Newcomer / Intro ship destoryed question

Darkspecialist

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hi i had about 30000 credits on me last night..i stepped away from my computer till this morning. I was still logged in with a message my ship was destroyed. when i respawned and all the credits were gone as well. it was a starter ship as i am new. I was in a high resource area of a planet with good guys bad guys fighting in the distance..npcs. I earned the credits from getting in on killing blows to wanted Npc ships. when i respawned it gave the option for the 2 ships i had and i respawned with 1000 credits.

any way to know exactly what happened?
like who killed me and why those credits disappeared?
should i assume credits take up space in ship and if the ship is gone everything in it is gone?
is this something i should assume 1000 hours into the game when i have better stuff and it gets destroyed that it will cost me a whole lot more?
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
1. There is no pause - so you have to exit to menu or desktop. Once bitten twice shy.

2. You should not have lost your banked credits - raise a support ticket at https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/ (a "lost my stuff one").

What you do lose on ship destruction is any exploration data and bounty vouchers you have not handed in (I wonder if this is what you were referring to) - your bank balance credits are not lost unless you "clear save" to start over fresh.

Support will also be able to tell you exactly what happened.
 
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aRJay

aRJay
From your description OP your credits were bounties earned in the fight, those bounties are only turned into credits in your bank account when you cash the bounties in when docked at a station and use the Contacts menu.
 

[VR] Orodruin

[VR] Orodruin
aRJay said:
From your description OP your credits were bounties earned in the fight, those bounties are only turned into credits in your bank account when you cash the bounties in when docked at a station and use the Contacts menu.
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I would expect this is what happened. It is worth noting that the same is true also for combat bonds and exploration data. Unless you actually hand them in for credits at a station, they are lost if you lose your ship.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
If you play on PC and want to know exactly what happened, check your CMDR logs. Either manually or (much more comfortably) through a tool like EDDiscovery.

Your description is a bit sparse, but from what I read, I would guess
  • you either pressed "escape" or simply left your ship floating in space. Neither of those two stops the game, and since this is a realtime online multiplayer game, there also is no pause. As long as you're in your ship, your ship consumes fuel, and when the fuel runs out - bang. No need for anyone to blow you up. And yes, that can happen at any point in the game, whether after ten minutes or 10 k hours.
  • those 30k Cr. weren't in the bank, but you only had them in the form of bounties or vouchers. Yes, those vouchers are lost when you are blown up, no matter how long you played the game.

In general, you have to exit to the main menu or desktop if you want to leave the game. You can sit on a pad or in a hangar for an unlimited time, that is reasonably safe (unless the Thargoids attack and blow up the station, in which case - so far - your parked ship would be relocated to the nearest rescue ship). On ship destruction (and there are many ways to get your ship destructed), you will lose
  • any unclaimed bonds or vouchers
  • any unclaimed PowerPlay merits
  • any cargo that you had on that ship
  • any unsold exploration data (tough on those people who just came back from the other side of the Galaxy with half a billion credits worth of exploration data, to be blown up as soon as they enter "civilized" space)
  • the trust of your crew (you'll have to pay them a new - and significant - retainer fee if you want to keep them after that)

You will keep collected materials or data.
 

Ant hill

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If you exit to menu or desktop your ship is safe indefinitely. A lot of commanders habitually dock their ship before exciting but this isn't necessary. While you are logged out bodies do move. Planets and stations. I suspect if you are mass- locked you move with them. You will move with a planetary ring if you are in it. If you are not mass locked your position is fixed to the star and you will observe the planets shift in position. Theoretically you could log in and be inside a planet. Never happened to me, one of the truely old hands would probably know what happens.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Ant hill said:
If you exit to menu or desktop your ship is safe indefinitely. A lot of commanders habitually dock their ship before exciting but this isn't necessary. While you are logged out bodies do move. Planets and stations. I suspect if you are mass- locked you move with them. You will move with a planetary ring if you are in it. If you are not mass locked your position is fixed to the star and you will observe the planets shift in position. Theoretically you could log in and be inside a planet. Never happened to me, one of the truely old hands would probably know what happens.
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I have never been inside a planet from that cause, it is odd in there with strange tube like grids in places that are probably the foundations of the surface hitting them causes damage but you can sometimes move slowly and find a way past them out to the surface but breaking out can cause damage as well. It was a long time ago and I would have been in something full of hull modules that was a wreck when it got out. As I recall I was flung into the planet by being interdicted just above its exclusion zone.
Mostly though it will be boom.
 
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