Official factions and factions in general are not looking for new players to join in in order to train them or either are not doing so actively - only by some 'come if you want' recruitment threads where a new player can also get a "NO" because of his newbiness. Factions wants to have the best assets for free and do nothing to grow them - that, in fact, was a problem for faction stagnation, one of few in fact, when the amount of competent players has stopped to grow and factions were just trying to employ same people again and again - this ended up with factions being made out of same faces and indies being not educated and left to soar the starts alone. Now people complain that, turns out, new players didn't learned the basics the way certain people think they should have been learning. Well, look - if you want to shape something in form that you want it to be shaped then take it and do the job or do not complain.
New player have a very serious suspicion that BS is the better ship simply because they usually suck in fighters and relying on armor looks like a good idea - which is logical. If you die on BS you can always say that it's either enemy had a better BS then you did or you've been ganked so one can self assure that the problem is not his lack of skill but some random circumstances which didn't allowed him to win the encounter while of fighter the lack of skills is seen more clear.
In the end it's problem of the faction leaderships and I send the blaim into their general direction. (Since it's them usually complaining about noobs while doing exactly nothing to fix that). A tad desire to employ veteran players into your factions exclusively has done server a bad deal of work.
