Stations resetting/vanishing when you get too tar away.
With the new update (7/27/2026), I'm seeing some extremely undesirable behavior. In fact, this behavior seems almost like a code/functionality merge with SE2, since this seems to be the same behavior there. It also doesn't feel like I've seen this before.
The issue is that if I leave the area of a base (not my own), like a random faction base that appears on a planet, that base either vanishes or resets. Please note that in every case I've checked the 'claim' option so that the 2 hour timer stops. After doing the claim base, I leave the area (more than 20km) and come back, the grid has reset, the claim base is back and needing to be claimed, the loot boxes are full again of different things like it's brand new.
One time, this was a salvage mission target (abandoned farm), I claimed the base, built a wind generator on the roof, grabbed the mission item, then I got eaten by a space spider. My survival kit was 30km away, so I built a couple more hydrogen bottles and hustled back to get my body. The base had reset and redrawn itself over the top of my backpack/body, all my changes had been undone and there was a second quest item in the same box.
Another time, I claimed a base and actually heavily modified it (it was only 10% original grid). I flew to the safe zone with some things to sell and complete a mission, returned and my base was gone with everything I had., Literally, everything including the stuff I built. I had claimed it and all the blocks were owned by me. I don't know if it suddenly decided that since I had flown 60km away, it would simply despawn, or if something else happened.
The core problem here is simple, a) it appears the claim grid button is not doing what it's supposed to anymore with this update (major problem) and b) anything I claim with said button should literally stand forever until I get rid of it through my own actions or enemy destruction, it should NEVER despawn, and also never reset to some default state. That button means "I want this to stay', I don't care if I leave the area and go 10km away of 10000km away, or if I'm gone for 5 minutes of a year.
I have the same bug
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