No claims automatically delete. All claims must be deleted either by the owner or by an admin. Word is that after 3 months, claims can be removed if for a legitimate reason, but not simply to loot/take personal advantage of the contents of the claim. I’d support an automated claim deletion, but I don’t see it happening honestly. If we’re thinking long term here, I believe a more lax claim deletion policy would mean having much more time until our world needed a reset. Items, structures, ships, farms, and many more belongings of long-gone players lay trapped in claims many months old- unable to be touched by anyone. In theory, item circulation will become critical to making our limited world go round. Otherwise, players with tons of worth (whether in items, money, ships, land, etc) have already, and will, eventually quit and remove a substantial chunk of PirateCraft’s resources with them. Some type of circulation of these inactive items/structures/lands would go a long way, in my humble opinion. Abandoned islands are but a small part of the overall potential problem. Even if the day of  critically limited items/land is very far off, it never hurts to think ahead. Just throwing some honest thought out here for consideration. Thanks.