We won't be restricting battleships to factions, that much I'm sure of. The server is made to offer freedom of ships and most equipment.
Though, want your wrong about is the lack of RP. Almost all of the server RPs. Heck, I have NO characters that don't RP, and half of mine were made for the sole purpose of RP, such as the Wraith squadron of the Bundschuh, the Private-Yacht-Vidius, and a few others. Most other people do the same. We RP in those characters all the time as well. Most of those that do, also do RP-talk, where they talk as the character in system chat, using *, ( ), and other icons to simulate when they are talking OOC.