Just submitted a bug report too: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=217436&p=3327357#post3327357
Fully equipped Anacnoda destroyed first time out while in SRV. Would have been nice to have had some sort of trespass warning. I have the funds to absorb the insurance cost, but still, takes a few days to get that cash back by almost any means.
Was docked at Offul colony in Sowarthara A3, Sowarthara system. explored in SRV, but wanted to see my ship from the outside. Launched and proceeded a bit of a distance away from the colony (perhaps 1km?), landed (no warnings at all that I can recall). As soon as I deply in the SRV, i hear laser fire, turn around any see my ship under attack from many skimmers. It's a pain to find the "sweet spot" to return to the SRV, so I choose to dismiss the ship. A few seconds later - "Ship Destroyed" and here I am stuck in the SRV. I opt to self-destruct since I'm wanted. Fully equipped Anaconda, so ~27 million (discounted) rebuy. Really would have been nice to have some warnings that I was trespassing.
Fully equipped Anacnoda destroyed first time out while in SRV. Would have been nice to have had some sort of trespass warning. I have the funds to absorb the insurance cost, but still, takes a few days to get that cash back by almost any means.
Was docked at Offul colony in Sowarthara A3, Sowarthara system. explored in SRV, but wanted to see my ship from the outside. Launched and proceeded a bit of a distance away from the colony (perhaps 1km?), landed (no warnings at all that I can recall). As soon as I deply in the SRV, i hear laser fire, turn around any see my ship under attack from many skimmers. It's a pain to find the "sweet spot" to return to the SRV, so I choose to dismiss the ship. A few seconds later - "Ship Destroyed" and here I am stuck in the SRV. I opt to self-destruct since I'm wanted. Fully equipped Anaconda, so ~27 million (discounted) rebuy. Really would have been nice to have some warnings that I was trespassing.
It seems odd that you're stuck on the planet in your SRV when your ship was destroyed. I was under the impression you would end up back at the station or at least see an insurance screen. So it does sound like a bug.
This might seem like a silly question, but have you tried to recall your ship? It's worth seeing if the option is there and the "Ship Destroyed" message wasn't actually telling you the truth.
This might seem like a silly question, but have you tried to recall your ship? It's worth seeing if the option is there and the "Ship Destroyed" message wasn't actually telling you the truth.
Thanks Tigger889. That's another option for what may have happened, although I'd been away from my ship for some time and I'm fairly sure I didn't land near a colony or anything else. In fact, given that I was in the core, that's probably very unlikely.
(start pure guesswork): I wonder if a poi spawned near my ship, and then it got attacked. Possible, but unlikely. User error on my part's still an option.
(start pure guesswork): I wonder if a poi spawned near my ship, and then it got attacked. Possible, but unlikely. User error on my part's still an option.
I've just had a slightly odd thing happen. I just flew out to Sagittarius A* for the first time in my Asp, which was equipped with an SRV. After flying around the black hole for a little while, I headed to a nearby system and landed on an ice world. I'm pretty sure I left my ship in its usual configuration. I got in my SRV and headed off across the ice. I did not dismiss the ship, as I was playing in solo.
After a while (enough time to find and collect three meteorites, plus put the baby to sleep) I started playing again where I had left off (I left the game on during my absence). After a few minutes a message came up: "ship destroyed."
After a "what the ..." moment, I checked the panel and found the ship was not there. So I'm left stuck in my SRV in the back of beyond. I hope sometime in the future someone'll come across Commander Discjirm III and place some flowers on my icy grave. And perhaps kick the wreckage of my Asp and say: "You piece of rubbish"
Did I do something stupid, or might this be a bug? I've not too much lost (just four days play, plus my deepest space journey yet), but I won't make a voyage into the deep black with an SRV until I work out what happened.
But if it isn't a bug, I'd love Frontier to put something in the game saying *why* your ship was destroyed, particularly if you are far away from it in the SRV.
Anyone had their ship spontaneously explode in a similar manner? I'm pretty sure all the systems were stable when I left the poor thing ...
Edit: but dang, this game is dangerous ....
