Yes, I didn't die and lose my stuff. I'm not here complaining like some noob that picked on some battleship in his small fighter. No, I'm actually here to tell of something that happened today.
The server went down for maintenance. I logged out when the one minute warning was sounded. I was in Omicron Beta at the time, running engine components up to Malta after a successful cardamine run to Yanagi (but that's another story).
When I logged back on, I was back on Yanagi with jack squat. My ammo reserves, shield batteries and nanobots, and most importantly my cargo, which consisted of 5 Corsair/Bounty Hunter pilots, 64 engine components, and most important, one name change certificate. Now, I don't care about the rest of the stuff. I refilled my ammo stocks using some pocket change (besides my Adv. CM, which I keep maxed at all times, I keep my CD and mines stocked with only 10 ammo each). I picked the shield batteries and nanobots off some GMG and BH ships. I bought more engine components. However, what gets me is that I lost the 2 million credit name change and had to buy another one.
I don't know what would happen in this case, but I'm hoping I can at least get a refund of 2 million credits for having to buy another NCC.
I hope this didn't come off as whiny, it's just I was really angry at the moment and still am, kinda.
When you logged off were you docked or floating in space? I find it a good practice to always dock first to avoid any issues.
If you were still in space your character stays FL Hooked online for almost a minute so if the server shutdown before your character officially got logged off then that might be the problem.
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FL Hook hold the instance of your player for 59 second AFTER you on your computer disconnected.
That means that for 59 seconds you're still in space, you can still be shot by NPCs and Players and the like.
If you logged off after the one minute warning then you'd still have been in space when the server went down. Thus, you would have saved the data to your save game profile.
The reason it worked the second time, would've been because the server was still running when your 'instance' was removed and you save data stored.
If you dock and log off on a base there isn't this 59 second delay, so all your data is stored immediately.
In short, land on a bleedin' base you tumshy.
EDIT: Note that you won't have (or at least shouldn't have) lost any money from this. The Net effect from this is that you'll have lost however long you had been in space for since you last docked.
NB: I've just realised that this will have happened to me last night, lol. I'm such a putz.
Third time's the charm; nothing disappeared this time. Strange, as the second time it happened I was docked on Malta, and this third time (which it didn't) I was docked at Malta too.
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The time that you found your ship moved back to a dock and all of your ammo and equipment gone : you were killed by NPC's during the time that your ship was held dead in space by FLHook.
At least, that is my best guess.
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