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:speaks in the thickest Nigerian accent he can possibly muster. "ELLLOOOOOO!!!! I am Nigerian Prince, descended from long line of Nigerian princes! Although my wicked brethren have scammed people through the e-mails, I am entirely innocent of such heinous acts!"

"My net worth is just over five billion credits, which is almost enough to free my long-separated spouse who is being detained by filthy Federation unjustly. Together with the Thargoids, they have managed to steal dozens of my ships!.. Or maybe I've just had too much Lavian brandy. Either way, if you'd so kindly fill out your bank details in your next re -- Whoops! Sorry, old habits die hard. You understand, yes? -- If you'd so kindly tell me at a glance if things add up, I'll be on my way."

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Okay, all seriousness, for a while now I've utterly *lost* an Imperial Clipper. It turned up today in Eravate. I went there a few times and looked for it in person instead of trusting the Ship Transfer window and it wasn't in the shipyard, but now I just went to Jameson and Ship Transfer is saying it's back in Eravate! Just as interestingly, while in Eravate, I was looking through Transfers to try and find a dropship with 5 packhounds on it, of which I have two -- "Packhound-1" and "Packhound-2", and 1 was missing entirely. Went to Jameson, there it is anyway!

Maybe the Transfers window just isn't telling me where /all/ my ships are. I'm nearing 100. I had to buy a ton (Okay, multiple hundred-thousand-tons) of ships to store all the Powerplay modules I'm stockpiling. I have like 10-15 vultures just for storing weapons, and I've still never flown a vulture! Man, us rich space-fairing-alien-hunting people are weird!

About 1/3rd of the ships for storing Powerplay modules are appropriately named (LIke "APA-1" through "APA-5" for the Advanced Plasma Accelerators), and every now and then I can't find one in the middle of the sequence (Such as Packhound-1 going outright missing), and sometimes not even if I dock at the station it's supposed to be at. I could just be dumb, but I still feel like something's up and am worried that I should tell you sooner rather than later in case you delete old transaction logs over time.

Anyway, I don't know the value or date that things might've gone missing since I can't actually remember all of what I have; I have so many ships for both storage and weird engineering experiments that I simply can't keep track of them all.

I imagine it would be too much work to ask you guys to go through my entire history and make sure everything checks out by hand, so is there any way I can get a list of every ship I've ever owned at any point? I'm pretty sure I can recognize what I sold on purpose compared to what's gone missing, if anything even has.


Unrelated sorta: I will pay you guys obscene amounts of money if you were to sell Module Storage Expansion Packs in your in-game store. Seriously, I'd pay $5 for 30 more slots and I'd grab eight of those in a heartbeat. I'd very much like to stop buying Vultures and Dropships and stuff just to store my good rolls, and I shutter at the thought of eventually having to buy Anacondas, Cutters and Corvettes to replace the Vultures and Dropships when I hit the cap for ship storage.












Hi Rhyis,

The Feds in league with the Thargoids eh? That's probably because of the THARGOIDS NEAR YOU NOW!! NO CREDIT CARD. NO NONSENSE. JUST LOCAL THARGOIDS NOW!! SIGN UP AND MEET!!

Right, let's get to business.

Rest assured that there's no possible way a ship can simple disappear. It cannot happen. So if you're seeing a ship not where it should be, this is 100% a display error; the ship is still there, the game just isn't showing it to you.

Unfortunately there's no way to generate a list of every ship you've ever owned. I can tell you that right now you own 105 ships, including SRVs and fighters.

I can confirm that your Clipper is currently stored at Cleve Hub in Eravate. APA-1 to APA-5 are still intact. If there's any others you'd like to inquire about, fire away.

It may well be that the sheer number of ships is causing the game some problems in displaying them, which we should probably get fixed. What I'd like to ask you to do is, next time you encounter, this take a screenshot and send it our way. If we can see that you have 5 ships stored at X location and the game is only showing you 3 or 4, that's all the evidence we need to submit this as a bug and have it investigated.

Send a screenshot our way - no rush - and we'll follow up from there. :)

Regards,

CMDR Tronador
Elite: Dangerous Customer Support Wing