To be honest given the fact that people who abuse F1'ing can be sanctioned (isn't it possible to look at the logs, and see the co-incidence between the pirate [or other patrol - I had someone do it to me on a LSF patrol in Z21 the other day] challenging someone and them disconnecting?) I think it's far more important to have the server running in relative stability than to have a long F1 time.
No longer active online due to a dwindling amount of non-PvP (trading, pirating, mining, etc.) fun in the new version.