1. If you're going to have enough people for battleships, you have atleast one guy to get the license.
2. If it's an active message dump, it won't get lost. Also, you can keep lings to it around the place.
3. I've seen plenty of unofficial recruitment threads that get more activity than official ones ...
4. (You used #3 twice.) True, that's an advantage. I'll wait until you get back to us with the (hopefully) changed "restrictions" until I comment here.
5. But what if say Kusari and Bretonia decided not to fight anymore? A perfectly valid treaty was brought to pass after months of deliberation and stellar RP. Would that mean 4.85 would contain an entire ceasefire? I doubt it.