When you disconnect while having quality items in your inventory, they lose that quality when they are inserted into the vehicle.

Also, I think it's possible to lose items when you have more in your inventory than can fit in the vehicle, and you (accidentally) disconnect - maybe that should spawn a "virtual corpse" or something instead to prevent item loss?

On the other hand, I'd also be fine with character inventory being limited to the vehicle inventory size (or maybe even using the vehicle inventory directly as the virtual characters inventory?)...

I'm actually locally testing a version where the remote engineer doesn't die if its crafting, has active logistic requests, or has inventory,

Which should mean that quality isn't lost on items when disconnecting.

But if the vehicle is destroyed the quality will need to be stored for the spilled items.

Ill look into the quality thing anyway, and push for release today / tomorrow