Lost Ship

[6Th SIN]

Hello. Please help me... I'm totally frustrated and broken. I was worked about my ship within 3h and I made save few times. When I exit editor and went to build my new BP then I discovered that it doesnt exist... maybe I wrote name in wrong text box at first time... I don't now... but game have made autosave so my question is: Is there any possibility to recover this BP? When I try to load buckup BP saves via menu, I can load everything except saves with current date. There are ships that I didn't create.

[meraco]

Happened to me too many times.

Its the kind of bug that has been around for a long time..
Its the kind of bug that wrecks the gameplay..
Its the kind of bug that prevents this title from attaining greatness..

I really hope it gets fixed.. as in.. Soon™

[Johnno]

I guess check all the designs that are available in the list. Beyond that, make sure you save the ship to the correct name.

I tested earlier and you can't save a design without a name, or even leave it blank, so you must've saved it somewhere if you actually saved it.

If none of the autosaves are of your actual ship, I'd suggest doublechecking that your autosaving is actually turned on. I think it's on by default, but perhaps doublecheck anyway.

As for it being a bug? I've yet to have a single issue with ship design saving, apart from one time after a patch when the autosaving was introduced and quicksaving got bugged, but that was quickly hotfixed.

[meraco]

Originally posted by Johnno:

As for it being a bug? I've yet to have a single issue with ship design saving,

Yeah.. But I wonder who the OP is more likely to believe...
the person that has experienced the exact same issue as he did..
or the person that sais there is no bug, because it didnt happen to him..

There is certainly a recurring bug.
Some have stored their ships, only to have them disapear.
Some have tried to modify their ships, only to have them vanish.
Some have made a rift jump and the game crashed, and the ship no longer exists when you restart the game.

All three of these events has happened to me within 62 hours of gameplay..

There is no way to recover the lost ships and their cargo, there is no way to revert to a previous save that may have them intact.

It is a huge game breaking bug that utterly kills the gameplay and motivation to continue playing..

There is only so many times a person is willing to start over, only to lose it all again...

[Johnno]

Originally posted by meraco:

There is certainly a recurring bug.

Have you found a way to recreate this issue with ship design saving?

Some have stored their ships, only to have them disapear.

Not connected to saving a blueprint in the editor.

Some have tried to modify their ships, only to have them vanish.

Not connected to saving a blueprint in the editor.

Some have made a rift jump and the game crashed, and the ship no longer exists when you restart the game.

Not connected to saving a blueprint in the editor. Generally that ship has rifted without the player, or the player was moved but ship wasn't, but unless you get a ship destruction message I've found that nearly always those ships are still out there.

All three of these events has happened to me within 62 hours of gameplay..

Still not connected to ship design saving, which is what I was responding to. Considering the amount of ships I've designed and saved over the time I've played I find it unlikely that I wouldn't have come across that issue. Possible, certainly, but very unlikely.

If you can recreate the issue however (as mentioned, I tried saving without putting a name in, and it wouldn't let me) that would be helpful to the devs and the issue could be fixed.

There is no way to recover the lost ships and their cargo, there is no way to revert to a previous save that may have them intact.

Still not about ship design saving. As mentioned particularly about rifting, those ships are usually still out there. There are also backups for both servers and solo games, backups which you can set the frequency of.

It is a huge game breaking bug that utterly kills the gameplay and motivation to continue playing..

This game is still early access. When I played solo, long before knowing about admin commands, it was just part of the game. With admin commands you can reimburse the ship, either in solo game or the admin can if you play on a server.

The devs on official servers are very good about refunding ships (and cargo).

There is only so many times a person is willing to start over, only to lose it all again...

I guess I never reached that point.

But still, this was about ship design saving. So again, make sure you save to the correct filename. You can also upload to the steam workshop for a backup, or use the save - export to file function to make an exported backup on your harddrive (which you can email to yourself, put on a USB memory stick, separate computer, cloud, etc etc).

[6Th SIN]

Thank you all for quick replay. Same day when it happen, after two hours I have forged my anger into patience so now I have new and even better vessel. But I think Devs should think about simple loop in code which will not allow player to save without correctly entered name then big error message pop out. That would be nice. Now I know what to do, save and export BP and check it once again.

[BNE]

there are dozens of autosaves whil designing^^ every some minutes you must have several versions named ship