2.21 Unable to Delete Plot of Destroyed Player-Owned Station - Gone now but took over an hour

[Mileron]

TL;TMI I cannot delete a player-owned plot in Atiya Misfortune III because there's no line item for the plot in the plot management window.

Hi

After my last post where I indicated pre-2.2 behemoths still had shield generator issues blocking the airlock, I continued to play to rectify the Xenon infestation in Atiya's Fortune.

Over 24 hours previously (24 hours gameplay time) I had built a Defense Station just inside the entrance of Atiya's III from the Faulty Logic VII jump gate. (It was before I discovered you can rotate plots.)

While my forces were in Matrix 79b wiping Xenon from the 'verse, the Xenon decided they'd retaliate and took out my station in Atiya III (as you can see by the two destroyed Ks and escaping remaining one.)

I noticed this only after placing a new plot that was going to sit roughly mid-sector in Atiya III.

So I went to try to delete the existing plot for my destroyed station - except as you can see in the image below, there's no plot line item for it.

https://i.imgur.com/LYWarZs.jpg

This is the updated save - only about 20-30 minutes after the last one posted in the other thread.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kpvow1ls0df1 ... ml.gz?dl=0

I'd really like to rebuild it, but obviously cannot delete the plot to do so.

[EmperorDragon]

If the build plot and it's icon is grey, then it's in "destroyed" state already and will despawn after some time.

[Mileron]

If the build plot and it's icon is grey, then it's in "destroyed" state already and will despawn after some time.

How long is that intended to be?

Khaak/Xenon stations I've destroyed have vanished within 10 minutes; it's been two or three times that so far.

[Alan Phipps]

If it helps, any build storage left has to be empty of stores, have no ship docked and have the player ships kept well away from it for a continuous period of not less than 10 minutes to improve its chances of despawning. If that regime does not work for you then please let us know here.

[Mileron]

If it helps, any build storage left has to be empty of stores, have no ship docked and have the player ships kept well away from it for a continuous period of not less than 10 minutes to improve its chances of despawning. If that regime does not work for you then please let us know here.

There was no build storage that I could find to access.

I ended up moving all of my ships out of sector and it took over an hour for it to go away.

So it is gone, but still took an unusually long time.