If you log while in deep space....

[Longshanks]

Not talking about combat evade logging, just if your out exploring and no systems within 500ly or more that have stations and decide to call it a night and log out. Will/can you come back to find your ship was interdicted and blown to smithereens while out? Would it matter if playing open or solo?

Since the last patch seems interdictions are way up, I can hardly explore a single system without getting interdicted once or twice.

 

[Unfluffydave]

Not talking about combat evade logging, just if your out exploring and no systems within 500ly or more that have stations and decide to call it a night and log out. Will/can you come back to find your ship was interdicted and blown to smithereens while out? Would it matter if playing open or solo?

Since the last patch seems interdictions are way up, I can hardly explore a single system without getting interdicted once or twice.

Simple, drop to normal space before you log and you will be there when you log back in.

 

[Wolfman]

Your ship is safe in limbo until you get back regardless of the play-mode. NPC difficulty, authority vessel spawning and interdictions are on the rise.

Heh... yes. An NPC spawned in a system I was discovering then traveled 13,500 Ls to interdict me. Never had one that persistent before. It used to be that if you got a few Ls away they would ignore you.

But to answer the original question, you can safely log out (as long as you save and exit) even whilst in SC, and you will come back in exactly the same place except you will be motionless.

 

[Vladimar Rubicon]

I've done that plenty of times- while exploring you must log off like that unless you leave ED up and running forever...which of course it won't stay up and running because it still crashes here and there. I do wonder one thing though, if you are in a system and decide to drop out of SC to have dinner or something without logging off, does your ship become an "Un-Identifiable Signal" that everyone can see? If that was the case, anyone could drop out and blast your ship.