My ship was destroyed?

[ConcealedFire]

I was watching a video, when about 2 minutes in, I started hearing the main menu music. I alt tab to elite to see that I'm dead. lost days of exploration data...
Thing is, I had the sound on. I heard nothing out of the ordinary. I was in supercruise speeing away from a star.
I checked chat, and nothing was there, either, which indicates that I didn't get interdicted.

Anybody had this happen to them, and actually found out what killed them?
I've had a suspicious death the day after 2.1 was released, but that was due to connection issues (no threatening things, I wasn't even moving).

[MegaKootz]

This sounds like you got yourself killed browsing reddit or porn, or both. Either way, its your fault.

[ConcealedFire]

Originally posted by Randy Marsh:

This sounds like you got yourself killed browsing reddit or porn, or both. Either way, its your fault.

actually it was youtube videos of Elite...
I'm not too sure it was my fault, as I could hear everything that was happening. No sound of danger before I heard main menu music.

[juanxlink]

Originally posted by whozk:

Originally posted by Randy Marsh:

This sounds like you got yourself killed browsing reddit or porn, or both. Either way, its your fault.

actually it was youtube videos of Elite...
I'm not too sure it was my fault, as I could hear everything that was happening. No sound of danger before I heard main menu music.

Oh it is your fault, not supposed to neglect a running ship. Stay in the game you are playing, alt-tabbing can get you killed...Oh wait it did!!

[Ottomic]

file a ticket, you'll get your ship back if it was a bug.

[clobbertime]

Crashed into a planet maybe?

[Lywelyn]

Originally posted by Ottomic:

file a ticket, you'll get your ship back if it was a bug.

op do what ottomic just said

[Jak]

My ship exploded in starport a month ago. I wasn't wanted, carrying illicit cargo. Ship just exploded I don't know why. I sent a ticket and they answered me in 2 days and gave my refund money back. Try it.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by clobbertime:

Crashed into a planet maybe?

I was thinking something similar, but unless you've turned off all the ship's verbal notifications you'd know about in plenty of time to recover before crashing... Unless you'd got to like 2000C or something I guess?

Sounds more like a bug to me unless OP has indeed turned off the notifications, in which case entirely his own fault.

Originally posted by JakSocket:

My ship exploded in starport a month ago. I wasn't wanted, carrying illicit cargo. Ship just exploded I don't know why. I sent a ticket and they answered me in 2 days and gave my refund money back. Try it.

There's a clipping bug that rears it's head occasionally. You'll notice your ship sort of bounce sideways a bit when leaving a dock. It's never killed me, but it has depleted powerful shields and caused minor damage to some of my ships before now. I can easily imagine it destroying a weaker ship. Might be what hit you.

[Steve]

I'm sorry but you took your focus off the game and you should really take the loss and just learn from it. Next time 'quit to main menu'.

[Eddo]

I once had a ship destroyed while I typed something else, but didn't initially notice it was in game.

Turns out a key that I hit was my binding for silent running and further distraction meant my ship was literally cooked to death. May or may not be the reason for your death, as unless your sound is up and all notitfication on, the game is surprisingly quiet on most other aspects.

Just as well I really don't suspect you crashed into a star as surely you would hear the drop out sound over the video whereas I won't be surprised you didn't hear the temperature warning.

[SMRFKILR - rhbmobile]

Dude, you only lost a few days of data, no reason to file a bug report. If you can't tell them what caused the crash, I don't see how you have a case, Most likely it was your fault. I have lost a total of 2 months of exploration data, both due to my own mistakes. Never did I think of trying to get the data back, I had insurance and rebought my ships, bit the bullet and am now back out and haven't had any issues since.