I have sent in 2 bug reports - one during beta, one since the head start, both for the same issue. Some of the ship equipment I have, when I get a new ship, the next time I log in the equips are gone. This happened with crowns ship equips during beta, and stuff that the cutthroat ships dropped since the wipe.

First, KI doesn't seem to be taking this too seriously, but inventory items disappearing will really frustrate and annoy players. They don't seem to read the bug report - they've asked me for the same info that I already provided.

Just now, I was fighting cutthroat ships trying to get 2 of the items I lost back, and I noticed that when I equipped a new wheel on my ship, it treated it like I "got" the old wheel I had previously been equipping back. I saw a notice on the panel saying I received it - like it does when you earn a drop, when that wasn't the case. I think there is something seriously up with how the game treats ship items.

Is anybody else experiencing this problem? I find it hard to believe that I've encountered it twice and nobody else has.

Sounds to me, like what this person is saying, is that when he is on ship equipment, and he equips the item he wants, it disappears on the right and the old item then appears, which is exactly what is supposed to happen, because you are putting that item on your ship, not in your backpack.

If you unequip it from your ship, you will see that you do have it in your backpack again.

Hope this helps.