After the 2.5 update a couple of my XL ships from the Rise of the Ossian Raider mod were bugged out. They would not upgrade or resupply at any shipyard or equipment dock. They would simply remain in the dock for hours with the "Change Equipment" command "Executing". Also any attempt to transfer wares would hang up the command queue with "critical" and you could not delete it. I suspected this might be something to do with them being built prior to the update so my only option seemed to be to sell them off and re-purchase new ships. That did indeed fix the issues with changing equipment and the new replacement ships work just fine.
However, now I see that my selling them back has given them to the faction to operate as patrol ships. I'm concerned that this will lead to them getting parked into shipyard or Eq dock and blocking it forever with a resupply that never complete. I would like to destroy these ships but now they belong to the Argon. In looking through the XML, it's HHHHUUUGGGEEEE and I'm not at all sure what makes up all of the 'ship'. If possible I'd like to just edit them out completely if anyone knows how to get all the XML bits properly removed?
Alternatively, I wondered if it might not be easier to just make them mine again so I can properly dispose of them via firing squad. I see each has a "Component Class" entry line that includes
. If I just change that back to "player" will that be enough to give them back to me so I can destroy them without repercussions? That seems the option with the least chance for breaking things.