How long did you leave the game on for. If you were in your SRV. It still burns fuel idling. Good for about a hour. Idling in a ship landed on the ground. I know my cobra has 16 ton of fuel on a full tank. idle power drain is 0.68 ton/hr. I got 23 hours before the fuel runs out. I do not know if the ship uses fuel idling on the ground well your in the SRV.
Ship destroyed while in SRV
I gave it a bit of thought and here's my theory:
I was docked at the station and took off, but stayed low to the ground, figuring I'll stay close to the station but (what I thought) would be far enough away so I can quickly continue to explore the station while being able to get a nice look at my Anaconda. As such, the station did not provide any trespass warnings, which is why, at least when I was in my ship, none of the base' weapons were targeting me. However, I'm guessing either when I landed or deployed, the base's automated defense systems (my guess is full surface to air and all skimmers, because I had A8 with 8x boosters) must have turned their attention to my ship.
I had always used my ASP to explore planets and this was the first time using the Anaconda - didn't quite get the sweet spot for SRV boarding and figured I'd send the ship away and board it somewhere else. If in fact a ship cannot be destroyed while the pilot is using the SRV, it certainly can be destroyed when dismissing it (i.e. it's no longer on the ground), so if the surface to air battery was not already hammering my ship, they certainly could open up then since it was destroyed in a matter of seconds. I did look down in my SRV and see there was nothing at all under "ship" (completely blank), so the recall button simply was not there. Since I was now wanted - at a major base, getting to the hanger was likely going to end up with me being destroyed anyway, so I did not try that.
So, am I going to be a lot more cautious? Heck yes. Is this really a bug or what's supposed to happen? Don't know...
I gave it a bit of thought and here's my theory:
I was docked at the station and took off, but stayed low to the ground, figuring I'll stay close to the station but (what I thought) would be far enough away so I can quickly continue to explore the station while being able to get a nice look at my Anaconda. As such, the station did not provide any trespass warnings, which is why, at least when I was in my ship, none of the base' weapons were targeting me. However, I'm guessing either when I landed or deployed, the base's automated defense systems (my guess is full surface to air and all skimmers, because I had A8 with 8x boosters) must have turned their attention to my ship.
I had always used my ASP to explore planets and this was the first time using the Anaconda - didn't quite get the sweet spot for SRV boarding and figured I'd send the ship away and board it somewhere else. If in fact a ship cannot be destroyed while the pilot is using the SRV, it certainly can be destroyed when dismissing it (i.e. it's no longer on the ground), so if the surface to air battery was not already hammering my ship, they certainly could open up then since it was destroyed in a matter of seconds. I did look down in my SRV and see there was nothing at all under "ship" (completely blank), so the recall button simply was not there. Since I was now wanted - at a major base, getting to the hanger was likely going to end up with me being destroyed anyway, so I did not try that.
So, am I going to be a lot more cautious? Heck yes. Is this really a bug or what's supposed to happen? Don't know...
I've just had a slightly odd thing happen. I just flew out to Sagittarius A* for the first time in my Asp, which was equipped with an SRV. After flying around the black hole for a little while, I headed to a nearby system and landed on an ice world. I'm pretty sure I left my ship in its usual configuration. I got in my SRV and headed off across the ice. I did not dismiss the ship, as I was playing in solo.
After a while (enough time to find and collect three meteorites, plus put the baby to sleep) I started playing again where I had left off (I left the game on during my absence). After a few minutes a message came up: "ship destroyed."
After a "what the ..." moment, I checked the panel and found the ship was not there. So I'm left stuck in my SRV in the back of beyond. I hope sometime in the future someone'll come across Commander Discjirm III and place some flowers on my icy grave. And perhaps kick the wreckage of my Asp and say: "You piece of rubbish"
Did I do something stupid, or might this be a bug? I've not too much lost (just four days play, plus my deepest space journey yet), but I won't make a voyage into the deep black with an SRV until I work out what happened.
But if it isn't a bug, I'd love Frontier to put something in the game saying *why* your ship was destroyed, particularly if you are far away from it in the SRV.
Anyone had their ship spontaneously explode in a similar manner? I'm pretty sure all the systems were stable when I left the poor thing ...
Edit: but dang, this game is dangerous ....
