Are heaven ships too flimsy ?

[Naia000]

I’m now on my 4 attempts at starting in station mode, and have therefore 4 times been contacted by Rufus about the heaven ships.

The chance of those ships actually making it and getting to you seem pretty slim though.
The worst was 3 ships out of 3, that all succumbed to pirates, bots and aliens. But it seems pretty normal that at least 2 out of 3 won't make it.

And sending a crew to help, won't do anything either since they are not resuming travel.
I get that you are supposed to take out the bases, but this is early game, so the idea of sending most of your crew on a 2 day trip, just armed with a few pistols, seems pretty unwise.

Have I just been really unlucky, or is everyone else seeing the same pattern ?

[HangarPilot]

I think it's a bug (and have reported it in-game). I've seen various ships (not just Haven ships) show up as inbound. Their progress bar creeps along as they get closer ... then there's a "event" notification of some kind (pirate raid, infesters) and *poof* that inbound ship is no longer coming.

I don't think the event/raid is specific to that ship (but maybe it is). It seems to me like the event interruption causes a re-shuffling of the inbound ships or something and they get dropped.

I've seen this with other factions because I was watching an inbound NPC ship that wanted Fuel services ... and before they could arrive an event triggered and they were just gone.

The problem with Haven ships is you agree to accept them and they are inbound for 7 DAYS. The chances of going 7 days without an event is pretty slim.

Similarly, I "bought" a crew member. I was waiting for them and when they didn't show pretty quickly I looked at the star map. I saw a Haven "Craft" coming my way which I assume was them. Sure enough, a short time later an event triggered. The shuttle was just gone from the map. I never get my person and unfortunately the Prestige points I spent were just wasted.