There are only 4 basic items, Blaster, RD (Repair Droid), Collector and AB (AfterBurner)
The rest of items are not usable in different class ships
Storm, Tank, Shock and Engineer has all it's own special items, costs are not the same from item to item,
so it would not be possible to just transfer from ship to ship, and to buy the same ship twice has no sense.
Foremost that should not really be fair to the old players cause we have to had purchased each item separately as it is now.
You have no idea how hard we really have grind for to get the ships till Draconis, and the cost of each items installed, but many of us can be proud of the achievement of ourselves with a fine collection of ships from Vega to Draconis. That has been Millions of cry used to pay for it.
Why should the game turn to be a so much easier game for new players?
There has already been so many changes with time what has actually made it much easier for new players, than what we had, but also some issues has become harder.