On ship-persistence: will capital ships, like the Javelin, remain in space after all crewmembers logged off? Will it need protection or a NPC-crew to prevent the ship from damage or theft?asked by Belinir

So that's a pretty good question cause normally obviously you would land on a planet and then your ship just gets put in a hangar and everyone else can't really access that hangar. So in terms of ship position, persistence on the really big ones like the Javelin, we determined that there's going to be safe areas you can put it in orbit or dock, when it's in that safe area and you've logged off nothing can happen to it. It's not going to get blown up, or raided, or boarded while everybody's off and sleeping if you left your Javelin in an unsafe area then maybe potentially it's not, it depends how we're going to do it. At some levels we're going to take a little bit of liberty, like for instance we've said that ships that have beds; if you sleep in your bed, then that allows you to save the game.One of the things we're going to do so you could maybe sleep in your bed in an asteroid field and since there are no other players around, what we'll do is once you log off we'll take your ship, your ship will not be existing in an instance. So all the people flying around there, your ship wouldn't be there so they couldn't do anything to it and we'll also probably do something similar to that on the bigger ships as well. We don't really want you to come back to the game and go "Oh where did my ship go?" cause in real life you would still be sleeping on your ship.So I hope that answers it. We're going to basically protect it from people when they finished, logged off and it's not in use, as long as it's in certain areas that it's safe.