Some of you may remember back in early December I left the game unattended only to return to find myself on the rebuy screen, having lost seven weeks exploration data to say nothing of general progress over a year or more (I play in iron man mode). The more sympathetic of you drummed into me that if I was to leave the game for more than the shortest of time I must "Exit" back to the main menu, just hitting escape was not enough as the game with my ship in it was still running. Fair enough, lesson ell and truly learnt.
Now fast forward a few weeks and I am off in my Dolphin on a high paying, but very safe, VIP tourist mission. I scan the first target beacon, receive the message asking me to fly on to the second. Everything is running along very nicely, but Herself calls from downstairs. I have to go and do husband stuff for about half an hour. So I drop into normal space, a long way from any planet or station, set the throttle top zero and exit back to the main menu. I have done as I have been advised, I and my mission is safe. Right? Wrong!
When I came back to the game my ship was where I left her, the comms log showed that I hadn't been dreaming but of the passengers and the contract there was no sign. If it hadn't been for the comms log I could have been persuaded that I had imagined the whole thing. £3.5 million down the tubes.
There followed a couple of other instances where contracts and cargos disappeared following a break in play but none that I had so well documented. Then came my expedition to Dev's Hope.
Now, as I freely admit, I am new to this whole ground lark but I think I am getting the hang of it. Last evening I managed to find and land at Dev's Hope and go off in my SRV, primarily for a drive around (this was my first time on a planet other than at a base). Anyway I picked up some stuff including two cargo cannisters. My SRV was full so I recalled my ship and tried to drive in to transfer the cargo. I am new to all this so I was making a complete pig's breakfast of it when once again the voice of doom struck. Herself said it was time for bed. So leaving my SRV under my ship (about three feet from the sweet spot it turned out), I remembered my lesson and logged right out confident my ship, SRV and cargo was safe. When I came back to the game today my SRV was in exactly the same position that I left it but it was empty. The cargo I had collected before I logged off had gone.
It seems to me that if one logs out in the middle of a "modern" mission then one is in serious danger of losing cargo and progress. I say "modern" mission because I have never experienced anything like this under the stuff in the old original game. When I take off from a station with a hold full of stuff to deliver to another system I do not have to worry about it disappearing if I pop off to put the kettle on. If someone has a reasonable explanation I'd be pleased to hear it.
Now fast forward a few weeks and I am off in my Dolphin on a high paying, but very safe, VIP tourist mission. I scan the first target beacon, receive the message asking me to fly on to the second. Everything is running along very nicely, but Herself calls from downstairs. I have to go and do husband stuff for about half an hour. So I drop into normal space, a long way from any planet or station, set the throttle top zero and exit back to the main menu. I have done as I have been advised, I and my mission is safe. Right? Wrong!
When I came back to the game my ship was where I left her, the comms log showed that I hadn't been dreaming but of the passengers and the contract there was no sign. If it hadn't been for the comms log I could have been persuaded that I had imagined the whole thing. £3.5 million down the tubes.
There followed a couple of other instances where contracts and cargos disappeared following a break in play but none that I had so well documented. Then came my expedition to Dev's Hope.
Now, as I freely admit, I am new to this whole ground lark but I think I am getting the hang of it. Last evening I managed to find and land at Dev's Hope and go off in my SRV, primarily for a drive around (this was my first time on a planet other than at a base). Anyway I picked up some stuff including two cargo cannisters. My SRV was full so I recalled my ship and tried to drive in to transfer the cargo. I am new to all this so I was making a complete pig's breakfast of it when once again the voice of doom struck. Herself said it was time for bed. So leaving my SRV under my ship (about three feet from the sweet spot it turned out), I remembered my lesson and logged right out confident my ship, SRV and cargo was safe. When I came back to the game today my SRV was in exactly the same position that I left it but it was empty. The cargo I had collected before I logged off had gone.
It seems to me that if one logs out in the middle of a "modern" mission then one is in serious danger of losing cargo and progress. I say "modern" mission because I have never experienced anything like this under the stuff in the old original game. When I take off from a station with a hold full of stuff to deliver to another system I do not have to worry about it disappearing if I pop off to put the kettle on. If someone has a reasonable explanation I'd be pleased to hear it.
- yes, that'll probably get ignored, but who knows. Mission stuff (and probably cargo, too) is a different server instance than general gameplay, so it might just be that your specific server for this kind of stuff is stuffed.
