Should a recommended ship list exist?

[Akumabito]

I'm going to go ahead and declare your position one of utter crap.

Ah, the sound of someone who thinks he is better than everyone else since he is in a faction.

You still haven't shown any reason factions need to control who gets what ships, other that, how did Unselie put it?

that, as Xoria explained somewhere else, means we can walk all over the less organized or smaller groups of people who disagree with us on the server.

Ah yes, the big bad faction guys, so much better than us lowly indies, like eppy with his ninja Jesus, protecting us from his parents who he is sponging off of at home, but here he gets to kick people around! Here he is somebody! Hurrah for him!

So whats your story dusty? Who you getting even with when you "walk all over the less organized or smaller groups of people who disagree with us on the server."?

Back to the main point, the only reason there is a faction approved middle on that list is to make the factions feel bigger than they are, bigger than they deserve to be. And that's just wrong no matter how you slice it.