for over ten minutes before they disappear.
Anyone who cares can salvage or repair them before the disabled core goes critical.
If dead ships stayed in the game forever, they\'d eventually clutter up the server and cause major lag.
Just how many crappy pirate ships you shoot down every day? No one wants to salvage those after a while. How many pirates are shot down in a week, by a hundred players?
Trust me, there will be a buildup, and that\'s a solid certainty.
Most people are lazy. They\'ll only pick up the good bits.
Has anyone ever played Lineage 2 on a private server? Unlike WoW, monsters dropped their loot on the ground as individual objects, but players only picked up what they really wanted, to save time. It caused brutal server lag, requiring several restarts a day to clean up the mess. They tried making the items disappear after some time, but ultimately it still wasn\'t enough. The final solution was to don\'t give the players a chance to be lazy, and automatically transfer all loot to their inventory.