Logout Question

[Swat]

All over the frontier forums, I have seen this question and got mixed answers. What happens when you logout in space. Do you lose all of your fuel and be stranded or do warp off like you did in EvE online and come back to where you were before with same fuel you logged out with.

[Serath]

You just disappear from the game world, everything intact. You come back exactly where you left off, only if you were in SC you'll be out of it.

[Manwith Noname]

Wherever you log out and whatever state you were in, you will login "in the same place and state". Planets, moons and stations will continue to orbit though and so may not be positioned exactly as you left them.

Edit: With some caveats...

[Swat]

Is it better to land on a planet and turn off everything other than life support, then logout?

[Forrest Gimp]

Originally posted by Swat:

Is it better to land on a planet and turn off everything other than life support, then logout?

No, just logout whenever you feel fancy. I recommend logging out when you're in air, because last time I logged out while I landed near one of Guardian sites ~2km away nose at it, next day I logged in so ~5km away from it with my back to it... That was weird.

This game saves your position and stuff you have pretty accurately when you just exiting it normally, however, you come across some bugs where you have to kill game process in Task Manager or something, last "save point" can differ and you can lose some stuff recently collected.

[Serath]

Yeah I should of said it doesn't put you back "exactly" where you were, but given this is space we're talking about, it's forgiven.

Originally posted by Swat:

Is it better to land on a planet and turn off everything other than life support, then logout?

I think you're under the assumption that this game has persistent player ships, like in some survival games like Arc Survival where you simply just fall asleep in place when you "logoff" Avatar style. This game doesn't do that, it's MMO style, or any other standard mulitplayer game. You log off, your body/ship goes away, period. Whether open play, private, or solo.

If this didn't happen, people logging off docked in the safety of stations would be hogging all the landing pads in open play.......well, in popular places that is. Space is huge.....

[Sapyx]

Originally posted by Swat:

Is it better to land on a planet and turn off everything other than life support, then logout?

You will find people on the forums saying this is what they do. However, they do this purely for roleplay reasons, not because it's "better" or "safer".

I'm an explorer. Been out in deep space since 24th April, with one stopover in inhabited space (Colonia) since then. Apart from those three days in Colonia, I have been in uninhabited, mostly unexplored systems the whole time. The nearest starport from where I currently am is the new galactic core starport, about 5000 LY away. Suffice to say, I do not have any choice except to log out while "in space".

I can't be bothered doing weird "shut down the ship when you go to bed" roleplay. I just log off. No issues, no problems. When I log back in, the ship is exactly where I left it, with the same fuel, same air supply, same damage, whatever state the ship was in, is perfectly preserved. You can log off for six months, come back and your ship will still be exactly the same as when you left it.

The only theoretically possible hazard to doing this is if you happen to park your spaceship exactly in the orbital path of an oncoming planet, and you happen to log back in just when the planet is passing through "your space". Anyone unfortunate enough to have this happen to them (I've never heard of it happening to anyone accidentally, though numerous daredevils have tried to do it on purpose) will find themselves flying around "inside" a planet - which is not as lethal as it sounds, because in ED all the planets are hollow. Getting out, however, probably would be lethal, because you have to try to crash your ship thorough the ground. Anyone in that situation is advised to contact FD Support for a hand-of-god rescue instead.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Another possible problem is if you logout in a vicinity of a Neutron (White Dwarf) star. The game sometime doesn't store your exact location, but the location a dozen of seconds ago. And if you just jumped in and logged out, it may put you back too close to that dangerous star. I usually fly away for a while, or even better - make another jump, before logging out.

Other than that - there is absolutely no reason to land down to a planet, or to mess with the modules' power.

[malorob]

so far been in deep space for about 2 months now and this would be my 5th time exploring.
i go out for months at a time and i have never had a problem yet logging out and back in again.

never needed too worry about switch off modules

even logged out in SRV still no problems.

just dont land near stations on planets as when you log back in some times you gain a fine as you are in a no landing zone. "great way to get a bounty "