Newcomer / Intro And the Air is Blue.

[HurstLlama]

Some of you may remember a discussion I started back in November about the boredom of exploration. I was at that time on my way out for an expedition into the black. Well I pushed on and got got close to the edge of the galaxy making many, many, many discoveries in the process. This afternoon I finally decided that enough was enough and turned for home.

I had made just three jumps on the homeward leg (discovering another three virgin systems containing a total of about 50 new planets) when my wife called me to help her with a couple of chores. So,as I was in deep space just about to jump out of a system, I hit escape to take me back to the menu and went to do my husbandly duty. I did not exit the game, just left it on that first menu you get when you hit escape - I thought that was enough to safely pause the game.

About fifteen minutes later I came back to the game to find the message "Your Ship Has been Destroyed" and the re-buy screen. I have no idea what happened. What I do know is that seven weeks' worth of effort had just been wiped out. All that exploration data was gone. I confess I used some rather bad language.

I play on Iron-man mode too, so now off to clear my save and start again. I shall not make that mistake again.

 

[Factabulous]

well, at least you now know there is no pause, so at least you learned something

Edit:

I have no idea what happened.

Or maybe you didn't

 

[[VR] Orodruin]

You probably did not really quit to main menu. If you just press escape the game keeps going without logging you out.
The most likely thing is that you ran straight into the star you were jumping towards. You can also check your logs.

 

[Para Handy]

You know FD support have been known to restore your commander on the odd occasion. It wouldn't hurt to raise a support request - a refusal might be the outcome but you never know.

 

[McGyverCP]

I second Para Handy's statement...if they say no, well, it is what it is. If they say yes, then just play as if you woke up from a really bad nightmare while sitting at the helm of your ship. It's worth a shot.

Good Luck Commander!

Take Care and Check Six

Cmdr. McGyver signing off

 

[Northpin]

I like your iron man spirit.. Keep strong

And no, ED has no pause, you really need to quit to remove your ship from the game.
Otherwise, in supercruise your ship acts accordingly to (the deadliest son of a beach in space)'s. first law. That is Sir Isaac Newton.
In supercruise your ship keeps going until it hits something and if you let it unattended it will ruin someone's day, somewhere and sometime

pun intended

 

[Factabulous]

I suppose the other two gotchas that typically catch people out:

1) SRVs use fuel - so don't go do errands while logged in on a planet, as the SRV fuel tank is significantly smaller than the ship - so you may come back to a similar exploded SRV (sure, you'll be back in your ship, but you'll then need to go find somewhere to restock the SRV)
2) Repairing Life Support is a risk as the oxygen held in reserve is not replenished until you dock - so you can run out of reserves while you repair (and die). Don't repair life support unless you really must (and worth synthing a resupply if you do this a lot).

You will, ofc, forget both of these until you do them yourself, much as you would have not remembered there is no pause until you found out the hard way - we all mostly did

 

[MickyG1982]

Some of you may remember a discussion I started back in November about the boredom of exploration. I was at that time on my way out for an expedition into the black. Well I pushed on and got got close to the edge of the galaxy making many, many, many discoveries in the process. This afternoon I finally decided that enough was enough and turned for home.

I had made just three jumps on the homeward leg (discovering another three virgin systems containing a total of about 50 new planets) when my wife called me to help her with a couple of chores. So,as I was in deep space just about to jump out of a system, I hit escape to take me back to the menu and went to do my husbandly duty. I did not exit the game, just left it on that first menu you get when you hit escape - I thought that was enough to safely pause the game.

About fifteen minutes later I came back to the game to find the message "Your Ship Has been Destroyed" and the re-buy screen. I have no idea what happened. What I do know is that seven weeks' worth of effort had just been wiped out. All that exploration data was gone. I confess I used some rather bad language.

I play on Iron-man mode too, so now off to clear my save and start again. I shall not make that mistake again.

I remember someone doing something similar and taking it slightly less well...

He "parked" his ship around a star fuel scooping then went to "answer the call of nature" and left his screen in a similar state.

Claimed it was a bug, then ranted when support wouldn't give him his ship back...

 

[Old Duck]

I have no idea what happened.

Look at your contact's list to see if anybody in that list has "Killed You" by their name. Otherwise it was probably an NPC (which is rare unless you were carrying cargo), assuming you weren't gone long enough to run out of fuel.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

You almost certainly crashed into a star. You were not paused. There is no pause. Always log out to the menu if you have to step away from the game, or, at worst, drop out of supercruise somewhere in the black well away from anything. Supercruise is constantly in motion even at zero throttle, normal flight you can stop dead, or at the very least, severely limit your speed.

