My boat was destroyed and I was not even close to it

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People keep telling me that ships don't take damage when you're not on it, but my ship was destroyed and I was off doing a quest.

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Thanks for the report! Player ships are never invlnerable, except during the boarding fights. Enemy ships keep aggro on your ship for some time after you leave the ship, so they might've finished the ship off if it was on low HP.

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Well that in itself makes me not want to play the game anymore. If I can't leave my ship without worrying about it being sunk I think I'll find a different game 🙁

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This happens only if you were fighting enemy ships and then left the ship in the middle of a fight and went exploring the island.

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Not entirely true. I took my little boat to an island last night. Right after I placed a fast travel beacon, an enemy ship started shooting at my boat. They had not been previously engaged with me. Shortly after taking a couple shots, the boat took off in the other direction.

My boat wasn’t sunk, but it did get shot at.

Easy way to avoid is to setup a fast travel on your new island, travel back to your main base and recall the ship there. You should have safe storage there.

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In this situation, when I got off my ship I had zero ships targeting me. It was approx 2 full minutes AFTER I got off my ship (I had time to kill a level 8 wolf) when I heard the first cannon fire. I hope eventually you can do something like Atlas did with the anchor system. Drop the anchor and the ship in untouchable. Obviously you could only drop the anchor close to shore, so it wouldn't work in the middle of the ocean. As it stands right now there is way too many enemy ships out there, and it's practically imposable to escape aggro! What are we supposed to do if we've used up all of our repair kits, we're still being chased by 3+ ships, and surrounding us in EVERY direction are pods of 4+ more ships?