Own ship became "ghost" when exiting

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    Hello there,

    Dunno if it's an already known bug.

    I never suffered any bug until now, but recently the game is really buggy. As the bugs appeared during the construction of a large ship and the arrival of new updates, I don't know wether it's related to the size of the ship or updates.

    The actual bug (offline mode): I went out of a ship. The ship is displayed on screen and I can lock it, but I can go through the walls like in construction mode, cannot enter back into the core, and don't have any text telling me to press R when I'm near the core.
    I can see a station and a ship in sector 4.1.3 from my ghost ship in 3.1.3, but as soon as I enter the 4.1.3 my ghost ship suddenly disapears, It appears back when I go back into it's sector.

    It already happened one time, but the ghost ship "came back to life" by itself quickly.
    I tried to restart starmade a couple of times but it wasn't effective.

    I made some heavy improvements on the structure but didn't save the blueprint, so I wonder if there is any way to save it without being inside the ship?

    Other bugs encountered with this ship:
    - random wrong collision box : sometimes, I can't even approach the ship because I start to bounce against it while not being on contact.
    -encountered only one time: the navigation list became totally empty
    -symetry cloning not always functionning

    Thanks for any help with saving the ship !

    Edit: Ok, the structure was "ghosty" since yesterday, but it came back to normal condition just after my post ... Anyway I made a backup of the entire folder while it was stuck in cas it would be interesting for debugging.
     
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    This issue is frequently reported. When your ship goes all ghosty, juste go away from it until you change sector, then come back. If it doesn\'t work try going away in a different direction.

    This happens when you and your ship are in a different sector, but at the border between the two.



    You might feel like your ship is virtually very close, but it\'s in another sector so you\'ve got to move far enough to shift sector and be in the same one than your ship
     

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    If the folder you backed up is not to big, can you maybe send it to me. That would help greatly since i need the sector and the exact position within the sector of the ship.

    I now (thanks to your post) suspect that the bug has something to do with the system rotation. That would explain why ships come back to \"life\" randomly, since the sector borders change over time (20 min for a full rotation around the sun).

    With the backup I could test out if I can finally reproduce the bug with testing different times with the admin command /daytime hours
     

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    Thanks for the advice Youka, but as I mentionned it in my post, I tried to go to other sectors and go back tothe ship. Except for making the ship suddenly disapear, it had no effect.



    Schema, I\'m glad that it could be helpful. I\'m uploading the folder right now and will send you the link as soon as it is ready!

    Oh, and btw, I\'m having another issue, but it\'s maybe something normal: I moved a bit the ship next to a station and was down to 1 fps and ping of around 150-300 with a message saying that the station was slowing down the server and warping for collision (don\'t remember the exact displayed text, I\'ll check it back when I have a few minutes).

    When I\'m not moving the fps are going back to 60 but it goes down to 1 and the message goes back whenever I move. I suppose it\'s related to collision between the ship and the station but I\'m quite far from the station. Things go back to normal when I\'m really far from the station. If it is an interesting point you can experiment it easily with the backup I\'m uploading with just going forward a few seconds.
     

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    thank you

    having both of those bugs in a fixed location will be most helpful!
     

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    I sent you a PM with the link to the backup. The station which creates the slow down is just a few meters away in font of the ship. It was a bit long but my connection is as stable as a drunkrn bear.