Lost Property

[Tortured_Soul]

Listen to what Merc told you.

FL Hook hold the instance of your player for 59 second AFTER you on your computer disconnected.
That means that for 59 seconds you're still in space, you can still be shot by NPCs and Players and the like.
If you logged off after the one minute warning then you'd still have been in space when the server went down. Thus, you would have saved the data to your save game profile.
The reason it worked the second time, would've been because the server was still running when your 'instance' was removed and you save data stored.
If you dock and log off on a base there isn't this 59 second delay, so all your data is stored immediately.

In short, land on a bleedin' base you tumshy.

EDIT: Note that you won't have (or at least shouldn't have) lost any money from this. The Net effect from this is that you'll have lost however long you had been in space for since you last docked.

NB: I've just realised that this will have happened to me last night, lol. I'm such a putz.

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