A while back I bought a ship and today I visited it only to discover that there is an inactive player inside it who hasn't logged in the past 2-3 years. Is there any way to boot the passenger from the ship or will they have to be arrested to be moved?
Unless you load up the ship with NPCs, you won't see a [Boot Passenger] button, you will have to just have them take up space unless you can arrest them or get an ASim to 'port them out starboard
Only way is to arrest them. You could try making a support ticket and ask an ASim politely to move the player off, but depending on the ASim you get you might be told to sold through IC methods.