One problem. A disgruntled corporate member, takes his pod out of the corporate ship in mid space, and contacts a ganking corporation to gank the ship, and not to pop his pod. Then goes back to HQ complaining and lying that the ship got ganked , and his capsule got popped, and he lost his implants, and wants reimbursements.
It’s not so much to know where smashed/ganked/stolen ships are but to know where active ships are.
Just like the UPS guy, who damn well better be sticking to his delivery route and not stopping at his girlfriends house clear on the other side of lowsec.
Since everything escalates to a crime in Eve… Handy thing to install on a ship your contract selling if it’s undetectable after install.
Not all corps use the kill mail system. Some corp owners are dumb enough not to even ask for a pod destruction log, and consider the pod was destroyed since the ship was destroyed as well.
Our corp is a trusting corp, we have support ships which are shared among corp members, pulled from corporate hangers. As such, they get left here and there.