Faction Fleet Points - Ideas for Adjustment

Thank you for these suggestions. They have merit, and the Whills have already begun discussing them, especially making the faction fleet sizing more incremental with smaller step sizes.

I will note a few things, in the interest of transparency and furthering the discussion:
- We already made a major update to the faction fleet point rules two years ago. That doesn't mean we can't look at it again, but these are not the original rules from when the community was larger.
- These rules only apply to fleet battles that occur in Open RP. Their use in any other conflict is as the discretion of the writers involved. I believe Open RP fleet combat on JvS is nearly extinct, so we may be solving a problem that doesn't exist.
- The Whills have extensively debated the alternate account rules in the past, although in the end only minor changes were made. It's been quite a while since that was revisited, so I agree that deserves a fresh look.

Problem I see, to add also some thoughts to the discussion, is that Fleet Points make most of the time not much sense, given the RP situations we're in.
If people RP with eachother, it's either small battles with the regular ships or just regular RP among characters, starfighter skirmishes and so on.
Certainly when I lead a faction in the past, I had as a leader the most interest within the Fleet point system, but unless if it is for a story-specific event, there's often less use for a faction ship.

Most times, when these shined were moments within the RP as for example the recent First Order battles, where the Executor-Star Destroyer played two major roles for two events: One in being the frontal assault ship in a planetary invasion that was pretty much a last stand for the defending side (Fondor) and later on the destruction of said Star Destroyer by the same group over Corellia, where the titanic dreadnaught met it's demise.
And while of course a lot of focus rests on such a ship, once posted, given that there are fanatics like me out there, who love to get into detail when commanding a larger ship,
it's fair to say that the journey of the whole event is probably more worth it than the actual points that the ship would cost within the RP system.
Multiple people were involved, everyone had fun and that's what matters in the end.

So no matter if it's Open or Closed RP, it's rather important to know as a faction leader IF you need that special ship beyond your regular ship limit.
Is it something that will tell a story or is it just another asset?
Faction Points felt in the past always like some sort of rabbit hole, where you hoped for new players to join and where each milestone with each new active member reached, it would make that one giant ship, you crave to play out, legit. Yet in times, where forums aren't super active and where people do usually tend to their worktimes, it can be a boon at the same time.

Therefore I'm not sure if the ability to field a massive ship should be tied to the constant of faction size, when it's more the question of 'what kind of RP do players want to achieve with larger ships'. Maybe thinking outside the box is a better approach instead of overhauling the current system.

Just an opinion, of course, not what should be done. I'm fine with both what Zion suggested and how the current system works as well.