The main problem i see now is alot of factions have good RP behind them on the forum as to why they kill/attack others. So ingame you get look(place enemy here) pew pew and they claim it is thier RP. Hell the admins even gave them special IDs for it. So all the newer players in these factions just PvP on site claiming it is RP, and "THEY" worked for it. When actually 1 or 2 people worked for it, and the reat are just using it for PvP escuse claiming it is RP.
I will give an example of a week ago. The Yorktown was called by some other Indies to assist with a BS in Cali. I showed up, we in RP searched for enemy while he spouted all kinds of RP in main. We found him, and RPd some more. We had a 5 to 1 advantage so being top ship i was placed in charge. I RPd orders to remove ship from Liberty, so we escorted it to Magelan. RPd all the way even though other players kept saying lets kill it. But i held to no fire unless fired on. We got ship out of Liberty all cool. Next that ship dis-apears off scanners(chat log) and another from same faction with 5 back up apear, and we get the typical "oh look. Liberty scum" pew pew dead. To me that was taking an hours worth of great RP and throwing it in myself, and the other indies face. Saying "we faction, we pwn you now". Every player in my group yelled "that was BS" and "next time we kill it, not escort it".
So all this factions are better then Indies because we write RP on forums is crap when they do not RP in game. This is why i claim RP is going to hell. What is on forum does not allow a total lack of RP in game with excuse PvP is our RP shat.