Does a Faction's Rank-Limitations keep you away from joining?

[MrHeadphones]

My opinion is that having restrictions on fighters isn't such a good idea. I can understand needing clearance for large ships, seeing as in RP there would be huge costs involved in making even a single gunboat, but restricting fighters, in my view, is just annoying, since if you're in a faction which restricts fighters at a low rank, you're going to have little chance against factions which give you the mk. 2 ships from day 1. That said though, I do see a few factions which could feasibly have restrictions on fighters, since they have a lower grade fighter which is still quite good e.g. Rheinland military, Corsairs etc. Restrictions on caps though don't matter to me, since I personally prefer flying fighters, since they can actually fit through asteroid fields, and don't manoeuvre like cows on roller skates which have been set on fire.