I don't think a wipe is necessary. When the next version is put on the RP server, battleship whoring won't be as big a deal as it was before. Can't say the same about other caps, but the faction leaders should deal with that.
For example; AW has made a requirement that no members can have a capital ship until 2 weeks after joining. I'll also be requiring members to have at least one fighter and/or bomber.
Right now probably the best factions for terms of capships to fighter ratios is the RM and Phantoms. About 4 fighters/bombers to every capship I believe.
I do know a big spot of this problem is caused because one faction that does use fighters gets involved in a war against another faction that whores capships. The fighter faction slowly has to use more and more capships to combat the enemy that comes in nearly all capships. One example is AW's current situation. You would not believe how few fighters I've seen come against us when fighting OPG/LDDLG/Random Corsairs. Under twenty I'll tell you that, and this war has been going on for awhile now. I've seen more fighters/bombers from TBH alone than from LDDLG, OPG, and Benitez put together.