So, one of the things I've been noticing because of disconnects and game crashes is that player settings aren't actually saved until you close the game. The result is a number of annoying circumstances:
You're change some keybindings, decide you like it, then your game crashes and when you re-enter the game, your bindings have reverted.
You decided to change some graphics settings because of all this Frame-rate drop nonesense that's been going on, but then you crash (it does this with disconnects as well), come back and you're still on x8 AA and your light effects are cranked out, but you don't notice until several games later when you go to see if you can turn them down some more.
You have a new ship loadout, you run it for a match and really like it, but you disconnect halfway through and come back to finish the game. In the next lobby, you decide you want to stick with the same ship, assume you've still got the same ship, but realize only after the next game starts that because you've disconnected, your presets have reverted and you feel exceptionally silly that you asked everyone to bring greased rounds for your mercs.