Strom, it is probably impossible to have each application checked by an admin. The solution would be to have them validated by the factions, effectively giving power over other players to the factions' leadership, and as it has already been discussed before, that is not going to happen. Thats why i said that free rp applications would be a feasible solution. Feasible and actually benefic, because a story would be associated with every capship, effectively limiting the number of misinformed players. And believe me, the type of lolwutter who would actually post an story on the forums would not be turned off by faction application. There is one and only one way to deal with that kind of people : sanctions.
Now about the ships : first of all, i didn't say "people flying capships" or "people flying good pvp ships", i said "people flying non-standard ships". Theres a big difference. For example, a liberty dreadnought is a mass produced standard liberty ship. A blood dragon cruiser, even if it is smaller, is not, because it is rare. As you said, what creates diversity is the diversity of character roleplay. Fine. But i think that you have noticed that in this game, the only thing that you control is a spaceship, not a character running around. That is why your ship must match your roleplay, and it is also why i said that ship diversity contributed to rp diversity. You then wrote "In order to ensure that the ships we fly help to differentiate ourselves from everybody else, we have to make sure that all the ships are used, including the ones that aren't so good in combat." Isn't that somewhat contradictory... Or even nonsensical ?
