Localised":"Submit to justice, criminal.", "Channel":"npc" }
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:29:34Z", "event":"ModuleBuy", "Slot":"PowerPlant", "SellItem":"$int_powerplant_size7_class2_name;", "SellItem_Localised":"Power Plant", "SellPrice":1264683, "BuyItem":"$int_powerplant_size5_class5_name;", "BuyItem_Localised":"Power Plant", "MarketID":3226035456, "BuyPrice":4215607, "Ship":"python", "ShipID":57 }
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:29:54Z", "event":"ReceiveText", "From":"$ShipName_Police_Empire;", "From_Localised":"Internal Security Service", "Message":"$OverwatchAttackRun04;", "Message_Localised":"Starting kill run.", "Channel":"npc" }
23T23:36:54Z", "event":"ModuleSell", "MarketID":3226035456, "Slot":"LargeHardpoint3", "SellItem":"$hpt_mininglaser_fixed_medium_name;", "SellItem_Localised":"Mining Laser", "SellPrice":22012, "Ship":"python", "ShipID":57 }
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:38:28Z", "event":"ReceiveText", "From":"$ShipName_Police_Empire;", "From_Localised":"Internal Security Service", "Message":"$OverwatchAttackRun06;", "Message_Localised":"Lining up for the shot.", "Channel":"npc" }
You can see I was still under attack, not dead, when I shut down. Normally, you get a 15 second timer when you're under attack, but I didn't get anything. It just shut down as normal. Also, there was no indication in the log that I had lost my shields or taken any damage, which would normally be there, just lots of messages about lining up for the shot and starting attack run. I was literally killed while logged off!
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:43:27Z", "event":"ReceiveText", "From":"$ShipName_Police_Empire;", "From_Localised":"Internal Security Service", "Message":"$OverwatchAttackRun06;", "Message_Localised":"Lining up for the shot.", "Channel":"npc" }
{ "timestamp":"2020-02-23T23:44:01Z", "event":"Shutdown" }
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Not really. My Cobra got blown up by Anaconda while landed at the outpost once. It was long time ago though.
It is possible (however very unlikely) to get attacked on the pad. Usually you pretty safe on the landing pad because of the station defense systems. Nobody wants to open fire inside of the "No Fire Zone" and face the music, particularly NPCs.
Exactly this ... When I first got the game five years ago this happened to me.. I landed, sold my rares and was treating myself to new lasers in outfitting when I heard gunfire... and then next thing I knew, ship go kaboom.
I raised it as a bug and was comped for my loss.... but since then I refuse to go into Starport Services straight off the pad - I always use the hangar! But it can happen... you are not invulnerable when you land!
But you are in the hangar when in Outfitting.
Ok so I guess I'm still confused?
You ARE safe while docked, on the surface or in the hangar. Some are just showing off that they once had a bug.
Can the cops or station guns blow you up if you are on a pad?
If you are on the pad and docked, you are 100% invulnerable. Bullets and lasers just bounce off you. You effectively become a piece of the space station and share in its invulnerability. Once you hit launch, if the station or someone else is shooting at you, you can get hit and die, but not until then.
The crashed ships appear on "pirate station" outposts. They aren't real landing pads (you can tell, because they're just a platform, with no hangar "box" beneath). They're just decoration.
The crashed ships appear on "pirate station" outposts. They aren't real landing pads (you can tell, because they're just a platform, with no hangar "box" beneath). They're just decoration.
Yep.
If you fall under attack while in the process of docking, auto-dock will disengage. You can complete the docking process manually and be safe from continued fire. I've had this happen at an outpost from a pirate NPC (a long time ago).
The bugs are interesting, but not common I think.
If you fall under attack while in the process of docking, auto-dock will disengage. You can complete the docking process manually and be safe from continued fire. I've had this happen at an outpost from a pirate NPC (a long time ago).
The bugs are interesting, but not common I think.
How do you account for my ship getting killed while it was docked then? This was recently in the current version of Horizons, and you can see the evidence from my log-files in post#5.
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Yep hence that it was a bug, reported and actually quite generously compensated but if I recall there had been quite of few occurrences of this in the very early days as I clearly recall someone telling me exactly how to report it...
But yeah - I was watching the lasers being changed over and could hear frenzied firing in the background and suddenly the ship just went boom! I was literally sitting there doing a passable impersonation of a goldfish for about a minute!
If you look at the timestamps, you can see that the trouble started before I went into the hanger. It was 10 minutes before I did my first transaction.The outfitting was just coincidental.
Then report it as a bug, it wasnt correct behaviour.
It doesn't seem that your ship was killed on the pad.
Only attacked.
And when you logged back in you were sent to jail pretty much the same way as if you turned yourself in - so not destroyed, but jailed only
The rebuy screen and the jail screed look quite similar