EVE is a game that goes on 24 hours a day, right? Meaning I stand a chance at losing my ships when I'm sleeping or otherwise not available to play. I've already tried a few 24/7 games and I just can't.
Edit: I stand corrected. Thanks guyz.
Edit: I stand corrected. Thanks guyz.
If you log off in a game-generated station you're safe. As well, if you successfully log off in space you will also be safe as I recall.
But if you log off somewhere that's destructible I'm fairly certain you could lose that ship if the facility itself is blown up. But in that case you're likely part of an alliance that will bankroll you a new ship from their industrial war engine.
Of course, should the station owners fail to maintain said station (you'll get a notification if the structure goes low-power), or you're bold enough to park assets outside of known space (wormholes, Pochven, etc)...upon destruction about 50% (random chance, the Loot Fairy is quite capricious) of your stuff can wind up in a big debris cloud affectionately known as a "loot piñata".
Destroying an abandoned station is quite easy, the real problem is snapping up the haul before rival raiders swoop in for a fight.
The combat logoff timer was introduced as a countermeasure to the "logoffski", a tactic employed by Russian players involving deliberately disconnecting in the middle of a fight to avoid losses.
If you're in something big and expensive (i.e. a black ops battleship), there's still a good chance you can get probed down and turned into a big fat juicy killmail before that timer expires.