I don't know why do you defend the capital ship purchase from the interdependent side. You must understand the faction point of view here people. Here's the deal, as I said it already. It's the education of the players on what he can and what he cannot do in space.
A question that I know answer to is next: Would faction leaders ever stop anyone from getting a capital ship for them if they knew that the said person would act with it as the faction leader would act himself?
Ofcourse they would! They'ld even cover some cost just to give him a hand in everything.
But here's the real issues.
The people are either bored, or ignorant or both and main thing they want to do is attack another nation, or better yet, that distant nation that's always out of their reach. Why? Because of several reasons. There's always new people there, they are armed as well and our mentioned player wants to feel powerful. He wants to beat them, stand on their wrecks and laugh and then leave, because he's a competitor looking for fun and challenges. Thats why he needs a big ship tho, he can't possibly fight all those people alone, can he? Ofcourse he can't. So whats the plan? Trade routes? diamonds new berlin? Okay sure, I'll sacrifice a week and then I'll have fun. And he does that, and then the faction problem starts, but actually it has started long time before that point.
There was a 101st in omega 5 today, and I was messing around in Gamma, being an only faction corsair there I was either explaining things to people or giving some tips on combat (0.o i know, me?? combat..) but the thing is I rounded them up, and got my bomber ready. Half way to omega 41 hole, the 101st dissapeared and we stopped.
Guess what was first thing out of their mouth? This is how the conversation went:
a: "he logged off"
b: "yeah"
me: "oh well.."
a: "lets invade liberty"
b: silence
c, d: "yeah"
me: "corsairs can't invade liberty"
a: "yes they can"
b: "yeah"
c: "why not"
me: "its out of our reach, and actually the navy there takes screenshots of corsairs attacking the liberty and gives the pictures to the corsair Factions and then TBH or benitez come and slap those corsairs around the gama"
a,b,c: "lol"
d: "what?"
a: "what can we invade?"
me: "malta:)"
a: "malta?"
i kinda gave up here and told them to pvp each other for practice.
and you know what, I don't really blame them, they were all in fighter ships and eager for some combat, because they know they'll have problems in capships but in fighters they expect -some- action.
So I kinda think we failed our point somewhere along the lines of this beautiful education attempt.
I suggest an brief history lesson, brief nation state of mind, brief enemies list, brief laws list, extended ZOI list and extended duties list. When you explain all those to the said individual, only thing left to do when he fails is to blow him up.