Despawn Range?

[Fattox]

Do ships/items despawn after a certain range in Survival mode?

My MP server had quite a lot of captured NPC ships from people who don't play much, so we decided to fling some of them in to space in the hopes of putting less straing on the server. 2000km later and i can still see their beacons (left them turned on to test how far they would go). D:

Is there a way to remove/despawn them ingame, or should i go ahead and just cut their entries out of the savegame file itself?

[teravisor]

Ingame - no, there is no way(Unless you disassemble it or destroy). Only SEtoolbox or savegame editing.

[Fattox]

Yeah i looked in the savegame but it was quite an effort to remove the 1000+ lines of code for each ship i wanted to remove, especially as some of them out there probably have no beacon/name for me to look for.

I will check out the SEtoolbox you mentioned, cheers.

[Ravener]

i have hadd ships despawning 700m out from the base. it is quite infuriating. do i have to do something for it not to despawn?

[Fattox]

I think they despawn after about 5mins if you don't interact with them before then.