Why are ships able to spawn when you're at an outpost?

was there a server merge?

it's pretty rare for that to happen but it does happen from time to time when a server merges while you're at an outpost

and you're sure it spawned on you and didn't just sneak up on you?

@drobdien this is by far one of the most annoying bugs, it really needs to be fixed. I’ve lost a lot of time and supplies to this. And som loot but it usually happens while I’m looting an outpost in the beginning of a game.

@wolfmanbush Yes, I am sure. My friend needed to do something IRL, so he was away and I was just waiting at an outpost, watching all directions in case there is a ship coming, but it just spawned right in my ship. It blasted both of the ships when they colided, dealing damage to both. One dude just jumped on and started spawnkilling me and the other one blasted my ship a bit more.

@mcgarnaglewolf Yeah I lost a leveled up merchant flag, a bunch of loot including a lvl 5 reaper flag, and mainly, tons of cannon balls, food and wood that we had ready for the continuation of our session...

@drobdien sounds like a server merge from the other crew...as this is an extremely rare situation, maybe do it like I do...count it as a "bad luck situation" and go on...
Just like when you get krakened, megged and skellie shipped at the same time during a PvP fight...bad luck, go on...