Place Ships in port without blowing them up.

[OneShot]

If you place a port somewhere and add ships to it (even with 0kts speed) you will notice that sooner or later they will "crash" into the pier and blow up. To prevent that you have to put a water and a wind region over the ship (port), both with zero water/wind speed.

Original tip was posted by SubGuru on the SubSim forum.

[soundken]

wanted to add some of a response i posted on subsim about this so that you had all the info in one place (sorry bout posting both forums guys)

.....if you change the docks option "include in sim" off that turns it into a non distructable object bad news is the ship still interfears with the dock graphicly but they dont blow up just float harmlessly through and although it looks bad it doesnt mess up the mission.........

[Nitriton]

If you place a port somewhere and add ships to it (even with 0kts speed) you will notice that sooner or later they will "crash" into the pier and blow up. To prevent that you have to put a water and a wind region over the ship (port), both with zero water/wind speed.

Original tip was posted by SubGuru on the SubSim forum.

This seems to be never 100% possible, without deactivating all Waving/Currents/Wind in the game settings. The ships still keep on drifting very slowly, or sometimes the ships accelerate up to 1 knot for a second and begin to drift slightly.
Why they just cant hold still and throw out their anchor?! xD