INPrint At this point in time, I wouldn't say that the RP is too bad at the moment. Granted, there are the few factions out there that do things for absolutely no reason or just come in, mess up whatever they want and leave (looking at the zerg at this point).
I would say that RP here splits into two parts.
SHIPS
CHARACTERS
The second one is important, but for it to be Cosmoteer RP, there needs to be ships. And as gibbyones said:
Jenwuf if you are not even going to build the ship properly, or at least out of hull armour and Drones, you may aswell not be on the cosmoteer forums.
The thing that really fails it here is the lack of the rules, but on the other hand, you've got the restricting factor on creativity. My 2 cents?
Instead of "Rules", there's a guide on the basics of RPing. You are advised to follow it (because if you don't, then you'll probably be ignored) and it has stuff on explaining your characters and explaining why you do X Y Z instead of just doing it for no reason.