I've had the exact same thing happen to me, but I was in an Anaconda and it cost me 8.5M CR
. I later figured out what had happened. I'd landed on a planet, not dismissed the ship and set off in the SRV. I didn't want to stray too far from the ship, but I must have exceeded the 2 km limit for the ship to depart automatically at some point, however, the ship did not take off. I was returning to the ship when I got the "Emergency Ship Destroyed" message and I watched my beloved Anaconda explode right in front of me. I was not impressed.Eventually, I self-destructed the SRV as there was nothing else to do and found myself at the insurance page (I later found I'd kept the exploration data I'd gathered, so it wasn't all bad). After buying back my ship, I found that I was on emergency oxygen and the modules (including life support) had not activated. It was then that I realised what had happened. I'd not set power priorities on my modules and had been switching modules on and off manually to stay within the power budget of my class 2A power plant (I've since upgraded to 3A and it's much better). The ship had tried to switch everything on at once and blown the power budget. I had the cargo hatch, 2 power-hungry AFMUs, a class 3D shield generator, a docking computer and a planetary vehicle hangar all switched off manually to stay within budget. When I landed on the planet, the thrusters (~50% of the power budget) switched off and I forgot to factor this in when I switched on the planetary vehicle hangar to explore in the SRV. When the ship tried to take off automatically, the power budget blew and I would've had 7.5 minutes to get back to the ship and fix things - if I'd had any warning that is! It's 7.5 minutes because that's how long it takes for class D life support emergency oxygen to run out, at which point the ship explodes, for some reason (I can hold my breath for at least a minute; surely, that's enough time to get out of the SRV and fix the situation
).Lesson learned: always set power priorities on modules and always dismiss your ship once in your SRV - if the ship doesn't budge, get back in ASAP and check what's happened!
Attacked by NPC on surface...
Almost the same thing happened to me on Saturday. I was in the Deciat system, spent all morning in the SRV trying to find Arsenic. Drove back to my asp and boarded to have lunch. Sitting on the surface in the kitchen having my sandwich when I heard the explosion. My asp was attacked by a NPC and destroyed! Having to exit to the menu screen kind of breaks the immersion but I don't want to risk losing everything I spent time scouring the planet for!
Almost the same thing happened to me on Saturday. I was in the Deciat system, spent all morning in the SRV trying to find Arsenic. Drove back to my asp and boarded to have lunch. Sitting on the surface in the kitchen having my sandwich when I heard the explosion. My asp was attacked by a NPC and destroyed! Having to exit to the menu screen kind of breaks the immersion but I don't want to risk losing everything I spent time scouring the planet for!
Actually not tricky, just dismiss your ship every time right after deploying the SRV.
If you leave your ship unguarded on surface you're just taking unnecessary risk of npcs might be knocking on your ship's window sooner or later.
Also, don't recall your ship if there is any npc ship around on the radar screen. Wait till that disappears then recall.
After update 2.1, random npcs have become very curious ones I experienced it a lot
. Actually I like it but it's a matter of taste.However, Sag A* is a bit far and it was a very unlucky event, I'm sure FD will help you out.
Good Luck
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Just realized that this thread is from 2015! lol!This would be my reply to anyone having this issue though...
Try BOOTING UP IN ED 1.6 INSTEAD of Horizons! (Assuming you have already tried quitting and rebooting in 2.1?)
I don't see how the game could launch without giving you some kind of ship to fly, and since 1.6 does not support planets, it MUST spawn you in space in something or at a station somewhere. Even if it isn't the one you lost.
Try BOOTING UP IN ED 1.6 INSTEAD of Horizons! (Assuming you have already tried quitting and rebooting in 2.1?)
I don't see how the game could launch without giving you some kind of ship to fly, and since 1.6 does not support planets, it MUST spawn you in space in something or at a station somewhere. Even if it isn't the one you lost.
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Good idea, I wish I'd thought of that - might have saved me a few credits!
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Well I just attempted my first planetary landing. Made sure I watched all the training vids first so I'd know what do do. Orbital cruise:check, glide mode:check, suddenly my ship spontaneously explodes for no reason Not happy.
Not happy.