I agree that most of the flaming on the forums is do to players telling other players how to RP. Making rules about this could very well help. However limitations in equipment and ship availability to some NPC factions will prevent anyone from being part of that group or use out of RP equipment to be competative. I see a natural answer to this is to make more weopons and ships to fill in the gaps of these factions options. That or change the cards on the most tactically important ships and weapons so they are allowed by everyone. (I imagine the RH Bombers card saying that after mass production of the bombers occured, an entire shipment was stolen by the Red Hessians and they now produce and sell it to anyone willing to pay them) <-a joke