The idea of requiring full guard rep to buy a capital ship won't improve RP. First of all it would require putting NPC missions on guard bases, which means non-faction NPCs in guard systems. You really think having Liberty Rogues swarming round Virginia will make that BC powertrader RP better? If someone can spend a couple of weeks completing boring trade runs to fund a battleship, without gaining RP skills, then I fail to see why spending another couple of weeks doing boring rep-farming will improve the situation at all.
No longer active online due to a dwindling amount of non-PvP (trading, pirating, mining, etc.) fun in the new version.