Ship went boom

[lovely lovely]

I remember a while back there was a bug in the game where slight contacts would blow your ship up (in stations?).

Anyhow, just coming into land at a station - yes no excessive speed, full shields, hull, permission, not wanted, no one else in the station and boom, ship destroyed. No warning, shields being depleted, no hull degradation, no impact nothing. Just ta ta cargo and give your insurance company a call.

Sat quite shocked as it wasn't expected at all.

Take it no one else is experiencing this

 

[scorpyon]

This was something that happened to people a lot a while back, but FD said they fixed it. (And there were no more mentions of it in the forums since... until now...)
That's worrying.
Bug report the hell out of that, if I were you...

 

[lovely lovely]

Have just bought a big bag of cotton wool to put the ship in

 

[Valethar]

I'd submit a ticket. There's no guarantee it'll ever get seen, but it can't hurt.

 

[lovely lovely]

I have raised it - the credits aren't an issue - yeah hope that's not back.

Gone in again - same landing - all good.

Weird.

 

[Ancipital]

Random ship destruction, especially in stations, seems to be mentioned fairly often. It's not just you. Good on you for reporting it- they seem to have some nasty systemic and intermittent problems that destroy ships. With no local saves and big death penalties, this is a bit of a gamebreaker.

 

[Captain Fizz]

One of the entrys into a station in the conda...

Lots of shields, heading towards pad... 56% hull.
No change of movement, no ripply bits on shields...

Just from Full hull / shields (boosters etc) to 56% hull.
Still en-route to pad.

That was only a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Whiterose]

I remember a while back there was a bug in the game where slight contacts would blow your ship up (in stations?).

Anyhow, just coming into land at a station - yes no excessive speed, full shields, hull, permission, not wanted, no one else in the station and boom, ship destroyed. No warning, shields being depleted, no hull degradation, no impact nothing. Just ta ta cargo and give your insurance company a call.

Sat quite shocked as it wasn't expected at all.

Take it no one else is experiencing this

What ship were you flying? a Conda?

 

[Stigbob]

You may have been victim to a station ramming griefer in silent running. If you were anywhere on the Lave circuit I'd say definitely.

 

[lovely lovely]

One of the entrys into a station in the conda...

Lots of shields, heading towards pad... 56% hull.
No change of movement, no ripply bits on shields...

Just from Full hull / shields (boosters etc) to 56% hull.
Still en-route to pad.

That was only a couple of weeks ago.

oooh, clenchtime ;-)

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What ship were you flying? a Conda?

Dependable old Python

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You may have been victim to a station ramming griefer in silent running. If you were anywhere on the Lave circuit I'd say definitely.

Defo was the only ship in the station and no other landing pads lit up

 

[Whiterose]

hmm interesting. Used to happen to Conda's a lot, but not Pythons.

 

[Ancipital]

hmm interesting. Used to happen to Conda's a lot, but not Pythons.

It happens to all ship types, it seems.

 

[Serpentstar]

I had the exact same thing happen late last week. Anaconda, class 4 shields fully charged, halfway through the stations maw and boom. No warnings, not familiar grinding of hull plates vs deck, just complete destruction.

Ticket it. Include where it happened, when it happened, Open/Solo/Group, etc, and if you remember, how much it cost to replace it. They will take a look at it. Just make sure to use the correct coding so you get a faster reply.

 

[NeoRacer]

Yep happened to me a few months ago (several times) it definitely has something to do with the landing gear. DONT boost and deploy your gear. I would advise not even lowering the gear till your right over the pad..too many issues. They did refund me my lost money after a little while.

I remember a while back there was a bug in the game where slight contacts would blow your ship up (in stations?).

Anyhow, just coming into land at a station - yes no excessive speed, full shields, hull, permission, not wanted, no one else in the station and boom, ship destroyed. No warning, shields being depleted, no hull degradation, no impact nothing. Just ta ta cargo and give your insurance company a call.

Sat quite shocked as it wasn't expected at all.

Take it no one else is experiencing this

 

[Cmdr Irenicus]

Never ever encountered this. Sounds like a user-end problem to me. Perhaps hardware not being up to par and you're seeing a lot of lag due to low frame rate...that can always cause strange issues in games. Not a problem I have ever come across. But then it's rare I ever bash into anything, but when I do It's never destroyed my ship. I've yet to make any insurance claims since gamma.

 

[Stigbob]

Defo was the only ship in the station and no other landing pads lit up

I'm not saying you're wrong its just a possibility I had a run in with a ramming griefer not long ago who was wanging about in silent running popping heat sinks he only showed on radar once or twice after I realized he was there. He was rubbish though couldn't connect thanks to maneuvering thrusters on my vulture so he got bored and left.

 

[lovely lovely]

Never ever encountered this. Sounds like a user-end problem to me. Perhaps hardware not being up to par and you're seeing a lot of lag due to low frame rate...that can always cause strange issues in games. Not a problem I have ever come across. But then it's rare I ever bash into anything, but when I do It's never destroyed my ship. I've yet to make any insurance claims since gamma.

Sounds like your the perfect player. Keep it up

 

[Tarman]

Yep happened to me a few months ago (several times) it definitely has something to do with the landing gear. DONT boost and deploy your gear. I would advise not even lowering the gear till your right over the pad..too many issues. They did refund me my lost money after a little while.

What were you flying? I've used my gear as spacebrakes since forever and never popped anything in live, but I don't fly the big boys. I did pop an Annie in the last Beta just by deploying feet though.

 

[Loskene]

Never ever encountered this. Sounds like a user-end problem to me. Perhaps hardware not being up to par and you're seeing a lot of lag due to low frame rate...that can always cause strange issues in games. Not a problem I have ever come across. But then it's rare I ever bash into anything, but when I do It's never destroyed my ship. I've yet to make any insurance claims since gamma.

That's not the issue. I've had the random ship explosion happen once to me before 1.2. Dropped out of supercruise in an asp, got docking clearance from the station, deployed my landing gear and then boom, your ship has been destroyed.