(03-30-2022, 02:43 AM)martianant Wrote: Heavy trading is not "the cause" of them, at least not the sole trigger. I generally have them happen when I am AFK surveying.
If the desire is to stop players from AFK surveying then the survey system needs a rework instead.
The actual monster encounter doesn't happen unless an online avatar is on the ship and some random chance, but supposedly one of the events that flag the ship as ready for a monster encounter is trading with city. If there are other events that can flag the ship as ready for a monster encounter, we don't know them.
Anyway, this is off-topic for this thread. Please make a separate thread if you want to discuss this further.