Well, I dont see anything wrong with your approach, honestly. I hung out with your salvager quite alot, and you were always inRP, even when people went full r-tard around you. You stuck around in fights, did your salvager job. I thought it was great. I loved seeing somebody else doing what I do, more or less, hanging around in Liberty, following the fights, being a witness to the Navy bigotry and unjustified violence against Junkers.
I considered your character solid.
As for the cap ships - i wish back the times when an ADMIN had to approve every single ship. The scumbaggery I have seen people commit with their brand-spanking-new Dreads is abhorrent! If you want a cap ship you had best worked your way there - the Navy is just that. NAVY. You do NOT haphazardly undock a dread and chase a fighter with it. You do NOT haphazardly undock a dread and harrass people with your new-found power. You do NOT, do NOT break liberty laws in a capital ship! You'd be dishonorably discharged right there.
The Navy has official factions, the navy has an NPC faction - there is no justification for a captain of a DREADNOUGHT to stay in charge of it as he f*cks over everything the Navy stands for.
As this game needs a money sink I'd say - if a dread is destroyed, it is GONE. Back to starflier like back in the day.
That'll solve several problems at once:
1) Your RP will be solid again when you salvage capital ships. There wont be a constant supply and it'll be a great salvager "SCORE!" moment.
2) New pilots risk losing their investments - if you throw a capital ship into a bad situation, you deserve being taught an RP lesson. A dread in a debris field is completely ooRP.
3) Your job will be well sought-after. You get paid by the RP-parts you salvaged. And maybe the Navy stops sh*t-talking Junkers for no reason, as they won't always have their massive hulks around to look down on other people on. They shouldnt try to escalate things, they should try to keep the peace.
I know this sounds just like a rant against the Navy, but be assured - i have no hard feelings toward them ooRP. But inRP they are a scourge due to their powertripping behavior.
I do not see how your RP took so much flak. I'll say it again, I liked Liz being around constantly providing RP. And I hope you got a good view at how we Junkers are treated, too.