You don't need to sell them off. As long as you are OOS most of the time, the odds of your ships being harmed due to getting booted from a dock are quite low. I've left my extremely rare Kha'ak Corvette at an NPC shipyard for now, and I'm not losing any sleep over it.Bjazz68 wrote:Hi guys,
Thank you for telling me that, I just assumed that once you docked any number of ships somewhere they would just stay there forever or until you sold them.
I now have 5 ships, two of which I gained through capping and they are all at the argon federal shipyard, so I guess I will have to sell them off, I was hoping to slowly build my trading fleet for auto trading, and a wingman small starter fleet for capping. But if this undocking issue keeps happening then it will make it really hard to monitor things throughout each session.
That's a shame, I guess I'll have to figure something else out.
Thanks for letting me know what the deal is,
cheers,
bjazz
You can mitigate or eliminate the (already small) risk by just parking each of them at different stations. I know it's a hassle, but it's a small one compared to most of the hassles in this game. I'm fairly sure the "player reserved slot" in each station is untouchable by NPCs, but I could be mistaken.
Each race has at least one "super shipyard" (they're not particularly well documented) which I believe can hold far more ships, so those should also be safer. You can find out where each super shipyard is located by checking the Wiki page for each race: http://x3wiki.com/index.php/Races
That said, the only way to truly be safe when docking is to build your own HQ/station... but in that case, you'll need to make sure it's defended from enemies.