You took away the option to start in space instead of planetside There is no expedient way to outfit the components on a bunch of ships after a patch, and then move them to the desired home in space Players have to claim ships to work around a bug Rearm, repair, and refuel are often broken (have been for 7 years) The game fails to store the ship safely when you land in a hangar and exit the game There is a ctd/30k (or similar) and you can't get back into the same server The implication was that we claim intact ships because we don't want to pay to rearm, repair, or refuel them, but I don't think that's it. Players claim intact ships because of bugs, or because they're just trying to get their shit back to where it was before a patch.