I've already mentioned in our skype chat about this, but I would like to reiterate what Malexa has said - I understand that OOC chat is sometimes important and that players often feel the need to communicate things to one another OOC, but when we are in large groups of people that span multiple systems or involve people from other factions, please keep OOC to a bare minimum neccessary as it tends to get in the way of trying to coordinate fleet actions IC or players from other factions trying to RP. In such circumstances preferably talk casually amongst yourselves IC in local chat and OOC in private chat and keep group chat for IC instructions, reports and fleet-coordination coommands as if it were a genuine military channel not to be spammed with inane banter. Of course, when a group only has 2-3 players in it you can OOC all you like providing you are all happy to do so, but when we have in excess of 10 players as we quite often do these days the constant lines of // mean that genuine RP reports just get lost rapidly in the chatlog and coordinating forces or pursuing meaningful RP becomes impossible. I have always prided the BAF on maintaining very high standards of RP and this is just one extra area in which people can make an effort to keep such standards as high as possible.
Other than that I am pleased to see so many positive reports reflecting on our RP - I understand the occasional problem with excessive use of force against opponents and am confident that we can work to prevent such cases wherever possible by making sure COs have stricter control of battles and the forces committed.