How to make official factions better?

[Drake]

Restricting faction IDs to only official factions is such an absurd idea that I won't even dignify it with a response.

Being able to request that idiot indies who abuse their capships have them taken away, sure. But not the ability to restrict all capships completely, just on a whim. Proof of misuse.

The ability to request that individuals be repfixed hostile/neutral/friendly towards their NPC faction sounds like a good idea, assuming there's good reason behind the request. So-and-so said something I didn't like isn't a good reason to repfix someone hostile to an entire faction. Regular attacks or threats against the faction is.