(ON MY EXPERIENCE, IN THE FAR 2014 ->) A new player connects to the server, launches to space from Planet Eire, he looks around and tries to make money, on the Helium field on Pennsylvania for example. Then he learns to RP and starts to explore the Sirius sector.... all this, mostly on Liberty spaces. Same things can be done on others house capitals but the starting point of the whole server is Pennsylvania, Liberty space. New players, that don't know how much new factions are there (Like Gallia) and see Liberty as starting point would be urged to choose Liberty factions, ignoring other factions on different houses. For this Gallia (As example) is empty and Liberty is "full".
I propose this:
The starting point on the server will be an OORP system, like Connecticut. You undock from a Starting station and there will be 7 portals (For Liberty, Bretonia, Kusari, Rheinland, Gallia and Omicrons, Malta or Crete). If you press Info (F9, if I remember) you will see a description of the "House" selected, with all his story and maybe a timeline. Once chosen the portal, then the House, you will be teleported in the House capital and you will never come back to that OORP system, that it's used only for new players. You can use /restart on that starting system anyway.
