I would assume there are more than a few cases of repeat offenders, and if support had declined them we would have heard about it very loudly at least once
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Accidentally Sold ship
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If you get money and/or mats when selling engineered modules is a totally different issue.
This is about ship selling. As I (and others) have said: You lose all your modules on that ship, be it engineered ones, CG reward modules or whatever. It's far too easy to make this mistake and not in line with everything else in the game.
As @JakXLT said: It's harder to to a repair-reboot than to sell your ship.
The confirmation is in the same place as the sell button. You don't really have to move your mouse to click it. All FDev would have to do to prevent these accidents is to move the confirmation to the center of the screen. The fact a fix could be THAT easy while FSup themselves probably get hundreds of restore requests every year makes this issue so... ugh, I have no words.
It's like having an uneven number of slices in a toast package!
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Again, please click this everyone and confirm the "bug" with a "can reproduce" comment: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/61590
This would be helpful if you hadn’t maxed out your engineering mats, otherwise it is no better than what we have now.
The mats 'consumed' in your engineered modules would become an additional way to store mats, much like some use ship hulls to store modules.
Yes it is potentially at least.Neat idea, yet totally off-topic.
Accidental ship-sales, guys. It's a nuisance.
But this is the forums and topic drift is normal here, especially for those who haven’t experienced the issue themselves.
I believe there's one thing that's even worse than selling a fully engineered ship.
And I know it because I did it: rebuying a ship without its modules.
At the beginning of my adventure, and my engineering voyage, my ship was destroyed, and I found the rebuy screen confusing (i still do, to some extent). Result: I got my AspX back, but all the juicy bits were missing.
I didn't even know that's possible.I believe there's one thing that's even worse than selling a fully engineered ship.
And I know it because I did it: rebuying a ship without its modules.
At the beginning of my adventure, and my engineering voyage, my ship was destroyed, and I found the rebuy screen confusing (i still do, to some extent). Result: I got my AspX back, but all the juicy bits were missing.
Don't you have to mark every single module you don't want to rebuy?
I did that with a massively engineered Krait Phantom explorer. Everything was top of the range and lightweight.
I sort-of enjoyed engineering a new one, but it shouldn't have been necessary.
I suicide-windered back from Colonia but... forgot to do it in a sidewinder...
At least we learn from these incidents.
Anyway, have y'all commented "can reproduce" on that extremely important bug report already? https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/61590
It was a few years ago, can't remember if I clicked on all the modules, or there was the option to ditch (or keep) all in one click. I haven't had a rebuy in a while, but I believe it's much more user friendly (or rather "more foolproof") in Odyssey.I didn't even know that's possible.
Don't you have to mark every single module you don't want to rebuy?
I see the rebuy screen so infrequently that every time I experience it, I feel like I scrutinize it for way too long "just to make sure" and by the time I'm ready to click the button I feel anxious that in all the clicking around looking at the ship screen and doing said scrutinizing I've managed to "uncheck some boxes" and so I go back to look again... You know, "just to make sure."
It reminds me of when they had the toggle to store or sell the module you're replacing in Outfitting the wrong way round, so the default was "sell". Lots of people lost a few engineered modules that way. At least they fixed that one!
I have always been scared silly of the rebuy screen. I haven't seen it for quite a long time so maybe it has changed... but it always seemed ambiguous to me, and wide open for disaster. One accidental button press and I lose my ship and get teleported back to the bubble. I always read the screen 5 times out loud before pressing anything.
I sure hope Frontier doesn't get the contract to make the User Interface for NASA astronauts or nuclear reactors.
Transfer Ship or Sell Ship. This screen always scares the crap out of me. I certainly don't make a rapid mouse click on this screen.
I don't know what happens if I press Sell Ship. Never tried.
It always make me think of taking my car to the repair shop and the service guy says "When your oil change is done we can place your car in the parking lot for after hours pickup... or we can sell it for you. Check the box and sign here."
Hmm, interesting. I may have to buy a cheap Adder or Sidewinder and try it.
Nice Python paintjob by the way.