Happy new year all, and a QQ on buoys :)

[Bleurgh 5]

Hi all,

Firstly happy new year to you all, I hope 2019 is a good one for you.

Now I've read a lot on here about buoys and how they are pure aids, stopping resources from respawning, being used to glitch/hack and take people's claims, etc.. 

 Please forgive the noob question, but what is their intended game purpose? I can't seem to find much info on that, just on how game breakingly bad they are.

Thanks for the help