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Advancing a heavily damaged ship to the next node is the only way a ship is eligible to sink. Hope has no influence on how the game works, and the games mechanics dont magically change just to spite you. You are clearly doing something wrong..... very very wrong.

On the other hand, this does remind me of an issue duing the winter event where people were claiming moderately damaged ships were sinking. iirc it was a graphical issue with 3rd party programs incorrectly displaying the amount of damage ships had sustained, causing people to advance ships they thought were moderately damaged but were actually heavily damged. The devs tweeted about it, but Im not about to go dig those up.