Lol CCP:
GM Grimmi wrote:
During the fleet-battle in 6NJ8-V on June 16th server performance was adversely affected by load issues. One of the resulting problems was the revival of ships that had been killed during the fight, including a few super-capitals. We want to clarify that this was due to database issues, which are still under investigation – the ships were NOT returned by GameMasters. This matter is still being investigated and further information will be forthcoming when available..
So the NC have actually had some ships "returned" - not by CCP - by broken server code. Basically if a ship jumped out after loading grid, it didnt really it ended up back in the system it tried to leave, and often died. The server cant remember this so the ships came back unpiloted in space.
Ships that couldnt load grid but died, didnt reappear at all (which is how it "works" normally).
Lol ccp.