Lot of stuff to respond to, so i'll try to get it all in one post but I likely will miss some stuff.
First off, it is the same faction reapplying for officialdom. The 2ic has been updated, I confess I did forget about actually updating that on the thread. Recruitment is purposely kept on a somewhat invite basis, typically people express the desire to join and we see them hunting in game so we ask them to join. This is intended as a method for quality control so that we can actually see how the members RP in game as well as other factors such as fairplay, ie not shoving their manta into an already 5v1 fight.
Regarding stuff done in game, we've never really had a problem actually killing things before they can dock. It is sometimes annoying having Navy show up at the last second and steal said blue, but overall it's still fairly doable. That's also just referring to snubs, there are quite a lot of unlawful gunboats around that cant actually run to dock.
On top of that, we also attempt to do escorts when possible. Personally, even though it's less profitable I prefer to escort smaller convoys of trade ships around the 3-4 number but I know that various members have acted as escorts for IMG| convoys from time to time. I've been trying to encourage this more as I do confess, actual RP with targets does tend to be somewhat shallow, especially considering that a fair number of the larger fights we've been involved in have already started and there's noone left to respond to RP even if we tried.
This has been somewhat difficult recently because the server population for the month has been extremely low and BHG isnt really the kind of faction that can actually create its own activity. This affects us twofold unfortunately, first of all because of exams and other things some of our own members arent able to contribute as much as they used to and due to the fact that everyone else is busy it limits what we can actually do in game.
