What happens when you log off?

[War Eagle]

I am currently in the Black exploring and I am wondering when I log off for the night what does my ship do:
Does it sit there vulnerable to anyone who passes by?
Or does it after 15 seconds disappear?
I read somewhere that for 15 seconds you are still vulnerable to attack or whatever- is that on pause or logout?
When you go exploring do you log of while in space or do you land, I always try to find a planet to land on for the overnight stay?

 

[EUS]

15 seconds logoff timer is automatically applied when the game thinks you're in a dangerous situation.
Otherwise, you're gone out of game.
I never land anywhere.
It's wise to not quit while in an asteroid belt, or in the orbital path of a planet.

 

[Schmack]

The software isn't smart enough to know the difference between combat with a ship and shooting at rocks. They both get treated as your ship being in danger. But when you log off your ship goes away. If you've ever seen the combat logging videos that's basically what happens if someone was in the instance with you. Your ship just disappears.

 

[War Eagle]

I know I seen somewhere that is what happens but I also have been on missions to planets to link with a secret base and seen ships sitting on the ground so wasn't really sure- thanks.

 

[Mimix]

Depending on where you are - if the game thinks that you are in danger, you are forced to wait for some time before logging off, otherwise you can log off instantly. When you go offline, your ship disappears, which is how combat logging happens - a form of cheating which is punishable. I still prefer to land somewhere before logging off, for an easier start when I log on next time and I also feel that my ship is "safer" there.

 

[JesusRocks1988]

When I log off, I go to bed

 

[Hank]

I log off while in space but I make sure I'm in Deep space. A few times early on, I logged off near a ring and when I returned I was way off from the ring ... I thought, what if I drifted the other way? I'd be dead. Plus I've read where ppl logged of in space near things and re-entered blown up. If I can land on a planet, I do but when I do I'm so temped to do a short SRV run for mats so that's what I do now most of the time.

 

[Icybow73]

Go ahead and log off, nothing to be afraid of.

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

The ship disappear from the server so no danger at all.
For a little bit of immersion and I mostly log off after I landed on a planet and switched my thrusters off. I also like to give a quick look around my ship with the SRV to see its status and to check if there's some nearby signal on the planet.

 

[War Eagle]

Depending on where you are - if the game thinks that you are in danger, you are forced to wait for some time before logging off, otherwise you can log off instantly. When you go offline, your ship disappears, which is how combat logging happens - a form of cheating which is punishable. I still prefer to land somewhere before logging off, for an easier start when I log on next time and I also feel that my ship is "safer" there.

Me too, gotta land it.

 

[thistle]

I am currently in the Black exploring and I am wondering when I log off for the night what does my ship do

Your ship sits patiently at first, staring intently, expecting you to return. After a while it starts to wonder ... why?

Then it rips up your cushions.

 

[War Eagle]

Your ship sits patiently at first, staring intently, expecting you to return. After a while it starts to wonder ... why?

Then it rips up your cushions.

LOL that's what my truck does.

 

[CMDR Carbo]

I log off where ever I just am, deep space, in rings or in the SRV.
Never had anything bad happen to me when I logged back in.

 

[CMDR CMDR Clarkson]

I logged off for the night on a 9.77g world once.

When I logged in the following day, my CMDR was 2 foot tall and weighed 1,759 lbs.

 

[amadeus1171]

You cease to exist.

 

[znôrt]

You cease to exist.

i was wondering that nobody mentioned pixies yet ...

 

[CMDR Karrde Sun]

I always land and chill out / stretch legs in fighter or srv before logging out.

In earlier days, it was a bit undefined what happened if you logged out in your srv, but i remember noticing they fixed it from my own play ages ago. They fixed it again so that it even remembers if you're still within object range of your ship now...

Ahh that's right.. field of view setting tests I so tried to make scale work in elite.. i tried so hard... its just doesnt work.

 

[varonica]

I log off while in space but I make sure I'm in Deep space. A few times early on, I logged off near a ring and when I returned I was way off from the ring ... I thought, what if I drifted the other way? I'd be dead. Plus I've read where ppl logged of in space near things and re-entered blown up. If I can land on a planet, I do but when I do I'm so temped to do a short SRV run for mats so that's what I do now most of the time.

That's the main danger, it's quite possible to experience rapid unplanned disassembly if you log off near or in rings, stations and bodies. You will log in at the same spot, planets don't care if you were there first, the big bullies! Appearing inside asteroids, getting smacked by stations if you log out and in quickly, that's all possible, even stars in orbital paths can cause issues. Point at nothing until you are well away from anything is my rule!

 

[Wreten]

Depending on where you are - if the game thinks that you are in danger, you are forced to wait for some time before logging off, otherwise you can log off instantly. When you go offline, your ship disappears, which is how combat logging happens - a form of cheating which is punishable. I still prefer to land somewhere before logging off, for an easier start when I log on next time and I also feel that my ship is "safer" there.

How exactly does that punishment work? I'm a newb doing a mining mission. I just logged on to a guy scanning me and telling me I had 15 seconds to give him all my bauxite before he'd blow me up, so I just logged off again. I don't know if I want to play a game that's going to ban my account for something like that.

 

[varonica]

How exactly does that punishment work? I'm a newb doing a mining mission. I just logged on to a guy scanning me and telling me I had 15 seconds to give him all my bauxite before he'd blow me up, so I just logged off again. I don't know if I want to play a game that's going to ban my account for something like that.

That's not combat logging, if you are under attack you have to wait 15 seconds before you can log off, and that's still not combat logging, that's menu logging which is fine, combat logging is where you pull the internet connection to avoid the 15 second menu timer wait, and really there's no punishment anyway because there's no proof you actually combat logged, players with poor internet will often get disconnected when engaged by enemy players and there's no way to tell the difference, so there's no punishment.

That sounds like an NPC though, an actual player could never get to you that fast and anything goes with NPC's.