What I was saying is that I would be happy to go through a player wipe, not advertising one and trying to convince everyone thats needed. If one were to happen, i would support it, but Im not gonna go out of my way to make it happen.
I am still in the (small) camp saying that the admins have control over the battleship licenses. This is the only way to make capship whoring (or rather, battleship whoring) a thing of the past. Good RP would be needed, along with a viable reason why you need it. If this was the case, don't restrict them to factions, as there are independant battleships who have good RP (Harbinger/Treewyrm for instance). Just make it hard for people to get them, in a way that they cant cheat the system. The only way to do this in my eyes is admin aproval (OR rather, people like fellow hoodlum going over RP and the like, so the admins only have to put it on the ship, rather than the admin doing the consultation...)