Sucks, but it is what it is.

 

[Dragsham]

Wow. 7 weeks worth. Sheesh.
An attempt to make yu feel better...would some kind soul please link that 1 year of data lost on utube vid? Cos that was priceless ..he was streaming at the time.
I do hope cmdr after seeing it, you'll feel better.
I've lost a mths worth so been there.
Do not leave ship unattended. Ever! Just log out if RL intervenes which sometimes does happen to us all specially if your a parent.

o7

 

[HurstLlama]

Many thanks to those who have offered sympathy & advice. I think that the error was mine & the ship flew into a star whilst I was away from the screen. In thge circumstances I shan't ask the Devs for mercy, my fault, my loss.

I have started again in a nice new Sidewinder and, my word, things have changed a bit since I started my last play through. On top of that I am having to really dredge the memory for the key bindings as when exploring there are only a very few commands one needs to use and those become ingrained (I am struggling to stop myself fuel scooping, honking, etc. every time I enter a system in the starter area). All in all I am rather enjoying my fresh start.

 

[hawknerd]

FWIW You have nothing to lose by asking for a restore from FDev.

 

[MickyG1982]

FWIW You have nothing to lose by asking for a restore from FDev.

Except your pride...

 

[hawknerd]

Except your pride...

7 weeks worth of lost data would make me swallow my pride very quickly. Pride comes before a fall as they say.

 

[aRJay]

I suppose the other two gotchas that typically catch people out:

1) SRVs use fuel - so don't go do errands while logged in on a planet, as the SRV fuel tank is significantly smaller than the ship - so you may come back to a similar exploded SRV (sure, you'll be back in your ship, but you'll then need to go find somewhere to restock the SRV)
2) Repairing Life Support is a risk as the oxygen held in reserve is not replenished until you dock - so you can run out of reserves while you repair (and die). Don't repair life support unless you really must (and worth synthing a resupply if you do this a lot).

You will, ofc, forget both of these until you do them yourself, much as you would have not remembered there is no pause until you found out the hard way - we all mostly did

Ships also use fuel. One time I got called away and distracted so it was some hours before I got back to my ship which was at rest in normal space and had almost no fuel at all on board, fortunately I was adjacent to a scoopable star and had just enough fuel to get into cruise and start scooping but it was a very near thing.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Many thanks to those who have offered sympathy & advice. I think that the error was mine & the ship flew into a star whilst I was away from the screen. In thge circumstances I shan't ask the Devs for mercy, my fault, my loss.

I have started again in a nice new Sidewinder and, my word, things have changed a bit since I started my last play through. On top of that I am having to really dredge the memory for the key bindings as when exploring there are only a very few commands one needs to use and those become ingrained (I am struggling to stop myself fuel scooping, honking, etc. every time I enter a system in the starter area). All in all I am rather enjoying my fresh start.

Kudos for you attitude CMDR! @@@07

I, like Hawknerd above, would ne crawling at the mercy of FD Support, cap in hand, tail between legs and shuffling awkwardly in the hope a restore would be granted. Seven weeks... I'd seriously be considering a ragequit *

* And a post in the suggestions forum for a save game slot **

** This will never happen ***

*** Probably.

 

[CMDR SleepyDelegate]

7 weeks worth of lost data would make me swallow my pride very quickly. Pride comes before a fall as they say.

Totally agree...

I also lost my ship due to my stupid mistake while doing a low level flyby on a planet with Bio signals... I decided to restart and went exploring again, when someone advised me to ask FD support for help. So I did. I was very humble and admitted my fault and politely asked them to just return my data, as I was exploring in some obscure regions of space, high above the galaxy plane and spent weeks looking for an undiscovered system more than 3000ly above the GP...

So I was in my "rebuy" ship after this accident, exploring Thargoid space, three days after i submitted the ticket, when the FD support sent me an email, that they are restoring my data to my account... SO I was like "Yopiiie! Thank you very much!".. When I realised, that I am in Thargoid space, having Guardian modules on board, and if I get interdicted by Thargoids, I will get destroyed in a second... So immediately after the email from FD support came, I run back towards Shinrarta Dezra, hoping to make it there before Thargoids find me... And guess what, they interdicted me right during my first jump towards SD... Luckily, they spared my life, as I was in an unarmed exploration ship, completely harmless...