... which makes it all the more amusing that the Outcasts has two large battleships, but that's a discussion for some other time.
Indies will always complain about official factions, and I personally see no problem with generating more complaints since it's all white noise to me... and indies who actually has a brain of some sort will realize that it's easy to get a capital ship from an official faction, all you need is a bit of imagination and roleplay. So in essence: The faction control system would weed out the imbeciles who just wants a capital ship to pew pew with.